In 2005, 2007 and 2009 I served as the chief curator of ENTER festival for art, science and new technologies held in Prague. I am also a co-curator of RESET - a continuous showcase of digital culture in Prague, and TransGenesis - annual art/science festival held in Prague within a Week of Science and Technology organized by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
I have served as a fundraiser, curator and producer of several exhibitions and performances shown in Prague, Berlin, Moscow, Istanbul, Buenos Aires…
R E C E N T E X H I B I T I O N S
Adapt!
22.-25.05.2009 in Prague
An exhibition as an electroboutique and an arena for extremophiles and brainwaves sensors
Artists: DARINA ALSTER (CZ), PROKOP BARTONÍČEK (CZ), ESZTER BIRCSÁK (HU) & COL.,ALESSANDRO CARBONI (IT), IVAN CHABANAUD (FR), DARDEX–MORT2FAIM COLLECTIVE (FR), PAUL DESTIEU (FR) & FENSHU (FR), JAKUB DVORSKÝ (CZ) & COL., ANDY GRACIE (UK), JANEZ JANŠA (SI) & COL., PAVEL KOPŘIVA (CZ), MICHAEL MARKERT (DE), ALEXEI SHULGIN (RU) & COL., FRIEDER WEISS (DE) & EMILY FERNANDEZ (AU), PAUL ZOGRAFAKIS (USA)
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Unsafe Distance
08.-11.11.2007 in Prague
Artists: Paul Adderley & Michael Young, Shawn Bailey & Jennifer Willet, Howard Boland & Laura Cinti, Peter Cusack, Beatriz da Costa & Cina Hazegh & Kevin Ponto, Louis-Philippe Demers & Garry Stewart, Florian Grond & Claudia Robles, Antony Hall, Boo Chapple, Ewen Chardronnet & Spectral Investigations Collective & RIXC Media Collective, Karen Ingham, Martin Kermes, Pavel Kopřiva, Kuda.org, Radim Labuda, Lukáš Machalický, Rachel Mayeri, Gordana Novakovic, Rob O’Neill, Andrea Polli, STELARC, Pavel Sterec & Aleš Čermák & Jan Trejbal, Paul Thomas & Kevin Raxworthy
Unsafe Distance exhibition was part of the ENTER|003 festival and was aimed to showcase artistic practices that explore issues of safety, environment, and human/non-human identity. What types of distance do we experience in the times when advanced scientific instruments pilot our both private and public lives? What are the sounds from dangerous places like? Who is afraid of new teratologies? Do we live on a voodoo planet?
The exhibition took place at the Stone Bell House in the Old Town Square of Prague. Find detailed information on the exhibited projects here. Read more at c-lab blog by Laura Cinti and Howard Boland or in the digicult.it article by Silvia Scaravaggi. Conversation about Unsafe Distance with Franco Torriani can be found here.
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Cosmopolitcs: Czech New Media Art
January-March 2008 @ Art Laboratory Berlin
June-July 2008 @ Moscow Biennale of Young Art
Artists: Josef Bareš, Internet Generation, Jakub Nepraš, Jan Pfeiffer, Pavel Sterec and Pavel Tichoň
Co-curator: Denisa Kera
The Czech new media art scene could be characterized by a latecomer strategy which in recent years is turning its disadvantages into a source of advantage. As video art and other trends from the 1980s and 1990s were never strong in the Czech art academies, young artists feel free to experiment and often develop very promiscuous relations to different traditions, trends and technologies. The exhibition will present projects from recent years that demonstrate this playful and experimental strategy which is neither purely political nor technological. It is cosmopolitical in the sense that it tries to test and examine different networks between nature, society and technology, as well as history, the present and possible futures. It presents challenging views of different hybrid collectives of humans and machines. The interconnection of globalization, evolutionary and technological processes in these artworks lead us to different versions and views of our common world, as well as the possibilities of contemporary art.
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This post was written by admin on September 12, 2008
