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On June 10th 1942, the Czechoslovakian village of Lidice, 20km north of Prague, was obliterated by the Nazis following the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by the Czech resistance. Throughout the West, news of the atrocity was met with outrage that was later reflected in poems, novels, symphonies and films.
Slave Pianos is a provocative and highly inventive collective of artists, composers and musicians devoted to the exhibition, collection, analysis, performance and re-composition of sound work by visual artists.
The Strabag Artaward International is an award for the promotion of art in the fields of painting and drawing for artists of up to 40 years of age. From 2009 to 2011 artists from four countries, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia are eligible to take part in this competition.

The central living artwork in the exhibition is a plantimal, a new life form created by Kac, which he calls Edunia, a genetically-engineered flower that is a hybrid of the artist and petunia. The new flower is a petunia strain that the artist invented and produced through molecular biology.
Kurosawa′s films have always been more popular in the West than in his native Japan, where critics have viewed his adaptations of Western genres and authors with suspicion - but he′s revered by American and European film-makers, who remade some of his movies...
In 1982, Burton made his first short, Vincent, a black and white stop motion film based on a poem written by himself. Soon Burton′s personal artistic tastes clashed with the Disney style, and he longed to work on his own projects.
Caterina Davinio is computer artist, writer, curator. She was one of the first poets who realized animated poetry with the computer in Italy, in 1990. Since 1998 her work appeared in Internet with collaborative projects, among them Karenina.it...
Rolf Jacobsen expressed his troubled compassion of the world around him. A new theme was the rough and lonely Norwegian scenery. Jacobsen often expressed ironically his doubts about technology, and praised the blessings of little joys...


Haque develops both physical spaces and the software and systems. These systems based on the software′s algorithms fulfil several functions: the detection of a position in space, of a sound, of an odour, of the temperature, etc. Architecture is here conceived as an "operating system." He has also created interactive installations, environments, digital interfaces...
In some of his pieces, the viewer is a subject of the artwork. In other works, the viewer takes part, actively and creatively, in the performance of his artwork. Mirrors and self-perception are central themes in his current body of work. Look at some of them...
Regina Spektor, a Russian-born American singer-songwriter and pianist, completed her studies at Purchase College in 2001. The same year she self-released her debut album, 11:11, and since then, all her albums have been a surprise. Her songs shows influences of classical, folk, Russian music and hip hop music, and also of jazz and blues. Spektor has a broad vocal range and also uses unusual musical techniques...

Coldcut is an English electronic (dance) music duo of Matt Black and Jonathan More. Their music is full of samples of hip hop, jazz, breakbeat and spoken word as well as various other types of music. They work also in the field of multimedia art.
"I am slow as an artist, I seem to work on the same subject matter for years, and do different series parallel to each others. Who do I look for with my photographs? I think in the end I work for myself. I want to see how certain things look like. If others enjoy looking at them too, that′s even better..."
Nicolò Paganini, one of the greatest violinists of all time, revolutionised the playing of the violin. In his relentless pursuit to master his instrument, he developed some stupendous techniques and skills that, at the time, were thought to be impossible. He experimented in retuning his strings for creating special effects and introduced the bouncing bow techniques as well as left-handed pizzicato plucking.
He′s a filmmaker of evocative imagery and his ability to propel his narratives forward often with no dialogue. In recent years many Korean reviewers have warmed to his films, critical opinion is far from unanimous. Anyway, Kim has by now established himself as one of Korea′s most distinctive directors.
The music of Shostakovich is more traditional and therefore more approachable than much 20th century music. It has therefore found a regular place in the concert hall. Shostakovich like other composers has placed some hidden messages in his music, and it no doubt adds a different perspective to understand what was in the mind of a composer during the creative process...
"...We saw and had admired Heinz Edelmann’s graphic designs in “Twin” magazine. And thought why don’t we even try him. So we got in touch with him, he flew over and we showed him what we were doing and he disappeared for two weeks. I remember this brown envelope arrived with four drawings in it, one of each Beatle. You could see it wasn’t Mickey Mouse, it wasn’t this, it wasn’t that - it was just there!..."
If we look at videoart installation, e.g. found-footage of Douglas Gordon - 24 hour psycho, this should not bother us (anyway, we loose one hour of the visual information). But, if we are on the festival Minimotion watching some of 10-seconds animations, maybe some substantial part of the film material is forever lost.
"They are permanently on the look-out for double meanings, especially those with a sexual twist. Their entire body of work has been created in, and focused on, London′s East End, which they see as a microcosm. Also their imagery is shocking..."
Norstein uses a special technique in his animation, involving multiple glass planes to give his animation a three-dimensional look. The camera is placed at the top looking down on a series of glass planes about a meter deep. The individual glass planes can move horizontally as well as toward and away from the camera.
Considered by many the greatest rock band of all time, the Beatles have influenced many rock artists all over the world. The “Fab Four“, as the Beatles were often called, brought many changes not only in music, but also in hairstyles or fashion. They also appeared in five films, with A Hard Day′s Night beeing the most successful of them.


