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|birth_place = [[Prague]], [[Czech Republic]]
 
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|based_in = Prague and Krásná Hora, Czech Republic
 
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[[Image:Milos_Vojtechovsky_1995.jpg|thumb|258px|Miloš Vojtěchovský in 1995. Photo: D.Š.]]
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[[Image:Milos_Vojtechovsky_1995.jpg|thumb|350px|Miloš Vojtěchovský in 1995. Photo: D.Š.]]
 
'''Miloš Vojtěchovský''' (15 April 1955, [[Prague]]) graduated in Art History and Aesthetics from Charles University, Prague (1980). Since the early 1980s he has been involved in independent music, visual art, action art, and curatorial work. He lectured on East European Art at the Centrum voor Kunstgeschiedenis Amsterdam (1992-1994) and was the founder and the only employee of Oko Production, an exhibition space in [[Amsterdam]] (1988-1992). He is the initiator, researcher, co-producer and co-author of the interactive educational project ''[https://imaginarymuseum.org/OPR/OPRWAAGE.HTM Orbis Pictus Revised]'' (1991-1995) commisioned for [[ZKM]] Karlsruhe and created by Imaginary Museum Project founded by [[Tjebbe van Tijen]]. Miloš was founder of the [[Center for Metamedia Plasy]] at Plasy Monastery (1991-2000), an initiator of [[The Hermit Foundation]] (with Jiří Kornatovský, 1991), and curator in the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art at National Gallery Prague (1995-2000). He worked as a programme curator at [[LABoratory]] at the [[Center for Contemporary Arts Prague]] (2000-2003) where he ran the broadcasting project [[Radio Jeleni]] (2000-2004), consequently co-founding the [[Lemurie TAZ]] streaming project (2004-2009), and afterwards an online platform and community project focussing on sonic landscape of [[Prague]], [http://sonicity.cz Zvuky Prahy / Sounds of Prague] (since 2008). From 1999 he also worked in the [[Školská 28]] gallery. He lectured on media art, contemporary art and communication studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Technical University (FaVU VUT) in [[Brno]] (1997-2004), [[CAS Prague|Center for Audiovisual Studies]] at FAMU (from 2004), and he co-organised the course [http://intermedia.amu.cz Intermedia creativity and technologies] between AMU, ČVUT and AVU in [[Prague]]. In 2007, together with Roman Berka he founded [[Institute of Intermedia Prague|Institute of Intermedia]]. He has published in Dutch, German, Belgian, English, and Czech magazines since 1988 and in samizdat since 1975. He lives in [[Prague]] and Krásná Hora, Czech Republic.
 
'''Miloš Vojtěchovský''' (15 April 1955, [[Prague]]) graduated in Art History and Aesthetics from Charles University, Prague (1980). Since the early 1980s he has been involved in independent music, visual art, action art, and curatorial work. He lectured on East European Art at the Centrum voor Kunstgeschiedenis Amsterdam (1992-1994) and was the founder and the only employee of Oko Production, an exhibition space in [[Amsterdam]] (1988-1992). He is the initiator, researcher, co-producer and co-author of the interactive educational project ''[https://imaginarymuseum.org/OPR/OPRWAAGE.HTM Orbis Pictus Revised]'' (1991-1995) commisioned for [[ZKM]] Karlsruhe and created by Imaginary Museum Project founded by [[Tjebbe van Tijen]]. Miloš was founder of the [[Center for Metamedia Plasy]] at Plasy Monastery (1991-2000), an initiator of [[The Hermit Foundation]] (with Jiří Kornatovský, 1991), and curator in the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art at National Gallery Prague (1995-2000). He worked as a programme curator at [[LABoratory]] at the [[Center for Contemporary Arts Prague]] (2000-2003) where he ran the broadcasting project [[Radio Jeleni]] (2000-2004), consequently co-founding the [[Lemurie TAZ]] streaming project (2004-2009), and afterwards an online platform and community project focussing on sonic landscape of [[Prague]], [http://sonicity.cz Zvuky Prahy / Sounds of Prague] (since 2008). From 1999 he also worked in the [[Školská 28]] gallery. He lectured on media art, contemporary art and communication studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Technical University (FaVU VUT) in [[Brno]] (1997-2004), [[CAS Prague|Center for Audiovisual Studies]] at FAMU (from 2004), and he co-organised the course [http://intermedia.amu.cz Intermedia creativity and technologies] between AMU, ČVUT and AVU in [[Prague]]. In 2007, together with Roman Berka he founded [[Institute of Intermedia Prague|Institute of Intermedia]]. He has published in Dutch, German, Belgian, English, and Czech magazines since 1988 and in samizdat since 1975. He lives in [[Prague]] and Krásná Hora, Czech Republic.
  
