Echofluxx 12
The Echofluxx
12 is a festival of new media (sound and film), visual art,
and experimental music. In cooperation with the Prague film school (CAS-FAMU), the Prague Academy of fine
Arts (AVU), and early
reflections, Echofluxx 12 will present
international and Czech presenters in a five day festival at the new
Tracfačka in Prague, Čerpadlová 4, Prague 9, April 17-21, 2012. All
events are free to the public. Contact: info@echofluxx.org
Gallery Exhibition curated by Petra Vlachynská
Media
Performances curated by Dan Senn
Concert
of Experimental New Music curated
by Sylva
Smejkalová of early reflections
Sound
Installation by students of Martin
Blažíček
Live
Streaming of Performances by Anja Kaufmann
Festival
Celebration Party with music by KPFRM and TRON & PAUL ABRAHAM
Festival
Concept
The
echo of the fluxus movement resonates in this time—a ongoing hedge
against the exclusivity of discipline-specific art and music. Echofluxx 12, a festival of new
media, art and music, presents a spectrum of new art
and music, from experimental film and poetry, to experimental music and
art. It uses an organic curatorial method, with artists suggesting
artists who would like to present with other artists, and so on. The
festival is free to the public and made possible with the assistance of
volunteer help and in-kind
support.
KPFRM (Saturday's Party Band)
KPFRM/monstralego
is a Czech Electronic experimental electro folk band which cooks
high-octane blend of unusual ingredients. Their sound sophisticated
cocktail is always astonishing and composition of the ingredients in
the shaker an unpredictable masterpiece. More info at: BandZone, MySpace, Access4
With Special Thanks to...
Dagmara Tragorová festival
poster design and program
Terezie Honsová festival site coordination
Jiří Sovinec equipment transportation
 
Efemera of Prague - Festival
Organizers
Dan Senn (USA), Anja
Kaufmann
(Swiss), Sylva
Smejkalová (Czech), Petra
Vlachynská (Czech), George Cremaschi (USA), and Caroline
Daniel (Australia).
Echofluxx 12 Promo Documents for Printing
Ad Cards (pdf), Poster (pdf), Czech Press Release
(pdf), English Press Release
(pdf)
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Festival
Schedule
Tuesday, April 17: festival gallery
exhibition and Sound installation openings at 6p; Lukasz
Szalankiewicz (Poland); Marcus
Bergner (Australia) with Marek
Bouda. Presentations start at 8p.
Wednesday, April 18:
gallery/installations ongoing; Daniel Hanzlik (Czech) and Pavel
Mrkus (Czech); Dan Senn
(US). Presentations start at 8p.
Thursday, April 19:
gallery/installations ongoing; David
Means (US); Toine
Horvers (Netherlands) with Marcus
Bergner (Australia), Jose Pablo Estrada Torresca
(Mexico) and Mojmir
Pukl (Czech).
Presentations start at 8p.
Friday, April 20:
gallery/installations ongoing; early
reflections
experimental music concert at 8p (see program below).
Saturday,
April 21: gallery/installations final day; Festival
Celebration Party; Krzysztof Topolski
(Poland) and Anja Kaufmann (Swiss); ; Michal
Cimala (Czech) with Aleš
Zemene; George Cremaschi
(USA); and KPFRM/monstralego,
and TRON &
PAUL ABRAHAM.
Presentations start at 5p.
Úterý, 17.
dubna: vernisáž výstavy v 17.00; Lukasz
Szalankiewicz (Polsko); Marcus Bergner
(Austrálie); Michal Cimala (ČR) a Aleš Zemene (ČR); studentské práce
CAS/FAMU. Začátek programu ve 20.00.
Středa, 18.
dubna: pokračování výstavy/instalací; Daniel
Hanzlik (ČR)
a Pavel Mrkus (ČR); Dan Senn (US). Začátek
programu ve 20.00.
Čtvrtek, 19.
dubna: pokračování výstavy/instalací; David
Means (USA); Toine
Horvers (Nizozemí). Začátek programu ve 20.00.
Pátek, 20.
dubna: pokračování výstavy/instalací; early reflections
– koncert experimentální hudby ve 20.00 (viz program).
Sobota, 21.
dubna: poslední den výstavy/instalací; festivalová
párty; Krzysztof Topolski
(Polsko) a Anja
Kaufmann (Švýcarsko); George
Cremaschi (USA); KPFRM/Monstralego, a TRON + PAUL ABRAHAM. Začátek programu v 17.00.
