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Writer, curator and educator on media and media art. After working as a video curator in Japan since the early 1980s, running an organization for videoart and independent video, she has moved to Eastern Europe in 1988 to investigate about independent use of media in the communist East. Currently lives in Bangkok. She regularly commutes to Rangoon/Myanmar, where she is one of the founding members of the Rangoon Film and Video School. From 1998 to 2002 she was teaching at the [[Video_FaVU_VUT_Brno|Video/Performance/Multimedia Studio]] of the Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic. She has written for Umelec (Artist) magazine and Respekt in the Czech Republic and numerous Japanese publications. She has worked as curator on such seminal Eastern European media exhibitions as [[The Media Are With Us]] (Budapest, 1990), [[Ostranenie]] (Dessau, 1993), [[Ex Oriente Lux]] (Bucharest, 1994), [[Orbis Fictus]] (Prague, 1995), and has lectured in Kazakhstan (1999). Her video archive with tapes that have been collected during the period of between 1988 and 1999 were shown to larger public at [[translocation_new media/art]] Vienna; Generali Foundation, Austria (1999).
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[[Image:Keiko Sei 2013.jpg|thumb|258px|Keiko Sei, 2013. [https://formerwest.org/DocumentsConstellationsProspects/Contributions/ImpenetrableSpotonaSoftShell (Source)] ]]
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'''Keiko Sei''' (b. Bangkok) is a writer, curator, and advocate of independent media.
  
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After working as a video curator in Japan from the early 1980s, running an organisation for videoart and independent video, she moved to Eastern Europe in 1988 to research the communist bloc media scene. In 2002, she has moved from Czech Republic to [[Bangkok]] to continue her research on independent media in Southeast Asia, especially [[Burma]], where she founded the [[Myanmar Moving Image Center]] in 2003.
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* ''Konečná krajina'', One Woman Press, 2004 (Czech). [[http://www.owp.cz/konecnakrajina.html]]
 
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* Keiko Sei (ed.), ''Von der Bürokratie zur Telekratie. Rumänien im Fernsehen''. Beiträge von Paolino Accolla, László Beke, Magda Cârneci, Mihaela Cristea, Serge Daney, Jean-Paul Fargier, Vilém Flusser, Ingo Günther, Veijo Hietala, Ari Honka-Hallila, Erkki Huhtamo, Derrick de Kerckhove, Richard Kriesche, Geert Lovink, Margaret Morse, Morgan Russel, Jeffrey Shaw, Tjebbe van Tijen, Paul Virilio, Peter Weibel. Perspektiven der Technokultur. Hrg. von Peter Weibel, Institut für Neue Medien an der Städelschule, Frankfurt/M. Übers. von B. Ollrogge, M. Rauschenbach und A. Carstens. 166 Seiten. ISBN 3-88396-077-2 Berlin: Merve Verlag, 1990. [http://www.merve.de/katalog-r-s.html]
 
  
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She has initiated and worked as curator on various projects, including [[The Media Are With Us]] - The Role of Television in the Romanian Revolution (Budapest, 1990); the video program ''The Age of Nikola Tesla'' (Osnabrück, 1991); [[Ostranenie]] (Dessau, 1993); [[Prague Media Symposium]]; [[Ex Oriente Lux]] - Romanian Video Week (Bucharest, 1993); [[Orbis Fictus]] exhibition (Prague, 1995) and the exhibition POLITIK-UM/New Engamement, (Prague, 2002); and as editor of ''documenta 12'' magazines project (2006-2007).
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* "Quick review of my days with video in Eastern Europe". [http://web.archive.org/web/20080114032211/http://www.sero.org/handshake/D/ostranenie/texte_zu_ostrannenie/ostranenie_keiko.eng.html]
 
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* "Productive Unclarities. An interview with media artist Barbara Lattanzi". [http://www.springerin.at/dyn/heft_text.php?textid=733&lang=en]
 
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* "Malcolm X, McLuhan, Media Study. Interview mit dem Medientheoretiker Gerald O'Grady". [http://www.springerin.at/dyn/heft.php?id=10&pos=1&textid=90&lang=de]
 
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* http://www.springerin.at/dyn/search_result.php?index_autorinnen=Sei%2C+Keiko
 
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* "Hladký přechod. Umění, umění ve veřejném prostoru a reklama v post-komunistické východní Evropě" (Czech). [http://www.fcca.cz/shared/events/prostor/enc_czech/TIC11.html]
 
  
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She has taught and given lectures on media art, independent media, and media activism at numerous institutions, including [[Video_FaVU_VUT_Brno|Video/Performance/Multimedia Studio]] of the Technical University of [[Brno]] (1998-2002); Kazakhstan (1999); and the University of Media Art and Design in Karlsruhe (HfG) where she currently teaches as a guest professor.
  
