Anna Frants

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| occupation = multimedia artist, curator, collector

| awards = Autodesk Planet Studio Award, New York

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| father = Aleksandr Solomonovich Pinsker, political commentator (Voice of America)

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Anna Frants ({{langx|ru|А́нна Алекса́ндровна Фра́нц}}; born 1 October 1965) is a Russian-American multimedia artist, curator, and art collector. She is the founder of nonprofit cultural foundation "Cyland Foundation Inc." and "CYLAND" MediaArtLab,{{Cite web |title=CYLAND {{!}} Media Art Lab |url=https://www.cyland.org/ |access-date=2024-04-02 |website=www.cyland.org}} and is director of "Frants Gallery" (New York, United States).{{Cite web |title=Frants gallery space |url=https://frantsgallery.com/ |access-date=2024-04-02 |website=frantsgallery.com}}

Biography

Frants was born on 1 October 1965[https://www.facebook.com/anna.frants.9/about?lst=100001044284519%3A1513421078%3A1532006556 About Anna Frants] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720131606/https://www.facebook.com/anna.frants.9/about?lst=100001044284519%3A1513421078%3A1532006556 |date=2018-07-20}} // Facebook.[http://famous-birthdays.ru/data/01_oktyabrya/frantz_anna_aleksandrovna.html Франц Анна Александровна] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719173439/http://famous-birthdays.ru/data/01_oktyabrya/frantz_anna_aleksandrovna.html |date=2018-07-19}} // Famous Birthdays.ru. in Leningrad, Soviet Union. In 1989, Frants graduated from the St. Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design (formerly the Vera Mukhina Leningrad Higher School of Art and Industry), where she had majored in Industrial Design. In 1992, she was admitted to the New-York Pratt Institute to the department of Art and Design where she majored in Computer Graphics and Animation.[http://www.ncca.ru/events.text?filial=6&id=3946 Лекция Анны Франц «Дизайн против Искусства против Дизайна»] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407184129/http://www.ncca.ru/events.text?filial=6&id=3946 |date=2018-04-07 }} // National Centre for Contemporary Arts.

The mastering of computer graphics and animation marked the beginning of her enthusiasm for new media, new media art and technologies in art[http://digicult.it/it/news/the-time-keeper-a-traveling-group-exhibition-examining-the-presence-of-past-present-and-future/ The Time Keeper. Una mostra di gruppo itinerante Feed dei commenti] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003175048/http://www.digicult.it/it/news/the-time-keeper-a-traveling-group-exhibition-examining-the-presence-of-past-present-and-future/ |date=2017-10-03 }} // DIGICULT. Digital Art, Design and Culture. 2012.06.12. and the concentration of her interests on the transition from traditional classical methods to cyberarts that was afforded unlimited possibilities by the rapidly developing internet.

In 1997, she married Leonid Frants. Their son Daniil became the youngest artist at CYLAND MediaArtLab: when he was only twelve, he created, as part of Cyfest, an international educational game program for children, the workshop "Humanizing Robots",{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/humanizing.robots|title="Humanizing Robots" by Daniil Frants - global workshop on robots for kids|website=www.facebook.com|accessdate=20 July 2018}} which he held in Russia, Germany, Japan, the United States and Ukraine.

