Early media art in Czech Republic

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Predecessors

• Jan Amos Komenský

Computer and computer-aided art

• Miroslav Klivar, painter, graphic artist, poet, curator. Organised Computer and Art exhibition in Prague 1968.
• Zdeněk Sýkora is considered the first Czechoslovak artist to use computer. In 1964 in collaboration with the mathematician Jaroslav Blažek he created the visual computer-aided structures. In 1972 he created his first computer generated line paintings.
• Aleš Svoboda
• Stanislav Zippe
• Pavel Rudolf
• Lubomír Sochor
• Radomír Leszczynski, painter. Since 1995 he has concentrated on the brushwork realization of "subjacent" work on a computer. Also produces electronic prints.

Video art

• Woody Vasulka, artist. After producing a pioneering body of tapes in collaboration with Steina Vasulka since 1969 in the USA, he has investigated the narrative, syntactical and metaphorical potential of electronic imaging. Co-founded The Kitchen in 1971.
• Video Section, initiated by Radek Pilař in 1987 as an institutional framework for the emerging art video form, thus converting the isolated activities of individual artists in Czech Republic, which occured from the beginning of 1980s, namely: filmmakers Petr Skala, Tomáš Kepka, Ivan Tatíček, photographers Pavel Scheufler, Pavel Jasanský, Michal Pacina, Jasoň Šilhan, visual artists Lucie Svobodová, Věra Geislerová, Lenka Štarmanová, Kateřina Scheuflerová, Roman Milerský, René Slauka, and architect Miro Dopita. Active til mid-1990s. Since 1993 directed by Petr Skala.
• Petr Skala, video artist, film director, screenwriter. Since mid-1980s experiments with video technology.

Experimental film

Sound art

Electroacoustic music

Media theory

• Vilém Flusser, theorist.
• Keiko Sei
• Prague Media Symposium 1991-98.

Exhibitions

• Computer and Art exhibition in Filmový klub Prague, 1968
• Expo '67 Montreal. Laterna magika, by Alfred Radok (film director) and Josef Svoboda (architect). Kinoautomat.

1990s

• 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.
• Michal Bielický, Silver, Lucie Svobodová, Keiko Sei, ..
• Orbis Fictus new media art exhibition Prague 1994, organised by Soros CCA. 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-Multimedia-Performance FaVU.
• Terminal Bar venue Prague.

Bibliography

• Bibliography of writings on media art in Czech Republic