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Disk cannot be read09.12.2025 - 08.02.2026
Místa snivců / Lenka Falušiová & Miloš Šejn28.09.2025 - 28.10.2025
Ani labuť ani Lůna06.06.2025 - 28.09.2025
ZATVÁŘÍ / COUNTENANCE06.05.2025 - 22.06.2025
Silent Spring: Art and Nature 1930–197028.03.2025 - 12.10.2025
Creation – Myth – Art01.03.2025 - 17.05.2025
DIVERSITY CONTEMPORARY II10.12.2024 - 31.01.2025
PAF 2024 / DIARIES - Deposit of Memory: Video Works by Miloš Šejn from 1988-202205.12.2024 - 08.12.2024
THROUGH THE LABYRINTH30.06.2024 - 30.11.2034
LANDSCAPE FESTIVAL PRAGUE 202413.06.2024 - 30.09.2024
ANIMA MUNDI | VISIONS – ITSLIQUID INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR | VENICE 202407.06.2024 - 21.06.2024
MEMORY DEPOSIT06.03.2024 - 27.04.2024
KOR . KON . TOI . 0 0 1 – Miloš Šejn / Adriena Šimotová17.11.2023 - 28.04.2024
BECOMING GARDEN…17.09.2023 - 29.10.2023
Heraclitus principle / One hundred years of coal in Czech art16.06.2023 - 22.10.2023
SYMBIOSIS06.06.2023 - 23.06.2023
1 : 1 : 127.05.2023 - 25.08.2023
Wege in die Abstraktion im Dreiländereck II02.04.2023 - 28.05.2023
BIRTHDAY16.12.2022 - 19.02.2023
Face for SU–EN22.10.2022 - 22.10.2022
Valoch & Valoch / Archeology And Conceptual Art30.09.2022 - 27.08.2023
Wege in die Abstraktion im Dreiländereck02.07.2022 - 25.09.2022
AQVA15.04.2022 - 04.09.2022
KINETISMUS: 100 Years of Electricity in Art22.02.2022 - 29.08.2022
EMERGENCY EXIT03.12.2021 - 11.09.2022
MAN IN THE CAVE24.11.2021 - 06.02.2022
ÍHMNÍ30.09.2021 - 28.11.2021
SEMI-OPEN29.09.2021 - 28.11.2021
Zdzisław Jurkiewicz. Occurrences25.06.2021 - 21.10.2021
Art Safari 36: TOGETHER05.06.2021 - 11.06.2021
ART, MELANCHOLY AND LAUGH FACES IN THE FACE OF ABSURDITY22.05.2021 - 03.10.2021
KRAJINA + / LANDSCAPE +14.05.2021 - 25.07.2021
WATER18.12.2020 - 06.06.2021
ATLAS NEW CONSTELLATIONS05.12.2020 - 30.05.2021
FOR THE LAST FIFTY YEARS27.11.2020 - 01.10.2023
PILGRIMAGE TO THE MOUNTAINS27.10.2020 - 08.11.2020
Fotograph Festival #X UNEVEN GROUND07.10.2020 - 07.11.2020
Í T H M N29.09.2020 - 31.01.2021
Table and Territory / Table et Territoire26.09.2020 - 27.09.2020
Looking Into The Window19.09.2020 - 31.12.2020
A Pilgrim Who Returns
15.09.2020 - 31.10.2020
Gočár Phenomenon03.09.2020 - 31.10.2020
ART SAFARI 35 – HYDRANT27.06.2020 - 28.06.2020
24h PERFORMANCE14.06.2020 - 15.06.2020
Through the Landscape of K. H. Mácha04.06.2020 - 06.09.2020
NMHTÍ12.05.2020 - 24.06.2020
IDENTITY23.03.2020 - 31.12.2021
Homeplace & Kunka Phenomenon04.03.2020 - 31.07.2020
↗ ASCENT ↙ DESCENT / performance art event23.02.2020 - 23.02.2020
Parallel cinema / Stream, Tree and Stone03.02.2020 - 04.02.2020
Ji.hlava24.10.2019 - 29.10.2019
TRA DUE MONDI16.10.2019 - 16.10.2019
Pilgrims, Refugees, Hermits11.09.2019 - 28.10.2019
The Naked Forms Festival (FNAF)06.09.2019 - 08.09.2019
Sounds / Codes / Images - Audio Experimentation in the Visual Arts06.06.2019 - 10.10.2019
rivers, streams, puddles04.06.2019 - 24.06.2019
IL SORRISO DEL LEONE / VENICE TELEPATHIC BODIES01.06.2019 - 24.11.2019
Performance Crossings 201915.05.2019 - 18.05.2019
THEATRUM MUNDI III27.04.2019 - 27.04.2019
Early Manifestations of Action Art in East Bohemia26.04.2019 - 16.06.2019
AQVA MUO26.04.2019 - 28.05.2019
Yellow Rose Fragrance27.03.2019 - 16.06.2019
WÄRMFLASCHE14.12.2018 - 15.12.2018
ART SPACE ECOLOGY15.10.2018 - 31.12.2020
Architecture and Senses12.10.2018 - 14.10.2018
THEATRUM MUNDI II22.09.2018 - 22.09.2018
OPERA CORCONTICA04.09.2018 - 09.10.2018
PRAGUE WILDERNESS – LANDSCAPE FESTIVAL PRAGUE 201821.06.2018 - 30.09.2018
Energy of the initial line – gesture, rhythm, movement in contemporary Czech art01.03.2018 - 28.05.2018
IMAGE / BODY / SOUND27.11.2017 - 27.11.2020
EVERY WANDERING ENDS IN THE BEGINNING13.11.2017 - 13.11.2017
(Post)Land Art and the Anthropocene06.11.2017 - 06.11.2017
CS CONCEPTUAL ART OF THE 70s11.10.2017 - 13.01.2018
SONIC SOLAR MOUNTAIN26.08.2017 - 26.08.2017
Bohemiae Rosa25.08.2017 - 31.08.2017
HOW TO EXPLAIN IMAGES TO AN INVISIBLE INTERSPACE02.08.2017 - 10.08.2017
LAPSody 2017 – The Bubble24.05.2017 - 27.05.2017
ALCHEMIC BODY | FIRE . AIR . WATER . EARTH21.04.2017 - 29.05.2017
LIQUID ROOMS / THE LABYRINTH10.02.2017 - 28.02.2017
LANDSCAPE20.12.2016 - 12.02.2017
The Landscape, Art and Photography | Contemporary Artworks in the Landscape01.11.2016 - 12.01.2017
Branches | Nature art – variations26.07.2016 - 16.10.2016
AGARA / Hommage à la Peinture04.04.2016 - 31.05.2016
SPEECH MELODIES19.11.2015 - 08.01.2016
SELÉNÉ / BECOMING A LUNAR FACE TELEPATHICALLY28.09.2015 - 28.09.2015
FACIALITY05.09.2015 - 05.09.2015
SOLAR MOUNTAIN20.09.2014 - 09.09.9999
MICHALEK / ŠEIN27.11.2013 - 12.01.2014
IL SORRISO DEL LEONE01.06.2013 - 24.11.2013
FACIALITY / Space of the Memory and an Immediate Space23.10.2012 - 24.10.2012
Faces / Face as the phenomenon in videoart20.06.2012 - 16.09.2012
ARCHIVES & CABINETS14.06.2012 - 02.09.2012
The Written Face for SU-EN28.01.2012 - 28.01.2012
Finally Together07.09.2011 - 14.10.2011
B/L – