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Bulat Galeyev

Leonardo Editorial Board member

     Bulat Galeyev
     K. Marks Str. 10
     Kazan State Technical Institute
     Institute Prometei
     Kazan, 420111
     Russia
     Tel: 7-8432-386273
     Email: galeyev@prometey.kcn.ru;      Bulat.galeyev@mail.ru      Websites: www.kai.ru/prometei/       main.ru.html (in Russian)
     www.kai.ru/prometei/main.en.html      (in English)
A science researcher and artist, Bulat Galeyev was born in Tashkent, Usbekistan, USSR on 2 October 1940. He graduated from Kazan State Pedagogical Institute, Kazan, USSR, in 1962, and attained a Ph.D. in 1986. He has been a teacher in physics and aesthetics, 1962-1963; a lecturer in physics and philosophy at KAI, Kazan, 1963-1966; a scientific worker, 1966-1994; head of SKB Prometheus, director of scientific and research institute for experimental aesthetics affilated with the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan and Kazan State Technical University, Kazan, 1994-present; a film director, theatrical performances director, director of light-music performances and video art installations, SKB "Prometei", 1964-1995; and a professor of aesthetics of Kazan Conservatory, 1990-present. He is the author of the following books: Light-Music: Birth and Essence of New Art, 1976; Poem of Fire, 1981; Light-Musical Instruments, 1987; Man, Art, Technology (Problem of Synaesthesia in Art); Soviet Faustus, 1995; Art of the Cosmic Era, 2000, Spatial Music (joint edition), 2005. He has contributed more than 500 articles to professional journals. He has been a member of the editorial board of Leonardo, 1987-present; of Language of Design magazine, USA, 1992-1997; and Kazan magazine, 1993-present. He was the organizer of 15 All-Union and All-Russia "Light and Music" conferences and a participant in many international symposia and festivals. He received a Diploma for Spectacle from the All-Russia Theatrical Society, Moscow, 1970; a diploma for film awarded by the organizing committee of the international "Techfilm" festival, Prague, 1975; and an honorary medal awarded by the Ministry of Culture of the USSR, Moscow, 1983. He is a member of Russian Academy of Humanities and of the Russian Cinemamakers Union, as well as a corresponding member ofthe Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan. Member of Internationa; Society for Art, Science and Technology.


Updated 27 March 2006.

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