Prague

Prague, Czech Republic.

Initiatives

Venues

• 22PRESENTS, *2009
• Acid Coffee, *2020
• Altenburg1964, music venue
• Ankali, club space, *2017
• ArtMap, art bookstore
• Artwall, gallery, CCA, *2005
• Bike Jesus, music bar
• BrmLab, hackerspace, *2010
• Café V lese, music bar, *2010
• CAMP, centre for architecture and urban planning, *2017
• Cursor Gallery / Galerie Kurzor, CCA, *2017, [1]
• DigiLab, *2001
• Entrance Gallery, *2005
• etc. gallery, *2004
• Final, club
• Fuchs2, venue for adventurous music and performing arts, *2018
• Futura, centre for contemporary art, *2003
• Display, gallery, *2001
• Hudební 3, concert venue, *2017
• INI Project / Prostor, *2010/2013
• Institute of Anxiety, *2018
• Jelení Gallery / Galerie Jelení, CCA, *1999
• Karlín Studios, artists studios
• Kavka, art bookstore
• Klub 007, rock club, *1969, [2]
• Meet Factory, centre for contemporary art, 2001-2002, *2007
• Neone, pop-up club, *2013
• NoD, culture centre, *1999
• Norma Space, gallery, *2016
• Output Gallery, *2006
• PageFive, art bookstore, *2013
• Paralelní Polis, *2014
• Petrohradská kolektiv, artist-run initiative, *2015
• Planeta Za, community centre, *2020
• Prádelna Bohnice, *2012
• Pragovka, arts district, *2016
• Přítomnost, boutique cinema, *2020
• Punctum, community-run event venue, *2016
• Stalin, outdoor culture centre
• Studio Béla, cinefile club, *2012
• Studio Hrdinů, theatre, *2012
• SVIT, gallery, *2010
• Synth Library Prague, community centre for electronic music education, *2018
• Vi per, gallery for architecture, *2016, [3]
• Vnitroblock, multifunctional space, *2016
• Vzlet, cultural centre, *2021
• Xaoxax, gallery & bookstore, *2013
• Zázemí, klubovna, *2015
• Zvuk, open media lab, *2017

• more: USE-IT, city guide, 2017.

• Past venues: Klinika squatted self-managed social centre (2014-2019), The Hole Gallery (*2013), Tranzitdisplay (2007-2017), Ciant Gallery (*2007), Trafačka (*2006), C2C Gallery (*2006), Café Fra (2004-2023) [4], Utopia (*2003), NoD Media Lab (2000-2001), Školská 28 (*1999), LABoratory (1998-2003), Milada (1998-2009), Terminal Bar (1997-2000?), Čítárna Unijazzu (1994-2018) [5], Ladronka autonomous cultural social centre (1993-2000) [6], Black Hand (1992-1997), Zlatá loď (1991-1994), more.

Initiatives with no permanent event venue

• A2, critical bi-weekly, *2005
• A.M. 180, *2003
• Artlist, contemporary art database, *2006
• Artyčok, online platform for contemporary art, *2005
• Are, curatorial platform, *2015
• Baba Vanga, music label, *2013
• BCAA system, art collective, *2017
• Center for Contemporary Arts Prague (CCA), *1992
• Cinepur, film magazine, *1991
• City Surfer, *2007
• Feminist Art Institution, *2017
• Glory Affairs, artist collective, *2018
• Guma Guar, *2001
• Handa Gote
• HIS Voice, music magazine, *2001
• Hudební informační středisko (HIS), since 2017
• IQ+1, ensemble, *2010
• Jindřich Chalupecký Society, *1990
• Kolektiv, *2014
• konvergence.info
• M77, *2009
• MLOK, *2004
• Muteme, *2003
• Proto Gallery Systems, *2018
• Publick
• Radio Punctum, community radio
• Rafani, art collective, *2000
• ScArt, *2004
• SEAH, *1990
• Signals from Arkaim, music label
• Tranzit, *2002
• Umělec, art magazine, *1997
• Vilém Flusser Centre for Media and Culture Philosophy
• Yo-Yo, *2008
• Živel, culture magazine, *1995

Academy and university programs

• CAS, *2005
• Centre of Global Studies, *2007
• Graphic Design and New Media UMPRUM, *2005
• Electronic Culture and Semiotics FHS UK
• Electroacoustic and Multimedia Art HAMU
• Institute of Intermedia, *2007
• New Media AVU, *1991
• New Media 2 AVU
• New Media Studies UISK UK, *2006
• Supermedia UMPRUM, *2008

• Past initiatives: Mediabaze.cz (*2010), Macula (art collective, *2007), C2C (*2006), Lemurie (*2004), Radio Jeleni (2000-2004), CIANT (1998-2015), Mamapapa [7] (1997-2007), Silver (*1994), Ateliér (art magazine, 1988-2015) [8] [9] [10], Video Salon (*1987).

