Natalia
Garber

Artist statement. I'm the heartleaft voice of the noosphere, sustainably leading the biosphere to its healing integrity. Digital Renaissance of my transformational science art expresses the ancient spirit of our Planet via the creative cooperation of natural laws & ethical artificial intelligence. My art strategy is global collaborations for the benefit of Earth. Rejoyce& join me! :)

Author's style. I created Transformational Science Art for sustainable development of people, organizations and places of Earth. My  interrelated art formats covering the entire spectrum from reality to virtuality are photo collages, painting of meanings, digital and AI art – and healing art performances in "visual + poetic" format. Applications of transformational science art include artist books, interdisciplinary collaboration, social artivism and cultural diplomacy. I collaborate with AI to build a better phygital reality in the Universe.

Meta-task. On February 24, 2022 I gave an interview on my art strategy for the Singapore Fenix360 blockchain platform for promotion independent artists to their potential global fans. My interviewer was the camera man of "Jurassic park" and we both agreed on THAT day to speak about my transformational science art and our common creative work for the benefit of the Planet. 

Bio. I graduated from the chair of computer science of the math department in the Moscow State Uni, Media Art Lab, Institute of psychotherapy, Higher literary courses and Global Diplomatic Forum. I got fellowships in transformational diplomacy (BBC, London), Web communities (Central European University, Budapest) and EdTech (Aharon Ofri International Center, Jerusalem). I'm a member of the sector of the synthesis of arts of the Creative Union of Russian Artists, Commission on Creative Industries of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Russia - and HUG art digital community of 180+ countries of Earth. I'm a speaker of the Russian Academy of Arts, Russian Institute of art studies and Technoethic art studio of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (China). My inspirers are Tara (female form of Buddha :), da Vinci, Velazquez, Miro, Mozart, Saint-Exupéry, Pushkin, Vernadsky, Gagarin, Brin.

Since 1990th my online “Museum of Art&Poems” placed on the Portal of Russian cultural Heritage was included in the “The art stand” database of artists from 85+ countries, “empowering communities through art". My 50+ novels&poems were published in Russia, Germany, USA, Israel & Australia. I got literary prizes for my documentary fiction& poems from the Russian Geographic Society, Russian Cosmic Corporation “Energia”, Big Symphonic Orchestra, Ministry of culture of Mordovia and “InterPoezia” mag (Israel). My novel “The austornaut” was included in the Honorable Mention List of the New Millenium Writing Award (USA, 2018).

I defended the first PhD on computer animation as a tool of media education in Russian Academy of Education in 1995. From 1998 till 2013 I was a senior scientific researcher in the department of audiovisual studies of the Russian institute for cultural research, exploring the methods of modern creative thinking and innovative practices. I published 300+ articles, including columns "Literary brand Russia" and “White swan” (opposing Nassim Taleb's "black swans"). I got a prize for professional success from the "Cosmopolitan" mag. I wrote 12 books, including "Virtual Reality for the Beginners“, which got a prize of Academia Euroepaea in humanities. I taught creative writing for hundreds of people from 7 to 70, made art therapy for 200 "pregnant pairs" - and trained in creative thinking of 150+ companies, including CROC (+30% annual turnover), Video international (turnover exceeded $1.5 bln), RBC (top created a startup & got 95 mln rubles of personal capital), Miro (started according my "White swan" strategy in 2011 and  evaluated $17,5 bln in 2022), IBS, EKSMO, Honda, J&J, BP, etc. I was a co-trainer  at the Russian-French training in out-of-box thinking of the "Vedomosti" national newspaper. I worked as a PR manager of 3D Web company ParallelGraphics and an expert of the International Festival of Computer Graphics “Anighraph”. I spoke on art innovations in the digital era at the "Electronic and Visual arts" conference in the State Tretyakov Gallery.

I returned to creation of digital art in 2020. I got
* a Special Prize 2020 from the MellowApp (Japan), delivering art for 170+ countries,
* and a Special Recognition Prize from the “Primary Colors” Exhibition 2021 of the Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery (USA).
* I became a finalst of the "Touristic souvenir 2024" contest in the Russian central & western regions with the multimedia postcard "A letter to the prince Alexander Nevsky from Pereslavl", including a poem and AI art of sustainable development.
* My AI artwork “Peace is a bridge” won the first place in the international contest “Reflections. Building a better world” of the Community art channel, Web platform of global community-based artivism aimed to inspire reflection and form connections that transcend differences through collective action, bringing artists of all ages and levels together to create positive change on the Planet.

