[spectre] CONF: Symposium Vasulkas Reloaded, Brno/CZ, 22-23 Oct 2024

[Željko Blaće]

Very interesting program (at least to me as a fan and exchange student in
their class in Brno in 90s) and would love to see recordings if they get
published.

Best Z. Blace

On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 7:50 AM Andreas Broeckmann via SPECTRE <
spectre at mikrolisten.de> wrote:

> https://www.vasulkakitchen.org/en/event/symposium-vasulkas-reloaded
>
> 22.10.—23.10.2024
>
> SYMPOSIUM VASULKAS RELOADED
>
> The VASULKAS RELOADED international symposium is taking place at Vašulka
> Kitchen Brno located at the Brno House of Arts (House of the Lords of
> Kunštat) in Brno, Czech Republic on 22 and 23 October 2024.
>
> It will be devoted to the critical evaluation of the work of Steina and
> Woody Vasulkas and their significant contribution to the art world
> including the subject of open archives.
>
> Steina and Woody Vasulkas have always encouraged the idea of an open
> archive, one that is freely accessible and that can be transformed into
> a site of collaboration for a wide range of interested parties. They
> conceived their own archive (vasulka.org) containing contextual material
> from early video art on an unprecedented scale including personal
> letters, photographs, grant applications, exhibition costs, technical
> descriptions, and more. They gradually donated their digitized materials
> to various institutions and individuals with the hope that they would
> not only preserve but also disseminate and continue to work with them.
> These archives are now scattered in several international locations. In
> doing so, they also explored avenues that turned out to be less fruitful
> endeavors, such as the creation of a living archive in Second Life.
> Vašulka Kitchen Brno is also one of the sites where the Vašulka's
> archive is being processed, where the digitized materials are accessible
> to all those interested in research related studies.
>
> Recently, several major exhibitions took place in Iceland and Czech
> Republic that attempted to work with the Vasulkas' artefacts in a new
> way, and others are coming soon in USA and Iceland. The talks will
> critically discuss the role of Vasulkas in European and American new
> media context, their ways of (co)working with other artists and
> institutions, their approach towards sharing resources, as well as
> current possibilities of exhibiting and archiving their works.
>
> PROGRAM
>
> Open legacy of Steina and Woody Vasulkas
>
> Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024
>
> 10 am - 13 pm Vašulkovi Locally / The Vasulkas Globally
>
> 10:00 am introduction Lenka Dolanová and Barbora Šedivá (Vašulka Kitchen
> Brno)
>
> 10:30 Tomáš Ruller (CZ, Vašulka Kitchen Brno) - Performativity of The
> Vasulkas work
>
> 11:00 Pavel Smetana (CZ) - The Vasulkas revisited: collaborations and
> reinventions
>
> 11:30 Miloš Vojtěchovský (CZ, Vašulka Kitchen Brno) - The Idler or
> Vasulkas Dream about Bohemian Institute
>
> 12:00 pm Jennifer DeFelice (CZ, USA, Vašulka Kitchen Brno) - Sums &
> Differences: Gary Hill, Steina, and Woody Vašulka and the Development of
> an Approach to Presenting Audiovisual Work in Specific Gallery Environments
>
> 12:30 pm Petr Vrána - PARTICIPATION 2.0
>
> 1 - 2 pm LUNCH
>
> 2 - 5:30 pm Open Archives
>
> 14:00 Gaby Wijers (NL, LI-MA) - Violin Power reloaded
>
> 14:30 Larisa Dryansky (FR, Sorbonne Université) - Video Image as Object:
> 3D in the Work of Steina and Woody Vasulka
>
> 15:00 pm Zach Ngin (ONLINE) (USA, MIT List Visual Arts Center,
> Cambridge) - Constantly Moving Images: Exhibiting Steina in the 21st
> Century
>
> 15:30 PAUZA
>
> 16:00 Chris Hill (ONLINE) (USA, School of Film/Video, CalArts) - A Walk
> through the Vašulka Mediascape with Reflections on a Recent Interview
> with Artist Arnold Dreyblatt
>
> 16:30 Joost Rekveld (NL) - A Palimpsest on the Electronic Analog Art
>
> 17:30 Dušan Barok (SK/NO, Monoskop) / Barbora Šedivá (Vašulka Kitchen
> Brno) - Working with Vašulka Kitchen Brno archive: methodology, outputs
> and other possibilities of its development
>
> 18:00 pm DINNER
>
> 19:30 SCREENING PROGRAM
>
> Steina and Woody Vasulkas: In Search of the Castle (9:29 min.)
>
> Joost Rekveld: Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59 (78 min.)
> Open Archives - moderated discussion
>
>
> Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
>
> 10 am - 1 pm
>
> The discussion focused on the possibilities of cooperation across the
> media art archives.
>
> With the participation of: Dušan Barok (SK/NO, Monoskop), Barbora Šedivá
> (Vašulka Kitchen Brno), Jakub Frank (Muzeum umění Olomouc, CEAD), Larisa
> Dryansky (FR, Sorbonne Université), Matěj Strnad (National Film Archive
> in Prague), Gaby Wijers (NL, LI-MA).
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