"Sound Room" Installation
The "Sound Room"
installation consists of independently developed concepts each based on
common sound and audio devices. These merge to form a cohesive
installation for the Echofluxx festival. Appliances, such as radios,
speakers, amplifiers are used. Without an hidden poetic or metaphorical
intention, they are used as simple objects and sound devices. Within
the gallery context, they represent only what they are, out of their
normal location and configuration, and, thus, playing with our
perceptual habits.
The installation of sound objects from the students of Martin Blažíček
and include the artists Kateřina Bílková,
David Šmítmajer,
Jiří Rouš,
and František Týmal. The installation will open at 6p,
Tuesday, April 17.
early re lections
Concert Program (Friday,
20h)
Silence Talks by Michal
Rataj
Lenka Kozderková - flute, Michal
Rataj –
electronics
I was not really thinking
of this Cage-like “silence” while working on this piece. What really
attracts me about silence is the fact that it talks to me in a language
I am not able to hear when not alone, quiet, calm, more or less
concentrated. Silence talks when I want it to talk but, apparently, I
can’t really decide what to hear while it talks – is it worse or better
for me?
„Intimate
Space“
by Andrea Sodomka
Electronic
piece, Sylva Smejkalová – sound regie
Intimate Space, The
poetry of transmission. Intimate Space is the area around a human body,
about an arm's length, in which one is comfortable with loved ones and
close friends A story about distance, communication and intimacy. This
work was commissioned by Ars Sonora, Radio Clŕsica, RNE - Radio
Nacional de Espana, and by ORF, Ö1 Kunstradio. Read more.
Twilgiht Night by Markéta
Mazourová
For flute,
bass clarinet and marimba
hidden word, hidden sight by Sylva
Smejkalová
Sound
and video - Quido Sen, programmer - Andreas
Schenk, flute - Lenka Kozderková,
clarinets - Jan Mach, trumpet - Yasuco Tanaka,
contrabass - Ondřej Melecký, percussion - Markéta
Mazourová.
Sound Object
by Quido Sen
For live sound installation (example of Sen's work below).
Als Jurij Gagarin John Glenn traf interaktive Installation (Detail),
Galerie Billing Bild verschiedene Materialien, Elektronik, Sensoren,
Lautsprechern.
The Composers and
Artists
 Michal Rataj composes
electroacoustic and chamber/orchestral music which is presented
throughout Europe. He is active as real-time performer of his
acousmatic
music giving solo performances and in collaboration others. He also works as radio art
producer in the Czech Radio, Prague where he curates Radioatelier and
the website rAdioCUSTICA.
He is a member of the EBU Ars Acustica producers group and
teaches composition at the NYU in Prague and other art schools. Performance Video
 Andrea Sodomka works in intermedia and
installation art, electronic music, net art, radio art, video and
photography. From 1982-89
she studied at the Academy of Applied Arts, Vienna, from 1984-87
at the Academy of Music, Vienna. She was the president of the society
of electroacoustic music G.E.M., and curator for Media Art at the OK -
center of contemporary art, Austria. 
 Markíéta Mazourová is considered the First Lady of
Czech percussion. Performance Video
 Quido Sen works in graphic art, multimedia objects,
interactive installations, and in sound art projects. He was
born in Ostrava, the Czech
Republic and now lives in Baar, Switzerland. His work has been shown at
Socrates Sculpture Park New York, DAM, Berlin, Centro Cultural Borges
Buenos Aires, The Czech Museum of Fine Arts Prague, Dům Umění Ostrava
and elsewhere. He graduated from Swiss
Institute of Technology ETH-Zürich, was a visiting artist in sculpture
at the Hochschule für angewandte Kunst in Vienna. Performance Video
About early relections
 Sylva
Smejkalová
founded, in 2003, along with fellow composer Michal Trnka, "early
reflections" for the promotion of Czech and international contemporary
classical music. Projects have included domestic and foreign festivals
such as Festival Alternativa, Moscow, Der Film Festival, Prague, and
now Echofluxx 12.
Born in 1974 in Ostrava, Sylva studied at the Janacek Conservatory in
Ostrava and then at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
where she earned master's degree in music composition and music
direction. Read
full bio. Contact: music@echofluxx.org
Gallery Exhibition (Tuesday-Saturday)
 Petra
Vlachynská is visual artist working
specially in sculptor
and architecture. In 2010 she graduated from the Academy of Art,
Architecture and Design, Prague, in the sculpture studio of Kurt Gebauer.