I participated in digital exhibitions and fairs:
* “I HeArt Connection” Virtual Show (Art Therapy Institute, USA, 2022),
* Photo & science art Festival “Connect” (Bitglim corp, South Korea, 2022),
* “Homer’s Odyssey” online show (Pocketstar gallery, Greece, 2023),
* NFT fair "Chromaflora: Nature & Technology" by (MUTI&Artsies, Portugal, 2023),
* online Festival against violence towards women "Woman Scream" (La Pacha, Brazil, 2024),
* Eco-art festival “Co-creation” (National project "Ecology", Russia, 2024).

Solo exhibions:
* My constant solo exposition “Voice of the noosphere” @ the global Community art channel starts in 2025.

Collaborations:
* In 2021 I became a brand ambassador of InsituArtRoom app (Sweden), #1 mockup app, allowing artists to present their digital works in 700+ virtual interiors.
* In 2023 I upgraded the UNESCO Convention of Natural and Cultural Heritage to the hierarchy of sustainable development and added the top level #7 of global “genius loci”. I presented the pilot of my upgraded model in an online AI art project “Bricolage “Spain”: the unity of natural and cultural heritage” in collab with ICOM hispanist.
* In 2024 I became an Ambassador of peace of the Institute of Economics and Peace (Sydney-New York-Brussels-Harare-Mexico City-The Hague). In my diploma I used IEP research of Intercultural Peace Diplomacy for UNESCO, ​​biosphere-centrism of Vernadsky, Buddhist mindfulness according to the Nobel peace laureate HH Dalai Lama and integral level of spyral dynamics by Ken Wilber to upgrade IEP Positive Peace model to the Integral Positive Peace level, replacing “Lowering corruption” pillar to the “Integral Investment into the Planet” as ability to manage Earth changes sustainably, cooperatively & calmly in any crises and successes over SDG #16 :).

Collections:
* In 2024 my series of illustrations "White Swan" in the style of painting of meanings from my column of sustainable development of the Planet was included into the collection of the Foundation for Assistance to the Development of National Culture and Art. This Foundation is the founder of the National Award in the field of fine and decorative arts of Russia "Russian Gallery - XXI Century", which issues a magazine of the same name within the framework of the leading Russian B2B publishing house "Panorama", delivering bilingual Russian\English magazines to 83 states via Rossotrudnichestvo network. "Russian Gallery - XXI Century" is the international magazine containing art history analysis of pictorial, graphic and decorative-applied works of painters, sculptors and other masters of artistic crafts of modern Russia. This magazine organizes art exhibitions in the State Russian Duma, the Council of the Federal Russian Assembly, the State Kremlin Palace and other top Russian and foreign venues. The magazine's collection of paintings contains more than 2,600 works, and its annual socio-cultural projects attract from 5,000 to 17,000 like-minded art lovers in Russia and abroad.

Media:
* My diptych "Princess Frog & Archangel Mikhail" was included in "Identity" issue of the "Boomer art mag" (London, 2021) with Frida Kahlo on the cover.
* My AI poster "Peace is a bridge", art collaboration with this IEP, is featured in the February 2024 issue of the GlobalArtMag, delivering best contemporary art to 10+ million people globally.
* "Russian Gallery - XXI Century" published my bio in the issue 5-2024
* and also bilingual journal "Issues of cultural studies" published my report at the XX global conference "Consciuos reframed" (Central Academy of Fine Arts, June 5-7 2024, Beijing, China) in its issue 9-2024.
* I inherit the art tradition of Russian underground, so I made a research called "High spirit: transcending nonconformist Eduard Steinberg's drama with transformational science art", based on the creative life of the globally famoust abstract artist, connected with Ecole de Paris. My article is published it in the "Museum" mag #10-2024 and devoted to an interdisciplinary study of the mechanisms of success of the creative stoicism strategy of Steinberg in combination with the model of sustainable promotion by his french gallery owner Claude Bernard. I researched this collaboration, which led to the Steinberg's international commercial&professional success, including inclusion of his works in the collections of leading Russian and foreign museums along with VIP private collections. Developing approaches of the high art in the digital age by my transformational science art and art therapy, I suggested a middle way for a modern artist of high spirit in the balance between the global art market and the spiritual service of high art. My apoproach allows to develop modern international art projects from traditions to innovations of the 21st age.

