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Fifth Exhibition of the Thingies Cycle: Telephones
Pro Arte Institute Exhibition Hall
Nevsky Courtine, Peter and Paul Fortress
8--29 October 2004
The exhibition shows four different forms of telephone from the collection of the Museum of the History of St Petersburg. The first telephones were receivers through which messages could be both spoken and heard. Although later constructions transmitted a better signal, there was no direct connection. The caller had to first call the operator at the other end of the line. The first automatic stations only appeared in the 1930s, making the telephone girls redundant. The construction of the telephone also changed, acquiring the disc-shaped dial still encountered today.
Anna Nesterova, one of the winners of the competition of artists, contributed a construction that does not correspond to the needs of modern man. Visitors could also see the projects of other contemporary artists on the theme of the telephone -- Yury Shtapakov’s New Archaeology, Georgy Ostretsov’s Telephone Bugs: Information Moles and Dmitry Shubin’s Who Is It? Georgy Litichevsky’s group from Moscow performed at the opening.
The exhibition was accompanied by a series of lectures read by Vladimir Syrov, senior curator of science and technical equipment, Museum of the History of St Petersburg.
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2010 • [July]
Russian 197046,
Saint-Petersburg,
Petropavlovskaya Fortress,
Nevsky Curtina,
Left side
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