However she works with video, photo, the so called new media, her world of expression is most likely installation. Since she graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, she′s been working abroad a lot, enjoying collaboration, using spontanious situations and turning them into her imagination. Kata Huszár.
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. It is popular for its contemporary music, dance, comedy, theatre, circus and many other arts. People gather at the festival also to celebrate summer solstice.
Visitors they can find here the lamps that look like animated rabbit pair Bob & Bobek, militant flower pots and coat hanger, furniture for hip‐hopers, lamps made of plastic forks, magazine holders inspired by the boots of Majka z Gurunu (popular TV show in the 1980s), various chairs, tables, candles and more...
Nitzer Ebb evoked the sequenced basslines and barked commands of Virgin-era DAF in its early days, they created a new aesthetic. As they grew in confidence and ability, they began to develop the Nitzer Ebb sound—a blend of unusual analogue trickery, minimal song structure, heavy drum beats and percussion...
Result of an amazing creativity, together with the right portion of humour, "The Passenger" is a short animation created by Chris Jones. This project developed through the course of 8 years and completed in 2006 has received the Best Animation - 2006 L.A. International Short Film Festival and the Best Australian Film - 2008 Melbourne International Animation Festival awards.


JR owns the biggest art gallery in the world. As he remains anonymous and doesn′t explain his huge full frame portraits of people making faces, he leaves the space empty for an encounter between the subject/protagonist and the passer-by/interpreter...
Jayanta Mahapatra (1923, Cuttack) is one of the best known Indian English poet. His poems have appeared in most of the reputed journals of the world. He is the first Indian poet in English to have received the Central Sahitya A. Award (1981) for his Relationship. His other volumes include Close the Sky, Ten by Ten, A Father′s Hours, A Rain of Rites and many more...











"I have always felt like a stranger in almost every society, a true misfit", Kira Skov once stated in an interview with one of Denmarks leading news-papers. At the age of 17 travelling with her Rock′n′roll band Butterfly Species, she moved back to Denmark in 2002 and formed the band Kira & the Kindred Spirits. In 2007 she received a Grammy for “Best female Vocalist”, as well as receiving an award from Denmark’s largest music-magazine Gaffa, voted by their readers.


At the age of 36, David Fonseca is the most popular pop-rock alternative singer in Portugal. He is a writer, composer, performer and plays several musical instruments, like acoustic guitar and organ. He is the author of almost all of his lyrics and also the graphic designs on his album covers.





Yiannis Ritsos is one of the four great Greek poets of the twentieth century together with Odysseus Elytis, Kostis Palamas and Giorgos Seferis. His poetry was banned at times in Greece for its left wing content. Notable works by Ritsos include Tractor (1934), Pyramids (1935), Epitaph (1936), and Vigil (1941–1953).
The annually held national and international competitions do not distinguish between genres. Instead, all cinematic forms are invited to participate in the categories International Competition, NoBudget, German Competition and the Three Minute Quickie...



Morphine combined jazz and blues with some more traditional rock arrangements. Their very unusual sound was later described as "low rock" style. The band was embraced and promoted by the indie rock community mostly in the US. This year it′s going to be already 10 years from Mark Sandman′s death...


His recent books of poetry include Ancestors (New Directions, 2001), Words Need Love Too (2000), Black + Blues (1995), Roots (1993), and Trenchtown Rock (1993). His poetry traces historical links and events that have contributed to the development of the black population in the Caribbean. He is also the author of two plays and several collections of essays and literary criticism.
The Andy Warhol exhibition in the Municipal Gallery bwa in Bydgoszcz (Poland) is accompanied by presentation of works by young Slovak artists. Martin Kudla and Rado Repický are students of the last year of the Department of Fine Arts and Intermedia at the Faculty of Art in Košice.