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Her video archive, which has been collected in transition across different continents (1988-1999), was exhibited to the public at [[translocation_new media/art]], Generali Foundation, in [[Vienna]] in 1999, and the German media described it as "the biggest collection of revolutionary videos in private hand."
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She has written for [[Umělec]] magazine and Respekt in the Czech Republic and numerous publications worldwide, with the overall focus of her essays being society in transition.
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==Publications==
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===Books===
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* editor, ''Infermental 8: In the Afterglow of TV Land. The Tokyo Edition'', Budapest: Infermental, 1988, 41+43 pp. To accompany the ''[[Infermental]] 8'' VHS compilation. {{en}}/{{jp}}
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* editor, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=15738 Von der Bürokratie zur Telekratie. Rumänien im Fernsehen. Ein Symposion aus Budapest]'', Berlin: Merve, 1990, 165 pp. Contributions by Paolino Accolla, László Beke, Magda Cârneci, Mihaela Cristea, Serge Daney, Jean-Paul Fargier, Vilém Flusser, Ingo Günther, Veijo Hietala, Ari Honka-Hallila, Erkki Huhtamo, Derrick de Kerckhove, Richard Kriesche, Geert Lovink, Margaret Morse, Morgan Russel, Jeffrey Shaw, Tjebbe van Tijen, Paul Virilio, Peter Weibel. {{de}}
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* ''Konečná krajina'', ed. Vladimír Havlík, trans. Jakub Geisler, Pavla Niklová, Lucie Simerová and Vladan Šír, Prague: One Woman Press, 2004, 267 pp. ISBN 80-86356-28-0. [http://www.owp.cz/konecnakrajina.html] Review: [http://www.ikaros.cz/node/2031 Denisa Kera] (Ikaros, 2005). {{cz}}
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===Articles===
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* "The True Japanese Art Form", ''Impulse'' 15:4, Mar 1990. [http://www.impulse-b.com/product/impulse-volume-15-number-4-march-1990/] {{en}}
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* "Japanese CMs: A Mirror for the 1990s", trans. Alfred Birnbaum, ''Art & Text'' 36, May 1990, pp 26-35. {{en}}
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20080114032211/http://www.sero.org/handshake/D/ostranenie/texte_zu_ostrannenie/ostranenie_keiko.eng.html "Quick Review of My Days with Video in Eastern Europe"] / [http://web.archive.org/web/20030515143450/http://sero.org/handshake/D/ostranenie/texte_zu_ostrannenie/ostranenie_keiko.html "Schnelldurchlauf meiner Tage mit Vide in Osteuropa"], in ''Ostranenie: 1. Internationales Videofestival am Bauhaus Dessau, 4.-7.11.1993: erschütterte Mythe, neue Realitäten: Osteuropa im Focus der Videokamera / 1. International Video Festival at the Bauhaus Dessau: Shattered Myths, New Realities: Video Focus on Eastern Europe'', eds. Inke Arns and Elisabeth Tharandt, Dessau: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, 1993. [http://www.blankjeron.com/sero/Handshake-Feldreise/D/ostranenie/texte_zu_ostrannenie/ostranenie_keiko.eng.html] [http://www.blankjeron.com/sero/Handshake-Feldreise/D/ostranenie/texte_zu_ostrannenie/ostranenie_keiko.html] {{en}}/{{de}}
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* "Jak lépe porozumět médiím reálného času", in ''Video art '94: Příroda v pohybu / Nature in Motion'', Prague: Mánes, 1994. {{cz}}/{{en}}
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* "Po stopách médií: pohled na mezinárodní scénu mediálního umění z Čech" / "Tracing Media: Viewing the International Media-scape from the Czech Lands", in ''Orbis Fictus: nová média v současném umění / New Media in Contemporary Arts'', eds. Ludvík Hlaváček and Marta Smolíková, Prague: Sorosovo centrum současného umění, 1995, pp 141-156. {{cz}}/{{en}}
