Marika Svobodová
committee member, curator
The lecture will present the beginnings and development of Critical Art, which was created in Gdańsk by Grzegorz Klaman, who worked both as an artist and as an organizer of many events and gallery institutions, as well as a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts.
The exhibition Non-narrative Video art at Vašulka Kitchen Brno is a panorama of video production from Gdansk. The selected artists represent a group of teachers from the Academy of Fine Arts, but also several who had little to do with their local academic scene. The video art movement in Gdansk originates from curriculum reforms with the aim of creating fields of intermedia study. Successfully implemented, these curricula constitute the basis for the development of video art in Gdansk today evidenced by the successive generations of artists working in this medium.
During the lecture in the form of a case study of various cases of internet video and the artist's own works (with particular focus on the online project artUNBOXING), we will look at the relations between video posted on the web as content and those recordings that are made as an artistic verification of internet film genres.
The VASULKAS RELOADED international symposium is taking place at Vašulka Kitchen Brno located at the Brno House of Arts (House of the Lords of Kunštat) in Brno, Czech Republic on 22 and 23 October 2024.
It will be devoted to the critical evaluation of the work of Steina and Woody Vasulkas and their significant contribution to the art world including the subject of open archives.
Vašulka Kitchen Brno cordially invites you to the opening of the exhibition Patrícia Chamrazová: Resensing - Beyond Symbiosis on Tuesday, 29 October 2024 at 6 PM at the House of the Lords of Kunštát.
It is our pleasure to announce that for Vašulka Kitchen Brno 2024 residency program we selected artistic duo Oliver Torr and Simon Kounovsky aka Axonbody. Together they develop a collaborative art project AXONTORR.
committee member, curator
committee member, curator, founding member
curator, editor
curator of sound programmes, project Borders of Experiment
committee member, coordinator of the project Vašulka Kitchen Brno Archiv
chairman of honor
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Jennifer DeFelice was born in New York, where she graduated in arts at SUNY Empire State College. In 1993, she moved do Brno, where she absolved the Department of Photo-Perfomance at FaVU VUT in the studio of Tomáš Ruller. She works as a lecturer there. She is active as a performer, new media artists, curator, and a musician. She used to play in the band "Sledě, živé sledě", she participated in the project of Cafe9.org. She performed in France, Germany, Austria, Italy, USA. She used to work in the media-archive at FaVU and co-ordinated the exhibition Hi-tech Art in Brno.
Marika Svobodová is a curator based in Brno Art House and Vasulka Kitchen, in which is also a coordinator. She used to be a lecturer at the Seminar of the history of art at Masaryk University, Brno.
Barbora Šedivá is an independent curator and an art manager, the deputy of 4AM/Forum for Architecture and Media, the director of the space PRAHA in Brno and platform Multiplace, and also one of the founding member of the archive Monoskop.org. At the Department of Theory of Interactive Media at MUNI she led a seminar focused on active examining of archives, actual tendencies in new media art. In Vasulka Kitchen Brno, she coordinates the research concerned with the Vasulkas' Archive processing.
Tomáš Ruller is a Czech visual artist and performer. He graduated in 1982 from Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. His work includes multimedia works, performances, installations, videos, architectural realisations and stage design. He was initiator and participant in many unofficial art exhibitions and festivals such as Malechov (1980 and 1981), Malostranské dvorky (Prague, 1981), Meeting in Courts (Prague, 1982) or Chmelnice (Mutějovice, 1983). Co-founded the European International Performance Arts Movement The Western Attraction / Western-East Project (since 1983) and the follow-up Black Market (since 1986), (Open Situation), etc. He exhibited and presented his events in most European countries, in Israel, Canada, Japan, USA, Mexico, China. His activities are connected to artist as Chris Burden, Marina Abramovic, Stelarc or Orlan, as well as to personalities of electronic art such as Steina and Woody Vašulka or Van Gogh TV. Since 1994 prof. Tomáš Ruller is the head of the Department of Video-Multimedia-Performance of the Faculty of Fine Arts - VUT in Brno, where he was a Dean between 1998-2000. He lives and works in Brno and Prague.
Lenka Dolanová is art historian and curator. She used to work at the Vysočina Regional Gallery in Jihlava (OGV), where, among other things, she has founded the IGLOO sound gallery and the O_kraj cultural newspaper. She is a member of the associations yo-yo, KRA - Kravín Rural Arts and Vašulka Kitchen Brno. Her dissertation was published in a book entitled Dialogue with the Demons of Instruments: Stein and Woody Vasulka (2011, NAMU and JSFA). She worked at the East Bohemian Gallery in Pardubice (VČG), and currently is curator at the House of Arts in Brno and Regional museum in Chotěboř.
