moderator: KONTEJNER | Sunčica Ostoić
language: english
participants:
Pavel Sedlák is the Deputy Director of CIANT | International Centre for Art and Technologies. He is a producer, curator and editor. He has initiated and managed several international initiatives, platforms and projects. Since 2005 he has been the chief curator of ENTER Biennale, since 2007 a member of MutaMorphosis Conference Preparatory Committee. He has served as a member of advisory and scientific committees for several festivals and conferences, including ISEA 2010, ARTECH or Ludic Times. He curated number of exhibitions, e.g. Cosmopolitics, Therapy, Unsafe Distance or Datapolis. He also worked at the Centre for Science, Technology, Society Studies of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
www.ciant.cz | www.mutamorphosis.org | www.festival-enter.cz
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).
Darija Medić is a digital artist who, through the use of language, technology and design, investigates the realm of identity correction/theft/creation and the labyrinths of contemporary technological practices. Her many works are speculative interventions into the imperfections of systems that penetrate the principles of building social meaning and the dynamics of power distribution. She graduated from the networked media department at the Piet Zwart Institute, in Rotterdam, Netherlands and the new media department of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia.
Darija has exhibited in Serbia and internationally and has shown her work at projects such as Mindware: Technologies of dialogue (Poland), Karasssuite (Slovakia, Belgium), Make me festival (Serbia, Austria), Hacker Space festival (France), Unlimited liability (Germany), MEMEFEST/festival of radical communication (international), Viral Communications conference (Netherlands). In her activities she strives for autonomous forms of education and artistic practice as potentials for individual and social emancipation.
The Standuino project began in May 2011 at the Multiplace festival with a workshop that took place at 4AM - forum for architecture and media. Since then, several musical instruments such as fraAngelico or frauAngelico have been developed, the team has contributed to exhibitions and most notably done around 20 workshops in 6 countries in Europe. Standuino put on its first solo exhibition at the REMAKE international festival, curated by Barbora Šedivá at 4AM. The Standuino team now consists of Ondřej Merta, Václav Peloušek, Martin Baar (software) and Ondřej Homola (design).
Václav Peloušek is artist, musician and inventor born in Brno. He is now finishing his MA at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in the art and science department. Before that, he studied in the multimedia department of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno, multimedia composition at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno and new media at the Winchester School of Arts. He is one of the founders of the Standuino project (started in 2011) and a member of the bands Hugo & Zoe, CaveArt and Standuino Orchestra. He is member of 4AM mediaLab and Grau Kllktv.
Ondřej Merta is artist, musician, actor, DJ and filmmaker born in Brno. He is now studying for his MA at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in the art & science department. Before that he studied multimedia and video at Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno, film theory, aesthetics at Masaryk University in Brno. He is one of the founders of the Standuino project (started in 2011) and a member of the bands Hugo & Zoe, CaveArt and Standuino Orchestra. He is member of 4AM mediaLab and is curator of independent art spaces around Grau Kllktv and composes music for the National Theatre in Brno.
Standa Filip is musician and inventor, born in Most in 1957. He studied physics in Brno and he taught at the Brno University of Technology from 1987. In 1996 he moved to the Faculty of Fine Arts where he was teaching until 2011. He spent his youth in Košice where he began to make electronic sound generators. He started to build his first modular system of generators in 1972 and in 1976 he made his first keyboard instrument. In 1981 he started the legendary underground band Ještě jsme se nedohodli which is still playing concerts. In 1982 he made his first fretless electric guitar instrument Prkno, which became legendary through his band and is still played. Since than he made several DIY Guitars. In 1986 he introduced his ironical composition Symfonie Eš-dur poťapaná which featured his DIY electronic drum machine and a big construction electric instrument with several pickups. In 1987 he composed 3 compositions for the album Bittová & Fajt which became one of the most recognized Czechoslovakian alternative music albums. In the mid 90s he contributed to exhibitions of hi-tech art in the House of Art in Brno. He was a member of bandsPomalý posun, Pomalé prostředky (multimedia project 2003) and others. He is a member of the band Klikva Klikva, which has performed since 2007. He performed with FILIP_RICHTR_PELOUŠEK at the Multiplace festival 2011 where he also gave talks about his DIY approaches. He cooperates with Ondřej Merta and Václav Peloušek on their tribute project Standuino.
