Barbora Šedivá

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Born Trenčín, Slovakia
Lives in Brno, Czech Republic

Born 1981 in Trenčín, Slovakia. Graduated in culture studies from the Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University in Bratislava (MA), and in Public Art and Cultural Management from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Technology in Brno (PhD).

Barbora is a member of Atrakt Art and 4AM Forum for Architecture and Media collectives. She used to work in A4 - Zero Space in Bratislava since its start in 2003 until she moved to Brno (2006). She is an editor of 3/4 magazine (since 2004) and Atrakt Art label, a co-organiser of Next festival of advanced music (Bratislava), and the coordinator of Multiplace new media culture festival. She was involved in running the Summer Open Academy (Bratislava) and Urban Re/Creation/Citylab (Bratislava) projects. She organised several workshops, including Urban reset (Bratislava/Brno) and Living Vandalism (Brno). Co-author of the Cool Place film project - a series of workshops focused on acquainting young people with the film medium and making short documentary films about the places that create their living space. [1]

Worked at The Brno House of Arts (off program dramaturgy, production, fundraising, event management, 2009 - 2012), and co-organised and co-curated Remake / REthinking Media Art in K(C)ollaborative Environments, an international art project aimed in creation and presentation of new works inspired by the history of media arts (2010-12). Editor of Brno exhibition catalogue [2] and 3/4 magazine special issue on media art history: Remake [3]

Back to the freelance life since September 2012.

She cooperates with Jana Horáková and Theory of Interactive Media department, Masaryk University (Brno), e.g. Media – Performance – Memory. 3rd Czech – German symposium (2011) [4] or Remake seminar (2012) [5].

Barbora is a co-founder of 4AM Forum for Architecture and Media association (2010) which run the Gallery of Architecture in Brno (2011-2012). Since February 2013 the association is based in an old railway building in the southern city of Brno (Rosická 1). [6]

Barbora is also a co-curator of the Asking Architecture, the winning project for the exposition in the Czech and Slovak Pavilion at 13th International Architecture Exhibition of la Bienale di Venezia 2012, in cooperation with curator and architect Ján Pernecký [7].

In March 2013 Barbora co-curated the Hi5! exhibition in cooperation with Croatian artist and curator Slaven Tolj in The Brno House of Arts. The exhibiton mapped out the current work and ideas of students in Fine Arts study programmes in Czech university Arts Schools. // Photos by Jiří Hloušek [8]

The Exposition of New Music 2013 festival on-site production, technical assistance and coordination [9].

PR and co-production of Folk Architecture Monument - Tomas Dzadon's art project of three traditional log houses placed on the roof of a prefabricated housing block in Košice city in Slovakia. (Opening ceremony September 2013) [10]

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Barbora is a member of Jack Jack, no input style noise band, and the submissive DJs duo Jack Jackson5.

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