Anna Martynenko (b. 1985) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Saint Petersburg. Through working with objects, installations, sound, site-specific and public art projects, she explores the urban environment and the material world absent from the information space. In her practice, Martynenko is interested in the information potential of physical reality, transformations and obscure interactions of different kinds of information.
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Fragment of the Plants installation. From Pangardenia project, 2020 Ars Electronica festival, Air Gallery, St Petersburg
Plants installation view, from Pangardenia project. Based on the data gathered by an algorithm from a plant’s dead fragments, a new artificial plant was created. 2020 Ars Electronica Festival
Plastic Bag, 2019. From The Order of Things project. Martynenko documents discarded objects, extracting all the available information from them and evaluating it against the objects themselves
Objects from The Order of Things project, 2019
From Sound Maps project, 2020. Each map is a documentation of the soundscape in a specific point in space, with the coordinates indicated on the sheet
Waterphone, portable version, 2020. Waterphone is a device for listening to the sounds of water on noisy urban riverbanks
Zine guide for documenting the soundscape. For Waterphone project, 2020
Fragment of the Tape Marks installation, 2o19. Impulse exhibition, Kuryokhin Centre, St Petersburg. An algorithm gathers information from tape marks that remained from a previous exhibition
White Wall installation, 2019. Luda Gallery, St Petersburg. This work explores the whiteness of the gallery walls through sound
Topophones of the City, 2019. By placing three topophones on a Tymen lakefront, the artist offered the viewers a choice to listen closely to the road, the water, or the trees. Photo: Aleksandra Kokacheva
Fragment of the 465 Sounds installation, 2019. Navicula Artis gallery, St Petersburg. This project is an exploration of a visual work by Olga Moiseeva
Documentation of the Manege. Datafield project. NEMOSKVA, 2020. This zine offered a guide to the exhibition space focusing on insignificant details of the environment
AR project Masonry, 2020. Art Prospect festival, Gaza Palace of Culture, St Petersburg. Through AR, a viewer can see the restoration of the dilapidated masonry on the ground
AR project Parrots of the Gaza Palace of Culture, 2020. Art Prospect festival, St Petersburg. An AR restoration of a bird cage from the Palace of the 90s, with parrots pronouncing words and phrases from the tag cloud of the space
