Generation Smart
- M is twenty seven years old.00:00:12.336
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- She says she would like to work on herself.00:00:14.525
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- She is sitting on a chair opposite me.00:00:17.084
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- It is quiet in the room.00:00:19.030
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- Her gestures seem slow.00:00:20.921
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- She says she has seen a reflection of the reality00:00:23.571
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- and that she would like to make a video about it.00:00:26.169
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- She would like to display a method.00:00:29.115
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- Method is a tricky word.00:00:31.927
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- It sounds therapeutically.00:00:33.539
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- She is trying to shape a piece of an indefinite material in her hand.00:00:35.140
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- Be that material!00:00:39.086
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- The exhibition doesn't have any fixed theme,00:00:41.068
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- although it's all united by the generation smart,00:00:45.727
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- it is a reaction of contemporary artists to the everyday presence00:00:50.619
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- of the Internet and smart technologies,00:00:57.771
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- but basically all the things represented at the exhibition are very disparate.00:01:00.950
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- Everybody interested in art must have noticed that everything00:01:09.046
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- called the new media in the 1990s got somewhere out of galleries00:01:12.684
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- and it suddenly started to return back about four or five years ago00:01:16.812
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- but at a bit different level.00:01:23.942
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- Not for the quality or the theme it deals with,00:01:26.980
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- but for different materials it uses,00:01:31.014
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- be it new materials or not.00:01:33.060
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- We present some kind of a collage working with various media,00:01:35.935
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- there are videos, objects, installations, an online project.00:01:41.298
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- It appeared significantly free to us in this regard.00:01:46.619
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- As we both teach at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design00:01:50.530
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- we are in everyday contact with students00:01:54.608
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- and take notice of the change.00:01:58.305
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- I wouldn't hesitate to call the change post-internet,00:02:00.605
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- as it is something which has been already codified,00:02:05.214
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- it does exist,00:02:07.981
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- it is something we can hardly deny,00:02:09.167
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- the term has already got into the art discourse.00:02:11.905
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- The thing is we noticed this was happening in our country as well,00:02:17.238
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- so we approached twenty artists,00:02:22.391
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- both individuals and art groups,00:02:26.483
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- who fit due to their aesthetical strategy or the theme they treat00:02:30.127
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- into this style, genre or it might as well be just a trend.00:02:35.067
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- First of all we find out our own position.00:02:45.539
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- Today I suspect he had known the way.00:02:50.968
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- But he let me guess for some reason.00:02:54.244
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- He noted my answers and classified them into columns.00:02:58.044
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- Although the light was dim, he orientated himself very quickly.00:03:02.936
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- He took me to the nearest view point.00:03:08.547
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- We were silently observing the green dark for a while.00:03:11.842
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- Then he told me stories of other people.00:03:15.038
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- Some stories had happy and some unhappy endings.00:03:17.667
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- Soon I realized the story people can notice at me.00:03:21.291
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- He offered me methods how to achieve good endings.00:03:26.589
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- It's all about the return of electronic media into galleries,00:03:31.624
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- the artists naturally deal with conceptual tendencies,00:03:37.846
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- however the influence of design is considerable there.00:03:41.605
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- Most of the artists work on the boundary,00:03:44.708
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- they work with design unlike the preceding generation00:03:47.241
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- which regarded design as something expletive.00:03:51.581
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- Perfection is another feature peculiar to the post-internet tendencies.00:03:56.504
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- The things are not smudged or put randomly together any more.00:04:00.923
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- But the Czech version has its own particularities00:04:05.375
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- as all the Czech versions.00:04:08.454
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- So I wouldn't say it is that perfectly clean or enchased.00:04:10.654
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- That's the difference we realized during the five-day installation.00:04:15.655
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- This absolute perfection just doesn't belong here,00:04:21.495
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- it doesn't fit in which is certainly not amiss.00:04:25.759
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- It's another particularity...00:04:29.146
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- It may be caused by the economic conditions of local artists which are00:04:31.899
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- incomparable with conditions of Berlin artists for example.00:04:35.389
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- Important is that artists do not regard technologies00:04:39.765
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- as something new any more but as something they use on daily basis.00:04:47.683
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- That's why we called the exhibition00:04:51.348
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- Generation Smart which offers more meanings.00:04:53.095
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- The word smart doesn't mean just cleverness00:04:55.647
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- but it can also mean a strange irony or a wit...00:04:58.586
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- At the same time also trendy or cool...00:05:04.846
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- The question whether the authenticity of the expression00:05:09.562
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- isn't just a superficial following of some trend is also topical.00:05:15.786
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- We don't want to criticize it but neither justify it.00:05:28.303
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- We present it as it is.00:05:32.666
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- We don't want to judge anything at all.00:05:36.428
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- A certain absence of modernist originality00:05:41.267
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- is typical of the post-internet art.00:05:43.973
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- We didn't work with any set curatorial concept because00:05:52.070
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- if it is a trend, it's still too soon00:05:55.194
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- for a strict curatorial attitude in our country's conditions.00:05:58.982
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- The exhibition is a selection of works in fact...00:06:03.856
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- ...a presentation, it has got ambitions of a presentation.00:06:08.526
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- There still hasn't been anything like this so far.00:06:12.168
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- That's why we wanted to try for it.00:06:15.280
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- The post-internet art is said to be passé,00:06:19.986
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- supposedly it has already been out00:06:24.936
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- and a speculative realism or an accelerationism00:06:29.070
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- are coming about which appeared quite funny to us.00:06:35.022
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- We have known each other for a long time00:07:12.219
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- and we both went through different styles and trends,00:07:15.977
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- even the fashionable ones,00:07:20.147
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- so Milan bought these Health Goth shoes00:07:21.967
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- which became trendy about six months ago00:07:28.448
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- and on Saturday we found out about another trend00:07:31.238
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- called Dad Bod which is this for example...00:07:33.846