In addition to continuous exhibition activities as an artist and a curator[http://www.chasedmagazine.com/2015/07/people-interview-with-curator-anna-frants-at-venice-biennal-2015/ People: Interview with curator Anna Frants at Venice Biennial 2015] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304173629/http://www.chasedmagazine.com/2015/07/people-interview-with-curator-anna-frants-at-venice-biennal-2015/ |date=2018-03-04 }} // Chased. Magazin für Kunst, Ausstellungen, Vernissagen in Berlin. July 12. 2015. in the United States, Saint Petersburg, Europe and Japan, in 2010, Anna traveled to the Polar Region as a member of the international group of artists within the program "The Arctic Circle"{{Cite web |url=http://www.thearcticcircle.org/ |title=The Arctic Circle artist and scientist residency program |access-date=2014-02-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140206201610/http://www.thearcticcircle.org/ |archive-date=2014-02-06 |url-status=live }} organized by the Canadian government. The program's purpose was to afford the artists an opportunity to visit hard-to-reach places of the Polar Region that are mostly known through scientific reports, which would subsequently allow them to create art projects based on their impressions of the region. In addition to the video footage filmed by Anna, that trip resulted in her interactive project Trembling Creatures,{{cite web |title=TREMBLING CREATURES – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/trembling-creatures/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929000534/http://www.annafrants.net/home_19.html |archive-date=29 September 2017 |accessdate=February 28, 2024 |website=annafrants.net |df=dmy-all}} exhibited at the group show of participants of those annual expeditions that opened in May 2014 at the "1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery"[http://dutchcultureusa.com/blog/1631/paul-segers-and-arjen-de-leeuw-in-magnetic-north-artists-and-the-arctic-circle Paul Segers and Arjen de Leeuw in 'Magnetic North Artists and The Arctic Circle'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018190505/http://dutchcultureusa.com/blog/1631/paul-segers-and-arjen-de-leeuw-in-magnetic-north-artists-and-the-arctic-circle |date=2017-10-18 }} // Dutch Culture USA. 16 May 2014, by Stefanie Hofman. in New York.

