PRESS RELEASE

Multiplace 3
New Media Culture Festival 
March the 29th – April the 8th 2004

Bratislava, Trnava, Zilina (SK)
Prague (CZ)

www. multiplace.sk

Saturday, March the 27th multimedia performance Fcuk Multiplace opened the third annaul of the New Media Culture Festival MULTIPLACE.
The aim of a festival is to introduce the recent world trends in the field of creative use of new technologies. It is not only about computer art but as well as various forms of interaction between humanity and technology in the digital era. Similar to foreign shows there are multimedia performances, creative workshops, project presentations and theoretical lectures waiting for the visitors of Multiplace. Multiplace is also interesting for its non being a central organized show but it is a result of collective efforts of various organizers and associations which prepared interesting projects at different places of Slovakia and Czech republic. Since new media interrupts the borders not only between artistic fields but also between  art and other forms of human creation, there are visual artists (Erik Binder and Zden/Satori in Priestor gallery, I. Tetaz projection in Polus City Center, V. Vancura Instalation in HIT gallery and more), as well as musicians (closing party 8th of March featuring J. B. Kladivo, R. Hubert, F. Pomassl, P. Quehenberg and G. Van Belle) as well as screenings of films from the festivals Ars Electronica and Transmediale) participating in program of  Multiplace. There is an opening of a new club, study space and gallery BURUNDI prepared for April the 2nd, which is one of the sections of the space for contemporary culture A4.
Several artists and theoreticians from Czech Republic  will be introduced during the festival and for the first time there will be foreign organizer cooperating (Muteme label for Prague).

More about festival program available at www.multiplace.sk with photo documentation appearing in course of an event.

For more information on particular events contact organizers (contacts attached).

For a festival program and its up-dating contact: Maria Corejova, press*burundi.sk, +421 905 360 662

Events organizers:
ATRAKT ART, Bratislava
BURUNDI datalab studio displej press, Bratislava
Czech Centre, Bratislava
Jan Koniarek Gallery in Trnava
Gallery PRIESTOR for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava
KARTEL / HIT Gallery, Bratislava
live electronic label Muteme, Praha
tranzit.sk
Truc Sphťrique, Zilina
Urbsounds, Bratislava
Michaela Secanska, curator

Multiplace 3 coordination

Coordination:
Maria Riskova
maria*nada.sk

Cooperation:
Slavo Krekovic
slavo*34.sk

PR: 
Maria Corejova
press*burundi.sk

web and design: 
Dusan Barok
dusan*satori.sk

Multiplace
concept: 2001 - Maria Riskova, Aneta Mona Chisa
title and logotype: Robert Stupid Parso

SUPPORT

Czech Centre, Bratislava
Pro Helvetia
Goethe Institute, Bratislava and Goethe-Institute in Prague
Austrian Cultural Forum in Bratislava and Austrian Cultural Forum in Prague
tranzit.sk
4MA.MEDIA http://www.4ma.sk
Polus City Center
CEC International Partners Artslink www.cecip.org
The Wexner Center Media Arts Program
The Ohio State University
The US Embassy in Bratislava
Digital Media Department, the Graduate Division, Rhode Island School of Design (www.digitalmedia.risd.edu)
Ultraframe, s.r.g, Nitra
The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague 
The Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava

Multiplace 3
Contacts on events organizers:

Atrakt Art, Bratislava
A4 – ZERO SPACE
NŠm. SNP 12
contact: Slavomir Krekovic
slavo*34.sk
www.atrakt-art.sk

events:
fcuk MULTIPLACE
film projection: Prix Ars Electronica 03
film projection: Transmediale.04
Multiplace Final Party / concert MULTIPLES

BURUNDI datalab studio displej press, Bratislava
A4 – ZERO SPACE
NŠm. SNP 12
contact: Ana Filip, Maria Corejova
look*burundi.sk
www.burundi.sk

events
workshop Open Source Multimedia Tools
BURUNDI start party
Ssssound workshops 3
Multiplace Final Party / concert MULTIPLES

Czech Centre, Bratislava
Hviezdoslavovo nam 8
814 99 Bratislava 
+421 2 59 203 305
contact: Sandra Karacsony
sara21sandra*hotmail.com
www.czc.sk

events: 
exhibition: WstĻpil we mnie diabe≥
lectures: Pavel VanŤŠt, Michal PžchouŤek
lectures: TomŠö DvoÝŠk, Jesper Alvaer
lecture: VŪt HavrŠnek: Lanterna Magica...

Jan Koniarek Gallery in Trnava
Zelenż kricek 3
917 00 Trnava
Synagogue – Centre of Contemporary Art
Halenarska 2
917 00 Trnava
+421 33 55 11 659, +421 33 55 11 391
contact: Viera Jancekova
gjk*gjk.sk, www.gjk.sk

Hours of opening:
Tue - Fri: 9AM – 5PM
Sat - Sun 1PM – 6PM 

events:
exhibition: Bill Seaman: Epiphany..
lecture: Rudolf Frieling: Contextualisation......
lecture:  Rudolf Frieling: Mediating Media...