Artist's book:
* In 2023 I published the artist’s book “Cultural brand “Russia” for innovators of the digital era” in collaboration with Kuznetsov porcelian collection, supplier of His Imperial Majesty with a 200-year history.


Reviews:

Natalia Garber wrote the artist's book "Cultural brand Russia for the innovators of the digital era", presenting her unique creative “model of governing the Planet with the consent” based on higher human & ecological values in modern context. From the point of view of cultural diplomacy I want to highlight the three key lines of this manifesto: creative sustainable development, cultural dynamics from tradition to innovation and building cultural brands of cities in order to create their virtual&real global partnership to care about the Planet together.
This innovation is very topical, because the European civilization is still haunted by the subject/object dichotomy established by the philosophers of the Renaissance and Modern times. Initially, the subject was recognized as a person, the one who knows, and the world is an object, something that is known. The subject is usually a male, European and intellectual. Anything that doesn't meet these criteria is labeled as "other", which is treated as an object. In spite of the achievements of quantum physics and meditative practices, the whole World is still treated by us as an object and studied by natural science, not by mystical methods - as an interdependent partner of the human researchers. This leads to the attitude towards nature as a quasi-infinite resource and environmental problems since the 20th century. In the 21st century, the subject-object paradigm becomes more complex as postmodernism ironically reconceptualizes the subject - and we get the flowering of many theories of rational environmental management, post-colonialism, racial and gender, etc.
The attitude of Homo Sapience to nature leads to the destruction of the environment, and eventually of humanity itself, but in a very distant perspective, which is poorly perceived. Thus, inner and outer nature of humans becomes a subject from an object, and is endowed with the rights that are inherent in the subject, which must be respected. The picture of the world is being revised. At the First UN International Conference on Environment and Development in 1976, it was decided that the theoretical basis of international environmental policy should be developed on V.I. Vernadsky’s doctrine of the biosphere and noosphere. Ideas about the impact of human activity on natural processes are formulated in his unfinished book "Chemical structure of the Earth's biosphere and its environment" in 1944. Since then, the philosophy of sustainable development has been one of the main areas of eco-philosophy and environmental ethics, proclaiming the responsibility of mankind for the preservation of the biosphere and people on Earth.
The well-being of the Planet requires an adjustment of the anthropocentric approach and the harmonization of ecological, social, economic and spiritual systems in the interests of all current and future generations of living beings on the Earth. As the main part of modern humans live in cities, Natalia Garber contributes to this agenda with her biosphere-centric art of cultural cooperation for the benefit of the Planet. The artist carefully grows her innovations from traditions by the best tools of cultural & ecological evolution through the disclosure of the potential of territories, based on the global ocean of culture. Innovations are ideas that are effectively implemented and, over time, usually take their place in the symbolic capital of culture, enriching the tradition from whose fertile soil new innovations grow. Often, in the early stages, innovations are misunderstood, rejected and "resisted" by traditions. The public and experts consider innovators to be "eccentrics", because in order to penetrate Art Futures, that same Serendipity in Action is needed. Any rational and irrational, local or global traditions develops only through constant renewal. Therefore, cultures that reject innovation cycles perish, while those capable of renewal become a successful part of the national and world cultural heritage.
Natalia invites you to go the second way together, transcending differences through serving the common goal of the creative development of life on Earth. Natalia Garber's project is aimed at the innovative evolution of the culture of the planet's cities - this is an invitation to a jam session of cultivating international innovations from the global ocean of traditions. We can all create a beautiful Planet of the digital age, helping the ocean of world cultures and the wealth of human talents to unite in the life-creativity of the Earth, the artist says.
In tune with the experience we made a science art bricolage Spain, presenting the unity of natural & cultural heritage of this country in 2023. Natalia forms cultural brands of territories with her art as an innovative sociocultural mythologeme based on critical analysis and creative synthesis of images of cultural human care for planet. Passing between Scylla and Charybdis, the artist transcends the social illusions that lead to confrontation and builds her city art branding model on the basis of globally responsible eco-social management (ESG) of people, organizations and territories: “I am growing my wonderful innovations from world traditions for the benefit of all sentient beings. I invite you to go through the path of transformation, leading the Planet from the absurd to the outdated cultural approaches through the state of insight "there is something in it" that Rutherford spoke about. And since creativity remains a mystery, I offer support in the development of cultural brands for you, your organizations, cities and all territories of the Planet in my White Swan Workshop. Together we will develop our creative “eccentricity” into the global magic of sustainable development of the Earth in the digital age. Let's hit the road!"
Alina Koroleva, PhD in Cultural Studies, Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy nam ed after A. F. Shishkina MGIMO MFA of Russia, magazine editor-in-chief "Concept: philosophy, religion, culture"


