Zero Wage / Presentation of Initiative and Discussion

09/10/2012, DigiLab AVU Praha, U Akademie 4, Prague 7, 6:00
Zero Wage initiative is a movement of artists, curators and theoreticians active in the field of visual art. It strives for a more transparent relationship between gallery institutions funded by public finance and those who participate in creating the cultural program of such institutions. It wishes [...]

Vjera Borozan: What Do We Have Biennales For?

17/05/2012, DigiLab AVU Praha, U Akademie 4, Praha 7, 1:30
The first international exhibition of contemporary art holding the title ‘Biennale’ in Venice was organised in 1985. In the middle of the 1980s there were only a very few biennale happening around the world. International art exhibitions organised every two years began to grow rapidly in [...]

Michael Bielický: After 7 Years Back in Prague

26/04/2012, DigiLab AVU Praha, U Akademie 4, Prague 7, 1.30pm
In his presentation for the framework of the post doctoral Seminars of the AVU Michael Bielický introduces his research projects completed in the past few years at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design*.
The author focuses at the research and use of electronic data streamed in the real [...]

David Spriggs (UK/CA)

22/03/2012, DigiLab AVU Praha U Akademie 4 Praha 7, 1.30pm-3pm
David Spriggs will be presenting a slideshow discussion of the last 10 years of his installation artwork. Originally from the UK, he is an artist now based in Montreal, Canada. Spriggs explores the represenation and strategies of power, the symbolic meanings of colour, and [...]

Jiří Přibáň: The Arts’s Canon and Transformation of the Public Sphere

12/04/2012, DigiLab AVU Praha U Akademie 4 Praha 7, 6pm
This lecture mainly focuses on the difference between aesthetic and political forms of social communication. Modern art functions as a permanent process of constituting and breaking the cultural canon of defined values and norms of aesthetic perception and experience. This process is public and thus involves [...]

Vladimír Just: Linguistic Medley in Visual Arts

07/03/2012, DigiLab AVU Praha U Akademie 4 Praha 7, 1pm-3pm
Professor Vladimír Just will focus at his lecture in the framework ‘Seminars of doctoral students of the Academy of Visual Arts’ on the linguistic medley in visual arts. His research has focused mainly at shorter essays, reviews and critique in periodicals like Respekt, Flash Art, bi-monthlies [...]

Mike Ruiz: The Future Gallery

24/11/2011, DigiLab AVU Prague U Akademie 4 Prague 7, 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Mike Ruiz: The Future Gallery
Mike Ruiz is an artist, curator, and co-founder of the Berlin-based project Future Gallery. He will share his experiences starting and growing a exhibition space in Berlin, discuss curatorial perspectives surrounding new media and Internet art and provide speculations for [...]