Events

• 4+4 dny v pohybu / 4+4 Days in Motion, contemporary art festival, *1996
• Class of Interpretation, discursive program, 2018-2023
• Lunchmeat, festival for electronic music and media art, *2010
• Matter of Art / Ve věci umění, biennale, *2020
• Norma, festival of devised theatre and contemporary art, *2015, [11]
• Prague Art Week, festival, *2022
• Signal, festival of digital and creative culture, *2013
• Sumo, international gallery cooperative program, *2020
• Transmit, festival, *2017
• Uroboros – Designing in Troubling Times, design-art festival, *2020
• We Are All Emotional, To Leave Is to Return Another Way, festival of performance art, *2022

• Event listings: Artmap, jlbjlt (*2006).

Past events

• Cartography of (Eco)systems: Black Edition, forum, 2022
• Sounds / Codes / Images: Audio Experimentation in the Visual Arts, exhibition, 2019, [12]
• Rage Against the Algorithm, colloquium, 2018
• Den videa 1989/2018, exhibition, 2018
• Sympozium VideoArt, 2015, [13]
• Cafe Neu Romance, festival, 2012
• Babel Prague, festival, 2012
• KontrA2punkt, festival, 2012
• Imagosféra, 2012
• Seed, *2011
• Urban Popcultures, conference, 2011
• Anemic, festival, *2010
• Media Archaeology, conference, 2010
• TransISTor, conference, 2010
• Umění, věda a filosofie, pohledem třicátníků, lecture series, 2010
• Wakushoppu, *2010
• Reset, festival, 2008, 2010
• /tmp/ Creative Destruction, festival, *2008
• MutaMorphosis, conference, 2007, 2012
• Open Archives - Prezentace mediálních umění a digitální archivy, 2007, [14]
• Small Etudes, 2007
• Videoart Festival Prague, *2007
• Upgrade.Komensky.Dot.Org, 2007
• Enter, festival, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013
• Share TAZ, 2007
• TransGenesis, festival, 2006
• Blind Date, 2006
• New Media programs in the Czech Republic, 2006
• Trans DADA Express, 2006
• Art's Birthday Party, since 2005
• Media-Performance, symposium, 2005
• Stimul, festival, *2005
• Authentic Structures, symposium and discussion platform, 2004
• Multiplace, network culture festival, since 2004
• FM@dia, 2004
• CO14, lecture series, 2003-2005
• Cybercultures, conference, *2003
• Confidence, *2003
• Streets, Stories, Faces, 2003
• deKartografie, 2003
• In Out, festival, 2003
• Excavating the Future, symposium, 2001
• Ready To..., conference, 2001
• Enter Multimediale, festival, 2000, 2005
• Digital.ZOOO, festival, 2000
• Media and Imagery, symposium, 2000
• Cafe9.net, 2000
• Last Underground, festival, 1999
• Translocation new media/art, exhibition and symposium, 1999
• Action Word Movement Space, exhibition, 1999
• Datatransfer, festival, 1998-2006
• Softmodern, 1998
• Dawn of the Magicians?, 1996-1997
• Culture, Communication and New Technologies, 1996
• Along the Frontier, 1996
• Computer Graphic Art, 1996
• Orbis Fictus, 1995
• Video Art '94: Nature in Motion, exhibition
• Český obraz elektronický, exhibition, 1994
• Computer Graphics in Fine Arts, exhibition, 1993
• Prague Media Symposium, 1991-1997, 2001, 2007
• Festival of Light, festival, 1991
• Den videa, exhibition, 1989