==Books==
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==Books, catalogues==
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* co-editor, ''Growthrings - Hermit II. Symposium'', Plasy: Hermit Foundation, 1993. Catalogue, [https://www.agosto-foundation.org/growthrings-cd with CD] containing the recordings of performances by James Fulkerson (UK) & Phill Niblock (US), Tibor Szemzo (HU) & Martin Groeneveld (NL), Peter Cusack (UK) & Michael Delia (US), Irena & Vojtech Havel (CZ), Agon Orchestra (CZ), a.o. [https://www.agosto-foundation.org/growthrings Event]. [http://web.archive.org/web/19990922034024/http://www.hermit.cz/docs/pub.htm] {{cz}}/{{en}}
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* co-editor, ''[[Media:Transparent Messenger Hermit III Plasy 1994.pdf|Transparent Messenger: Hermit III]]'', Plasy: Hermit Foundation & Society of Friends of Plasy, 1994, [80] pp. Catalogue, [https://www.agosto-foundation.org/cs/transparent-messenger-cd with CD] containing the recordings of performances by ROVA Saxophone Quartet (US), Hugh Davies (UK), Pavel Fajt (CZ) & Jim Meneses (US), Rajesh Mehta (US), Erhard Hirt (GER) & Martin Klapper (DK), a.o. [https://www.agosto-foundation.org/transparent-messenger Event]. [http://web.archive.org/web/19990922034024/http://www.hermit.cz/docs/pub.htm] {{cz}}/{{en}}
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* editor, ''[[Media:Fungus Inquiry of A Place 1145-1995 1995.pdf|Fungus: Inquiry of A Place / průzkum místa (1145-1995)]]'', Plasy: Hermit Foundation & Society of Friends of Plasy, 1995, [100] pp. Texts by: Jiří Zemánek, Jimmie Durham, Karel S. Amerling, Stephen J. Gould, and Miloš Vojtěchovský. Catalogue. [https://www.agosto-foundation.org/fungus-inquiry-of-place-1145-1995 Event]. [http://web.archive.org/web/19990922034024/http://www.hermit.cz/docs/pub.htm] {{cz}}/{{en}}
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* co-editor, ''Meridian Crossings'', Plasy: Hermit Foundation, 1995. Catalogue, [https://www.agosto-foundation.org/meridian-crossing-cd with CD] containing recordings of performances by Tim Hodgkinson (GB) & Jim Meneses (USA), Pavel Fajt (CZ), Anarctica (NL), Vojtech Havel (CZ), Michael Delia (USA) & Jaroslav Koran (CZ), a.o. [https://www.agosto-foundation.org/meridian-crossings Event]. [http://web.archive.org/web/19990922034024/http://www.hermit.cz/docs/pub.htm] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpr9OU7DJTg] [https://www.discogs.com/release/1222034] {{cz}}/{{en}}
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* editor, with Igor Hlavinka, ''[[Media:Near the Beginning Plasy 1997.pdf|Near the Beginning / O počátku]]'', Plasy: Hermit Foundation & Society of Friends of Plasy, 1997, [86] pp. Catalogue. [https://www.agosto-foundation.org/near-the-beginning Event]. {{cz}}/{{en}}
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* editor, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22620 Vasulka Kitchen Cooking Reader #1: Beyond Media Texts: Primal & Final / Vašulkova kuchyňská kniha #1: texty k médiím: první & poslední]'', Brno: Vašulka Kitchen Brno, Oct 2020, 253 pp. {{cz}}
 