Natalia Garber is a versatile person - a poet, writer, artist, author of many articles and methods of creative teaching, curator and lecturer of various projects and symposia, who has diplomas from European institutions in her arsenal. In general, her personality is extraordinary, active and striving for creative transformation of herself and the world around. Here I will focus on the art hypostases of Natalia's activiry. She has been working in the genre of drawing, watercolors and mixed techniques since the 1980s, and I can distinguish two types of creative thinking in her work. The first comes from the European tradition, with its interpretation of form and space, as well as the transmission of planes of being. The second follows from Natalia's serious passion for Eastern painting of meanings (se-i), mainly in the genres of natural landscapes with flowers, birds and animals. Presenting both types in digital formats, Natalia combines her painting with calligraphy, poetry and short prose, playing with the five primary elements - wood, fire, earth, water and metal. Deeply studying different cultures, Natalia Garber introduces their creative potential into the everyday life of the modern world and uniquely transforms global experiences into her graphics, painting and digital art. Her style of creativity heloes to open up the deep potential of the audience in realization of the the harmony and beauty of human and Planet nature.
Leonid Feodor, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Head of the Art Synthesis Section "Tetra-Art" of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Folk Art, laureate of the Pushkin Medal "Enlightener of Enlightenment" 2016, winner of the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts 2018 and the Russian Book Art Prize 2018, head of the Museum of Russian Culture and art project of cultural cooperation "Most"; 2020

I really like to learn, and I learned a lot from you. Our Art association "The Path" has now won a Presidential grant to promote young artists of Bashkiria. And communicating with you in Moscow, I structured all my thoughts about the future and understood how to move creative projects into the world. I was shocked by the simplicity of the idea of listing important companies in our republic who would be interested in promoting their brand in the republic, the CIS and the world with the help of our Creative Association. In general, you have generated so many ideas that I still need to think about them, give time to my plans to rest in a new context. But I had a 100% sense of perspective. I understood how to show my region to the whole world as an example of interethnic and interfaith community, how to attract the diaspora to the development of the republic, how to make creative people ambassadors of the brand. And your idea of representing Bashkortostan in our projects as “European Asia” has integrated everything, thanks!
Victoria Samarina, chairman of the Creative Association of Artists of Contemporary Art “The Path” (Bashkiria), member of the Russian Association of Art Critics, curator of the project “China through the eyes of Russian artists” and the Bashkir art contest “My Small Motherland”; her works placed in collections of Russia, Serbia, France, Germany, Israel and China, winner of the art symposium “Industrial Park of Oil Painting” (Shanyou. China, 2018); participant of the workshop by Natalia Garber “Genius of the 21st Century: a success scenario for a true artist” at the Russian Art Week 2019


In order for mainland clay to become a plastic material for work, it must be cleaned of impurities and thoroughly kneaded. Something similar happens when you start recording your stories. I have long been telling tales and occasions, but in communicating with my dear Natalya I discovered a cross-cutting theme - this is “The Secret of Creativity”. Natalya provoked a cycle of my autobiographical short stories, helped outline his composition and unifying structure. As a result of our meetings, the mechanism of long sensory memory worked for me, I wanted to keep the intonation of my stories in writing. I began to gain experience in written fixation, to grow a “tree of work”. Referring myself to fatalists with a keen ear to the voice of fate, I think now that the time has really come to give my stories, etudes, and short stories, handwritten forms. Any work already exists, you just need to accurately guess the time of its birth. Focus, without forcing events, without losing sensations and details - and write down.
Arina Daur, illustrator, member of the Russian Union of Artists in St. Petersburg; her works placed in collections in France, USA, Finland, her exhibitions were held in Japan, Latvia, Canada and France (in the Council of Europe); founder and leading teacher of St. Petersburg Society of Masters of Calligraphy, Monotype and Silhouette, organizer of the International Monotype Festival "Poetry of Image" (Moscow-Helsinki-St. Petersburg); client of the individual course of transformational storytelling by Natalia Garber in Pushkin mountains, 2015