Ondřej Merta is musician and founder of the Brno music initiative Bastl Instruments, where he creates and invents synthesizers for electronic music in the spirit of sustainability.
Terezie Petišková is director of the Brno House of Arts. She lectured at the Department of History and Theory of Art at the Faculty of Art and Design of the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, where she explained the history of visual art in the second half of the 20th century. She also worked as an assistant at the detached Department of Design at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague in Zlín, then led the Galerie Mladých ("The Youth Gallery") and the U Dobrého pastýře Gallery at the Brno Cultural Center. Since 1997 she has participated in the preparation of V. and VI. part of the History of Czech Fine Arts edition at the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences in Prague. For example, the exhibition "Czechoslovak Socialist Realism 1948–1958" (Galerie Rudolfinum, 2002) or "The Field of Creative and War" drew on this art-historical research. Fine art from the collections of the VHÚ Prague ”(Moravian Gallery in Brno, 2008). (Artlist)
Jana Horáková works as an associate professor at the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, and is the guarantor of the art study program Theory of Interactive Media. In recent years, he has focused on exploring the potential of new media in the context of historiographic research into the art of new media: see the virtual reconstruction of the computer graphics exhibition of 1968 / Computer Graphic Re-visited; or a current project focused on the use of artificial neural networks and interactive interfaces in the analysis and mediation of Vašulková's work / Media Art Live Archive).
Viktor Pantůček (2016 - 2020 regular member, from 2020 member) is musicologist and playwright, lives and works in Brno. He graduated in musicology from Masaryk University in Brno in 2003 and has been working as a teacher at the Institute of Musicology since then. He is the dramaturg of the Exposition of New Music festival and since 2015 the dramaturg of the Brno Contemporary Orchestra.
Matěj Kotouček (from 2020 member) is musician, promoter, member of the Brno AVA collective and founder of the audiovisual project Sky To Speak. At Bastl Instruments, he is involved in community activities and music publishing at Nona Records. He is active in the electroacoustic duo Thistle, which participates in the workshops Vlnobytí, connecting movement exercises, dance and improvised music. In addition to his own work, he composed music for several plays (Feste Theater) or for video games.
Nikol Štrobachová (from 2018 regular member, from 2020 member) is lecturer, activist and a musician associated with Synth Library Prague. She also co-founded the team of musicians Pink Noise, creates tutorials Patchení with Nikol, organizes educational workshops and experiments with connecting live plants and synthesizers. She performs under the stage name Kukla.
Miloš Vojtěchovský graduated from aesthetics at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Active in the field of folk music and fine arts in Prague and elsewhere since the mid-1970s. Pedagogical and professional activities: cooperation on Imaginary Museum Projects in Amsterdam, a lecturer at the Department of Theory and History of Art at FaVU VUT and at the Department of the FAMU Center for Audiovisual Studies, a curator of the Školská 28 gallery, psychicity geology project sonicity.cz, symposium and festival vs. Interpretation, an initiator of the project On the Boundary of Solitude 2015-2016. He lives and works in Prague.
Steina Vašulka (from 2016)
Wody Vašulka (2016 - 2019)
Kristín Scheving (from 2018)
Christine Hill (from 2018)
Dušan Barok
consultant of digital archive, project Vašulka Kitchen Brno Archiv
Karel Bařina
graphic designer
Radek Čák
installation
Lucia Kolesarová
graphic designer
Lloyd Dunn
webmaster, programming of the database Vašulka Kitchen Brno Archiv
Kateřina Drajsajtlová
archivist, project Vašulka Kitchen Brno Archiv
Romana Horáková
education
Daniel Karmazin
production, operation
Tomáš Plachký
installation
Barbora Trnková
documentation
Viktória Pardovičová
production, public relations
Tatiana Dižová
administration, grant agenda
Gajane Achverdjanová
educator
Martina Stránská
educator
Monika Szücsová
project manager, research
Kryštof Pátra
production, installation, technique
Ivan Palacký
architect
Tomáš Doležal
architect
Silvie Hrdličková
administration
Matěj Kotouček
Noise Kitchen
Nikol Štrobachová
Noise Kitchen
Gabriela Štvrtňová
production, public relations
Helena Todorová
production, public relations
Lenka Trantírková
education
Petra Hyblerová
production, public relations
Markéta Mazalová
production, public relations
Nina Zelená
production
Vašulka Kitchen Brno (VKB) is a place for research, artistic experiment and informal education in the field of new media art. It consists of the archive of Woody and Steina Vašulkas’ work and a permanent exhibition of their selected works. We organize events aimed at commemorating and developing the artistic and philosophical legacy of the Vašulkas, pioneers in new media art with personal ties to Brno, and we support new media art production.