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* "Flusser, média a východní Evropa", ''Výtvarné umění'' 3-4, 1996, pp 231-235. {{cz}}
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* "Morphed Transition Art, Public Art, and Advertising in Post-Communist Eastern Europe" / [[Media:Sei Keiko 1997 Hladky prechod Umeni umeni ve verejnem prostoru a reklama v post-komunisticke vychodni Evrope.pdf|"Hladký přechod. Umění, umění ve veřejném prostoru a reklama v post-komunistické východní Evropě"]], trans. Pavla Niklova, in ''Umělecké dílo ve veřejném prostoru / Artwork in Public Space'', Prague, 1997, pp 61-69, [http://web.archive.org/web/20030912121922/https://www.fcca.cz/shared/events/prostor/enc_czech/TIC11.html HTML]. {{cz}}
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* "Der wilde Osten (1): so schön ist es hier!", ''Kursiv'' 4:2, Linz, 1997. {{de}}
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* "N.J.P., world citizen", ''Detail'' 5, Prague, 1999. {{en}}/{{cz}}
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* [http://www.divus.cz/praha/en/author/keiko-sei Articles in ''Umelec''], 1999-2002.
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* "'Navigator. 1988ff.' Fragmente eines osteuropäischen Medienarchivs", ''Springerin'' 1, Vienna, 1999. [https://springerin.at/1999/1/] {{de}}
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* "History, the Acoustic", in ''The End of the World? / Konec světa'', eds. Milan Knížák and Tatjana Demčáková, Prague: National Gallery in Prague, 2000. {{en}}
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* "Navždy vůdčí kultura'', ''Umělec'' 4:1, Prague, 2001, pp 92-103. {{cz}}
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* [https://www.springerin.at/en/2003/4/traumerei-und-trauma/ "Reverie and Trauma: Thai Contemporary Art and Issues of Globalization"], ''Springerin'' 4: "Post-Empire", Vienna, 2003. {{en}}
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* [https://monoskop.org/images/7/7d/Kunst.ee_3_2003.pdf#page=42 "Some Thoughts on Media Education in Eastern Europe that Came Out of My Experience" / "Mõtteid meediaharidusest Ida-Euroopas. Isiklike kogemuste alusel"], ''kunst.ee'' 3, 2003, pp 42-43. {{en}}/{{ee}}
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* [https://www.springerin.at/en/2007/4/pseudo-demokratie-offentlicher-raum-und-web-foren/ "Pseudo-democracy, the public sphere and web forums: The situation for on-line media in Southeast Asia"], ''Springerin'' 4, Vienna, 2007. {{en}}
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** [https://www.springerin.at/2007/4/pseudo-demokratie-offentlicher-raum-und-web-foren/ "Pseudo-Demokratie, öffentlicher Raum und Web-Foren. Zur Situation der Onlinemedien in Südostasien"], ''Springerin'' 4, Vienna, 2007. {{de}}
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20130517234012/http://www.metropolism.com/magazine/2008-no2/leven-met-censuur/ "Living with Censorship"], ''Metropolis M'' 2, April/May 2008.  {{en}}
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* [http://www.monumenttotransformation.org/en/activities/texts/keiko-sei#more "Troubled adults and the modernist experiments of transformation"], in ''Atlas of Transformation'', Prague: Tranzit, 2008. {{en}}
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** [http://www.monumenttotransformation.org/cs/aktivity/texty/keiko-sei "Moderní experimenty transformace a dospělí v nesnázích"], in ''Atlas of Transformation'', Prague: Tranzit, 2008. {{cz}}