Gallery PRIESTOR for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava
Somolickeho 1/b
81105 Bratislava 
tel o2 54 418 262
contact: Juraj Carny
juraj.carny*crazycurators.org
www.priestor.org

events:
exhibition: Kunst-fu featuring Zden: Numbers of Dreams

KARTEL / HIT Gallery, Bratislava
Hviezdoslavovo nam. 18
814 73 Bratislava
contact: Lucia Tkacova
info*galeriahit.com, 0908 79 09 42
www.galeriahit.com

Hours of opening:
Mon - Fri 3PM - 7PM

events: 
GYATAM, water sonic environment
Lecture: Vaclav Vancura: Get Witches with Joystick
Workshop Vaclav Vancura: New Media Cookery

live electronic label Muteme, Praha
contact: Ales Cerny
ales*muteme.cz
www.muteme.cz

events: 
live.electronic.session.2

tranzit.sk
contact: Boris Ondreicka
ondreicka*nextra.sk
www.tranzit.org

events: 
lecture: Rudolf Frieling: Contextualisation...
Lecture: Rudolf Frieling: Mediating Media...
Lecture: VŪt HavrŠnek: Lanterna Magica...
Multiplace Final Party / koncert MULTIPLES

Truc Sphťrique, Zilina
Nesporova 19
010 01 éilina
contact: Marek Adamov
truc*truc.sk
www.truc.sk

events: 
koncert URBSOUNDS

Urbsounds, Bratislava
contact: Daniel Kordik
jamka*urbsounds.sk
www.urbsounds.sk

events:
fcuk MULTIPLACE
Sssound workshops 3

Michaela Secanska
mychellle*hotmail.com
www.irenetetaz.com

events:
exhibition: ďYou won`t recognize your brother between two drops of waterĒ

Addresses of the events locations

A4 – ZERO SPACE, BA
Nam. SNP 12
811 01 Bratislava
www.a4.sk

BURUNDI displej is situated in A4 – ZERO SPACE

Czech Centre, BA
Hviezdoslavovo nŠm 8
81499 Bratislava 
www.czc.sk

HIT Gallery, BA
Hviezdoslavovo nam. 18
Bratislava
www.galeriahit.com

PRIESTOR Gallery, ba
Galeria PRIESTOR for Contemporary Arts
Somolickeho 1/b
811 05 Bratislava
www.priestor.org

media7development, ba
Cajakova 11
811 05 Bratislava
www.media7.sk

Polus City Center, ba

Roxy – NOD, pa
Dlouha 33
Praha 1, CZ

STANICA Zilina/Zariecie
Stanica/open cultural space
railway station Zilina/Zariecie
Rajecka cesta, 010 01 Zilina, Slovakia
tel. +421 907137145, fax +421 415623564

Synagogue, tt
Synagogue – Centre of Contemporary Art
Halenarska 2
917 00 Trnava
(see organizer: Jan Koniarek Gallery in Trnave)
www.gjk.sk

AFAD, ba (Academy of fine Arts and Design)
Vysoka skola vytvarnych umeni
Hviezdoslavovo nam. 18
Bratislava
PROGRAM

Multiplace 3
New Media Culture Festival 
March the 29th – April the 8th 2004

Bratislava, Trnava, Zilina (SK)
Prague (CZ)

www. multiplace.sk

Multiplace promo party – concert
Saturday, March the 27th, 8PM

Fcuk MULTIPLACE
Multimedia promo  of the New Media Culture Festival Multiplace

Justice Yeldam and The Dynamic Ribbon Device (AUS)
Jamka, Urbanfailure, RBNX (SK)

location: A4 – ZERO SPACE
organizer: Atrakt Art, Urbsounds

links: www.urbsounds.sk, www.34.sk

Not even punk is what it used to be. Or is it so?  In every case electronic formations Jamka, RBNX and Urbanfailure from the collective Urbsounds will persuade you about either one or another together with fascinating performance of Australian player on broken glass and electronics Lucas Abel (Ąjeden z najciekawszych przedstawicieli australijskiej sceny noise'owej, nieprzewidywalny twůrca ekstremalnych düwiÍkůwď) So not only deconstruction of the keys and composition, but Ąback to the things themselvesď. But that`s another party.
Fcuk art let`s dance!

Exhibition
Until March the 31st

Bill Seaman: EPIPHANY 

location: Synagogue – Centre of Contemporary Art, Halenarska 2, Trnava
organizer: Jan Koniarek Gallery in Trnava
curator: Viera Jancekova

support: 
CEC International Partners Artslink (www.cecip.org),
The Wexner Center Media Arts Program,
The Ohio State University,
US Embassy, Bratislava
Digital Media Department, the Graduate Division, Rhode Island School of Design (www.digitalmedia.risd.edu)
Ultraframe, s.r.g, Nitra

links:  www.gjk.sk, http://faculty.risd.edu/faculty/bseamanweb/web/

Project named ĄEpiphanyď (Zjavenie), is presented in two levels – as a video-installation in the interior of the Trnava Synagogue and as a conceptual, poetic text placed on enamel signs on various places outside the Trnava synagogue.