Selected exhibitions

Cyfest 15: Deering Estate, Miami, USA 2023{{Cite web |title=CYFEST 15: VULNERABILITY, DEERING ESTATE |url=https://www.cyland.org/news/cyfest-15-vulnerability-deering-estate-miami |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=CYLAND {{!}} Media Art Lab|date=31 October 2023 }}
Nomada Digital Arts. Flying over birders. Jerusalem, Israel 2023{{Cite web |title=NOMADA DIGITAL ART: Flying Over Borders |url=https://www.inemea.org/nomada-digital-art-flying-over-borders |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=INEMEA Association for Art Culture and Education}}
XXII International Image Festival, XENOlandscapes, Bogotá CO 2023{{Cite web |title=CYFEST+XXII International Image Festival, XENOlandscapes, Colombia |url=http://archive.cyland.org/lab/cyfest-xxii-international-image-festival-xenolandscapes-colombia/ |access-date=2024-03-02 |website=archive.cyland.org|date=3 May 2023 }}
Armenia Engineering Week 2023, Engineering City, Yerevan, Armenia, 2023.{{Cite web |title=Converging engineering, science and art |url=https://www.cyland.org/news/converging-engineering-science-and-art |access-date=2024-03-14 |website=CYLAND {{!}} Media Art Lab|date=20 November 2023 }}
Digitec 2023, Meridian Expo Center, Yerevan, Armenia, 2023.{{Cite web |title=DIGITECH 2023 |url=https://www.cyland.org/news/digitec-2023 |access-date=2024-03-14 |website=CYLAND {{!}} Media Art Lab|date=9 October 2023 }}
CYFEST-14: Ferment, ASU MIX Center in Arizona, USA 2022{{Cite web |title=CYFEST-14: ARIZONA |url=https://www.cyfest.art/cyfest-14-arizona |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=International Media Art Festival {{!}} CYFEST}}
Art & Environment=CROSSING Exhibition, Miro Center in Gwangju KR 2022
Creative Machine 3 Exhibition, Goldsmiths College, London UK 2022
Cyfest-14 FERMENT Arts + Ecology Festival, Dartington Trust, Dartington UK 2021{{Cite web |title=CYFEST-14: DARTINGTON |url=https://www.cyfest.art/dartington |access-date=2024-03-02 |website=International Media Art Festival {{!}} CYFEST}}
ID. ART:TECH Exhibition at the National Arts Club, New York, US 2020{{Cite web |title=ID. ART:TECH EXHIBITION opens in New York |url=http://archive.cyland.org/lab/id-art-tech-exhibition-opens-in-new-york/ |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=archive.cyland.org|date=10 February 2020 }}
Weather Forecast: Digital Cloudiness - Reggia di Caserta, Italy, 2018.{{cite web |title=CYFEST Continues at the Eighteenth-Century Royal Palace in Caserta, Italy |url=https://archive.cyland.org/lab/cyfest-continues-at-the-eighteenth-century-residence-in-caserta-italy |accessdate=2024-04-02 |website=archive.cyland.org}}
Personal Spaces – Interactive Multimedia Works by Anna Frants, Carla Gannis, Alexandra Dementieva, Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov. National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, 2018.{{Cite web |title=CYLAND Opens Exhibition at the National Arts Club in New York |url=https://archive.cyland.org/lab/cyland-opens-exhibition-at-the-national-arts-club-in-new-york/ |access-date=2024-03-16 |website=CYLAND - Art :: Tech|date=6 February 2018 }}
HYBRIS, Monsters and Hybrids in Contemporary Art, University Ca' Foscari, Venice, 2017.{{cite web |title=HYBRIS Exhibition in Venice, Monsters and Hybrids in Contemporary Art |url=https://artpropaganda.com/hybris-exhibition-in-venice/ |accessdate=2024-03-13 |website=Cyland Foundation Inc. – All projects since 1998 – Archive|date=14 May 2017 }}
PERSONAL STRUCTURES - Open Borders. Venice, Italy, 2017{{Cite web |title=2017 ART |url=https://ecc-italy.eu/exhibitions/personalstructures2017 |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=ecc-italy.eu}}
Patterns of the Mind, Convergence, London, 2016.{{Cite web |title=Convergence Digital Art Partnership |url=http://www.convergence-london.com/visual_arts/cyland-exhibition-convergence-digital-art-partnership |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161021075659/http://convergence-london.com/visual_arts/cyland-exhibition-convergence-digital-art-partnership |archive-date=2016-10-21 |access-date=2022-03-22 |work=www.convergence-london.com}}
Nargifsus, Transfer Gallery, New York, 2016.{{Cite web |url=http://newhive.com/peertospace/nargifsus |title=Nargifsus |access-date=2017-09-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916011837/http://newhive.com/peertospace/nargifsus |archive-date=2017-09-16 |url-status=dead }}
Made in Ancient Greece, Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, 2016.{{Cite web |title=Sergey Kuryokhin Museum Opens Exhibition with CYLAND's Installation |url=https://artpropaganda.com/kuryokhin-museum-opens-exhibition/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=CYLAND Foundation Inc.|date=16 June 2016 }}
The Other Home, Made in NY Media Center by IFP, New York, 2015.{{Cite web |title=CYBERFEST 2014 at the Made in NY Media Center by IFP in New York City |url=https://archive.cyland.org/lab/cyberfest-2014-at-the-made-in-ny-media-center-by-ifp-in-new-york-city/ |access-date=2024-03-16 |website=CYLAND - Art :: Tech|date=10 January 2015 }}
