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• 18:00—24:00 An Interactive mobile application for Brno by Petr Svárovský 

  Viewpoints is an art project based on the use of available technologies (GPS coordinates) in the context of landscape perception. It focuses on the relationship between the temporary, physical, local space and the infinite, virtual and ever-present infosphere and our overuse of mobile phones to the detriment of our perception of reality. The combination of these two spheres in an interactive app shapes an experience that allows app users to perceive and discover the places they visit in new ways.
  

  The project was originally designed for a specific location in Norway, but is applicable and transferable to any location. The aim of the app is to create a platform where viewers and participants use a free mobile app to discover and create their own viewpoints in a city or landscape. The emerging and growing database of points is linked to a physical visit to the place, where the app will offer extended information about the point, presented in the form of a poetic record reflecting the nature and feeling of the place, from interesting facts about geology, botany and ornithology, to local stories and legends. 
  

  The app, open to the public during the museum night, will already include a number of records created during the workshop with artists and authors in the previous week. Further additions and expansions will be made for viewers to wander around the already marked vantage points while creating new ones. Part of creating a new vantage point is a poetic description of the place, which should evoke an emotion, a felt experience of a particular place in the other participants. 
  

  Petr Svárovský (1962) is an artist and author working in the field of new media and virtual reality. Recently, he has been interested in the technological possibilities and use of mobile phones and apps as a means for virtual and physical experiences shaped by collective participation and strategies aimed at pushing the boundaries of art beyond the normally defined territory. 
  

• 18:00—24:00 Current exhibition

  A new selection of digital prints by Woody Vašulka from the Lucifer's Commission series and, after a long break, Vašulka Kitchen Brno will exhibit a unique audio-visual installation by the Vašulka couple: Light Revisited – Noisefields.
  

  A new selection of Woody Vasulka's digital prints from his 1977-2003 Lucifer Commission series, in which the artist recorded scans of computer circuit boards found in various stages of destruction in a warehouse in the backyard of his Santa Fe home. The hardware prints can be read as diagrams depicting the hidden and autonomous workings of the machines that fascinated the Vasulkas both.
  

  The Vasulkas' unique audio-visual installation, Light Revisited - Noisfields, will also be on view again after an extended period of time. The video-environment, created by projecting pulsating circles formed by electronic signals onto the walls of the room, is Woody's 3D transformation of the 1974 collaborative video Noisefields. Noisefields records the birth of a video-image from an electronic signal, it is electronic visual music and a sounding image at the same time.The electronic image consists of two parts - a circle in the centre and a background filling the rest of the screen. The two components of the image constantly pulse in sync with the sound generated by the activity of the electronic device. One of the parts always displays pulsating colour and the other the rough, unstructured material of the video - the 'video noise'.
  

• 18:00—24:00 Presentation of outcomes from international online workshops 

  VECTOR SYNTHESIS led by Derek Holzer - participants explored the relationship between sound and image. The result is projections of digital artworks created with contemporary computer graphics, but also with contemporary laser imaging techniques. The workshop was inspired by the artwork of artists such as Mary Ellen Bute, Nam June Paik, Stein and Woody Vasulka, and Gary Hill.
  

  DATA ORCHESTRA led by Jiří Suchánek - the workshop introduced participants to the principles of sonification and their use in their work, creating their own datasets and then algorithms converting selected datasets into sound structures in Max/msp environments. During Brno Museum Night, sound performances by participants will be presented.
  

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