Project ĄEpiphanyď, for which Bill Seaman assembled visual and acoustic material during his residency stay organised by Jan Koniarek Gallery in Trnava in August 2003 is a combination of image, text and sound, while the final work is an artist’s reaction to the particularities of the actual place. 
Through the video Bill Seaman presents images – fragments consisting of the artistic treatment of the shots of various details of public space of Trnava – creating compositions, which refer to painting. Through his looking at the architecture, details of the building facades, industrial buildings, but also nature and human body we are able to see what we usually omit to see in our everyday life and that is a lyrical interpretation of the fragments of our surroundings.
Part and parcel of the 15 minutes video is also Seaman’s contemplative music, simultaneously flowing with the poetic texts in Slovak and English language. The Slovak version of the Seaman‘s text is a work by young poet and translator Martin Solotruk. Thus, the work gains the nature of a musical, visual and poetic composition. Dreamlike and elusive fade-over of these fragments in connection with a meditative aura of the synagogue evokes a metaphysical aesthetic experience. 

Even a common passer-by who walks through the streets of Trnava (Halenarska Street, Zeleny Kricek, Stefanikova Street, etc) can see the enamel signs, similar to street-signs. The residents and visitors of Trnava can in this manner even outside the gallery rooms re-understand their own surroundings and re-find poetry in it, perhaps even to stop for a while and reflect upon the things between the Ąearth and skyď.

American artist Bill Seaman (1956) works in the field of digital media. He investigates the relations between the text, image and sound through technological installations, virtual reality and other media based on the computer technology. His works were presented at various international festivals, where he won eminent prizes (Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Videonale, Bonn, Germany; Film/Video Festival, Berlin, Germany). Currently, he is a head of the Digital Media Department at the Rhode Island School of Design (www.risd.edu), Providence, USA.

Exhibition duration:		February 10, 2004 – March 31, 2004
Slovak version of the texts:	Martin Solotruk
 
Special thanks to: 
Lora Berg, cultural attachť, Embassy of the United States of America in Bratislava
Gregory J. Orr, (former) cultural attachť, Embassy of the United States of America in Bratislava
Nancy Friese, (former) dean of Graduate Studies, Rhode Island School of Design
Fritzie Brown, director, CEC International Partners Artslink
and Jana RuěiŤkovŠ, Marcela LukŠŤovŠ, Dana PekarikovŠ, Martin Solotruk 
 
For further information, please contact the gallery PR. Should you be interested in photographs, please specify their size and format preferred, as well as the address, you want them to be sent to. 
PR: Barbara Bodorova, pr*gjk.sk, www.gjk.sk

Exhibition:
Until April the 4th

The devil entered in me
Instalation, video, animation

Jan éalio
Agniezska Wozniak
KateÝina SvitalskŠ
Filip Nerad
Jiri HavlŪcek
Magdalťna HrubŠ
Filip Cenek

Location and organizer: Czech Centre, BA

Links: www.czc.sk

Duration of the exhibition: March the 11th – April the 4th, BA
Opening hours: Mon – Fri and April the 3rd from 1PM – 5PM

Collective exhibition of young authors from the Department of Fine Arts, VUT, Brno environment.

Exhibition
Until March the 31st

GYATAM
water sonic environment
AUVID sound research system - Ales Killian a Ladislav Zelezny (CZ)

location and organizer: HIT Gallery
curator: Mira Keratova
support: Czech Centre

links: www.galeriahit.com, www.auvid.cz

subtitle: water sonic environment
description: Auvid /sound research system/ is a group, which focuses on
research of acoustic vibrations and their compositions to the new systems. Their
research is oriented on perception of music in the sense of sound in
general, connected to the human perception.

Gyatam is a multifunctional vibrational tub, which uses special developed
musical compositions to create a acoustic bath for the body and mind by
attaining an acoustic mass which is created in the tub through sound
vibrations and transmitted through underwater speakers. Sound vibrations are
transmitted to the vibration bathtub by means of six loudspeakers that are
linked to the amplifier with six separate sound channels. The sound device
unit includes a surround technology, i.e. the device to control six separate
sound tracks.  The water musical compositions through the interference of
various acoustic frequencies can produce an inaudible binaural vibration
which is totally transmitted through the acoustic mass of the phenomenon,
frequency following response, allows for active brain wave resonance through
sound which simultaneously provide energy for brain through ears.
place: galeria HIT, hviezdoslavovo nam. 18, ba
organizer: galeria HIT
cooperation: ceske centrum
until 31.03

exhibiton opening
Monday March the 29th, 5PM

Irene Tetaz (CH/F)