Urbi et Orbi, as part of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, RGGU, Moscow, 2015.{{Cite web |title=Urbi et Orbi at the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art |url=https://archive.cyland.org/lab/urbi-et-orbi/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=CYLAND - Art :: Tech|date=18 September 2015 }}
Personal Space #1, Youth Center at the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, 2015.
Re: Collection, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, 2014.{{cite web|url=http://madmuseum.org/exhibition/re-collection|title=Re: Collection|website=madmuseum.org|accessdate=20 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929044526/http://madmuseum.org/exhibition/re-collection|archive-date=29 September 2017|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}
Magnetic North, The UBS Art Gallery, New York, 2014.{{Cite web |title=1285_MAGNETICNORTH_Brochure_Final.pdf |url=https://thearcticcircle.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1285_MAGNETICNORTH_Brochure_Final.pdf |access-date=2024-03-16 |website=The Arctic Circle – Artist & Scientist Residency Program}}
Finding Freedom in Russian Art, 1961–2014, Paul & Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, USA, 2014.{{Cite web |url=http://museum.louisiana.edu/exhibit14 |title=Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum |access-date=2017-09-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160623230534/http://museum.louisiana.edu/exhibit14 |archive-date=2016-06-23 |url-status=dead }}
This Leads to Fire, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, 2014.{{Cite web |title=This Leads to Fire: From Nonconformism to Global Capitalism, Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection |url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/107368/this-leads-to-fire-from-nonconformism-to-global-capitalism-selections-from-the-kolodzei-art-foundation-collection/ |access-date=2024-03-16 |website=www.e-flux.com}}
Capital of Nowhere, 2013.{{cite web|url=http://capital.cyland.org|title=Capital of Nowhere - official site|website=capital.cyland.org|accessdate=20 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323032452/http://capital.cyland.org/|archive-date=23 March 2018|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}
VISIONARY DREAMS # 3261-64", 2013.{{cite web |title=Anna Frants. VISIONARY DREAMS № 3261-64 |url=https://artpropaganda.com/anna-frants-visionary-dreams-3261-64/|accessdate=2024-03-01 |website=artpropaganda.com |date= 24 December 2013|df=dmy-all}}
The Time Keeper, State Hermitage, 2013.{{cite web|url=http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/06/hm6_4_13_18.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140726073425/http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/06/hm6_4_13_18.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 July 2014 |title=The Time Keeper|work=www.hermitagemuseum.org|accessdate=20 July 2018}}
Migrants, 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, 2013.{{Cite web |url=http://5th.moscowbiennale.ru/en/program/special_projects/migranty_en.html |title=The Fifth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art |access-date=2014-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202015152/http://5th.moscowbiennale.ru/en/program/special_projects/migranty_en.html |archive-date=2014-02-02 |url-status=dead }}
CYFEST Exhibition, 2012.{{cite web |title=Exhibition / CYBERFEST 2012 |url=http://cylandfest.com/catalog2012/exhibition.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304185412/http://cylandfest.com/catalog2012/exhibition.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |accessdate=2024-03-23 |website=cylandfest.com |df=dmy-all}}
The Time Keeper, Brussels, Belgium, 2012.{{cite web |title=timekeeper installations |url=http://www.imal.org/nl/node/772 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170928193536/http://www.imal.org/nl/node/772 |archive-date=28 September 2017 |accessdate=20 July 2018 |website=iMAL |df=dmy-all}}
Transmediale, ConcentArt e.V., Berlin, Germany, 2011.{{Cite web |title=ConcentArt / Sign & Time |url=https://archive.transmediale.de/content/concentart-sign-time |access-date=2024-03-14 |website=art&digitalculture {{!}} transmediale}}
Trembling Creatures, SIGGRAPH ASIA, 2011, Hong Kong.{{ cite web|url=https://www.siggraph.org//asia2011/artgallery-detail?id=100-52&session=artgallery&event=200-209|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130421085200/https://www.siggraph.org//asia2011/artgallery-detail?id=100-52&session=artgallery&event=200-209|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 April 2013|title=Trembling Creatures|work=www.siggraph.org|accessdate=20 July 2018}}
Unforeseen, Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York City, USA{{Cite web |title=Unforeseen: The Personal in Photography from Soviet Russia 1926-1949 |url=https://www.nailyaalexandergallery.com/exhibitions/unforeseen-the-personal-in-photography-from-soviet-russia-1926-1949 |access-date=2024-03-14 |website=Nailya Alexander Gallery}}

