About The Project

Editorial Board

The editorial board consists of individuals engaged in the contemporary art scene. We focus on contemporary art in the context of current social issues and on its critical potential. We devote our attention to artistic and interdisciplinary research, new audiovisual works, art documentary works and documentation.

Our main aim is to support artists and other individuals involved in culture and make their work visible. Among the instruments, strategies and methods, which are close to our thinking, we prize dialogue and experiment, openness and diversity, sensitiveness and solidarity.

We like crossing the boundaries of genres and enhancing interdisciplinary cooperation.

We lay emphasis primarily on the website www.artycok.tv, to which we devote most of our attention. We invite both established and emerging artists and we wish to make our program accessible to everybody. We also organize various offline events in cooperation with other art institutions and subjects, such as public screenings, talks, discussions and other events related to our areas of interest and program.

Janek Rous

is an audovisual artist and teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He focuses on the medium of the moving image and sound. The main themes of his work are related to social issues and the impact of man on the world. For Artyčok.TV he creates artist´s documentary films, recently dealing with the theme of social sustainability (Architecture of Coexistence, in cooperation with Karolína Kripnerová and Vojtěch Sigmund from the organization Architects without Frontiers).

Tereza Špinková

is an art theoretician, publicist and PhD student at the Department of Environmental Studies at the Masaryk University in Brno, where she is engaged in the relationship between human and non-human beings in the context of contemporary art. At Artyčok.TV she is charge of PR, production and administration. You may contact her, if you are interested in cooperating in recording events in your institution.

Structure

The two subjects behind the project Artyčok.TV are the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and the association Artyčok.TV, z.s.

The Academy of Fine Arts provides funding for the project management, technical facilities and premises. The association provides funding for the editorial staff and program realization with the help of public funds and secondary economic activities. The Editorial Board is responsible for the program dramaturgy. Support and consultation are provided by the Project Board with representatives of the management of the Academy of Fine Arts, invited external collaborators and association members.

Currently the program is generously supported by Ministry of Culture in Czech Republic, Capital City of Prague, EEA grants and National Recovery Plan.

 

Artyčok.TV, z.s. Association

Members of Artyčok.TV, realizing and coordinating projects with view to conception and content, are active artists and theoreticians with rich creative and institutional experience.

Project Board Artyčok.TV – AVU

History of Artyčok.TV

Artyčok.TV was established in 2006 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague as an Internet platform for audiovisual documentation of the contemporary art scene. Along with report and documentary activities Artyčok.TV began producing its own documentary and art projects in 2009 and gradually the team of Artyčok.TV distinctly focused on them.

At present the online database, which includes art works, art films and documentaries, exhibition reports, profiles, talks and lectures, is a unique source of information with an educational potential for both artists and students of art schools as well as anyone interested in contemporary art. Due to the fact that artists, art students, curators and theoreticians take part in the creation of the content, Artyčok.TV also represents a significant means of articulation for the art community. This project offers a great opportunity to gain valuable experience and job opportunities for artists whose work is based on moving image or for students.

Artyčok.TV has large experience with grant support on the national as well as international levels. From the beginning Artyčok.TV is supported with an annual grant from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the Prague City Hall. In 2017-2019 it gained support from the Czech-German Fund for the Future and in 2020 from the Austrian Cultural Forum.

In 2009-2012 Artyčok.TV together with the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague gained support from the European program Culture for the project “Artyčok.TV: open archive”. Due to this project the online medium has a widespread international impact. It has invited other European countries to contribute to the creation of an archive of contemporary European art, which serves as a source of knowledge for students, professionals as well as general public.

Between 2013–2015 Artyčok.TV at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague realized within the same program EACEA a project entitled “Close-up: Creative Means for New Criticism”, which was a joint project of six contemporary art institutions in six countries in Central and Eastern Europe. This project promoted the development of a platform for education, information exchange and connections at both regional and European levels with emphasis on criticism of contemporary art in the regions. In 2009-2015 Artyčok.TV associated a network of art institutions from the countries of the Visegrad Group supported by annual and multiannual grants from the Intenational Visegrad Fund.