* editor, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22620 Vasulka Kitchen Cooking Reader #1: Beyond Media Texts: Primal & Final / Vašulkova kuchyňská kniha #1: texty k médiím: první & poslední]'', Brno: Vašulka Kitchen Brno, Oct 2020, 253 pp. {{cz}}
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* editor, with Jitka Hlaváčková, ''Zvuky, kódy, obrazy. Akustický experiment ve vizuálním umění / Sounds, Codes, Images'', Prague: ArtMap, 2021, 288 pp. [[Media:Sounds_Codes_Images_2021 extended excerpt.pdf|Extended excerpt]]. [http://www.ghmp.cz/zvuky-kody-obrazy-akusticky-experiment-ve-vizualnim-umeni/ Exhibition]. [https://knihy.artmap.cz/zvuky-kody-obrazy-sounds-codes-images/ Publisher]. Exh. review: [https://www.artantiques.cz/mezi-zvuky-kody-a-obrazy-napric-casem-a-prostorem Flašar] (Art&Antiques). Book reviews: [https://artalk.cz/2022/01/24/pruzkum-hranic-videneho-a-slyseneho/ Zahálková] (Artalk), [https://www.facebook.com/100006843614951/videos/416711640244586/?story_fbid=3039318796306211&id=100006843614951 Válek]. {{cz}}/{{en}}
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* editor, with Lloyd Dunn, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23242 CENSE Almanac: Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies]'', CENSE, 2021, 80 pp. {{en}}
  
 
==Essays, reviews==
 
==Essays, reviews==
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** [http://www.divus.cz/praha/en/article/translated-by-vladan-sir "Images / Portraits"], trans. Vladan Šír, ''Umělec EN'' 3 (2001). {{en}}
 
** [http://www.divus.cz/praha/en/article/translated-by-vladan-sir "Images / Portraits"], trans. Vladan Šír, ''Umělec EN'' 3 (2001). {{en}}
 
* [[Media:Vojtechovsky Milos 2002 Umeni_a_elektronicke_technologie.pdf|"Umění a elektronické technologie"]], in ''Dějiny umění 12'', eds. Karel Císař and Terezie Petišková, Prague, 2002, pp 255-281. {{cz}}
 
* [[Media:Vojtechovsky Milos 2002 Umeni_a_elektronicke_technologie.pdf|"Umění a elektronické technologie"]], in ''Dějiny umění 12'', eds. Karel Císař and Terezie Petišková, Prague, 2002, pp 255-281. {{cz}}
* [https://vasulkakitchen.org/sites/default/files/document/vasulka2002_vojtech1.pdf "Woody Vasulka a utopie autonomního díla"], 2002. {{cz}}
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* [https://vasulkakitchen.org/sites/default/files/document/vasulka2002_vojtechdef.pdf "Woody Vasulka a utopie autonomního díla"], [2002]. {{cz}}
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** [https://www.vasulkakitchen.org/sites/default/files/document/2002vasulka_vojtech1.pdf "Woody Vasulka: The Utopia of an Autonomous World and Autonomous Work"], in ''Lanterna magika: nouvelles technologies dans l’art tchèque du XXe siècle / New Technologies in Czech Art of the 20th Century'', eds. Camille Morineau and Vít Havránek, Prague: KANT, and Paris: Espace Electra, 2002. {{en}}
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** "Woody Vasulka: l'utopie d'un monde autonome et d'un travail autonome", in ''Lanterna magika: nouvelles technologies dans l’art tchèque du XXe siècle / New Technologies in Czech Art of the 20th Century'', eds. Camille Morineau and Vít Havránek, Prague: KANT, and Paris: Espace Electra, 2002. {{fr}}
 
