The string of lectures, discussions and events with artists and film or art historians and theoreticians.
Starting Thursday 25th of February 2016.
PAF has set up an interesting seminar module for the Department of Film and Theatre Studies at Philosophical Faculty of Palacký University, Olomouc.
It contains lectures of artists in dialogue with experts and/or curators, and vivid accompanying programme of audio-visual performance, exhibition and trip to ZOO.
The seminar is open to the public and for free.
Seminar venues:
Theater K3, Konvikt (3rd floor), Univerzitní 3, Olomouc
Opening of Gradient: Vitrína Deniska, Denisova 5, Olomouc
ZOO Olomouc, Darwin St. 222/29, 779 00 Olomouc
PROGRAMME:
Tue 25 Feb 2016
3 pm – 6:15 pm
Martin Blažíček and Katarina Gatialová: What is Film?
The visual artist and pedagogue at FAMU, Prague, in dialogue with art historian and head of the department of digitalization and new media at the National Museum in Prague, Katarina Gatialová. In long terms, Martin Blažíček deals with the transitions of the moving image of film and video – from the live cinema to the cinema which is live coded.
Mon 29 Feb 2016
6 pm
exhibition opening, Vitrína Deniska
In series of installations Gradient, the filmmaker and multimedia artist Martin Blažíček proceeds from natural lighting conditions of space and by means of negligible interventions of grey levels he changes them into optic illusion.
8 pm
Martin Blažíček and Michal Zbořil: Binary Logic
audio-visual performance
By the real-time combination of old and new media, there is being created a highly expressive “film without film”, which is composed of extra machine-produced noise and violent optical attacks. Warning: contains stroboscopic lights.
* Commissioned by PAF within the Festivals of Live Cinema project for the Norwegian festival Screen City (October 2015).
Tue 3 Mar 2016
11:30 am – 1 pm
Domink Gajarský: What does the sloth do when the primeval forest is on fire? He is on fire too
screening, ZOO Olomouc
Visiting ZOO Olomouc with Dominik Gajarský. More info since 11:30 am at the cashpoint of ZOO Olomouc, The Holly Hill near Olomouc (transport from the stop at Olomouc railway station by the bus nr. 11 or 111, bus station D).
3 pm – 6:15 pm
Dominik Gajarský and Martin Mazanec: What is Film?
The visual artist and musician who graduated at Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Dominik Gajarský, in dialogue with PAF programme manager and curator Martin Mazanec. Dominik Gajarský concentrates mostly on the media of video, film and photography. The theme of his current exhibition in the Prague City Gallery is Carausius morosus.
Tue 10 Mar 2016
3 pm – 6:15 pm
Barbora Kleinhamplová and Karina Kottová: What is Film?
The visual artist Barbora Kleinhamplová, graduate of the Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and of the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, and the present laureate of Jindřich Chalupecký Award in dialogue with curator Karina Kottová, who is the director of Jindřich Chalupecký Award. In her videos and installations, Kleinhamplová uses performative situations to illustrate the “social engineering”.
Organized by PAF—Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art, Department of Film and Theatre Studies at Palacký University in Olomouc and Vitrína Deniska.
The events take place as part of the project Festivals of Live Cinema—Collaboration of the Czech (PAF) and Norwegian (Screen City) Platforms for Film and Contemporary Art of the Moving Image. Supported by grant from z Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.