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* [[Rudolf Růžička]]
 
* [[Rudolf Růžička]]
 
* 18. ledna 1961 byla povolena jednorázová diskuze odborníků o experimentální hudbě v Literárních novinách. Zúčastnili se Jarmil Burghauser, Svatopluk Havelka, Jan Rychlík, Vladimír Šrámek, Václav Trojan, Eduard Herzog, Vladimír Lébl a ing. Antonín Svoboda. Následně byla zřízena komise, která měla posoudit prospěšnost této hudby.
 
* 18. ledna 1961 byla povolena jednorázová diskuze odborníků o experimentální hudbě v Literárních novinách. Zúčastnili se Jarmil Burghauser, Svatopluk Havelka, Jan Rychlík, Vladimír Šrámek, Václav Trojan, Eduard Herzog, Vladimír Lébl a ing. Antonín Svoboda. Následně byla zřízena komise, která měla posoudit prospěšnost této hudby.
* [[Experimental Studio Plzeň|Experimentální studio v Plzni]] bylo poté zřízeno v roce 1965. Toto studio však zůstalo uzavřeno pro autory, kteří nedokázali předložit dostatečně socialistické projekty. Ještě v roce 1963 však v mnohatisícovém nákladu vyšla kniha, jejímž hlavním cílem bylo zostudit a zesměšnit všechny experimenty prováděné ve světě.
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* [[Experimental Studio Plzeň|Experimentální studio v Plzni]] bylo poté zřízeno v roce 1965. [[Miloslav Kabeláč]], Karel Odstrčil, Miroslav Hlaváč, Jan Hanuš a Milan Slavický a další. Toto studio však zůstalo uzavřeno pro autory, kteří nedokázali předložit dostatečně socialistické projekty. Ještě v roce 1963 však v mnohatisícovém nákladu vyšla kniha, jejímž hlavním cílem bylo zostudit a zesměšnit všechny experimenty prováděné ve světě.
 
* V průběhu 70. let vzniklo mimo oficiální půdu v prostředí undergroundu několik hudebních experimetů [[Milan Knížák|Milana Knížáka]] (skupina Aktual) a Pavla Zajíčka s Milanem Hlavsou (skupina DG 307). V 80. letech se v Praze kolem skladatelů Petra Kofroně a Martina Smolky vytvořila skupina Agon, která dodnes interpretuje původní tvorbu českých a světových autorů. V Brně se v 90. letech podařilo zavést tradici [[Exposition of New Music|Expozice nové hudby]], která jednou ročně nabízí přehlídku nejnovějšího vývoje v oblasti experimentální tvorby.
 
* V průběhu 70. let vzniklo mimo oficiální půdu v prostředí undergroundu několik hudebních experimetů [[Milan Knížák|Milana Knížáka]] (skupina Aktual) a Pavla Zajíčka s Milanem Hlavsou (skupina DG 307). V 80. letech se v Praze kolem skladatelů Petra Kofroně a Martina Smolky vytvořila skupina Agon, která dodnes interpretuje původní tvorbu českých a světových autorů. V Brně se v 90. letech podařilo zavést tradici [[Exposition of New Music|Expozice nové hudby]], která jednou ročně nabízí přehlídku nejnovějšího vývoje v oblasti experimentální tvorby.
 
* [[Milan Knížák]], ''Broken Music'' (1979) (Fluxus). "In 1963-64 I used to play records both too slowly and too fast and thus changed the quality of the music, thereby, creating new compositions. In 1965 I started to destroy records: scratch them, punch holes in them, break them. By playing them over and over again (which destroyed the needle and often the record player too) an entirely new music was created - unexpected, nerve-racking and aggressive. Compositions lasting one second or almost infinitely long (as when the needle got stuck in a deep groove and played the same phrase over and over). I developed this system further. I began sticking tape on top of records, painting over them, burning them, cutting them up and gluing different parts of records back together, etc. to achieve the widest possible variety of sounds. A glued joint created a rhythmic element separating contrasting melodic phrases... Since music that results from playing ruined gramophone records cannot be transcribed to notes or to another language (or if so, only with great difficulty), the records themselves may be considered as notations at the same time."
 