Selective artworks

Obstinacy and persistence, Installation, 2023.{{Cite web |title=Obstinacy and persistence |url=https://annafrants.net/obstinacy-and-persistence/ |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=annafrants.net}}
Vagaries of affection, multimedia installation, 2023.{{Cite web |title=VAGARIES OF AFFECTION – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/vagaries-of-affections/ |access-date=2024-03-01 |language=en-US}}
Unidentified objects, multimedia installation, 2021.{{Cite web |title=Unidentified objects |url=https://annafrants.net/unidentified-objects-2021/ |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=annafrants.net}}
BAKLUSHAS or Frittering Away Brahms, multimedia installation, 2021.{{Cite web |title=BAKLUSHAS or Frittering Away Brahms – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/baklushas-or-frittering-away-brahms-2021/ |access-date=2024-03-01 |language=en-US}}
Shedding crocodile's tears... or crying all the way to the bank, multimedia installation, 2021.{{Cite web |title=Shedding crocodile's tears ...or crying all the way to the bank |url=https://annafrants.net/crocodiles-tears-2021/ |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=annafrants.net}}
Simple pleasures, installation, 2021.{{Cite web |title=Simple pleasures |url=https://annafrants.net/simple-pleasures-2021/ |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=annafrants.net}}
Amabie (Japanese averter), multimedia installation, 2020.{{Cite web |title=Amabie (japanese averter) |url=https://annafrants.net/amabie-japanese-averter/ |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=annafrants.net}}
Artist union. Still live, multimedia installation, 2019.{{Cite web |title=Artist union. Still live. |url=https://annafrants.net/artist-union-still-live/ |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=annafrants.net}}
Hooligans, media installation, 2019.{{Cite web |title=HOOLIGANS – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/hooligans/ |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=annafrants.net}}
Peck of salt, media installation, 2019.{{Cite web |title=PECK OF SALT – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/peck-of-salt/ |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=annafrants.net}}
Point of no return, media installation, 2019.{{Cite web |title=POINT OF NO RETURN – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/peck-of-salt/ |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=annafrants.net}}
Dissident, media installation, 2018.{{Cite web |title=DISSIDENT – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/dissident/ |access-date=2024-03-13 |website=annafrants.net}}
Reflection in a space, media installation, 2018.{{Cite web |title=REFLECTION IN A SPACE – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/reflection-in-a-space/ |access-date=2024-03-13 |website=annafrants.net}}
Optimist, media installation, 2018.{{Cite web |title=OPTIMIST – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/optimist/ |access-date=2024-03-13 |website=annafrants.net}}
Narcissus, media installation, 2018.{{Cite web |title=NARCISSUS – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/narcissus/ |access-date=2024-03-13 |website=annafrants.net}}
Washerwomen, media installation, 2018.{{Cite web |title=WASHERWOMEN – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/washerwomen/ |access-date=2024-03-13 |website=annafrants.net}}
Casts, media installation, 2018.{{Cite web |title=CASTS – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/casts/ |access-date=2024-03-13 |website=annafrants.net}}
Living tapestry, media installation, 2017.{{Cite web |title=LIVING TAPESTRY – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/living-tapestry/ |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=annafrants.net}}
Blind spot, video installation, 2017.{{Cite web |title=BLIND SPOT – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/blind-spot/ |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=annafrants.net}}
Possessive shoemaker, media installation, 2017.{{Cite web |title=POSSESSIVE SHOEMAKER – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/possessive-shoemaker/ |access-date=2024-03-13 |website=annafrants.net}}
Stale news, media installation, 2017.{{Cite web |title=STALE NEWS – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/stale-news/ |access-date=2024-03-13 |website=annafrants.net}}
Under the weather, media installation, 2017.{{Cite web |title=UNDER THE WEATHER – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/under-the-weather/ |access-date=2024-03-13 |website=annafrants.net}}
Informer, media installation, 2017.{{Cite web |title=INFORMER – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/informer/ |access-date=2024-03-13 |website=annafrants.net}}
No. 0, multimedia installation in public space, 2016.{{cite web |title=NO. 0 – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/no-0/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918154637/http://annafrants.net/home_52rus.html |archive-date=18 September 2017 |accessdate=February 28, 2024 |website=annafrants.net |df=dmy-all}}
Bluest of the seas, media installation, 2016.{{Cite web |title=BLUEST OF THE SEAS – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/bluest-of-the-seas/ |access-date=2024-03-13 |website=annafrants.net}}
Journey, media installation, 2015.{{Cite web |title=Journey – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/journey/ |access-date=2024-03-22 |website=annafrants.net}}
Live cam renaissance, series of works, video Installations, 2015.{{Cite web |title=Live cam renaissance – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/live-cam-renaissance/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=annafrants.net}}
Doll house, performance for children, 2015.{{Cite web |title=Doll house – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/doll-house/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=annafrants.net}}
Personal space, series of works, video Installations, 2015.{{Cite web |title=Personal space – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/personal-space/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=annafrants.net}}
Anxiety, installation, 2014.{{Cite web |title=Anxiety – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/anxiety/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=annafrants.net}}
Weather forecast, multimedia installation, 2014.{{Cite web |title=Weather forecast – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/weather-forecast/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=annafrants.net}}
On the lookout, installation, 2014.{{Cite web |title=Onthelookout – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/on-the-lookout/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=annafrants.net}}
Colouring soundscapes, sound installation, 2014.{{Cite web |title=Colouring soundscapes – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/colouring-soundscapes/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=annafrants.net}}
Reflection on life No.125082, installation, 2013.{{Cite web |title=Reflection on life №125082 – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/reflection-on-life-no-125082/ |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=annafrants.net}}