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* [https://monoskop.org/images/c/ca/Luksch_Manu_Patel_Mukul_eds_Ambient_Information_Systems.pdf#page=79 "The Need for Brother TV"] [2006], in ''Ambient Information Systems'', eds. Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel, London, 2009, pp 78-81, [http://lo-res.org/~manu/pdf/AIS_CH2_pp070-091.pdf PDF].  {{en}}
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* [https://springerin.at/en/2010/4/der-moment-an-dem-design-politisch-wird/ The moment that made a designer political"], ''Springerin'' 4: "Political Design", Vienna, 2010.  {{en}}
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** [https://springerin.at/2010/4/der-moment-an-dem-design-politisch-wird/ "Der Moment, an dem Design politisch wird"], ''Springerin'' 4: " Politisches Design", Vienna, 2010.  {{de}}
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* "Po stopách médií", in ''České umění 1980-2010'', eds. Jiří Ševčík, Pavlína Morganová, Dagmar Dušková Svatošová, and Terezie Nekvindová, Prague: VVP AVU, 2011, pp 508-513. {{cz}}
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* co-author, [https://www.springerin.at/en/2012/1/kunst-und-kunstinstitution-in-zeiten-der-katastrophe-und-wie-die-japanische-kunstgemeinde-daruber-denkt/ "The role of art and art institution in a time of disaster. How art community in Tohoku region sees it (a compilation of essays)"], ''Springerin'' 1: "Bon Travail", Vienna, 2012. {{en}}
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==Interviews==
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* Lubor Benda, Ivan Adamovič, [http://www.zivel.net/archiv?magazin=9&kapitola=157 "Zpátky na měsíc (Keiko Sei)"], ''Živel'' 7, Prague, 1997. {{cz}}
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* [https://www.springerin.at/2000/3/malcolm-x-mcluhan-media-study/ "Malcolm X, McLuhan, Media Study. Interview mit dem Medientheoretiker Gerald O'Grady"], ''Springerin'' 3, Vienna, 2000. [https://www.springerin.at/en/2000/3/] {{de}}
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* [https://www.springerin.at/en/2001/4/produktive-unklarheiten/ "Productive Unclarities. An interview with media artist Barbara Lattanzi"], ''Springerin'' 4, Vienna, 2001.
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* Petr Szczepanik, [[Media:Szczepanik_Petr_2002_Rozhovor_s_Keiko_Sei.pdf|"Média mezi kulturami a žánry. Rozhovor s Keiko Sei"]], ''Cinepur'' 23-24, 2002, pp 16-19. [https://agosto-foundation.org/sites/default/files/files/petr_szczepanik_media_mezi_kulturami_a_z.pdf] [http://www.academia.edu/5683701] [https://is.muni.cz/el/1421/jaro2015/IM099b/um/Keiko_Sei_Cinepur.pdf] {{cz}}
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* "Keiko Sei in Conversation with Chris Hill", in ''Aesthetics of Risk: SoCCAS Symposium Vol. III'', ed. John C. Welchman, Zürich: JRP Ringier, 2008. [http://books.jrp-editions.com/pages/index.php?id_r=4&id_t=&id_p=7&id_b=853]
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* Ng Yi-Sheng, [http://flyingcircusproject.weebly.com/1/post/2013/01/public-intellectual-4-keiko-sei.html "Public Intellectual #4: Keiko Sei"], 6 Jan 2013.
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==Links==
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20090214142325/http://solaris.hfg-karlsruhe.de/hfg/inhalt/de/Lehrende/10001 Profile on HfG Karlsruhe] (archived)
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20071201130655/http://www.labinary.org/media.art.theory.week/Keiko-CV-more.txt short CV] (archived)
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* [https://en.isabart.org/person/2625 Profile on abArt]
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* [http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiko_Sei Wikipedia-CS]
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[[Category:Writers|Sei, Keiko]]

