Prokop Bartoníček was born in Prague January 1983. In 2003, before grammar school graduation, he won a place at VŠUP (Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design), sculpture studio, Prof. Beránek. In 2007-2008 he was a visiting student at the Experimental Design Studio of Prof. Joachim Sauter at UdK in Berlin. Presently, he lives and works in Berlin and Prague where he completed MA studies at VŠUP. He mainly develops interactive installations (Vibrator ‘08, You can’t hide it all!‘09) and experimental design projects (Urna ‘08, Worlds as fragments ‘10). As a former member of the guerilla artgroup Ztohoven he participated in the action Media Reality ‘07 (a hack into the morning show of Czech state TV, now part of the permanent collection of the National Gallery in Prague).

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