TOTAL RECALL
1999

Eurovideoart Spezial in Moscow
Olga Bozhko
Russky Zhurnal (Russian Magazine, Internet issue english.russ.ru) June 23, 1999

"TV Gallery" is the key Moscow venue for video art. This winter the French showed their experiments on memory installation (exhibition "Total Recall").

Total Recall
Konstantin Bokhorov
Khudozhestvenny Zhurnal (Art Magazine), #25, 1999

In January – March there was shown the project "Total Recall" at TV Gallery curated by Irina Kulik. The theme of the project was memory by means of which the identity of the subject is formed. It was not by chance that "TV Gallery" was chosen as a venue, so far it is the only center of telematics in Russia, and with the application of electronic media art modelling of psychic processes became a special trend in contemporary art.

There were exhibited about twenty works at "TV Gallery", though their number could be endlessly increased if needed. The very theme proved to be trouble-free and any artist could play it up as he wished.

A reference to Phillip K. Dick and his story "Total Recall" was a sort of intellectual appeal of the project. The ideas of this American writer whose art was at its peak in the 60's, used to be pretty popular not long ago, mainly because of the screen version of his novel "Blade Runner".

The evolution of an artistic representation is aimed at making the process of art perception more and more entertaining and suggestive. Exhibitions of this kind are becoming a significant product of museums and centers of contemporary art.

Commersant Daily, January 16, 1999

The two famous German gallerists Rudolph Kicken and Folklore Dill have visited Moscow one of these days. They are members of Berlin Art Fair Organisational Counsil, which is one of the most young but already pretty prestigeous in the world. The main goal of their visit was to get acquainted with Moscow galleries and have talks about collaboration in Art Fair "Art Moscow" planned for March. <...> Five Moscow galleries have been selected for participating in Berlin Art Fair: Aidan Gallery, Guelman Gallery, L-Gallery, TV Gallery and XL-Gallery. It will be a very significant experience for contemporary Russian art joining European market.

Campaign Against Illiteracy in the Art of Future
Capital, March 27 - April 2, 1998

There is one quiet place in Moscow where art of future is being forged. <...>

No one quite understands what this so called media art means. Some people say it means video, not that one we got used to, but with special effects and peculiarities... Others say there exists some interactive space where the viewer can affect the work somehow, change it according to his odd things openly. Together with Goethe Institute, TV Gallery invited Mr. Knut Gerwers from Berlin, theorist and practician in the art of future, who is ready to disclose own taste. And what is completely incomprehensible, so called web projects, when many people, being on the opposite sides of the globe, make some Jokonde together. <...> There is TV Gallery in Moscow, the only place where they deal with these all its secrets to a wide Moscow audience. And not just to explain them, but to show by means of an example of German multimedia art, from its first steps till nowadays.

Computer Is Inevitable
Georgiy Litichevskiy
Russky Telegraph (Russian Telegraph), #57 (129), April 2, 1998

TV Gallery presents its next event, prepared together with Goethe Institute, not only in its own hall on Yakimanka, but also in a cozy space of Internet Cafe "Base 14" in Stoleshnikov Pereulok. This time those who are fond of nontraditional technologies, can see not only the samples of video art, but artistic CD-ROMs and art in Internet as well. CD-ROMs and videos are presented at the Gallery itself, and trips through web projects you can make with the help of the "Base 14" equipment. The whole program has been prepared by Goethe Institute and the Center of Art and Media Technologies (ZKM) in Karlsruhe. Mainly these are the works of German authors, but there are also Americans and West- and Easteuropians.

It can so happen by November that we won't be able to remember anything
Boris Kuzminskiy
Commersant-Daily, #37, March 4, 1998

Moscow Art Media Center "TVGallery" got to work on a multimedia project "Total Recall", dedicated to Phillip K. Dick... The project which is to be carried out in the autumn of 1998, includes a large-scale Russian- French exposition, free catalogue with the interviews of famous philosophers and articles by contemporary art critics, sociologists, psycologists, writers, a scientific conference on Dick’s work, making of a thematic site and TV conference in Internet, musical programs with the representatives of alternative and classical music.