Exhibitions
main building of Czech Academy of Sciences
(Národní 3, Praha 1)
7.11. - 10.11.2006 - Exhibition crossing the border between Art and Science. Presentations of artists, performances, projections, discussions.
gallery C2C
(Za Strahovem 19, Praha 6)
1.11. - 12.11.2006 - Curator Petra Vargová prepared exhibition about relation of human body and biotechnologies. Every day from 4 to 8 pm
gallery Doubner
(Václavské náměstí 15, Praha 1)
9.11. - 11.11.2006 - Struktura 2 exhibition dedicated to concept of biological structure, confronting paintings and algorithms. Project made with co-production of INSEA, CIANT and Charles University.
Artists
SYMBIOTICA (AUSTRALIA)
- W ith SymbioticA laboratory, artists can work in the different laboratories within The University of Western Australia and in the department, such as the molecular biology, tissue culture, neuroscience, biomechanics laboratories and a biological imaging facility. Artists also have access to the state of the art training facility for surgeons like VR haptics room. The projects of this laboratory will be presented by the artistic director, Mr. Oron Catts, and by Ms. Ionat Zurr who is artist in residence there.
- More at http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/
VIRGIL WONG (USA)
- NEA grant recipient, artist and filmmaker whose work studies the convergence of the human body, medicine and technology. He is best known for his Internet and installation art that explores themes of human reproduction and advanced biotechnology. By investigating questions arising from contemporary medicine, he creates both physical and virtual work embedded in the traditions of European art and anatomy. His short film, Murmur, a visualization of a cardiothoracic surgeon's dream journal, premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.
- Mr. Wong is also a graduate faculty member at The New School, and he is head of web design and development for two prestigious non-profit medical institutions: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He leads a team of designers, programmers, and writers in building innovative Web-based applications for medical education, biomedical research, and patient care. Since 2001, the Hospital and Medical College's Internet initiatives have been recognized by 32 major eHealthcare Leadership Awards for excellence in healthcare and technology.
- More at http://www.virgilwong.com/
JOSHUA SAMBERG (USA)
- Emerging artist and performer from Sacramento, California, USA. He holds the degrees of Master of Science in Art and Technology from The IT University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University.
- In his artistic work, Samberg seeks to produce artifacts and experiences that wrap a mystery worth one's curiosity under a perceptually engaging surface. Samberg's work TeleAbsence, a screen-based installation that he can control from remote locations via the Internet, was shown at the exhibition Situationerna in Trollhattan, Sweden in November, 2005. He has also performed in SOS-Enter/Exit with Swedish choreographer/dancer Sonny Koroschetz. The performance features Samberg dancing with a sensor glove he designed and built that controls computer graphics projected on a screen behind him.
- In his lates work, Self SDK, Samberg has modelled himself in computer code. This potentially never-ending endeavor has given rise to a multi-faceted framework of concept and process that defies complete presentation in any single mode. The installation Self SDK: A Programmer's Self Portrait focuses on two specific dimensions of this framework: the output of the Self SDK program as a narrative self-document, and the code itself as a representational model that brings a new structure to Samberg's self-analysis and self-(re)presentation.
MATHIAS FUCHS (UK)
GUY VAN BELLE (BE)
- Born 1959 in Belgium. After studying literature and linguistics, a little philosophy and sculpting, he made a radical switch to computer music at the end of the 1980sHe has been involved in experimental media art in its many different forms since 1990. First, he restlessly lived and worked in Belfast, Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels, New York, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Den Haag, Berlin. His most important virtual organisations were Stellingname (1984-1989), Young Farmers Caim Future (1990-2000), dBonanzah (1998-2002), and finally mXHz.org (2002-?) and Society of Algorithm (2004-?)..
- These setups were merely covers for collaboratively investigating the many different forms of creativity from real and non-physical people, including machines. His work was mainly synaesthetic, realtime generated, abstract, algorithmic, and gradually abandoning the familiar settings, parameters and skills for production, display and reception of the work of art as we know it today. He wrote critico-comical pamphlets about art and technology from an anti-post-modernist anti-neo-liberal background. Like everyone in that field and at that time, throughout his life, he had many money problems, many friends and even more ennemies. Since fall 2005 he lived also in Bratislava under the name of Gívan Belá. The city does not plan a statue yet. For the 7th of November, 2022, he was preparing an homage to Arseny Avraamov in Baku.
- More at http://societyofalgorithm.org , http://www.mxhz.org , http://okno.be
HUGO RAMIREZ (CHILLE)
- Biologist studying currently Art and Technology programme in Gteborg. He is interested in the interaction between organisms and the use of new media technology to study them.
SHIKIMURA BROS.: YUKA & KENTAURO (JP)
- Yuka graduated from MA Scenography at Central Saint Martins College of Art And Design in London 2006. Shimura Bros. directed the film "SEKILALA" with Co-produced by Famu in Prague.
- More at http://www.shimurabros.com/
PROKOP BARTONíčEK (CZ)
MARTIN KERMES (CZ)
- Currently finishing his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, received honorary mention from Transmediale, Berlin festival of art and new media in 2003.
LUKáš MACHALICKý (CZ)
JAKUB NEPRAš (CZ)
JANA PETERKOVá (CZ)
- Studied Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the Conceptual Art School of Miloš šejn, the School of Graphic Arts of Vladimir Kokolia and the Multimedia School of Milan Knížák. She currently lives and works in a small village called Merboltice in české Středohoří. Her heart-idea perception draws from nature, geometry and human body. Since 2002 she works as an Assistant Professor in the Conceptual Art School of Professor Miloš šejn at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.
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