Barbora Šedivá

Born	Trenčín, Slovakia
Lives in	Brno, Czech Republic

Born 1981 in Trenčín, Slovakia. Graduated in culture studies from the Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University in Bratislava (MA), and in Public Art and Cultural Management from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Technology in Brno (PhD).

Barbora is a member of Atrakt Art and 4AM Forum for Architecture and Media collectives. She used to work in A4 - Zero Space in Bratislava since its start in 2004 until she moved to Brno (2006). She is an editor of 3/4 magazine (since 2004) and Atrakt Art label, a co-organiser of Next festival of advanced music (Bratislava), and the coordinator of Multiplace new media culture festival. She was involved in running the Summer Open Academy (Bratislava) and Urban Re/Creation/Citylab (Bratislava) projects. She organised several workshops, including Urban reset (Bratislava/Brno) and Living Vandalism (Brno). Co-author of the Cool Place film project - a series of workshops focused on acquainting young people with the film medium and making short documentary films about the places that create their living space. [1]

Worked at The Brno House of Arts (off program dramaturgy, production, fundraising, event management, 2009 - 2012), and co-organised and co-curated Remake / REthinking Media Art in K(C)ollaborative Environments, an international art project aimed in creation and presentation of new works inspired by the history of media arts (2010-12). Editor of Brno exhibition catalogue [2] and 3/4 magazine special issue on media art history: Remake [3]

Back to the freelance life since September 2012.

Barbora is a co-founder of 4AM Forum for Architecture and Media association (2010) which run the Gallery of Architecture in Brno (2011-2012). Since February 2013 the association is based in an old railway building in the southern city of Brno (Rosická 1). [4]

Barbora is also a co-curator of the Asking Architecture, the winning project for the exposition in the Czech and Slovak Pavilion at 13th International Architecture Exhibition of la Bienale di Venezia 2012, in cooperation with curator and architect Ján Pernecký [5].

In March 2013 Barbora co-curated the Hi5! exhibition in cooperation with Croatian artist and curator Slaven Tolj in The Brno House of Arts. The exhibiton mapped out the current work and ideas of students in Fine Arts study programmes in Czech university Arts Schools. // Photos by Jiří Hloušek [6]

The Exposition of New Music 2013, 2014 festival on-site production, technical assistance, coordination and co-dramaturgy [7].

PR and co-production of Folk Architecture Monument - Tomas Dzadon's art project of three traditional log houses placed on the roof of a prefabricated housing block in Košice city in Slovakia. (Opening ceremony September 2013) [8]

Barbora cooperates with Jana Horáková and Theory of Interactive Media department, Masaryk University (Brno), e.g. Media – Performance – Memory. 3rd Czech – German symposium (2011) [9], Remake seminar (2012) [10] or the TIM_LAB seminar. The course provides an environment for an active exploration of the current trends within the realm of media art and its historical context. The objective is to create public archives of period material and a database of information about locally important events and personalities whose importance transgresses the borders of the region (Autumn 2013 [11] / Spring 2014 [12])

Presently / 2014:

• statutory representative of Multiplace civic organization
• co-organizing and curating THE OSKAR ČEPAN'S AWARD 2014 (The Young Visual Artists Award in Slovakia) [13]
• member of change management team at TABAČKA Kulturfabrik (Košice, Slovakia) [14]
• starting new space for contemporary art and culture in Brno, with 4AM Forum for Architecture and Media crew, called PRAHA (Husova 8, Brno)
• co-curating the Metro Europa - new media/digital art exhibition as a part of the Mons2015 project [www.mons2015.eu]

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Barbora is a member of [15], no input style noise band, and the submissive DJs duo Jack Jackson5. Member of the improvisational theatre group Lahor/Soundsystem [16]

Selected texts

• ŠEDIVÁ, Barbora. Envrionment s prvakmi popu. Markéta Lisá. Flash Art. Praha: Nadace Prague Biennale, 2013, 28-29, s. 51. ISSN ISSN: 1336-9644
• ŠEDIVÁ, Barbora. Kódy k súčasnosti / záznam akcie (28. 6. 2012, GAMU Praha). CAS : co to je? = what is it? Praha: Nakladatelství Akademie múzických umění v Praze , 2013. ISBN 978-80-7331-265-7
• ŠEDIVÁ, Barbora. Richard Loskot (de)mytizování světa umění. Cena Jindřicha Chalupeckého Finále 2012. Praha: Společnost Jindřicha Chalupeckého, 2012. ISBN 978-80-905317-0-3
• ŠEDIVÁ, Barbora (ed). REMAKE. Speciální číslo věnované dejinám mediálního umění. 3/4 27-28: Special issue on media art history: Remake (2012). (in English/Slovak) 3/4. Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2012, č. 27-28. ISSN 9-771335-530005-27
• ŠEDIVÁ, Barbora (ed). REMAKE. Katalog k projektu Remake. Remake catalogue Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2012, ISBN 978-80-971089-0-8
• ŠEDIVÁ Barbora, GATIALOVÁ Katarína. "Nové médiá, sociálne akcie a cvičené opice v kolaboratívnom prostredí. Multiplace, Remake",, Profil 3 . Bratislava: 2012, s. 112-120. ISSN 1335-9770
• ŠEDIVÁ, Barbora. "Trip po súčasných: Krátky úvod do brnianskej audiovizuálnej scény". A2 - kulturní čtrnáctideník  Praha: A2, o.s., 2009, č. 12. ISSN 1803-663
• Editing and Articles in 3/4 magazine since 2004

Contact

• babuta♥34.sk, aschenblond♥idealnypartner.sk
• Barbora on Kyberia.sk, Facebook, Last.fm, Flickr