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130515003356/http://makulatura.posterous.com/poesie-a-poetika-elektronickeho-tela-gary-hil "Poesie a poetika elektronického těla (Gary Hill a film)"], ''Cinepur'', 2005. {{cz}}
 
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130515003356/http://makulatura.posterous.com/poesie-a-poetika-elektronickeho-tela-gary-hil "Poesie a poetika elektronického těla (Gary Hill a film)"], ''Cinepur'', 2005. {{cz}}
 
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20130515003356/http://makulatura.posterous.com/squat-a-krak "Squatt & krak"], 2006. {{cz}}
 
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20130515003356/http://makulatura.posterous.com/squat-a-krak "Squatt & krak"], 2006. {{cz}}
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* [https://agosto-foundation.org/cs/hermit-networks "Hermit Networks: o oddencích, příživnících i poustevnících, uvízlých v sítinách"], ''Agosto Foundation: mediateka'', Prague, Apr 2020. {{cz}}
 
* [https://agosto-foundation.org/cs/hermit-networks "Hermit Networks: o oddencích, příživnících i poustevnících, uvízlých v sítinách"], ''Agosto Foundation: mediateka'', Prague, Apr 2020. {{cz}}
 
* [https://artalk.cz/2020/07/22/vypraveni-z-druheho-brehu-chantal-akerman/ "Vyprávění z druhého břehu Chantal Akerman"], ''Artalk.cz'', 22 Jul 2020. {{cz}}
 
* [https://artalk.cz/2020/07/22/vypraveni-z-druheho-brehu-chantal-akerman/ "Vyprávění z druhého břehu Chantal Akerman"], ''Artalk.cz'', 22 Jul 2020. {{cz}}
* [https://monoskop.org/images/4/48/Krticka_Jan_Mrkus_Pavel_eds_Sound_and_Environment_Zvuk_a_prostredi_2020.pdf#page=94 "Mračna, mraky, obláčky: poznámka k fenomenologii a ekologii počasí"] / [https://monoskop.org/images/4/48/Krticka_Jan_Mrkus_Pavel_eds_Sound_and_Environment_Zvuk_a_prostredi_2020.pdf#page=85 "Thunderheads, Clouds, and Cloudlets: A Note on the Phenomenology and Ecology of Rain"], in ''Sound and Environment: Contemporary Approaches to Sonic Ecology in Art / Zvuk a prostředí: současné přístupy ke zvukové ekologii'', eds. Jan Krtička and Pavel Mrkus, Ústí nad Labem: Fakulta umění a designu Univerzity J. E. Purkyně, 2020, pp 185-192 & 167-175. [https://agosto-foundation.org/cs/mediateka/acoustic-ecology/sound-environment] [https://fud.ujep.cz/2020/11/sound-end-environment-zvuk-a-prostredi/] {{cz}}/{{en}}
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* "Mračna, mraky, obláčky: poznámka k fenomenologii a ekologii počasí" / "Thunderheads, Clouds, and Cloudlets: A Note on the Phenomenology and Ecology of Rain", in ''Sound and Environment: Contemporary Approaches to Sonic Ecology in Art / Zvuk a prostředí: současné přístupy ke zvukové ekologii'', eds. Jan Krtička and Pavel Mrkus, Ústí nad Labem: Fakulta umění a designu Univerzity J. E. Purkyně, 2020, pp 185-192 & 167-175. [https://agosto-foundation.org/cs/mediateka/acoustic-ecology/sound-environment] [https://fud.ujep.cz/2020/11/sound-end-environment-zvuk-a-prostredi/] {{cz}}/{{en}}
 
* [https://flashart.cz/2020/12/20/panychida-za-vsechny-zaseknute-a-nefunkcni-cd-romy/ "Panychida za všechny zaseknuté a nefunkční CD-ROMy"], ''Flash Art CZ/SK'' 58, Prague, Dec 2020. {{cz}}
 