ďYou won`t recognize your brother between two drops of waterĒ
ĄTu ne reconnaÓtrais pas ton frere entre deux gouttes d'eau

location: Polus City Center
curator: Michaela Secanska
support: Pro Helvetia, 4MA MEDIA

links: www.irenetetaz.com

Exhibition period: March the 29th – April the 8th

Irene Tetaz (1963) is a Swiss artist, who lives in Paris. As a part of Multiplace festival she presents her video called ďYou won`t recognize your brother between two drops of waterĒfrom 2003. 
In January 2003 rented Irène Tťtaz her new studio at the end of the street la Goutte d'Or in Paris. This district fascinated her for the first sight with its cosmopolitan character, with connection and crossing of cultures, races, religions as well as generations. This unusual rush, energy, motion, pulsating life here and now, everything such different from her Swiss (refined and sterile) as well as from our Slovak (letargic and more melancholy) environment. Realised video is a record of this happening on the street, it is some kind of a video-diary of the street. It consists of 12 short, few-minutes long parts – records of single days. They were recorded from the studio's window on the principle of hidden, watching camera. Therefore we can see children on a playground, men and women hurrying up somewhere through the branches of the trees or through the architectonical details of the fence or of the banisters etc. The shots are quite dim, they are simultaneously flowing together, respectively repeating. The sound component of the video is created by the indistinct record of the street's traffic, which merges with a very short 10 seconds long fragment of the Scanner's music (Irene Tetaz listen to music of this artist often in her studio). With its character, sound record copies the rhythm of the flowing images of the visual part. 
Video is presented in a public space of a shopping  center, which usually has few its own watching cameras. According to this reason, the projection, which is running on 4 monitors in the interior of the shopping center, can be hardly identify. It makes the sensitive visitors insecure, it gives the questions, if everything what we see in the video is happening really here and if the visitor can see himself there. Who and where are all that people?  
 
Project is supported by:
Pro Helvetia
Arts Council of Switzerland
4MA MEDIA http://www.4ma.sk

Thanks to:
Polus City Center, Bratislava

For more information please contact the curator of the exhibition.
Michaela Secanska, email:  mychellle*hotmail.com, tel: 00421 904 460 459

workshop
March the 30th – April the 4th

Open Source Multimedia Tools
lector: Derek Holzer
location: media7development
organizer: BURUNDI studio

links: http://studio.burundi.sk

Workshop -- Open Source Multimedia Tools

SHORT PRESENTATION

open source audio tools: free software for free sound
derek holzer [umatic.nl]
There are many programs for sound and multimedia production, but few of them can really be customized by the user. Fewer still are free to download, use and share. Free and open source software provides a real alternative to expensive commercial software and professional gear. This workshop will cover the free software philosophy, Linux audio basics, sound recording and editing techniques, and how to program your own music tools using Pure-Data. Participants will use these programs to transform sounds of voices, instruments and recordings in real time, while at the same time learning how the computer makes this possible.

performance: resonancity Bratislava
derek holzer [umatic.nl]
In our everyday lives, there are many sounds which slip past our notice simply because they are too small, or because we lack the proper receivers to pick them up. 'resonancity' is an ongoing project to gather these microscopic sounds from various cities, and to amplify and transform them. The goal is to build a new city of sound inside the old one, and to inspire curiosity and exploration of one's own environment.

artist's PROPOSAL

Workshop 
While many tools exist for sound, multimedia and VJ purposes, few of them are designed with an open architecture which allows artists to configure the tools they use themselves. Fewer still are free. The fees, licenses and restrictions that come with commercial software become more and more restrictive every day, and the knowledge in the new media community of free and open source software is extremely limited. Coupled with this is the stigma that open source software, such as Linux, is 'too difficult' for artists to use.

This workshop aims to give an overview of the artistic possibilities working under the open-source, free software model, and under the operating system of Linux. Over the (X-number-of-days of the workshop), the following topics will be covered:

--an introductory discussion about why open source software is important for artists
--installation of Debian Linux and the use of the Debian Multimedia Distribution [DeMuDi] packages
--configuration of computer sound cards with the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture [Alsa] drivers and the Jack application, allowing sound programs to be 'patched' together with virtual connections inside the computer
--an introduction to Pure Data, a visual, object-oriented programming language for sound
--an introduction to the Graphics Environment for Multimedia [GEM], an external 'plugin' for Pure Data containing libraries for working with 3D graphics
--an overview of other sound and graphic applications used under Linux:
----Audacity and Ardour: multitrack sound editors
----Snd, Sweep and Ceres3: audio file editors
----the GIMP: a graphics editor
----Cinelerra: a video editor
----Ogg Vorbis: an open-source audio compression codec
----LADSPA: a collection audio effects plugins for use with many Linux sound applications

A webpage from a recent Open Source Multimedia Tools workshop is online at:
http://pd.iem.at/pdwiki/index.php?PD%2BOpenSourceworkshop