2000-2006 she studied CTU, Faculty of Architecture, Prague and at École
d’architecture Val de Seine in Paris. For Echofluxx 12 she is curating EVERYDAY NATURE, presenting the
work of five artist who address aspects of everyday life.
The words EVERYDAY (všední,
každodenní, obyčejný, běžný, obvyklý, nezajímavý) and NATURE
(příroda, podstata, přirozenost, základní vlastnost, povaha, charakter,
nátura, nahota) are inseparable, in various meanings influencing and
determining each
other. The dynamics of their relastionship is recognizable in
perception of our surroundings, in movements we create, in
changes we participate. Performance Video
The Artists of EVERYDAY NATURE
 Dagmara
Tragorová (Slovakia)
is a street artist, illustrator and graphic designer, graduated from
the Department of mass media communication in Nitra in 2009. Her
interventions in public spaces often engage the passers-by in the
creative process. She is regular host of street summit at
Žilina-Žáriečie.
 Michal Kohút (Czech)
writes "I am studying the sculpture at Academy of Art, Architecture and
Design. I am trying to have a detached view and to enjoy the simple
things."
 Linda Čihářová
(Czech)
art often comments on natural processes and the relations of living
entities to their environment. She graduated from the Academy of Arts,
Architecture and Design, and she also gained experience as a visiting
student at FAMU (Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in
Prague), the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and the Academy
Beeldene Kunste in Maastricht. Another valuable source of inspiration
for her is travelling and experiencing various landscape characters.
Her works often reflect on the places she has visited.
 Diana
Winklerová (Czech),
musician and visual artist, graduated from the Academy of Art,
Architecture and Design, Prague, in the
sculpture studio of Kurt Gebauer.
She earned a scholarship to the China
Academy of Art in Hangzhou and now works as a
tutor at the AAAD in Prague. Diana's engages with a broad range
of media and materials, most often expressing ideas in sculpture,
objects, digital or computer transformed photography and video—with the
medium adjusted to fit the message.
Quido Sen (Swiss)
see bio above
 Martin Tůma
is a visual artist working with photographic media. He graduated from
the University of Tomáš Baťa, the Faculty of Multimedia Communications,
in Zlín (2011). Martin is a conceptual photographer often using
landscape and the metaphysics of the photographic media as his subject
matter. He is continuously exploring the idea of deconstruction of a
landscape, new possibilities of its visual presentations and
discovering cultural patterns which establish ways of its perception.
He is a member of the Boysplaynice
Studio and MIMO, an association concentrating on pushing the limits
of photography.
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E12 Documentation
EVERYDAY NATURE see gallery exhibition.
Presentations by Lukasz
Szalankiewicz; Marcus
Bergner with Marek
Bouda; Daniel Hanzlik and Pavel
Mrkus; Dan Senn; David
Means; Toine
Horvers with Marcus
Bergner,
Jose Pablo Estrada
Torresca and Mojmir
Pukl; Krzysztof Topolski, Anja Kaufmann and Kate Lee; George Cremaschi;
Michal Cimala and Aleš Zemene.
"Sound Room"
Installation see exhibition
early reflections
concert: compositions by Michal Rataj; Andrea Sodomka; Markéta Mazourová; Sylva Smejkalová
with Quido Sen.
David Means' interviews with Krzysztof Topolski and
Lukasz Szalankiewicz on
USTREAM.
Festival
Photos see
slides
Artists
 Lukasz Szalanklewicz, aka
Zenial, (Poland) is
historian, sound designer and electronic music artist, member of the
Polish Society for Electroacustic Music (PSeME).He has presented
at the Audio Art Festival and Unsound Festival in Krakow, Wro Festival
in Wroclaw and Moving Closer Festival in Warsaw, and at Polish art
centers including Kordegarda Gallery and The Contemporary Art Centre
Zamek Ujazdowski in Warsaw, Contemporary Art Gallery Arsenal in
Bialystok, Contemporary Art Gallery in Wroclaw and Contemporary Art
Center in Torun. Lukasz lives in Posnan. Performance Video
 Michal Cimala (Czech) is
an unique figure in the contemporary Czech contemporary art. He was
born in 1975 in Havířov and graduated at the Academy of Arts,
Architecture, and Design in Prague where he was a student in the metal
and jewellery studio headed by V. K. Novák. He operates on the borders
of design and free art, using diverse materials and media. Michal will
be performing with Aleš
Zemene (Czech) Performance Video
 Marcus
Bergner
(Australia) has
made over twenty experimental films that have been screened widely
in Europe, United States and Australia. He is long-term member of the
Australian sound poetry group Arf Arf, (othes include Micheal Buckley,
Marisa Stirpe and Frank Lovece) a group that has produced and
mounted hundreds of live performances in Australia and Europe over a
fifteen-year period. Their film Thread of Voice has been shown
widely,
including at: The Serpentine Gallery, London;  The
Pompidou Centre, Paris; Arsenal Kino, Berlin; Millennium, New York and
at the Museums of Modern Art in Warsaw and Sydney. The group is now
completing an anecdotal/experimental novella based on their previous
performances and will be published late in 2012. For his vocal
performance at EchoFluxx, Bergner will be joined by Marek Bouda
(Czech) on electric guitar.