* [https://flashart.cz/2020/12/20/panychida-za-vsechny-zaseknute-a-nefunkcni-cd-romy/ "Panychida za všechny zaseknuté a nefunkční CD-ROMy"], ''Flash Art CZ/SK'' 58, Prague, Dec 2020. {{cz}}
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* [https://www.ghmp.cz/qartal/bio-troja-a-setkani-s-liskou/ "Bio Troja a setkání s liškou. Příroda v metropolích"], ''Quartal'' 2, Prague: GHMP, Apr-Jun 2021. {{cz}}
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** [https://www.ghmp.cz/en/qartal/16625/ "Bio Troja and Encountering a Fox. Nature in the Cities"], ''Quartal'' 2, Prague: GHMP, Apr-Jun 2021. {{en}}
 
* [https://artalk.cz/2021/03/12/the-kitchen-jako-fermentacni-kotel-elektronickeho-umeni/ "The Kitchen jako fermentační kotel elektronického umění"], ''Artalk.cz'', 12 Mar 2021; [https://vasulkakitchen.org/cs/the-kitchen-jako-fermentacni-kotel-elektronickeho-umeni reposted], ''Vasulkakitchen.org'', May 2021. {{cz}}
 
* [https://artalk.cz/2021/03/12/the-kitchen-jako-fermentacni-kotel-elektronickeho-umeni/ "The Kitchen jako fermentační kotel elektronického umění"], ''Artalk.cz'', 12 Mar 2021; [https://vasulkakitchen.org/cs/the-kitchen-jako-fermentacni-kotel-elektronickeho-umeni reposted], ''Vasulkakitchen.org'', May 2021. {{cz}}
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* "Parazité, echo a rezonance: Symposia Hermit a příběh zvukového umění / Parasites, Echoes and Resonances--The Hermit Symposia and the Story of Sound Art", in ''Zvuky, kódy, obrazy. Akustický experiment ve vizuálním umění / Sounds, Codes, Images'', eds. Jitka Hlaváčková and Miloš Vojtěchovský, Prague: ArtMap, 2021, pp 151-158. [https://knihy.artmap.cz/zvuky-kody-obrazy-sounds-codes-images/] {{cz}}/{{en}}
  
 
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20130515001258/http://makulatura.posterous.com/ Selected articles] (archived) [http://ma-kulatura.blogspot.com/]
 
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20130515001258/http://makulatura.posterous.com/ Selected articles] (archived) [http://ma-kulatura.blogspot.com/]
  
==Interviews==
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==Interviews, conversations==
 
* Miloš Vojtěchovský, [https://www.mixcloud.com/milosvojtechovsky/woody-vasulka-interview-%C4%8D1-praha-2003/ "Rozhovor s Woody Bohuslavem Vašulkou"], [https://www.mixcloud.com/milosvojtechovsky/woody-va%C5%A1ulka-interview-%C4%8D2-praha-2003/ Part 2], ''Rádio Jelení'', 2003, 40+43 min. Audio interview. {{cz}}
 
* Miloš Vojtěchovský, [https://www.mixcloud.com/milosvojtechovsky/woody-vasulka-interview-%C4%8D1-praha-2003/ "Rozhovor s Woody Bohuslavem Vašulkou"], [https://www.mixcloud.com/milosvojtechovsky/woody-va%C5%A1ulka-interview-%C4%8D2-praha-2003/ Part 2], ''Rádio Jelení'', 2003, 40+43 min. Audio interview. {{cz}}
 
* Thomas Kreiseder, [http://cba.fro.at/show.php?lang=de&eintrag_id=2420 "FM@dia: Interview with Milos Vojtechovsky (Lemurie TAZ, Radio Jeleni, CZ) on its development, importance, key issues and scenarios on the future of the Forum"], May 2004. Audio. [http://web.archive.org/web/20130515003356/http://makulatura.posterous.com/rozhovor-s-thomasem-kreisederem-pro-radio-fro] {{en}}
 