Stevan Kojić (1973) took a BFA in sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade in 1997 and completed an MFA at the same faculty in 1999. Since 2004 he has been working at the new media department, Academy of Arts, Novi Sad. He received several awards. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions internationally (Austria, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, US).
Saša Spačal is a postmedia artist working at the intersection of the living systems research, contemporary and sound art. Her artistic research focuses on entanglements of the environment-culture continuum and planetary metabolism. By developing technological interfaces and relations with organic and mineral soil agents, she seeks to address the posthuman condition that involves mechanical, digital, and organic logic within biopolitics and necropolitics. Her work has been exhibited and performed at venues and festivals such as Ars Electronica Festival (AT), Prix Cube Exhibition (FR), Transmediale Festival (DE), Athens Digital Arts Festival (GR), Perm Museum of Contemporary Art (RUS), Onassis Cultural Center Athens (GR), Chronos Art Center (CHN), Eyebeam (USA), Cynetart Festival (DE), National Art Museum of China (CHN), Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (SI), Kapelica Gallery (SI), Device_art (CRO), Art Laboratory Berlin (DE), Kiblix Festival (SI), Gallery of Contemporary Art Celje (SI), Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina (SRB), Lisboa Soa Festival (PT), Sonica Festival (SI). She has received various awards, including the Prix Ars Electronica Honorary Mention, nomination for the Prix Cube, and the New Technological Art Award.
contact: https://www.agapea.si/
Hrvoje Hiršl is an artist, researcher and designer. His art projects exist at the crossing of contemporary art and media art discourse. His main themes range from the materiality of the art object, deconstruction of its aura and the limitations of the medium to complex systems and cybernetics and their influence on the art movements emerging from the period of the 50/60s - minimalist/conceptual art. In the last two years his interests gradually shifted from the medium, materiality and the “aura” of the art object to structures, automation and cybernetics, which in a sense is again a search for the supporting structure (medium).
In 2012 he was nominated for the Radoslav Putar Award for the best Croatian artist under 35. He is the recipient of the DordtYart Artists-in-Residence 2015 (Dordrecht); TRIBE Residency 2013 (Istanbul, Prague and Ljubljana) and Kulturkontakt Artists in Residence 2012 (Vienna). In 2012 he participated in Documenta (13), Kassel as part of the AND AND AND program. He was nominated for the T-HT award 2012 and the T-HT award 2013 as one of five artists personally invited by the jury.
me@hrvojehirsl.com
hrvojehirsl.com
Deborah Hustić is the founder of Body Pixel Studio and Textil{e}tronics para .org. She is also head of I'MM_Media Lab in Zagreb and works as a project manager and curator of Radiona, Association for Development of ‘do-it-yourself’ Culture – Makerspace. She works with wearable technology, smart clothes and electronics as a blogger and maker. She has curated the exhibition Textil{e}tronics in Galženica Gallery (2012) and has been a part of many festivals and conferences on DIY/DIWO electronics, new media and Internet culture, and is also working in the field of education (workshops in the spirit of worshopology concept). She lives and works in Zagreb.
Davor Jadrijević is an electrical engineer and Master of Physics, interested in exotic technology and involved in various DIY projects with the aim of repurposing devices from the field of standard technologies so as to make them suitable, by using imagination, for new and different purposes.
For the past few years, he has been working on Tesla’s wireless energy transfer, which he has performed or presented several times in front of local and international audiences, at events such as: 26th Chaos Communication Congress (26C3), Berlin (http://vimeo.com/8469353); PechaKucha Night Zagreb vol. 6; Eurocon / Sferakon, Zagreb; Istrakon, Pazin; Liburnicon, Opatija; Ganz Novi Festival, Zagreb; and others. He is one of the chief technical advisers of I'MM_ Media lab, Zagreb.
