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David Přílučík
“I’m surprised how playful people are” my mom said when she saw a neighbor selling agricultural machines, horses, and eventually the entire farm just to be able to spend the whole day at the slot machine. Such “playfulness” is gradually emerging today in almost every area of ​​education, work and leisure. For this tendency, the term gamification, which is predominantly designed from the perspective of service marketing, has come to life. The game is defined, among other things, as “the role of a voluntary control system in which opposing forces are restricted by procedures and rules to produce an imbalance.”
Dalibor Knapp
Jussi Parikka is a writer, a media theorist and Professor in Technological Culture and Aesthetics at Winchester Art School (University of Southampton). He is concerned mainly with contemporary culture theory, philosophy, contemporary art, cyber-culture and digital culture. He has contributed significantly to the field of materiality of media, which he analyzes from the viewpoint of philosophy of new materialism. He deals with the relationship between nature and technologies using the term medianatures, which is a clear reference to naturecultures of Donna Haraway.
Zbyněk Baladrán, Vít Bohal, Dustin Breitling + 1 more
Conceptualized by Zbyněk Baladrán, Vít Bohal, Dustin Breitling and Václav Janoščík, the conference brings together theorists, artists and organizers who collaborate and elaborate on their visions in order to discover junctures of overlap for thinking about the emancipatory potentials of the future.
Pavel Jestřáb
The title Distressed refers not only to desperate working conditions and the condition of the workers, but maybe even to one actual product of textile- the sought after and fashionable „distressed denim". Jeans that are supposed to look used and worn out. In some sort of twisted logic people in rich countries, from where textile factories have been pushed in the competition for the cheapest labour, wear ripped jeans. They uncousciously show the true character of the conditions of its production. As if they were transparents of the impoverished, hung on the naked bodies of the narcissists of the richer part of the worlds.
Nikita Kadan
The lecture by the internationally known Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan at the Academy of Fine Arts was introduced and accompanied by a debate with the Russianist and semiotician Tomáš Glanc. Kadan lives and works in Kiev. He works with various media, including installation, sculpture, painting and collage.
Tomáš Uhnák
The number of fields and trends Tomáš Uhnák devotes his attention to is misleading. In reality we can discover intersections and a „specialization“ of its kind, which is based on „expert generalism“, to use his own term. In other words in an effort aimed at intentional, conscious generalization and interconnection of different fields of interest. This is connected with constant negotiating related to the organization of different regimes of changing the world.
Petr Pastrňák
I have made the whole video in one day from the roof of the studio of video art at the Academy of Arts in Prague. I did not mean to film any art, I more or less only wanted to play with the camera.I had my headphones on and was listening to Badalamenti´s music composed for the serial Twin Peaks.
Bojana Kunst
In the lecture, I would like to address the issue of the labour of the artist from the perspective of the feminist artistic work and discuss, how already from the end of the 1970s feminists artists engaged with the issues of the flexible and precarious work, the issues that are also so pertinent in the labour of the artist today. From the perspective of those artists, the exploration of labour opened new dimension how to understand and reflect upon labour of female artist and her emancipated life.