Geek Picnic, June 13–14

Geek Picnic festival is an open-air event for everyone interested in technology, science, and the arts. This year it is taking place in Russia’s two capital cities: on June 13^th and 14^th in Moscow, and on June 20^th and 21^st in St. Petersburg. The festival’s latest theme is Human-Machine. In Moscow, the festival will be in Krasnaya Presnya Park.

The festival includes the first international cyborg conference, where researchers, people with bionic limbs or enthusiasts who have modified their bodies by means of technology will discuss the limits of human capabilities as well as practical, ethical and philosophical aspects of cyborgization. Viktoria Modesta, British model and singer, who has an eccentric bionic limb, will deliver a public lecture and perform her hit songs for  participants in the audience.

Special guests at the festival include Jason Barnes, a cyborg drummer who lost part of his right hand in 2012, but continues to play drums with the use of a bionic prosthetic developed by Professor Gil Weinberg.

The festival will host 60 lectures and master-classes on  space, artificial intelligence, prolonging life, anthropogeny, genetics, energetics, hybrid art, science art, urban studies and technologies in art.

Visitors will be able to see The Hand of Man – a giant Robohand made of scrap metal, created by American artist Christian Ristow. It is 30 times bigger than a human hand, weighs about six tons, and can handle almost anything, be it a car or a grand piano.

Android robots, exoskeletons, neurointerfaces, augmented reality, gadgets, bionic prosthetics achievements, Russia's first 3D-Fashion Show, devices for food 3D printing and tattoo making, giant 3D printers that can print furniture, various art installations & the Tesla Show will all be on display at the Park of Technologies and Arts.

Game of Drones, Robot Championship, hackathon, different outdoors fun activities and concerts will take place on the 20.000 sq. m  festival space.

For more information, the festival map and programme, please visit the festival website (partly in English).

Address: Krasnaya Presnya Park. Ulitsa 1905 Goda or Vystavochnaya metro stations (see on the map).

Tickets: 850 roubles for one day; 1250 roubles for two days when you buy online. Or  950 and 1500 roubles, accordingly, at the entrance.