Performance
As an artist, I travel quite a bit, and I am often asked to give an impression of cities that I have visited. Since most of my work involves field recordings, micro-acoustic object studies and radio frequencies, I often use them in combination with narrative to describe places I have been. My proposal is to gather a series of field recordings in the city of Bratislava during my stay, a collection of objects picked up along the way and a live selection of radio sounds of the city, and to incorperate them into a live performance [using only free and open source software on my laptop] at the end of my visit.
For examples of sounds collected during a month-long residency in Karosta/Liepaja, Latvia, see: http://karosta.edworks.net

bio: Derek Holzer (NL)
Sound and Radio Artist
umatic.nl
Holzer [USA 1972] is a sound and radio artist with a background in free radio, net.radio and streaming media technologies. He was involved with some of the first net.radio experiments in Hungary (Pararadio) and Czech Republic (Radio Jeleni). He has also worked with Re-lab, a net.radio group in Latvia who gradually shifted their focus towards broader issues of 'acoustic spaces' and networked audio communications. In August 2001, Derek participated in the Acoustic Space Lab, which brought together an international team of 30 sound artists, community radio activists, and scientists to experiment with a 32 meter antenna, recording sounds and data from planets, communication satellites and the surrounding environment. Recently, his work has focused on capturing and transforming small, unnoticed sounds from various natural and urban locations [Karosta Project, w/ Sara Kolster], and on the electromagnetic resonances in our everyday environment [OZONE Project, w/ Bas van Koolwijk], as well as the use of free software such as Pure-Data.

TIMETABLE
30.03 collecting sounds
01.04 start installing and preparing for the workshop
02.04-04.04 workshop
------02.04 configuring and installing PD/GEM/PDP [or Linux] on laptops
------03.04 audio basics for Linux, intro to PD
------04.04 workshop participants develop simple projects using their own ideas
02.04 resonancity (during Burundi opening); visuals by sick

concert
Tuesday March the 30the, 9PM

live.electronic.session.2
FENNESZ (A, live), JAN JELINEK (D, live)

Location: Roxy – NOD, Dlouha 33, Prague 1
Organizer: live electronic label Muteme
Support: Goethe-Institute in Prague, Cultural Forum of Austria in Prague

links: www.muteme.cz

Lecture:
Wednesday, March the 31st, 6PM

Rudolf Frieling
Contextualizing Bill Seaman. Historical and current issues related to text and image.

location: Synagogue - Centre of Contemporary Art
organizer: Jan Koniarek Gallery in Trnava, tranzit.sk

links: www.gjk.sk, www.tranzit.org, www.zkm.de, http://faculty.risd.edu/faculty/bseamanweb/web/

RUDOLF FRIELING (http://www.zkm.de) is a curator working with film, video, new media and internet based in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has been working as a curator of mediateque at ZKM, Karlsruhe and teaching theory and history of media at Fachhochschule Mainz. He has been curating numerous exhibitions, projects and events among others Video-Fest Berlin, Biennale Sao Paulo, Sound/Image at Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Jochen Gerz's Berkeley Oracle an cITy. He is co-founder of magazine Scope and author of publications like Medien Kunst Aktion and Medien Kunst Interaktion.

Lecture Contextualizing Bill Seaman. Historical and current issues related to text and image. 
The talk will be held at Synagogue - Centre for Contemporary Art (Halenarska 2, Trnava) at the exhibition entitled Epiphany by Bill Seaman 

Information on exhibition Epiphany>>>

Lecture
Thursday, April the  1st, 3PM

Rudolf Frieling (D)
"Mediating Media - a paradox?" 
("Presentation of Media Art Net and discussion of concepts on mediating art online")

location: A4 / BURUNDI displej
organizers: Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, transit.sk

links: www.gjk.sk, www.tranzit.org, www.zkm.de, www.mediaartnet.org

(presentation will be held in English language)

Mediating Art Online
«Media Art Net» aims at mediating and contextualizing media art online, a project edited by Rudolf Frieling and Dieter Daniels and commissioned by ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe, and Goethe-Institut, Munich. For the first time, a substantial amount of basic data and documents related to media and art have not only been gathered but also cross-referenced and thematically linked by the curators and authors. An initial step is the «Survey of Media Art» (in co-operation with Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig).
The project went online with the beta-version in January and will continue with topics curated by Steve Dietz (Minneapolis, USA), Claudia Giannetti (MECAD, Barcelona), Tjark Ihmels (FH Mainz), Gregor Stemmrich (HfBK Dresden), Yvonne Volkart (HGKZ Zurich, CH).

All texts by the authors are also available in book form (Springer Vienna New York Publishers): Rudolf Frieling/Dieter Daniels (eds.), Medien Kunst Netz 1: Medien Kunst im ‹berblick – Media Art Net 1: Survey of Media Art, www.springer.at

RUDOLF FRIELING (http://www.zkm.de) is a curator working with film, video, new media and internet based in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has been working as a curator of mediateque at ZKM, Karlsruhe and teaching theory and history of media at Fachhochschule Mainz. He has been curating numerous exhibitions, projects and events among others Video-Fest Berlin, Biennale Sao Paulo, Sound/Image at Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Jochen Gerz's Berkeley Oracle an cITy. He is co-founder of magazine Scope and author of publications like Medien Kunst Aktion and Medien Kunst Interaktion.

Opening of the exhibition
Thursday,  April the 1st, 7PM

Vaclav Vancura (CZ)
Getting witches with joystick

Location: HIT Gallery, Hviezdoslavovo nam. 18, ba
Organizer: KARTEL / HIT Gallery
Support: AVU, VSVU

Links: www.galeriahit.com, www.xycht.cz, www.neurobion.com

"Getting witches with joystick" is a project based on a database of various
digital material from all over the world (videos, animations, demos,
showreels and other non-commercial media works), from which the visitors
will have the possibility to choose and play video-samples according to
their taste. The interface will be build as a virtual simulation of the
gallery space and will enable the user to control his/her position in the
wireframe model through a joystick. The overall videoinstallation should
remind us of an interactive game, while it’s main purpose will be to
familiarize the public with the current happenings in the new media scene.