* [[Milan Knížák]], ''Broken Music'' (1979) (Fluxus). "In 1963-64 I used to play records both too slowly and too fast and thus changed the quality of the music, thereby, creating new compositions. In 1965 I started to destroy records: scratch them, punch holes in them, break them. By playing them over and over again (which destroyed the needle and often the record player too) an entirely new music was created - unexpected, nerve-racking and aggressive. Compositions lasting one second or almost infinitely long (as when the needle got stuck in a deep groove and played the same phrase over and over). I developed this system further. I began sticking tape on top of records, painting over them, burning them, cutting them up and gluing different parts of records back together, etc. to achieve the widest possible variety of sounds. A glued joint created a rhythmic element separating contrasting melodic phrases... Since music that results from playing ruined gramophone records cannot be transcribed to notes or to another language (or if so, only with great difficulty), the records themselves may be considered as notations at the same time."

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Predecessors
  • Jan Amos Komenský
  • 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.


Computer and computer-aided art
  • Miroslav Klivar, painter, graphic artist, poet, curator. Organised Computer and Art exhibition in Prague 1968. Started to use computer in early 70s.
  • Zdeněk Sýkora is considered the first Czechoslovak artist to use computer. In 1964 in collaboration with the mathematician Jaroslav Blažek he began creating the visual computer-aided structures. In 1972 he created his first computer generated line paintings. The results of computations, spatial compositions of alphanumerical symbols were interpreted by the two dimensional shapes manually painted or used as a mosaic tiles at the architectural objects.
  • Zdenka Čechová, studied Art and Mathematics. Started using computer in the early 70s and used computer generated images at the textile and ceramics design.
  • Aleš Svoboda, Stanislav Zippe, Pavel Rudolf, Lubomír Sochor, Jan Moučka, Zdenek Frýbl
  • Radomír Leszczynski, painter. Since 1995 he has concentrated on the brushwork realization of "subjacent" work on a computer. Also produces electronic prints.


Video art


Experimental film


Electroacoustic and experimental music, sound art
  • Alois Piňos, composer. Patří k zakladatelské generaci české Nové hudby šedesátých let. Na svém kontě má i několik zajímavých prvenství: první česká kompozice kombinující orchestr s magnetofonovým pásem (Koncert pro orchestr a magnetofonový pásek, 1964); první týmové kompozice (1969–1971); první české audiovizuální dílo – ve spolupráci s výtvarníkem Daliborem Chatrným vytvořil triptych Statická kompozice, Mříže, Geneze (1970); hudba vytvořená ze zvuků krápníků (Speleofonie, 1976) atp.
  • Miloslav Kabeláč
  • Rudolf Růžička
  • 18. ledna 1961 byla povolena jednorázová diskuze odborníků o experimentální hudbě v Literárních novinách. Zúčastnili se Jarmil Burghauser, Svatopluk Havelka, Jan Rychlík, Vladimír Šrámek, Václav Trojan, Eduard Herzog, Vladimír Lébl a ing. Antonín Svoboda. Následně byla zřízena komise, která měla posoudit prospěšnost této hudby.
  • Experimentální studio v Plzni bylo poté zřízeno v roce 1965. Miloslav Kabeláč, Karel Odstrčil, Miroslav Hlaváč, Jan Hanuš a Milan Slavický a další. Toto studio však zůstalo uzavřeno pro autory, kteří nedokázali předložit dostatečně socialistické projekty. Ještě v roce 1963 však v mnohatisícovém nákladu vyšla kniha, jejímž hlavním cílem bylo zostudit a zesměšnit všechny experimenty prováděné ve světě.
  • V průběhu 70. let vzniklo mimo oficiální půdu v prostředí undergroundu několik hudebních experimetů Milana Knížáka (skupina Aktual) a Pavla Zajíčka s Milanem Hlavsou (skupina DG 307). V 80. letech se v Praze kolem skladatelů Petra Kofroně a Martina Smolky vytvořila skupina Agon, která dodnes interpretuje původní tvorbu českých a světových autorů. V Brně se v 90. letech podařilo zavést tradici Expozice nové hudby, která jednou ročně nabízí přehlídku nejnovějšího vývoje v oblasti experimentální tvorby.
  • Milan Knížák, Broken Music (1979) (Fluxus). "In 1963-64 I used to play records both too slowly and too fast and thus changed the quality of the music, thereby, creating new compositions. In 1965 I started to destroy records: scratch them, punch holes in them, break them. By playing them over and over again (which destroyed the needle and often the record player too) an entirely new music was created - unexpected, nerve-racking and aggressive. Compositions lasting one second or almost infinitely long (as when the needle got stuck in a deep groove and played the same phrase over and over). I developed this system further. I began sticking tape on top of records, painting over them, burning them, cutting them up and gluing different parts of records back together, etc. to achieve the widest possible variety of sounds. A glued joint created a rhythmic element separating contrasting melodic phrases... Since music that results from playing ruined gramophone records cannot be transcribed to notes or to another language (or if so, only with great difficulty), the records themselves may be considered as notations at the same time."


