Jana Horáková
Born |
October 16, 1971 Brno, Czechoslovakia |
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Lives in | Brno, Czech Republic |
Jana Horáková (1971) is vice-dean for publishing and public relations of the Faculty of Arts and associate professor and vice-head of the Department of Musicology at Masaryk University, Brno.
She graduated from the Dance Conservatory in Brno (1990). For five years, she was a member of the ballet ensemble of the National Theatre in Prague. Afterwards, she pursued Theatre Studies at Charles University in Prague and then at Masaryk University in Brno (MA). She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Theatre and Interactive Media at Masaryk University. Since 2004 she teaches the Theory of Interactive Media there.
She has published on robotic art, cultural history of the robot and on software theory. She is also an editor of the Czech-language open-access electronic journal TIM. She lives in Brno.
Publications[edit]
(in Czech unless noted otherwise)
- Books
- with Jozef Kelemen, Petr Berka, Vladimír Bureš, Jozef Hvorecký and Peter Mikulecký, Pozvanie do znalostnej spoločnosti, Bratislava: Iura Edition (Wolters Kluwer), 2007, 265 pp. (Slovak)
- editor, with Barbara Büscher, Imaginary Spaces: Raum/Prostor - Medien/Média - Performance/Performance, Prague: KLP-Koniasch Latin Press, 2008, 229 pp. [1] (Czech)/(German)
- Robot jako robot, Prague: KLP, 2010, 238 pp. [2]
- with Martin Flašar, Petr Macek et al, Umění a nová média, Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2011, 188 pp. [3] [4]
- Úvod do softwarových studií, Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, [96] pp. Textbook. [5]
- Softwarová studia. K proměnám studií nových médií, Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, 131 pp. [6]
- editor, with Milan Kreuzzieger, Momentum. Umění a kosmopolitní modernita, Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2018, 144 pp. [7]
- Horáková, et al., Hands-on Media Art Theory: TIM Exhibited @ Ars Electronica 2019, Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2019, 71 pp. Exh. catalogue. [8] (English)
- editor, with Marika Kupková and Monika Szűcsová, The Black Box Book. Archives and Curatorship in the Age of Transformation of Art Institutions, Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2022, 200 pp. [9] (English)
- Papers, Book chapters, Articles
- "Konec dějin nových médií: Softwarová studia", in Martin Flašar, Jana Horáková, Petr Macek et al, Umění a nová média, Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2011.
- "K recepci informatiky v kontextu společenských věd: Obrat k softwaru", 3. seminář 'Hovory s informatiky' , 2011.
- "Softwarové umění: programování excesu", Musicologica Brunensia 47:2 (2012), pp 23-47.
- with Jiří Mucha, "Computer Graphic Re-Visited: The Virtual Reconstruction of One of the First Computer Art Exhibitions", Proceedings of the IEEE 107:3, Mar 2019, pp 616-629.
- More
Links[edit]
- Profile at Masaryk University
- Jana Horáková's profile at Cafe Neu Romance festival, includes video portrait, 2012.