Maria Koblyakova is a Moscow born / NYC based curator, journalist and artist. She is working on her B.A. in Performance Studies at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and is a curatorial intern at MoMA PS1 as well as an art events writer at Moscow MoMA Magazine “The Dialogue of Arts”.
As an artist, Maria fuses diverse mediums from multimedia art installations to interactive performance art. She presented her work at the Parallel Program of Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art 2015 and at the Summer Pavilion of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art; she will present at Jazz at Lincoln Center for the Tisch 50th Anniversary Gala.
Natalia Alfutova was born in Moscow and studied Mathematics at the Moscow State University, Film Directing at ‘Higher Director’s Courses’ Moscow, and Multimedia Art at The Rodchenko Art School (Moscow). In 2014 she founded Mediamead art studio. Artworks from this studio are a mix of math, cinema and multimedia art. In last two years, Natalia has produced a number of installations, which have been shown in various museums and art centers in Moscow: Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow), 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Mayakovsky Museum, and more. Her video art was selected in: BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film Festival, FILM MIAMI FEST / BEST SHORTS WORLDWIDE, Goa Short Film Festival.