 Daniel
Hanzlik (Czech) is
leading figure in Czeck intermedia art. His work has been represented
at The Prague Contemporary Art Festival 2010, Emil Filla Gallery,
Prague, Formate der Transformation at Museum auf Abruf, Vienna, FORMÁTY
TRANSFORMACE at the The Brno House of Arts, Space for intuition and the
City Gallery Prague. Performance Video
 Pavel
Mrkus (Czech)
is an intermedia artist of wit, range and invention. His work has
been presented at Chelsea Art Museum, New York, The Venice Biennale, Kunsthaus Dresden, The Brno House of
Art, Kunst Verein in Schlossberg, and elsewhere. Performance Video
 David Means (US)
graphic scores, instal- lations and performance systems have been
exhibited and presented by the Walker Art Center, IRCAM, Documenta IX,
the Xi An Conservatory of Music (China), Het Stroomhuis (Holland),
Logos Foundation (Belgium) and the Arts Council of Great Britain. He is
currently an Associate Professor of Media and Fine Arts and producer of
the Strange Attractors Festival of Experimental Intermedia Art at
Metropolitan State University. After David's first performance he will
be joined by Michael Karman, Anja Kaufman, Krzyzstof Topoloski and
Caroline Daniel in a free improvisation. See
photo1, photo2, chart, Performance Video
 Toine Horvers
(Netherlands) is a Dutch performance artist who works
with language in both written and spoken form. He
uses language to disseminate other realities for it to become a gesture
in space and time. The material for the works is derived from language
that is used for recording and describing, based on observations of
situations and processes in daily life. These recordings are presented
in voice performances - solo or group, hand-written drawings,
hand-written books, sound installations and interactive electronic
text-displays in public or semi-public spaces. Toine will be joined by
Marcus Bergner and Jose Pablo
Estrada Torresca (Mexico) and Mojmir Pukl
(Czech). See program notes for "One
Voice Over Prague." Performance Video
 Krzysztof Topolski
(Poland) is an electroacoustic
improviser, author of soundart projects, drummer, field recordist and
curator. His work explores noise and landscape
improvisationally in live percussion and
electroacoustic music. Wth Mariusz Waras in 2009, he created
installation Fabryka in CSW, “Znaki Czasu” in Toruń, and presented
Folk Science as a part of the Pandemonium project at the AC Institute
in
New York. He was presented the Polish Ministry of Culture and National
Heritage award in 2007 and 2010, CCA “Kronika’, Bytom in 2006, and
Visegrad Fund
residency program at Skolska 28,
Prague in 2011. Full bio here. See Echofluxx
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 Martin
Blažíček (Czech)
is a film/video maker, media artist. Graduated at Film Academy Prague
(FAMU) as film/video editor. Inspired by structural film of the 70s
created a number of films on 8 and 16mm format since 1997. Sice 2000
performed live film and video with various groups, such as Ultra
(2000-02) and Mikroloops (2007-11). Since mid-00s performed live
improvised video based on wide range of inner/outer interactivity of
sound, image and physical objects. He previously cooperated with Martin
Ježek, Tonic Train, Guyla Nemes, Beth Custer, Andras Blazsek
(Blazsek/Blazicek duo), Arszyn, Kateřina Zochová, Hannes Hoelzl, Bryan
Eubanks and many others. He curated NoLab at Roxy/Nod Experimental
space Prague (2007-2009), since 2010 curated ScreenLab at Školská 28
Gallery Prague. Founding mamber of Mediabaze.cz project. He published
texts on music, film and media arts in Cinepur, A2, Film a doba and
other journals. He teaches at the Center for Audiovisual studies at the
Film academy of performing arts. Performance Video
 Aleš
Zemene (Czech)
is an interdisciplinary artist who has worked throughout Europe and in
Asia. He has developed multimedia software for ambisonic installations
and applications for audio-visual performances. He has also programmed
and lectured in Pure Data environment and is involved in art production
in various European countries. In performances he works with audio,
video and data, analog and digital, combining these in live coding
sessions. He uses only free software. Aleš is the founder of Whitelabel.name Production, and is a
member of mur.at network community.
