Prague
Initiatives and groups: A.M. 180 (*2003), CIANT (*1998), Guma Guar (*2001), MLOK (*2004), Muteme (*2003), ScArt (*2004), SEAH (*1990), Tranzit (*2002).
Past initiatives: Radio Jeleni (2000-2004).
Academy ateliers: New Media AVU (*1991), CAS at FAMU, Graphic Design and New Media UMPRUM (*2005), New Media Studies UISK UK (*2006), Electronic Culture and Semiotics FHS UK.
Spaces: Entrance Gallery, Futura, Galerie Display, Gallery Jelení, Gallery of Václav Špála, Karlín Studios, NoDimension, Školská 28 (*1999), Utopia (*2003).
Festivals: Art's Birthday Party (since 2005), Stimul (*2005) , Multiplace (since 2004), Datatransfer (*2001), Enter Multimediale (2000, 2005).
Past festivals: In Out (2003).
Past events: New Media programs in the Czech Republic (2006), Trans DADA Express (2006), Digital.ZOOO, FM@dia (2004), Streets, Stories, Faces (2003), deKartografie (2003), Excavating the Future symposium (2001), Media and Imagery symposium (2000), Orbis Fictus (1994-5).
Media: A2, Ateliér, Cinepur, HIS Voice, Lemurie (*2004), Umělec.
Art workers: Aleš Černý, Bohuš Získal, David Černý, Anetta Mona Chisa, Denisa Kera, Federico Diaz, Jan Mucska, Kryštof Kintera, Lucie Svobodová, Markéta Baňková, Michael Bielický, Michal Mariánek, Milan Guštar, Miloš Vojtěchovský, Pavel Sedlák, Pavel Smetana, Petra Vargová, Radomír Leszczynski, Tomáš Dvořák, Silver.
Historical media experimentators
Juda Loew ben Bezalel (Rabbi Loew), invented the Golem, experimented with the camera obscura.
Karel Capek wrote a sci-fi drama R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) on robots in 1920s.
Zdeněk Pěšánek wrote about electronic machines fulfilling miracles in his book Kinetismus from 1940.
Alfred Radok created Laterna Magica interface between theater and film in the Czech pavillion at the Expo in Brussels in 1958.
Cincera and Svitacek created interactive cinema installation at the Expo in Montreal in 1967.
Articles:
Michael Bielický. Praga Caput - Praga Caput Medii. http://www.sero.org/handshake/D/ostranenie/EEVideo/Prag.html
Prague does not exist anymore, it is given away to tourists and other capitalists. Marx was right: whatever you can sell will finally go to pieces. So Prague perished. Europa came to bury Prague.