Exhibition is open until April 14th

Lecture:
Friday, April the 2nd, 11AM

Vaclav Vancura
New Media Cook Book

Location: VSVU, room 135, Hviezdoslavov nam. 18, BA
Organizer: KARTEL / HIT Gallery
Support: AVU, AFAD

today vaclav vancura will cook a new media menu from all
possible modern oven-ready stuff: graphics, music, animations and a bit of
programmer spice. if you ever wanted to cook a multimedia piece and don't
know where to begin come and don't be afraid to overeat! bring own spoons!
yammee!

links: www.galeriahit.com, www.xycht.cz, www.neurobion.com

Lecture / presentation
Friday, April the 2nd, 5:30PM

Pavel Vancat (CZ)
ĄFestival IN OUT and contemporary video artď
MICHAL PECHOUCEK (CZ)
ĄPicture in Pictureď / presentation of the art work
location and organizer: Czech Centre, Hviezdoslavovo nam. 18, ba

links: www.czc.sk, www.inout.cz

PAVEL VANCAT is a main curator of the Festival of the digital image IN OUT

MICHAL PECHOUCEK is a winner of the Jindrich Chalupecky award 2003

During several years Michal Pechoucek appears to be among the leading persons of the contemporary Czech art scene. He was born on the February the 21st 1973 in Duchnov. He studied at Art School of Vaclav Hollar, department of the illustration and graphic arts which after two years has left for Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. First he studied the department of classical graphic art techniques of Jiri Lindovsky, then department of visual communication of Jiri David. Since the beginning he drawned the attention with his technically advanced color lino-cuts for which he used the motifs taken from photographs.
Later he became to be preocupied with unusual techniques, which he applied in the frame work of the media of painting – broidery on the canvas, painting on layered net braid or glass etc. In spite of enormous succes in those fields he has left them for photography and video. At the same time he is leaving formal experiments and he is more concentrated on the content of the statement and storytelling.
Petr Ingerle

screening
Friday, April the 2nd, 6PM

Prix Ars Electronica 03
The best digital animations awarded at Prix Ars Electronica - International Competition for CyberArts 2003

Location: A4 – ZERO SPACE
Organizer: Atrakt Art
Support: Cultural Forum of Austria

links: www.34.sk, www.aec.at

BURUNDI start party / presentation / perfo / night lecture
Friday, April the 2nd, 8PM

BURUNDI datalab studio displej press not only for april 04

Pavel Sedlak, Bohus Ziskal: CIANT, International Centre for Art and New Technologies – 
presentation of Prague activity

Resonancity Bratislava
performance by derek holzer * umatic.nl
visuals: sick

Denisa Kera: Technosexuality

Location: A4 – ZERO SPACE
Organizer: BURUNDI datalab studio displej press
Support: Czech Centre

links: www.burundi.sk, www.ciant.cz, www.umatic.nl

BURUNDI datalab studio displej press not only for april 04
BURUNDI datalab provides a new space for the study (Maria Riskova, Dusan Barok, datalab.burundi.sk)

A month dedicated to open source. What, Why, HowÖfrom the software installation at our computers to workshop open source (Ana Filip, studio.burundi.sk)
-	an opening of the first exhibition in BURUNDI displej + presentation of the program for april (Aneta Mona Chisa, displej.burundi.sk)

exhibition:
about: blank
Presentation of short flash animations by the youngest authors working with new media
Authors: Michal Tilsch, Vaclav Vancura and others..

BURUNDI press releases two issues of magazine BURUNDI weekly: April the 1st, April the 13th
(Maria Corejova, press.burundi.sk)

presentation:
Pavel SedlŠk, Bohuö ZŪskal: CIANT, International Centre for Art and New Technologies
Presentation of the Prague center for art and new technologies
www.ciant.cz

perfo: 
resonancity Bratislava
performance by Derek Holzer *umatic.nl
visuals: sick

ďResonancityĒ is a project which collects obscure microscopical sounds from various places, makes them louder and changes them. The aim is to create a new sound city inside the old one, call for curiosity a motivate the exploration of ones own environment.

Night lecture: 
Denisa Kera: Technosexuality
There is often a pornography behind every single new and successful technology. Nowadays the explicit connection of sexuality and technology is represented by a character of Lara Croft and another virtual 3D women or various movements such as Technosexual.org and disciples of caducous discussion forum alt.sex.fetish.robots. It seems that connection of a sexuality and technology is not accidental and that technosexuality can be considered as an extreme case of antropomorphisation of machines or in contrary as a ďmechanizationĒ of  a human sexuality. The question is if delight should be restricted only for people and if it`s not about a time to re-consider the term: fetishism. Maybe the only fetish which we should give up on is only the image of 
a ďnormalĒ and ďhealthyĒ sexuality. We will look at historical and new examples of  technosexuality and a fusion of  ďfeminineness, death and technologyĒ to decide if this connection is a sign of a future symbiosis, people and machines, or on the other hand  the proof of decadence and destruction. The dominance of pornography in various media could actually be a symptom of evolutionary ďexhaustionĒ of our kind. If we would lean towards the optimistic or pessimistic vision of a  connection between sexuality and technology, the future will surprise us either in the field of technology or sexuality.

