Disrupted Signals. Antivideoart — Guided Tour
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Disrupted Signals. Antivideoart — Guided Tour
- Guided Tour
- Exhibition
18.00–19.00
Discover the exhibition through a guided tour offering a deeper look at the works and the connections between them. Pavel Kopřiva will introduce the exhibition’s concept and selected pieces, sharing their stories, inspirations and the context in which they were made. There will also be time for questions and discussion. The tour is for anyone who would like to explore the exhibition in more detail and enrich their gallery visit.
Free admission.
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Pavel Kopřiva is a leading figure in Czech intermedia art. His work brings together objects, installations, light, sound and digital technology to explore our relationship with technology and the changing nature of perception.
Alongside his artistic practice, Pavel Kopřiva is deeply involved in teaching. Since 2007, he has led the Interactive Media Studio at the Faculty of Art and Design, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem. There, he and his students explore experimental approaches to new media, interactive art and technology. For many years he was director of the glassmaking school in Kamenický Šenov, the oldest of its kind in Central Europe. His longstanding contribution to education in art, design and glass connects contemporary art with the North Bohemian glassmaking tradition, an integral part of the region’s cultural identity.
Disrupted Signals, subtitled Antivideoart, presents objects and reliefs made from television screens, electronic components and fragments of technology at the Linserka Cultural and Creative Centre. Kopřiva explores broken communication and shifting meanings at a time when digital images permeate everyday life. He engraves fictional messages and traces of unknown communications into screen surfaces, leaving their origin and meaning unresolved. His work moves between an archaeology of the future and a critique of technological dependence. Devices once used to transmit information become artefacts of a world whose communication systems have failed. The artist replaces the moving image with a physical intervention in the material: an engraved mark he calls “antivideoart”. The installation raises questions about technology, memory and matter, inviting visitors to see familiar electronic materials in a new light.
Photographs: Jiří Dvořák