Weather Forecast – winter/summer, installation, 2013.{{Cite web |title=Weather Forecast – winter/summer – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/weather-forecast-winter-summer/ |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=annafrants.net}}
Cloud that smelled blue, installation, 2012.{{Cite web |title=Cloud that smelled blue – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/cloud-that-smelled-blue/ |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=annafrants.net}}
Socks snapper, installation, 2012.{{Cite web |title=Socks snapper – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/socks-snapper/ |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=annafrants.net}}
Vexation of spirit, video, 2012.{{Cite web |title=Vexation of spirit – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/vexation-of-spirit/ |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=annafrants.net}}
Storm in a tea glass, media installation, 2012.{{Cite web |title=Storm in a tea glass – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/storm-in-a-tea-glass/ |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=annafrants.net}}
Shadows, interactive multimedia installation, 2012.{{Cite web |title=Shadows – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/shadows/ |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=annafrants.net}}
Hoist, installation, 2012.{{Cite web |title=Hoist – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/hoist/ |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=annafrants.net}}
Cardboard drippings, installation, 2012.{{Cite web |title=Cardboard drippings – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/cardboard-drippings/ |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=annafrants.net}}
Acrobats, installation, 2012.{{Cite web |title=Acrobats– Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/acrobats/ |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=annafrants.net}}
Gravitation, installation, 2011.{{Cite web |title=Gravitation – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/gravitation/ |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=annafrants.net}}
Breathing in the air, installation, 2010.{{Cite web |title=Breathing in the air – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/breathing-in-the-air/ |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=annafrants.net}}
We are here, installation, 2010.{{Cite web |title=We are here – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/we-are-here/ |access-date=2024-03-30 |website=annafrants.net}}
Window sash, kinetic Installation, 2010.{{Cite web |title=Window sash – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/window-sash/ |access-date=2024-03-30 |website=annafrants.net}}
Snowball fight, video installation, 2010.{{Cite web |title=Snowball fight – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/snowball-fight/ |access-date=2024-03-30 |website=annafrants.net}}
Toddler, video installation, 2010.{{Cite web |title=Toddler – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/toddler/ |access-date=2024-03-30 |website=annafrants.net}}
Trembling Creatures, installation, 2010.
Polar Bear Fodder, multimedia installation, 2009.{{cite web |title=POLAR BEAR FODDER – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/polar-bear-fodder/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171004135921/http://www.annafrants.net/home_18.html |archive-date=4 October 2017 |accessdate=February 28, 2024 |website=annafrants.net |df=dmy-all}}
Infinity, installation, 2009.{{Cite web |title=Infinity – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/infinity/ |access-date=2024-03-30 |website=annafrants.net}}
A Symphony for X Slide Projectors, multimedia installation, 2009.{{Cite web |title=A Symphony for X Slide Projectors – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/a-symphony-for-x-slide-projectors/ |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=annafrants.net}}
Fur die stadt (for the city), multimedia installation, 2008.{{Cite web |title=Fur die stadt – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/fur-die-stadt/ |access-date=2024-04-10 |website=annafrants.net}}
Soda water, multimedia installation, 2008.{{Cite web |title=Soda water – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/soda-water/ |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=annafrants.net}}
Fish talk, cyber installation, 2007.{{Cite web |title=Fish talk – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/fish-talk/ |access-date=2024-03-31 |website=annafrants.net}}
Speedless, cyber performance, 2007.{{Cite web |title=Speedless – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/speedless/ |access-date=2024-03-31 |website=annafrants.net}}
In the Shade of Olive Tree (in the collection of Kyosei-no-Sato Museum, Japan), video installation, 2007.{{cite web |title=IN THE SHADE OF AN OLIVE TREE – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/in-the-shade-of-an-olive-tree/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918154849/http://www.annafrants.net/home_02.html |archive-date=18 September 2017 |accessdate=February 28, 2024 |website=annafrants.net |df=dmy-all}}
Drumpainting, interactive artwork, 2007.{{Cite web |title=Drumpainting – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/drumpainting/ |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=annafrants.net}}
StaticVideo series, video, 2006.{{Cite web |title=Static vdeo series – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/staticvideo-series/ |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=annafrants.net}}
Sarcophagus, Ghanaian Style, or The funeral of a Dreamer. Video installation, 2005.{{Cite web |title=Sarcophagus, Ghanaian Style, or The funeral of a Dreamer – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/sarcophagus-ghanaian-style/ |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=annafrants.net}}
The story of heroic pilot, video, 2004.{{Cite web |title=The story of heroic pilot – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/the-story-of-heroic-pilot/ |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=annafrants.net}}
Made in Ancient Greece, series of works (5 objects from this series are in the collection of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York), 2003 - 2015.{{cite web |title=MADE IN ANCIENT GREECE – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/made-in-ancient-greece/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171004135630/http://www.annafrants.net/home_03.html |archive-date=4 October 2017 |accessdate=February 28, 2024 |website=annafrants.net |df=dmy-all}}
Touchmeweb, netart project, 2002.{{Cite web |title=Touchmeweb – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/touchmeweb/ |access-date=2024-04-10 |website=annafrants.net}}
Bride. Audio, video, sensor performance, 2002.{{Cite web |title=Bride – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/bride/ |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=annafrants.net}}
The angel, computer animation, 1995.{{Cite web |title=The angel – Anna Frants |url=https://annafrants.net/the-angel/ |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=annafrants.net}}