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Keiko Sei, 2013. (Source)

Keiko Sei (b. Bangkok) is a writer, curator, and advocate of independent media.

After working as a video curator in Japan from the early 1980s, running an organisation for videoart and independent video, she moved to Eastern Europe in 1988 to research the communist bloc media scene. In 2002, she has moved from Czech Republic to Bangkok to continue her research on independent media in Southeast Asia, especially Burma, where she founded the Myanmar Moving Image Center in 2003.

She has initiated and worked as curator on various projects, including The Media Are With Us - The Role of Television in the Romanian Revolution (Budapest, 1990); the video program The Age of Nikola Tesla (Osnabrück, 1991); Ostranenie (Dessau, 1993); Prague Media Symposium; Ex Oriente Lux - Romanian Video Week (Bucharest, 1993); Orbis Fictus exhibition (Prague, 1995) and the exhibition POLITIK-UM/New Engamement, (Prague, 2002); and as editor of documenta 12 magazines project (2006-2007).

She has taught and given lectures on media art, independent media, and media activism at numerous institutions, including Video/Performance/Multimedia Studio of the Technical University of Brno (1998-2002); Kazakhstan (1999); and the University of Media Art and Design in Karlsruhe (HfG) where she currently teaches as a guest professor.

Her video archive, which has been collected in transition across different continents (1988-1999), was exhibited to the public at translocation_new media/art, Generali Foundation, in Vienna in 1999, and the German media described it as "the biggest collection of revolutionary videos in private hand."

She has written for Umělec magazine and Respekt in the Czech Republic and numerous publications worldwide, with the overall focus of her essays being society in transition.

Publications

Books

  • editor, Infermental 8: In the Afterglow of TV Land. The Tokyo Edition, Budapest: Infermental, 1988, 41+43 pp. To accompany the Infermental 8 VHS compilation. (English)/(Japanese)
  • editor, Von der Bürokratie zur Telekratie. Rumänien im Fernsehen. Ein Symposion aus Budapest, Berlin: Merve, 1990, 165 pp. Contributions by Paolino Accolla, László Beke, Magda Cârneci, Mihaela Cristea, Serge Daney, Jean-Paul Fargier, Vilém Flusser, Ingo Günther, Veijo Hietala, Ari Honka-Hallila, Erkki Huhtamo, Derrick de Kerckhove, Richard Kriesche, Geert Lovink, Margaret Morse, Morgan Russel, Jeffrey Shaw, Tjebbe van Tijen, Paul Virilio, Peter Weibel. (German)
  • Konečná krajina, ed. Vladimír Havlík, trans. Jakub Geisler, Pavla Niklová, Lucie Simerová and Vladan Šír, Prague: One Woman Press, 2004, 267 pp. ISBN 80-86356-28-0. [1] Review: Denisa Kera (Ikaros, 2005). (Czech)

Articles

  • "The True Japanese Art Form", Impulse 15:4, Mar 1990. [2] (English)
  • "Japanese CMs: A Mirror for the 1990s", trans. Alfred Birnbaum, Art & Text 36, May 1990, pp 26-35. (English)
  • "Jak lépe porozumět médiím reálného času", in Video art '94: Příroda v pohybu / Nature in Motion, Prague: Mánes, 1994. (Czech)/(English)
  • "Po stopách médií: pohled na mezinárodní scénu mediálního umění z Čech" / "Tracing Media: Viewing the International Media-scape from the Czech Lands", in Orbis Fictus: nová média v současném umění / New Media in Contemporary Arts, eds. Ludvík Hlaváček and Marta Smolíková, Prague: Sorosovo centrum současného umění, 1995, pp 141-156. (Czech)/(English)
  • "Flusser, média a východní Evropa", Výtvarné umění 3-4, 1996, pp 231-235. (Czech)
  • "Der wilde Osten (1): so schön ist es hier!", Kursiv 4:2, Linz, 1997. (German)
  • "N.J.P., world citizen", Detail 5, Prague, 1999. (English)/(Czech)
  • "'Navigator. 1988ff.' Fragmente eines osteuropäischen Medienarchivs", Springerin 1, Vienna, 1999. [5] (German)
  • "History, the Acoustic", in The End of the World? / Konec světa, eds. Milan Knížák and Tatjana Demčáková, Prague: National Gallery in Prague, 2000. (English)
  • "Navždy vůdčí kultura, Umělec 4:1, Prague, 2001, pp 92-103. (Czech)
  • "Po stopách médií", in České umění 1980-2010, eds. Jiří Ševčík, Pavlína Morganová, Dagmar Dušková Svatošová, and Terezie Nekvindová, Prague: VVP AVU, 2011, pp 508-513. (Czech)

Interviews

  • "Keiko Sei in Conversation with Chris Hill", in Aesthetics of Risk: SoCCAS Symposium Vol. III, ed. John C. Welchman, Zürich: JRP Ringier, 2008. [10]

Links

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