Founded in the autumn of 1994 by The «Free Culture» Society at Gallery 21 on the initiative of Irina Aktuganova and Alla Mitrofanova. Director – Sergey Busov (since 1999).

Realizes cultural and educational programmes connected with new informational and media technologies, engages in studying, developing and propagandizing electronic art.
Multimedia and internet presentations of artistic, social, scientific and commercial projects are held, CD-roms, video and audio works are created, seminars, festivals and exhibitions are organized, projects in the field of information and communication are realized.
Cyber-Femin-Club – an organization uniting women who work in the field of new media technologies (curator – I. Aktuganova) – works at Techno-Art-Centre. Since May, 1999 in the premises of the Techno-Art-Centre the project of experimental concert music «The Gallery of Experimental Sound» («GEZ-21″; director – S. Busov) is realized.

Multimedia works presenting contemporary St Petersburg art:
Web art projects created at Techno-Art-Centre’s workshops and placed on TAC’s server: Dreli Kuda Popalo, A. Medvedev’s Museum of Animals, S. Guseva’s Didiliya, S. Nosova’s Twins, A. Varsopko’s Game and Etapologia, Ye. Ivanova’s Mad Drawings. 1998 – 99;
Techno-Art-Centre’s Internet resource with an English-language Web navigator to St Petersburg cultural resources. 2000;
CD-Rom «From Neo-Academism to Cyberfeminism: the St Petersburg Actual Art on the Border of the Millenniums». 2000;
The Programme of St Petersburg electronic art at The Art-Media-Fest 2000, at The «Manezh» Central Exhibition Hall;
TAC’s Web resource as a part of Baltic Network. 2001;
CD-Rom «The Contemporary St Petersburg Photography» (in collaboration with The «PHOTOimage» Gallery).

Participation in international projects:
the electronic presentation of St Petersburg actual art at the Festival «Helsinki 2000 – the Cultural Capital of Europe». March, 2000;
Art-Media-Fest-2000. The «Manezh» Central Exhibition Hall;
Techno-Art-Centre at Baltic Interface Network. 2001.

From September, 2002 TAC changes its cultural policy and starts realizing the new cultural project GEZ-21. The project is headed by I. Aktuganova and S. Busov.

In the framework of the general concept of The «Pushkinskaya-10″ Art Centre, which is directed towards promotion of the alternative non-commercial culture, this structure is treated as a space which represents living public forms of non-commercial art that is based on the historic continuity of the tradition of cultural resistance.

The aims of the project:
1. Creating and preserving a steady niche of the alternative culture’s being through clear positioning, building discourse and context.
2. Propagandizing alternative culture through concerts, cinema, thematic parties, lectures, etc.
3. Changing the structure of the financing of alternative culture, reaching its 70 per cent self-sufficiency.

All the experience in the field of contemporary alternative culture acquired during the last ten years by Techno-Art-Centre, Gallery 21, Cyber-Femin-Club and The Gallery of Experimental Sound is used in the work.
Besides, the actual tendencies in the development of contemporary art are carefully observed and also included in the work.
The forms of the work only look like club ones, because this format is demanded by the time.
In GEZ’ programme there are no purely entertaining programmes. All the concerts are recorded, and thus a unique archive of contemporary Russian and European music is formed, which included about 300 concerts by July 2003. 2 CDs based on the 6 years’ activity were issued.
2 or 3 times a month thematic artistic parties aimed at presenting subcultural phenomena are held.
All the thematic events are prepared for 2-3 months. Other organizations (The Jewish Family Centre «Adain Lo», «The Russian Gothic Project», «The St Petersburg BDSM Community», «The French Institute in St Petersburg» and «The Centre of French», The Public Organization of Deaf-Mutes «Ardis») as well as the best artistic forces (ZGA, AKHE, A. Menus, D. Shubin, Mit’ki, A. Kudryashov and V. Gusak, D. Pilikin, A. Chezhin, K. Vasin and others) take part in them.

The constructing point of the project is Art-Buffet. It is a place for meetings, intercourse and the promotion of our cultural product. Our achievement is that people come here to spend their leisure. They sit at the buffet, play table games, read the books and magazines that we’ve got in our library, are present at the philosophical cafe, go to a concert or a film in the evening. Those who wish to attend our programmes regularly leave their e-mail addresses which are then included in the weekly mailing list. The audience is of various age and social status: students of higher educational institutions, musicians, journalists, married couples, just well-to-do people seeking new impressions (managers, business people). The Buffet’s atmosphere inclines to spending the time thoughtfully. On Saturdays from 3 till 6 p. m. the Buffet works as The Philosophical Cafe.
The key words for understanding the cultural policy of GEZ-21 are: the completeness of the cultural landscape, post- and neo- Marxism, feminism, radicalism and other -isms, lots of voices and oppositions. The historical continuity of the tradition of cultural resistance.
The style is: cultural opposition to the bourgeois mainstream, civilized underground.
The target audience is: young and old smart people, the radically thinking intelligentsia, satiated and curious bourgeoises, progressive democrats.

Address: 191040, Pushkinskaya St., 10 (entrance from Ligovskiy Pr., 53, The Museum Wing);
tel.: (812) 764-52-58; e-mail: tac@rol.ru.