Denisa Kera is a pedagogue at FF UK and FHS UK, where she teaches the
philosophical and artistic aspects of new technologies.

Lecture / presentation
Saturday, April the 3rd, 5:30PM

TOMAS DVORAK (CZ)
ďAlbum, atlas, archiveĒ / paintings and their arrangement
Theorist of a new media

JESPER ALVAER (NO)
"Peregrination”/ presentation of an art work
Location and organizer: Czech Centre, Hviezdoslavovo nam. 8, BA

links: www.czk.sk

TOMAS DVORAK
ďAlbum, atlas, archiveĒ / paintings and their arrangement

Our present is often marked as “culture of a picture” and so it`s restricted to traditional
ďculture of bookĒ. The committee of a theoreticians then looks for the keystone of this
separation in the formal properties of those media, mainly the linearity of the text towards picture which it keeps on deriving inter alia from different forms of knowledge and interaction with the world.

Lecture will attempt to doubt this macro – historical sequencing by the view on mutual relation between book and picture (photography) in 19th and 20th Century with the emphasis on up-to-date  problem of orientation in enormous amount of existing pictures and texts and their manipulation. Marginal practices of handling with technical picture from 19th Century will introduce the anticipation  of procedures common for hyper text media  of today. 

jesper alvaer
*1973, lives v Prahe
EDUCATION

2002-03 study stay - cca-kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan 
2000-01 exchange cooper union school of art, new york, u.s.a. 
1997-04 AVU, Praha 
1994-95 visual communication, Ecole Brousse, Montpellier, Francie 
1991-93 history of ideas, foundation course, univerzita v Oslo, Norsko

EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2004 Nonspecta (plŠnovanż projekt), Brno, »R; 2003 Galťrie K und S, skupinovŠ vżstava Ťeskżch a nemeckżch umelcov, BerlŪn, Nemecko; IN SITU, Prague access, prezentŠcia projektu "Prague Chinatown", Praha, »R; cafe Bratislava, prezentŠcia projektov, cafe Bratislava, ViedeÚ, Rakķsko; Prag-aktuelle videokunst, Balkan konsulat, Graz, Rakķsko; ZOO, (kurŠtor: Caz Mcintee), na rŰznych miestach v Asii, Evropž a USA.; ENTER HUMAN, open studios, cca Kitakyushu, Japonsko; traffic, Fokuoka Museum of Art, Fokuoka, Japonsko; mķzeum umenia v Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japonsko; 2002 DUKES OF HAZARD, Maeda studio, (cca) Kitakyushu, Japonsko; FROM JAPAN WITH LOVE, sub:label (galerie Display), Praha, »R; Nůrsky ötudentskż filmovż festival, FILMHUIS LUMEN, Delft, Holandsko; PASS ME THE BUTTERFLY, D.U.M.B.O.arts center (dac) gallery, New York, USA.; "Wechselstube", Eigen=Art, Stuttgart, Nemecko; LŃSKA, Centrum sķŤasnťho umenia, Bratislava, Slovensko; UMŐLEC prezentŠcia, palais de Tokyo, ParŪě, Francie (za Umelec); FAIR, Royal College of Art, Londżn, GB; EXTRADI(c)TION, Museo del Agua, Lisabon, Portugalsko; BienŠle Mladżch umelcov, NG, Praha, »R (za galťriu Display); Jesper Alvaer, (samostatnŠ vżstava), galťria MalŠ äpŠlovka, Praha, »R; GRACZE/PLAYERS, galťria Sztuki Wspocesnej, Wroclaw, Poĺsko

Concert
Saturday, April the 3rd, 7PM

URBSOUNDS COLLECTIVE (SK)

jamka (digital deconstructed/sequence remixer, sampling unit, drum machine)
rbnx (power electronics/analogue - mostly selfmade ? devices)
urbanfailure (lo-fi trash rythms/computer)

location: STANICA Zilina/Zariecie
organizer: Truc sphťrique

links: www.stanica.sk, www.urbsounds.sk, www.truc.sk

Urbsounds collective is formed by friends who besides the other things share the joy from the experiments with sound with the use of various digital technologies. They grew up on D.I.Y. punk and they don`t like (not only) music narrow-mindeness. Even they  aspire on no manifesto, they state their music is highly Ąpoliticalď.
There was a Daniel Kordik project Exurbia at the beginning (1999), characteristic by collages of the sounds from audio tapes (copy&paste method) and playing of these Ąsequencesď with the use of guitar efects. In 2001 formations Exurbia (Jamka today), Urbanfailure and Urbanox (RBNX today) joined and created a collective called Urbsounds. The first event took place at AFAD and since then the members either alone or in different fussions (and always live) played the clubs, galleries and festivals in Slovakia (Muliplace, Next), in Czech Republic (Alternativa), Austria and Germany (Germoney tour).
Dialectics between the signs of rhythms and arrythmical playing and stoping. Music which cracks and falls appart and again it finds the new connections. ĄTo have it more anarchistic and maybe even more dadaistic. Sharp and rough sound. That`s why new and positive determination: Free Digital?ď

opening of the exhibition
Tuesday, April the 6th, 6PM

Kunst-fu featuring Zden
The numbers of dreams
Visualisation and symphonisation of the winning numbers of Slovak version of lotto from the last decade.