Trembling Creatures and Polar Bear Feeder were made as a result of the trip to the Polar circle as a member of the Canadian art expedition "The Arctic Circle" in 2009.[https://annafrants.net/category/work/ Works] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407184332/http://www.annafrants.net/home_01.html|date=2018-04-07}} // Anna Frants Personal Site.

Artworks by Anna Frants are presented by Borey Gallery{{cite web |title=Borey Art Center |url=https://borey.ru/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180308205550/http://borey.ru/ |archive-date=8 March 2018 |accessdate=20 July 2018 |website=borey.ru |df=dmy-all}} (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Dam Stuhltrager Gallery{{cite web|url=http://www.damstuhltrager.com|title=THE WYE|website=damstuhltrager.com|accessdate=20 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150812141716/http://www.damstuhltrager.com/|archive-date=12 August 2015|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}} (New York, United States, and Berlin, Germany) and Barbarian Gallery (Zürich, Switzerland). Her works are in the collections of the New York Museum of Arts and Design, State Russian Museum, Kyosei-no-Sato Museum (Japan), Kolodzei Art Foundation,{{cite web|url=http://www.kolodzeiart.org/|title=Kolodzei Art Foundation - Art from Russia and former Soviet Union|website=www.kolodzeiart.org|accessdate=20 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180331122701/http://kolodzeiart.org/|archive-date=31 March 2018|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}} Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Contemporary Art and in numerous private collections all over the world.

Curatorial activities

The most notable of Frants' curatorial works were the retrospective exhibitions "Sterligov's Group", 2006, New York, and "Art around the Barracks", 2003, New York.

In the documentary of Andrey Zagdansky "Konstantin and Mouse", dedicated to Konstantin Kuzminsky, one of the episodes was filmed at the opening night of "Art around the Barracks" at Frants Gallery in Soho.

Among contemporary artists, who constantly collaborate with Anna Frants as a curator, are Vitaly Pushnitsky, Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov, Alexander Kozhin, Alexander Terebenin, Marina Koldobskaya, Alexandra Dementieva, Peter Belyi, Petr Shvetsov.

CYLAND MediaArtLab

In 2006, Anna Frants together with Marina Koldobskaya founded the international media lab "СYLAND".

Since 2007, the MediaArtLab holds the annual festival of cyberart "Cyfest", the largest cyberart festival in Eastern Europe featuring artists from different countries who share an enthusiasm for new technologies.[http://veniceconference.com/speakers/anna-frants Anna Frants] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304174152/http://veniceconference.com/speakers/anna-frants |date=2018-03-04 }} // Venice Conference 2017.