From the first meeting, a sensation of a powerful energy charge was felt, movement, desire to understand, understand, identify and realize.
They began to analyze the works of the Great. Why is that called? Why is it so arranged? What did the author want to say? Where is he in this, where is the viewer in general, and where am I? They were looking for means of expressiveness: due to what is the picture "catchy"? The most difficult thing is to take the place of the author and feel the same as him. And if it works out, you see the truth.
We got to our own work. Conducted a similar analysis. He began to look at his works in a different way. He clearly outlined his priorities, built a hierarchy of goals, understood what he was writing for. Further ... they built the work in a certain sequence, found the relationship and development, the movement of the hero in the paintings of the entire exhibition. Incredibly, new themes, new meanings arose.
The work with the title carries a deeper essence, the title gives the direction of thought, showing the viewer what to look at and how to think. It is important that one looks through the eyes of the other. The interconnection of people with different perceptions of reality is bearing fruit. This helps to understand yourself, to extract the truth that was the root cause of the birth of the work. The analysis of facts helps to understand the means of expression, which form the individuality of the author and his works.
Evgeny Yachny, professor at the Faculty of Painting, St. Petersburg State Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. I.E. Repina, laureate of the Young Talents 2010 Prize of the Government of St. Petersburg and the 2012 Prize of the exhibition of the Union of Artists of St. Petersburg “Youth of St. Petersburg. The Beginning ”, participant of the School of Small Prose and Poetry by Natalia Garber in St. Petersburg, 2013

Dear Natalia,
Well, I've read your email a number of times and it's made me think a lot, which is nice, because most emails don't do this!
You are obviously highly perceptive and you've hit a few targets there. Yes, I probably am a bit less happy than I was ten or twenty years ago. We have a horrible expression in English, 'to cast pearls before swine': well, I certainly don't think of other people as swine (indeed a notable defect in my character is an almost total inability to judge other people harshly or feel superior to them), but I certainly do feel more and more that most of my work is wasted. I produce good ideas that I'm genuinely proud of, but I'm unable to push them into the world. I don't have a platform where people can hear me speak, I don't have influence or power to execute my best ideas, and the powerful people I offer them to are usually too unimaginative or too afraid to execute them. So I'm not exactly unhappy but I am feeling increasingly frustrated and impatient. I'm now 51 and I feel as if I've grown in wisdom and understanding and ability and goodness but not in influence, and that's not a comfortable feeling.
Really, I can't contemplate new partnerships or new books or cooperation. Cooperation just doesn't work for me, sadly: I've tried it a few times and it's been disastrous, utterly disastrous, and I've sworn to myself and to my family that I will never, ever try that experiment again because it made us all miserable... And my 'business' works very well the way it is - just me on my own. It's a very delicately calibrated piece of machinery which I've spent more than 20 years refining, and every time I try to introduce a new person into it, it falls apart and it takes me months to repair the damage.
I am going to think very hard about what you say about poetry. I'm not sure that I understand you absolutely, but what I do understand gives me an agreeable feeling of a possible route to liberation: to find a way of escaping the 'science' of workable policy into the 'art' of poetry or philosophy or ethics or culture - that's a nice thought. And of course art affects people far more deeply than policy does. Policy is fundamentally boring and doesn't elevate the soul. Elevating the soul - mine and others' - is what really motivates me, if I'm honest.
Thank you for your thoughts which are very precious. We'll speak again, I'm sure.
Best,
Simon Anholt, January 9, 2013, guru of national branding, political consultant of 55+ presidents of the Planet, Nobels Colloquia Prize for Economics Leadership laureate. After my interview with him @ the Moscow Urban Forum in December 2012 I considered his project a rating of successful egoists. So I asked him to close his global ranking of brands of cities and countries in favor of the rating of countries, caring about the Planet according to Vernadsky's biosphere-centric vision. Simon did that and opened the Good Country Index, which measures countries' investments in the development of the Planet. Simon's TED talk about Good Country Index received 7.5+ million views.