We are proud to present you some students of art-schools in Kosice and Banska Bystrica together with their interactive works of art which were already exhibited in 2008 at international festival of New media art in Kosice called New Media Point www.nmpoint.com. Enjoy them!



Shirin Neshat was born in 1957 in Kazvin, Iran. In 1979, at the age of seventeen, she went to the US where she studied at the University of Berkeley, California. She exhibited her works for the first time during the early 90s in New York. During the years 1993-1997 she created the well-known series of photographs "Women of Allah".








The creators originally intended to show the abstraction of a computer. Bassam Kurdali, Director of Elephants Dream: "The story is very simple - it is about how people create ideas and communicate them or impose them on others. It′s a parable of human relationships."






As a pianist he was famous for his precision, rhythmic drive, clarity of texture and for the broad design of his performances. His compositions and pianism are entrenched in the romantic style of Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms, and Antonín Dvorak. Rachmaninoff had little or no use for contemporary musical trends, preferring to compose and perform in styles he held dearly since birth.
Many considered him the last connection between late Romanticism in Russian classical music and modern times. In his work we can find influences of such great Russian composers as Tchaikovsky or Rimsky-Korsakov. He stemmed from the Russian tradition in music, where the mission of an artist was to create beauty and to speak the truth from the depths of his heart.
The festival has also got the award for those performing bad taste and kitsch, it is an anti-prize called The Struck Goose. If you want to see really awful art, just visit the Kremnica Museum of Kitsch, where you can see for instance a stuffed fox wielding an axe and smoking a pipe.
Beethoven reportedly didn´t respect authority and social ranking. For instance, if the audience talked to each other during his performance or didn´t pay their full attention to him, he simply stopped playing. At soirées, if he was suddenly called upon to perform, he refused to do so.


Devo (“de-evolution”) is most often remembered for their late 1970s and early 1980s New Wave sound. Their style has been variously classified as punk, art rock or post-punk. They are best known for their 1980 hit “Whip It” and also for their donning uniforms that mocked industrial culture.


The Mars Volta Group was founded in 2001 (El Paso, Texas) by Rodríguez-López and Bixler-Zavala. It is the progressive rock group that incorporates various influences, including jazz fusion, funk and Latin, into their sound. They are also known for their improvised live shows, and their well concept-based studio albums.






Interactive poetry can be defined as the poetry created by two or more authors according to certain rules. Internet interactive poetry is understood to be a part of a wider digital and computer poetry group. The authors of Verse Versus Verse challenge everyone to a public on-line discussion on interactive poetry.

If you add events like "the Animated Night", the Cartoon d′Or and the Cosplay, Anima has established itself as a must for the thirty thousand spectators that flock to the Flagey Centre. And a special date to mark with a cross this year: we′ll be celebrating thirty years of surprises, fun and discoveries.
The discourse became fragmented, the grimace was exasperated, deformed, contaminated with not verbal elements, producing the visual, sound, performative poetry, ambient/installation-poetry, created by artists, really so different from each other...
The literary approach to the new technological inventions of the 20th (and by now 21st) century has developed a substantive genre: science fiction. “Machines and technology are what we most associate with SF; just as we have now grown utterly accustomed to having a wide range of machines and technology surrounding us in our everyday lives” (Roberts 146).
„Deformity, and Diseases both in Body and Mind, smitten with Pride, it immediately breaks all the Measures of my Patience; neither shall I ever be able to comprehend how such an Animal and such a Vice could tally together.“
(Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels)
We can definitely tell that both in literature and in movies every social form of utopia or dystopia take place in an isolated area.


This time I take you to the beautiful city of Vancouver. Located in Canada, British Columbia province, the west coast.It didn′t take long to fall in love with the city. The location, climate, endless opportunities for an outdoor freak like me ;-). The nearby mountains are ideal for mountan biking, skiing and hiking, just to mention a few activities. I shouldn′t leave out the local beaches too.
It is interesting to watch how London is trying to cope with the flow of Eastern Europeans. While many other West European countries restricted the new fellow of European comers from work, business and other aspects of life, the UK has proven once again its strong belief in true democracy and giving people equal chance to seek the life they are looking for.