He currently works in Prague and Berlin on Open Source platforms for
various projects.Performance Video
 Anja Kaufmann
(Swiss)
is an electronic music composer and artist. Her work investigates
scientific phenomena, social studies and information architecture. She
studied new media and biology in Basel, Switzerland. A very diverse
artist, she has presented exhibitions, concerts, radio shows in the
field of audio art in Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, and
The Netherlands. In 2008, she presented at the Multiastronomy symposium
in Prague. Since 2007 she has produced a regular radio show for
So21
in Zürich, a community of sound artists. She won film music prized at
Flimmernacht Germany in 2004
and the new media prize for Sitemapping in Switzerland in 2006. She is a member of Efemera Prague.
Anja will be performing with Kate Lee and Krzyzstof
Topolski. Performance Video
 George Cremaschi (USA)
was born in New York City, where he studied music and composition.
Utilizing mostly contrabass and electronics, his work attempts to
dissolve the boundaries between music, sound art, and noise, and extend
their existing language, vocabulary and discourse. He has played with,
and composed for, dancers, improvisers, installation artists, poets,
film, folk musicians, theater groups, orchestras, rock bands and pop
divas. He has worked with a long list of fantastic musical artists
including Nicolas Collins, Evan Parker, Franz Hautzinger, Liz Allbee,
Gino Robair, Christof Kurzmann, dieb13, Mats Gustafsson, Lę Quan Ninh
and Matthew Ostrowski among many others. As an interpreter, he has
performed works by many major composers including Feldman, Tenney,
Cage, Xenakis, Penderecki, Andriessen etc, and has appeared on over 30
recordings on the Apestaartje, Evolving Ear, Black Saint, Leo, Beak
Doctor, Emanem, Rastascan, Music & Arts, Nine Winds and 482 Music
labels. He currently lives in Prague, Czech Republic. See Performance Video
 Kate Lee
(Mauritius)
is an artist traveler and itinerant storyteller. Born in 1982 in the
island country of Mauritius, of Chinese and Creole ancestry, her life
and art defy easy categorization. Blending visual arts, performance and
film narrative, her art practice gives credence to life hazards,
encounters, events, travels, and is informed by a spirited discourse
that spans artistic disciplines, far-flung continents, and a study of
phenomenology, philosophy and psychology. With a BFA from the Rhode
Island School of Design, she currently based in Prague, Czech Republic.
Full bio here She has been awarded numerous art prizes
such as the UNESCO-Aschberg
Bursaries for Artists, and participated to artist residencies globally,
including the National Art Studio, Changdong in Seoul, South Korea;
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE, USA; and Appelboom in
Limousin, France. Her artworks have been shown at art venues
internationally, some of which are the Goyang Art Studio Gallery,
Seoul, South Korea; the Nunnery Gallery in London; the Friche la Belle
de Mai in Marseille; the Jelení Gallery in Prague; the FUEL Collection
in Philadelphia, PA; and the Strip-S Gallery in Eindhoven. Performance Video
 Antonie Svobodová (Czech),
a solo performer, uses in her very personal style elements from both
dance and theatre. Her improvisations find inspiration in the
relationships between music, dance, voice, body, space and
objects. She works on different topics for many years. Her performances
are divided in three basic categories. First suited mainly for
stage. Secound performed best in natural spaces, or industrial and
historical spaces (site specific). Finally performances, which
are suitable for both indoor and outdoor spaces. Antonie will be
performing to a new work by Sylva
Smejkalová.
All performances are constantly changing and developing, because
they are bases on improvisation. Part of her work concentrates on
cooperation with visual artists. Therefore Antonie is very often
invited to dance during the opeing of exhibibitons of many
artists. Her improsisation are then unique, made just for the
occasion. Antonie will be performing to a new work
by Sylva
Smejkalová. Performance Video
 Dan Senn (USA) is an intermedia artist in the Fluxus
tradition. His work broadly encompasses music composition, kinetic
sound sculpture, experimental and documentary film. His music is
published by Smith Publications of Baltimore. Dan lives in Prague, The
Czech Republic, Sydney, Australia, and the United States. He cofounded
Roulette Intermedium of New York City and cofounded the Echofuxx Festivals.
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