* Thomas Kreiseder, [http://cba.fro.at/show.php?lang=de&eintrag_id=2420 "FM@dia: Interview with Milos Vojtechovsky (Lemurie TAZ, Radio Jeleni, CZ) on its development, importance, key issues and scenarios on the future of the Forum"], May 2004. Audio. [http://web.archive.org/web/20130515003356/http://makulatura.posterous.com/rozhovor-s-thomasem-kreisederem-pro-radio-fro] {{en}}
 
* Lenka Dolanová, [http://web.archive.org/web/20130515002430/http://makulatura.posterous.com/rozhovot-o-hermitu "O sympoziích v plaském klášteře, skrýších pro umělce, intenzivním a extenzivním zemědělství. Rozhovor s Milošem Vojtěchovským"] / [http://web.archive.org/web/20130515002620/http://makulatura.posterous.com/on-the-hermit-symposia-in-the-plasy-monastery "On Symposia in Plasy Monastery, Artists’ Refuges and Intensive and Extensive Agriculture. Interview with Miloš Vojtěchovský"], in ''Mezi první a druhou moderností, 1985-2012 / Between the First and Second Modernity, 1985-2012'', eds. Jiří Ševčík and Edith Jeřábková, Prague: VVP AVU, 2011, pp 269-284 & 285-300. {{cz}}/{{en}}
 
* Lenka Dolanová, [http://web.archive.org/web/20130515002430/http://makulatura.posterous.com/rozhovot-o-hermitu "O sympoziích v plaském klášteře, skrýších pro umělce, intenzivním a extenzivním zemědělství. Rozhovor s Milošem Vojtěchovským"] / [http://web.archive.org/web/20130515002620/http://makulatura.posterous.com/on-the-hermit-symposia-in-the-plasy-monastery "On Symposia in Plasy Monastery, Artists’ Refuges and Intensive and Extensive Agriculture. Interview with Miloš Vojtěchovský"], in ''Mezi první a druhou moderností, 1985-2012 / Between the First and Second Modernity, 1985-2012'', eds. Jiří Ševčík and Edith Jeřábková, Prague: VVP AVU, 2011, pp 269-284 & 285-300. {{cz}}/{{en}}
* [https://www.memoryofnations.eu/cs/vojtechovsky-milos-1955 "Miloš Vojtěchovský"], ''Memory of Nations'', 2019. Oral history. Audio with transcription. {{cz}}
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* [https://www.pametnaroda.cz/cs/vojtechovsky-milos-1955 "Miloš Vojtěchovský"], ''Paměť národa'', 2019. Oral history. Audio with transcription. [https://www.memoryofnations.eu/cs/vojtechovsky-milos-1955] {{cz}}
 
* Noemi Purkrábková, [https://www.artantiques.cz/o-sitich-zvucich-a-smeckach "O sítích, zvucích a smečkách. Rozhovor s Milošem Vojtěchovským"], ''Art Antiques'', May 2021. {{cz}}
 
* Noemi Purkrábková, [https://www.artantiques.cz/o-sitich-zvucich-a-smeckach "O sítích, zvucích a smečkách. Rozhovor s Milošem Vojtěchovským"], ''Art Antiques'', May 2021. {{cz}}
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* Vít Bohal, [https://www.agosto-foundation.org/cs/mozna-uz-neni-cesty-zpatky "Možná už není cesty zpátky. Miloš Vojtěchovský o instalaci Census a o limitech spekulativního myšlení"], ''Agosto Foundation'', Nov 2021. {{cz}}
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** [https://www.agosto-foundation.org/mediateka/speculative-ecologies/maybe-theres-no-longer-a-way-back "Maybe There’s No Longer a Way Back. Miloš Vojtěchovský on his installation Census and the limits of speculative thought"], ''Agosto Foundation'', Nov 2021. {{en}}
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* with Mária Janušová, Anna Remešová, Dušan Barok, and Ivana Rumanová, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9yz0tUhRbQ "An Artist Who Does Not Work for Free Is Not an Artist (WHNBC)"], ''tranzit.sk'', Feb 2022, 99 min. Video from debate. {{cz}},{{sk}}
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* Nikola Brabcová, [https://artycok.tv/cs/post/milos-vojtechovsky "Miloš Vojtěchovský"], intro. Tereza Špinková, ''Artycok'', Jul 2022, 43 min. Video profile. {{cz}}
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==

Revision as of 18:41, 30 October 2022

Born April 15, 1955(1955-04-15)
Prague, Czech Republic
Lives in Prague and Krásná Hora, Czech Republic
Miloš Vojtěchovský in 1995. Photo: D.Š.