Media theory


Exhibitions
  • Alfred Radok created Laterna Magica interface between theater and film in the Czech pavillion at the Expo in Brussels in 1958(??)
  • Computer Graphic (Brno, 1968), organised by Jiří Valoch
  • Computer and Art exhibition in Filmový klub Prague, 1968, organised by Miroslav Klivar
  • Expo '67 Montreal. Laterna magika, by Alfred Radok (film director) and Josef Svoboda (architect). Kinoautomat by Radúz Činčera and Svitáček, back then, it was billed as "the world's first interactive movie." Everyone in the audience had a red and a green button in front of them and the results of voting were displayed around the screen. The movie itself was a dark comedy about a man, Mr. Novak, who believes he was responsible for his apartment building burning down, and is structured as a series of flashbacks leading up to the fire. After each scene the film would stop and a live performer would walk onto the stage and ask the audience to vote. Immediately, as if by magic, the voted scene was played.


1990s
  • In 1990, when the Fluxus artist, deconstructivist Milan Knizak, was elected as a dean of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague all the professors of the old regime were removed. He replaced them, and set up an atelier of video art with Fluxus star Paik's student Michael Bielicky, fulfilling his iconoclasm against the authorities and the hierachy in both politics and art-history. Another provocative, ex-banned performing artist, Tomas Ruler, received a TV studio at the Technical University in Brno after the revolution and now runs an atelier of video art and multimedia performance there. Video was also the most effective media for him. [1]
  • Michal Bielický, New Media AVU academy program since 1991 (til 2007). "In 1991 I was called by the Prag Academy of Art to found and lead a section for new media. Nam June Paik donated quite a large amount of money for the equipment. As well, other (private) people from Germany supported this project. Thanks to the DAAD in Bonn, a longterm instructer for my department was made available for several years. The department is situated in a Cubist influenced villa. The first students reacted very individually in their way of using the new technology. From videotapes to video installations, interactive video sculpters, live video performances to communication art, they use their new techniques in a serious, but detached way."
  • Keiko Sei, head of Video/Performance/Multimedia Studio in Brno 1998-2001.
  • Miloš Vojtěchovský - Orbis Fictus, Dawn of the Magicians?, LABoratory
  • Silver, Lucie Svobodová, Martin Čihák experimental filmmaker, Milan Slavický composer..
  • Video/Performance/Multimedia Studio. "In 1994, the receipt of a grant enabled us to take the initial steps towards creating a long-term program integrating modern technology and a Multimedia laboratory built in cooperation with Woody Vasulka, pioneer of video and electronic art. Developments include the aquisition of real-time multimedia interactive equipment and links to an academic network and the World Wide Web. Thanks to the support and financial assistance of Silicon Graphics, the VMP studio has been able to upgrade its equipment and increase its number of projects including interactive works and installations. In addition, opportunities to collaborate with other institutions have also been created and an academic metropolis net involving several universities is being developed."
  • Milan Guštar, he's been providing technical support for the works by David Černý, Silver, Federico Diaz, Miloš Vojtěchovský, Michael Bielický and others since 1987.
  • Orbis Fictus new media art exhibition Prague 1994, organised by SCCA. Curated by Ludvík Hlaváček and Marta Smolíková.
  • Dawn of the Magicians? exhibition Prague 1996-7, organised by National Gallery. Curators: Jaroslav Anděl, Miloš Vojtěchovský, Ivona Raimanová.
  • Hi-tech/Art Brno 1994-97, annual international exhibition and symposium, organised by Video/Performance/Multimedia Studio Brno.
  • Terminal Bar venue Prague.


2000s