We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition I Have No Time by the Time-Based Media Studio of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, which will present work created by the studio's students, both in the form of an exhibition and in audiovisual performances organized during the exhibition.

Exhibition Opening: 19 May at 5 PM

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Contemporary Dutch artist Gijs Gieskes creates audio-visual tools that are used by musicians and visual artists around the world. In this field, he is an established designer with a radical approach to electronics that blurs the boundaries between music, art, and science. His approach is characterized by a fascination with absurd machines, new and unlikely technological relationships, intricate constructions, modest materials, and avoidance of high-tech. Although his instruments appear to be stand-alone devices, they are or can be part of complex, technologically primitive systems, an open world of electromechanical and musical relationships.

The exhibition machines with no need of human kind will be guided by its author Gijs Gieskes, together with curator Ondřej Merta. The evening program will be enriched by the sound performance starting at 7 PM, in which Gijs will present his Gameboy set that reminds the chiptune scene peaking in 2007 when the documentary Reformat the planet was launched and the festival Blip fest took place in New York. The duo Doláry Romani (Ondřej Merta, Ondřej Homola) will complete the event by their sound accompaniment to Gieskes' concert.

The English edition of Lenka Dolanová's book about Steina and Woody Vašulka, A Dialogue with the Demons of the Tools: Steina and Woody Vašulka, is published ten years after the original Czech version (Prague: NAMU and JSAF / International Documentary Film Festival, 2011). It is a revised version of the publication in graphic design by Martin Odehnal, which was published by the Vašulka Kitchen Brno with the aim of introducing the Vašulka's work to an international audience. 

The book launch will be attended by its author, art historian and curator Lenka Dolanová and her colleagues who participated on the book. The launch will be accompanied by an exhibition opening and a concert by artist Gijs Gieskes.