March 10th, 2004, 05:30
Software: Image/ine

Real-time image manipulation (40 photos) in interaction with sound. Live sound: Ivan Palacký. Without editing and post-production.

"Live re-edits" are part of a set of works in which Cenek (under the nic VJ Věra Lukášová) collaborated between 2002 and 2008 in improvised concerts with the musician Ivan Palacký. He was inspired by the performances of Steina Vasulka and above all by the possibilities of the Image/ine program, which Steina helped develop at STEIM. In the 1990s and early 2000s, it was one of the few tools available for live manipulation of images in interaction with sound and offered a possibility to work with moving images in excellent quality. The influence of the Vasulkas lectures and their closeness during the studies at the Video-Multimedia-Performance Studio are evident in Cenek's interests for observing and depicting the world through software and hardware tools in unexpected cuts and modes of perception.

Filip Cenek (born 1976) is a graduate of the Video Studio under Keiko Sei at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology. He works in video, animation, video installations, and moving images more broadly. He uses photographic materials, animating them and combining them with text, often employing slide projections. Collaboration is a key element of Cenek’s practice, and many of his works are created in partnership with other artists. Straddling the boundary between narration and lyricism, his works play with motifs of blurriness, unreadability, ambiguity, and the unspeakable. He teaches at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology, and occasionally exhibits in gallery spaces or at moving image festivals.