At the end of 2016, an initiative was established in Brno to found Vašulka Kitchen, an art space referring to the work of the artists Steina Briem Bjarnadottir and Bohuslav Woody Vašulka. In October 2018, in the cooperation with the Vasulkas, we ceremoniously launched the activities of the New Media Art Center in Brno Art House. Our goals are to preserve and mediate the work of the Vasulkas and develop their legacy.
From the end of the 80's and the beginning of the 90's, several (non-profit) artistic initiatives in Czechia dealt with the art of video, electronic media, and later digital art. Today, VKB is one of the few specialized (non-academic) projects in this area. It is important that in the international context it becomes part of a network of institutions focused on the promotion, archiving, research, or distribution of art based on moving images, sound, electronic networks, coding, and performativity as an artistic practice
Vasulka Kitchen Brno is a place for study and research. It gives the public access to the digital archive, the Vasulka media library and provides accompanying programmes. In cooperation with the Vasulka Chambre at the National Gallery of Iceland, we take care of he archive and the artworks in our collection. We take care of the acquisition and cataloguing of materials related to the work and life of the Vasulka family. We continue to map and reflect on their work in a broader cultural and international context, and we also research and process works by other artists in the field of new/electronic media art. We provide facilities for Czech and international researchers, students, teachers and curators and initiate research projects and conferences.
In parallel with the research and processing of the digital art and documentation archive, we are adding new publications to our study room to create a specialized background for research and study of new media art. The VKB reference library now contains over four hundred publications. Most of the members' titles were created with a donation from the association Vašulka Kitchen Brno and its supporters.
Thanks to the financial support of the State Cultural Fund of the Czech Republic, in 2020 and 2021 we expanded the library with dozens of important publications mapping the development from the beginnings of video art in the seventies to the current reflection of digital art and the performativity of electronic media. We plan to create a database on the Vašulka Kitchen Brno website that will enable orientation in the library online.
The library and study room is accessible during normal opening hours: Mon-Sun (respectivelly Mo-Fri) 10 AM to 6 PM.
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Vašulka Kitchen Brno
Centrum umění nových médií
Dům umění města Brna
Dům pánů z Kunštátu
Dominikánská 348
602 00 Brno-město
Otevírací doba
úterý – pátek
10:00 – 18:00 hod.
vstup volný
Pro návštěvu mimo otvírací dobu nás prosím kontaktujte:
Viktória Pardovičová Produkce, public relations
viktoria@vasulkakitchen.org
+421 944 063 106
Jennifer DeFelice
Statutární zástupce, kurátorka
jennifer@vasulkakitchen.org
Marika Svobodová
Statutární zástupce, kurátorka
marika@vasulkakitchen.org
Tatiana Dižová
Administrace, grantová agenda
tatiana@vasulkakitchen.org
Gajane Achverdjanová
Edukační programy
gajane@vasulkakitchen.org
Monika Szücsová
Výzkum, archiv
monika@vasulkakitchen.org
Kryštof Pátra
Technické zabezpečení
krystof@vasulkakitchen.org
email: vasulkakitchen@gmail.com
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FAKTURAČNÍ ÚDAJE
Centrum umění nových médií
VASULKA KITCHEN BRNO, z. s.,
Malinovského nám. 2,
602 00 Brno
Bankovní spojení:
Fio Banka, a. s.,
Číslo účtu: 2701689233/2010
IČ: 05230209
DIČ: CZ05230209
IBAN: CZ14 2010 0000 0027 0168 9233
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Vasulka Chamber – The Centre of Electronic and Digital Art in Iceland
listasafn.is/en
Brno House of Arts
dum-umeni.cz/en
Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology
ffa.vutbr.cz/en
Theory of Interactive Media at the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
music.phil.muni.cz/en
Bastl Instruments
bastl-instruments.com
Berg Contemporary
bergcontemporary.is
Brno Philharmonic
filharmonie-brno.cz/en
Statutory City of Brno
brno.cz/en
Multiplace
multiplace.org
The Ministry of Culture and the State Cultural Fund of the Czech Republic
mkcr.cz
Agosto Foundation
agosto-foundation.org
National Gallery of Iceland
listasafn.is
Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
tacr.cz