Prague

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Prague, Czech Republic. Geographical and social links to Brno, Bratislava.


Initiatives and groups: A.M. 180 (*2003), C2C (*2006), CIANT (*1998), Guma Guar (*2001), MLOK (*2004), Muteme (*2003), ScArt (*2004), SEAH (*1990), Tranzit (*2002), Video Section (*1987).
Past initiatives: Radio Jeleni (2000-2004).


Academy ateliers: New Media AVU (*1991), ITT CAS FAMU, Graphic Design and New Media UMPRUM (*2005), New Media Studies UISK UK (*2006), Electronic Culture and Semiotics FHS UK.


Spaces: Entrance Gallery, Futura, C2C Gallery (*2006), Galerie Display, Gallery Jelení, Gallery of Václav Špála, Karlín Studios, NoD (*1999), Output Gallery (*2006), Školská 28 (*1999), Utopia (*2003).


Festivals: Transgenesis (2006), Art's Birthday Party (since 2005), Stimul (*2005) , Multiplace (since 2004), Datatransfer (*2001), Enter Multimediale (2000, 2005).
Past festivals: In Out (2003), Last Underground (1999).
Past events: New Media programs in the Czech Republic (2006), Trans DADA Express (2006), Digital.ZOOO, FM@dia (2004), Streets, Stories, Faces (2003), deKartografie (2003), Excavating the Future symposium (2001), Media and Imagery symposium (2000), Dawn of the Magicians? (1996-7), Orbis Fictus (1994), Prague Media Symposium (1991-98).


Media: A2 (*2005), Ateliér, Cinepur, konvergence.info, HIS Voice, Lemurie (*2004), Umělec (*1997), jlbjlt.


Art workers: Aleš Černý, Anetta Mona Chisa (1975), Bohuš Získal (1971), David Černý, Denisa Kera (1974), Dušan Barok (1979), Federico Díaz (1971), Gabriela Jurkovičová (1981), Jakub Nepraš (1981), Jan Mucska, Kryštof Kintera, Lubor Benda (1967), Lucie Svobodová (1963), Markéta Baňková, Michael Bielický, Michal Mariánek, Milan Guštar (1963), Miloš Vojtěchovský (1955), Pavel Sedlák (1977), Pavel Smetana, Pavel Sterec (1985), Petra Vargová (1973), Radim Labuda (1976), Radomír Leszczynski (1945), Róbert Bittner (1980), Tamara Moyzes (1975), Tomáš Dvořák, Silver, Michal Klodner.



Historical media experimentators

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.
Alfred Radok created Laterna Magica interface between theater and film in the Czech pavillion at the Expo in Brussels in 1958.
Cincera and Svitacek created interactive cinema installation at the Expo in Montreal in 1967.

Articles:
Michael Bielický. Praga Caput - Praga Caput Medii. http://www.sero.org/handshake/D/ostranenie/EEVideo/Prag.html


Cities
alternative base

Amsterdam, Bergen, Berlin, Bratislava, Budapest, Kyiv, London, New York City, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Rotterdam, Seoul, Tokyo, Vienna, Warsaw, Zagreb