Prague

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Initiatives and groups: A.M. 180, Ciant, Guma Guar, Lemurie, Muteme, ScArt, SEAH, Tranzit.
Past initiatives: Radio Jeleni.

Academy: New Media AVU, New Media Studies at Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University.

Spaces: Entrance Gallery, Futura, Galerie Display, Gallery Jelení, Gallery of Václav Špála, Karlín Studios, NoDimension, Školská 28.

Festivals: Art's Birthday Party, Enter Multimediale, Multiplace.
Events: Trans DADA Express.
Past festivals: Datatransfer, In Out.
Past events: Digital.ZOOO, FM@dia, Excavating the Future symposium (2001), Orbis Fictus (1994-5).

Magazines: A2, Ateliér, Cinepur, HIS Voice, Umělec.

Art workers: Aleš Černý, Bohuš Získal, David Černý, Denisa Kera, Federico Diaz, Jan Mucska, Kryštof Kintera, Markéta Baňková, Michael Bielický, Milan Guštar, Miloš Vojtěchovský, Pavel Sedlák, Pavel Smetana, Petra Vargová, Radomír Leszczynski, Tomáš Dvořák, Silver.



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 Bielicky: Praga Caput - Praga Caput Medii, http://www.sero.org/handshake/D/ostranenie/EEVideo/Prag.html


Prague does not exist anymore, it is given away to tourists and other capitalists. Marx was right: whatever you can sell will finally go to pieces. So Prague perished. Europa came to bury Prague.