Hi-tech/Art

Hi-Tech/Umění was a series of annual international exhibitions and symposiums dedicated to the art of new media organized from 1994 to 1997 by Video-Multimedia-Performance atelier at the Faculty of Fine Arts in University of Technology Brno in collaboration with Silicon Graphics Company and Brno House of Art (since 1996) in Moravian Gallery (1994), Moravian Museum (1995) and Brno House of Art (1996-97) in Brno. Curated by Tomáš Ruller, Jennifer DeFelice and Michal Klimeš.

Editions

Virtual Museum / Third Hand, 1994

• 17-21 October, the exhibition extended until 30 October
• Venues: Governor's Palace of Moravian Gallery Brno; The House of Arts, Brno.
• Exhibition (extended until 30 October): Third Hand performance by Stelarc, Four Worlds interactive installation by Peter Weibel, Virtual Museum by Jeffrey Shaw, Brotherhood interactive environment by Woody Vasulka, video by Radek Pilař, pieces by Michael Bielický and Petr Čermák, Lucie Svobodová, Jan Hammer, Tomáš Ruller, retrospective of Woody Vasulka, overview of VMP student works.
• Symposium: Gideon May (ZKM), Marcus Fix (INM), Stelarc, Woody Vasulka.
• Detailed programme

Display / Performance, 1995

• 9-14 October
• Venues: Dietrichstein Palace of Moravian Gallery Brno; CED
• Exhibition: performance by Steina Vasulka, Freak Show CD-ROM presentation by Homer Flynn, software error performance by Petr Bradáček and Zdeněk Mezihorák, robotic installation by Martin Spanjaard (NL), VR installation by Maurice Clifford (US), installations by Lucie Svobodová and Michal Gabriel, Stanislav Filip, Lubor Benda, Tomáš Ruller, as well as by all VMP students, together with selected students from Michael Bielický's studio.
• Symposium: Chris Hill (US), Keiko Sei (JP), Michael Klein (DE), Martin Spanjaard (NL).
• Announcement
• Handout.
• Detailed programme

Hi-tech umění 1996: Allvision

• 17-30 October
• Venues: The House of Arts, Brno; other venues in the proximity of BVV
• Exhibition: The House of Arts, Brno, 14-27 October 1996. Retrospective of Steina Vasulka (later travelled to Veletržní palác in Prague in 1997), interactive installations by Stanislav Filip, Jennifer de Felice, Lucie Svobodová, Pavel Kopřiva, Martin Janíček, 3D objects by Peter Rónai and Martin Palla, digital prints by Nadja Slovak, web projects by Luděk Skočovský, Silver, Skynet, Radio Prague, videos by Monika Karasová, Federico Diaz, Pavel Hart, Marek Mažan. Curated by Jennifer DeFelice and Tomáš Ruller. Documentation.
• Catalogue: Hi-tech umění 1996, Brno: Silicon Graphics, and Atelier Video-Multimedia-Performance FaVU VUT, 1996, 61+[2] pp. (Czech)
• Symposium 1 (20 October): Jozef Kelemen (Opava), Jaroslav Šťastný (Brno), Martin Šperka (Bratislava), Rudolf Růžička (Brno).
• Symposium 2 (25 October): Terminal Bar, Živel.
• Held simultaneously with INVEX Computex Brno 96
• Announcement
• Event website (archived)
• Detailed programme

Symptoms: Disease and Home Remedies, 1997

• 9-23 October
• Venues: The House of Arts, Brno; Brno Exhibiting Complex during Invex 97
• Exhibition: The House of Arts, Brno, 9-23 October 1997. Artists: Apsolutno, Audioroom™, Ron Barak, Svatopluk Bartík, Veronika Bromová, Linda Dement, Eva Dohnalová, Petko Dourmana, Richard Fajnor, Stanislav Filip, Ulrike Gabriel, Harwood, Markus Kaech, Jiří Janda, Paul Johnson, Milan Kincl, Milan Kozelka, Vít Kraus, Christine Meierhofer, Jordi Niubo, Orlan, Elena Pätoprstá, Peter Rónai, Tomáš Ruller, Alexei Shulgin, Ľubo Stacho, Resistant Strains, Petr Veselý, vergessen©/ zapomenout©, VI.DEO A.RT, Rehearsal of Memory. Curated by Jennifer DeFelice and Tomáš Ruller. Documentation.
• Catalogue: Hi-tech umění 1997, Brno, 1997.
• Detailed programme

Literature

• Tomáš Ruller, "Příběh ateliéru", 2002. (Czech)
  • "The Story of the Video-Multimedia-Performance Studio", 2002. (English)
• Eliška Fajkusová, Výstavy a symposia Hi-Tech umění v Brně v letech 1992-1997 v kontextu výstav umění nových médií v České republice, Brno: Masaryk University, 2012. Master's thesis. Image addendum. (Czech)
• Radka Bobčíková, Brněnské přehlídky a festivaly digitálního umění v 90. letech, Brno: Masaryk University, 2015. Bachelor's thesis. (Czech)