Art workers

• Adéla Komrzý (1992)
• Alena Kupčíková
• Aleš Zemene (1968)
• Alexandra Morales (1989)
• Alžběta Bačíková (1988)
• Andrej Boleslavský
• Anetta Mona Chisa (1975)
• Anežka Bartlová (1988)
• Anna Remešová (1990)
• Barbora Kleinhamplová
• Bohuš Získal (1971)
• Borjana Dodova
• Dana Recmanová (1970)
• Daniel Kordík (1976)
• Darina Alster (1979)
• David Šmitmajer (1986)
• Denisa Kera (1974)
• Edith Jeřábková
• Eva Koťátková
• Eva Skopalová
• Federico Díaz (1971)
• František Týmal (1987)
• Gabriela Jurkovičová (1981)
• George Bagdasarov (1978)
• Hana Janečková
• Hana Železná (1978)
• Initi
• Ivor Diosi
• Jakub Nepraš (1981)
• Jan Mucska
• Jan Náleva (1985)
• Jan Rous (1981)
• Jakub Hybler (1974)
• Jiří Havlíček (1977)
• Jiří­ Rouš (1986)
• Jiří Žák (1989)
• Josef Šlerka (1974)
• Karina Kottová (1984), [15]
• Katarína Gatialová
• Kateřina Bílková (1971)
• Katrin Vodrážková
• Krištof Kintera (1973)
• Kryštof Pešek (1986)
• Ladislav Železný (1979)
• Ladislava Gažiová (1981), [16]
• Laura Luna Castillo (1991)
• Lenka Střeláková
• Lloyd Dunn
• Louis Armand (1972)
• Lubor Benda (1967)
• Lujza Kotočová (1995)
• Lucia Udvardyová (1981)
• Lucie Svobodová (1963)
• Lukáš Likavčan (1991)
• Magdalena Hrubá (1978)
• Mária Júdová
• Marie Čtveráčková (Mary C, 1984)
• Markéta Baňková (1969)
• Markéta Jonášová
• Martin Blažíček (1976)
• Martin Kermes (1974)
• Martin Kohout (1984)
• Matěj Strnad (1989)
• Michael Bielický (1954)
• Michaela Buchtová
• Michal Cáb (1980)
• Michal Kindernay (1978)
• Michal Klodner (1975)
• Michal Mariánek (1976)
• Michal Pustějovský
• Michal Rataj (1975)
• Mikuláš Podprocký (1978)
• Milan Guštar (1963)
• Milena Bartlová
• Miloš Vojtěchovský (1955)
• Miro Tóth
• Monika Čejková
• Noemi Purkrábková
• Nikola Brabcová
• Ondřej Skala
• Ondřej Trhoň (1993)
• Ondřej Vavrečka
• Palo Fabuš (1983)
• Pavel Rejholec
• Pavel Sedlák (1977)
• Peter Gonda
• Petr Marek (1974)
• Petr Šourek
• Petr Svárovský
• Peter Machajdík (1961)
• Petra Jedličková
• Petra Vargová (1973)
• Prokop Bartoníček (1983)
• Radim Labuda (1976)
• Rado Ištok (1989)
• Radomír Leszczynski (1945)
• Robert Horvitz (1947)
• Sara Pinheiro (1985)
• Sláva Sobotovičová (1973), [17]
• Stanislav Abrahám (1977)
• Sylva Poláková
• Tamara Moyzes (1975)
• Tereza Stejskalová
• Tina Poliačková
• Tomáš Dvořák (1975)
• Tomáš Dvořák (Floex)
• Tomáš Pospiszyl (1967)
• Václav Janoščík
• Václav Magid (1979)
• Veronika Trachtová (1982)
• Viktor Takáč (1982)
• Vilém Novák (1981)
• Vít Šisler
• Vjera Borozan
• Zuzana Blochová

Formerly: Branislav Matis, František Zachoval (1979), Gívan Belá/Guy van Belle, Ivana Rumanová, Lenka Dolanová (1979), Magdaléna Kobzová, Petr Bergmann (1967), Róbert Bittner (1980), Saša Gojdičová, Zuzana Jakalová.
RIP: Jakub Hybler (1974-2023).

Publications

• Michaela Pixová, Struggle for the Right to the City: Alternative Spaces in Post-Socialist Prague, Prague: Univerzita Karlova, 2012, 224 pp. PhD dissertation. (English)
• Andra Nikolayi, "Experiments in Solidarity in the Prague Underground", Bandcamp Daily, Sep 2021. (English)
• Gabriela Kontra (ed.), Location TBA: Dočasná utopie pražských raves 2015-2020 / Temporary Utopias of Prague’s Raves 2015-2020, Prague: Divočina, 2021, 300 pp. Book website. Publisher. Interview. (Czech)/(English)
• Radim Kopáč, Gabriela Kontra, Padáme i na tvou hlavu. Skvoty, centra, kluby v Praze: Co bylo, co zbylo z devadesátek, Prague: Pulchra, 2021, 360 pp. Publisher. Excerpt. [18] (Czech)

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