Location and organizer: gallery PRIESTOR for Contemporary Arts, Somolickeho 1/B, Bratislava

Curator: Juraj Carny

links: www.priestor.org, www.satori.sk

Workshop
Wednesday, April the 7th, 3PM

Live performance
Wednesday, April the 7th, 8PM

Sssound workshops 3
Guy Van Belle + workshop participants

Location: A4 – ZERO SPACE
Organizer: Jamka/ Urbsounds, BURUNDI

links: www.urbsounds.sk, www.burundi.sk, http://mxHz.org

To connect computers in the office belongs to the standards of a prosperous businesses of today. Could be the similar logic used in music  composition?  Connecting musicians straight at the stage?

Workshop: presentation of belgic musician Guy ven Belle: ĄYes, I can show a couple of things I am doing and dive into how I make these things and why. I am working mainly in max-msp-jitter, on a mac (osx) but I work with this 'network' idea of joining

screening
Wednesday, April the 7th, 6PM

transmediale.04

From the abstraction and VJ-ing to political activism - a selection of most interesting  digital films from The International Festival of New Media Art: Transmediale 04. Fly Utopia!

Location: A4 – ZERO SPACE
Organizer: ATRAKT ART
Support: Goethe Institut

links: www.34, www.transmediale.de

lecture
Thursday, April the 8th, 4PM

Vit Havranek
Lanterna Magica – New technologies in the 20th-Century Czech Art.

Location: Czech Centre
Organizer: Czech Centre, tranzit.sk & tranzit.cz

links: www.tranzit.org, www.czc.sk

VŪt HavrŠnek is an art historian and curator based in Prague, Czech Republic. Since 1998 he has been working as a curator for the Municipal Gallery, Prague, CZ. In 2000 he founded the group PAS – Production of Activities of the Contemporary. He lectures on Contemporary Art at the Academy of Applied Arts, Prague. He has curated and organized numerous exhibitions, amongst which are: ďAction, Word, Movement, SpaceĒ (Prague, 1999), ďGlued IntimacyĒ (Prague 2000), Otto Piene ďThe Zero ExperienceĒ (Prague 2002). He has had numerous publications on contemporary art in catalogues, has edited books (most notably  - ďAction, Word, Movement, SpaceĒ, 1999) and has written for contemporary art magazines (Umžlec, Detail, Textes Sur L'art, Art Press), and for the daily press. He has been active on various juries, such as for the Ministry of Culture, the Foundation for Contemporary Art and the JindÝich Chalupeckż Prize. He is a project leader of art-initiative tranzit.cz based in Prague.

Multiplace Final Party / concert
Thursday, April the 8th, 8PM

MULTIPLES

JŠn Boleslav Kladivo (SK)
Rupert Huber (A)
Franz Pomassl (A)
Philipp Quehenberger (A)
Guy Van Belle (B) 

The closing party of the New Media Culture festival MULTIPLACE
Accompanying event: tranzit.sk Grant Giving 

location: A4 – ZERO SPACE
organizers: ATRAKT ART, BURUNDI, tranzit.sk

links www.kladivo.com, www.ruperthuber.com, www.laton.at, http://anatomix.waag.org/xgz, www.atrakt-art.sk, www.burundi.sk, www.tranzit.org,

JŃN BOLESLAV KLADIVO (www.kladivo.com)
Error undefined / audio-visual project of known Slovak musician in context of philosophie of Offending Command

RUPERT HUBER (www.ruperthuber.com) is Austrian composer and musician, member of TOSCA (since 1994; Rupert Huber & Richard Dorfmeister) and BERLINERTHEORIE (since 1997; Rupert Huber & Sam Auinger)

FRANZ POMASSL (www.laton.at) is Austrian experimental sound-artist and DJ, co-founder of label LATON and recently CLUB RUS in Vienna

PHILIPP QUEHENBERGER is Austrian experimental composer and musician

GUY VAN BELLE  (http://anatomix.waag.org/xgz) is Belgian experimental musician, performer, sound artist, member of international digital art collective mxHz.org.

tranzit.sk grants giving 
Art-initiative tranzit.sk has nominated 8 curators'/artists' groups to present conceptions for 2 particular exhibition projects which will take place in Trnava and Bratislava at the end of this year. International jury consisting of Vit Havranek, Jens Hoffmann and Hans Ulrich Obrist will choose those 2 of them which will be awarded by tranzit.sk grant 2004 each in amount of 300.000 Slovak Crowns.