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|text=The use of computers allows the artist to break away from the deterministic nature of traditional art forms... Computer art is often similar to conceptual art from the point of view of intellectual judgment: the viewer needs to understand the artist's intentions. This understanding is even more important in interactive projects because the way we react depends on our ability to understand the artist's idea and expectations. The cyberart is challenging because it is based on the technologies and the means that are less intuitive for us and new in their form... Each innovative work gives us a new perspective for understanding the infinitely expanding universe of art and teaches us to understand its creative glossary.

|source=Citation from a booklet of Anna Frants exhibition «Visual Dreams №2391-95. VideoCyberArt» — Borey Gallery (St. Peterburg), December 2011.

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Nonprofit foundation "CYLAND Foundation"

In 1999, Anna and Leonid Frants created the nonprofit foundation "CYLAND Foundation"{{cite web |title=CYLAND Foundation Inc. |url=https://artpropaganda.com/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180411192756/http://www.artpropaganda.com/ |archive-date=11 April 2018 |accessdate=20 July 2018 |website=artpropaganda.com |df=dmy-all}} that is still active. Its purpose was the representation in New York of the artists from Leningrad/St. Petersburg who have been working there from the postwar 1950s until the present time. The primary focus was on the so-called Leningrad undergroundЛ. Гуревич. Художники ленинградского андеграунда. Биографический словарь. Искусство. СПб, 2007. — the unique and underexplored cultural phenomenon of the 1970s and the artistic and social environment that brought if forth.

Gradually, the scope of activities of "Frants Gallery Space" expanded and started including not just the traditional genres, such as painting, sculpture and graphics, but also the art associated with the latest technologies: cyberart, video art, computer animation, interactive installations as well as performance art.

Collection

The collection's creation was a natural extension of the development of "CYLAND Foundation". Since 1998, Anna and Leonid Frants have been collecting works of visual arts of Leningrad underground. Their current collection also includes sculptures, assemblages, photographs, videos, objects of actual art and archival materials.

In January 2013, the Department of Contemporary Art at the Hermitage Museum organized, as a part of the project "Actual Art of St. Petersburg, A Retrospective",{{cite web|url= http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_Ru/06/hm6_4_13_37.html|archive-url= https://archive.today/20140726073425/http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_Ru/06/hm6_4_13_37.html|url-status= dead|archive-date= July 26, 2014|title=Простые правила В рамках образовательной программы "РЕТРОСПЕКТИВА. Страницы истории петербургского искусства"|work=Hermitage Museum|accessdate=July 20, 2018}} the exhibition "Simple Rules".[http://obtaz.com/hermitage_private_collections_02.htm "Simple Rules" exhibition in Hermitage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214191808/http://obtaz.com/hermitage_private_collections_02.htm |date=2017-02-14 }} // Obtaz Atrs. It showcased works from Russian and foreign private collections.

References

Sources

[http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/?p=3597 Technology of the Cyber-beauty — Anna Frants and Lena Sokol. NY Arts Magazine].
[http://veniceconference.com/speakers/anna-frants Anna Frants] // Venice Conference 2017.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20170929044321/http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/is-it-all-quiet-on-the-cyber-front-anna-frants-and-elena-sokol/ Is it All Quiet on the Cyber Front? — Anna Frants and Elena Sokol. NY Arts Magazine].
[http://www.chasedmagazine.com/2015/07/people-interview-with-curator-anna-frants-at-venice-biennal-2015/ People: Interview with curator Anna Frants at Venice Biennial 2015] // Chased. Magazin für Kunst, Ausstellungen, Vernissagen in Berlin. July 12. 2015.
[http://www.1tv.ru/news/other/143902 St. Petersburg holds the festival of contemporary art Cyfest for the third time — TV Channel 1, 2009].
[https://digicult.it/news/the-time-keeper-a-traveling-group-exhibition-examining-the-presence-of-past-present-and-future/ The Time Keeper. A traveling group exhibition — Digicult].// DIGICULT. Digital Art, Design and Culture. July 31, 2012.
[http://www.be-in.ru/events/24522-hranitel_vremeni/ The Time Keeper — Be-In].