Miloš Vojtěchovský (15 April 1955, Prague) graduated in Art History and Aesthetics from Charles University, Prague (1980). Since the early 1980s he has been involved in independent music, visual art, action art, and curatorial work. He lectured on East European Art at the Centrum voor Kunstgeschiedenis Amsterdam (1992-1994) and was the founder and the only employee of Oko Production, an exhibition space in Amsterdam (1988-1992). He is the initiator, researcher, co-producer and co-author of the interactive educational project Orbis Pictus Revised (1991-1995) commisioned for ZKM Karlsruhe and created by Imaginary Museum Project founded by Tjebbe van Tijen. Miloš was founder of the Center for Metamedia Plasy at Plasy Monastery (1991-2000), an initiator of The Hermit Foundation (with Jiří Kornatovský, 1991), and curator in the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art at National Gallery Prague (1995-2000). He worked as a programme curator at LABoratory at the Center for Contemporary Arts Prague (2000-2003) where he ran the broadcasting project Radio Jeleni (2000-2004), consequently co-founding the Lemurie TAZ streaming project (2004-2009), and afterwards an online platform and community project focussing on sonic landscape of Prague, Zvuky Prahy / Sounds of Prague (since 2008). From 1999 he also worked in the Školská 28 gallery. He lectured on media art, contemporary art and communication studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Technical University (FaVU VUT) in Brno (1997-2004), Center for Audiovisual Studies at FAMU (from 2004), and he co-organised the course Intermedia creativity and technologies between AMU, ČVUT and AVU in Prague. In 2007, together with Roman Berka he founded Institute of Intermedia. He has published in Dutch, German, Belgian, English, and Czech magazines since 1988 and in samizdat since 1975. He lives in Prague and Krásná Hora, Czech Republic.

Books, catalogues

  • co-editor, Growthrings - Hermit II. Symposium, Plasy: Hermit Foundation, 1993. Catalogue, with CD containing the recordings of performances by James Fulkerson (UK) & Phill Niblock (US), Tibor Szemzo (HU) & Martin Groeneveld (NL), Peter Cusack (UK) & Michael Delia (US), Irena & Vojtech Havel (CZ), Agon Orchestra (CZ), a.o. Event. [1] (Czech)/(English)
  • co-editor, Transparent Messenger: Hermit III, Plasy: Hermit Foundation & Society of Friends of Plasy, 1994, [80] pp. Catalogue, with CD containing the recordings of performances by ROVA Saxophone Quartet (US), Hugh Davies (UK), Pavel Fajt (CZ) & Jim Meneses (US), Rajesh Mehta (US), Erhard Hirt (GER) & Martin Klapper (DK), a.o. Event. [2] (Czech)/(English)
  • co-editor, Meridian Crossings, Plasy: Hermit Foundation, 1995. Catalogue, with CD containing recordings of performances by Tim Hodgkinson (GB) & Jim Meneses (USA), Pavel Fajt (CZ), Anarctica (NL), Vojtech Havel (CZ), Michael Delia (USA) & Jaroslav Koran (CZ), a.o. Event. [4] [5] [6] (Czech)/(English)
  • editor, with Jitka Hlaváčková, Zvuky, kódy, obrazy. Akustický experiment ve vizuálním umění / Sounds, Codes, Images, Prague: ArtMap, 2021, 288 pp. Extended excerpt. Exhibition. Publisher. Exh. review: Flašar (Art&Antiques). Book reviews: Zahálková (Artalk), Válek. (Czech)/(English)

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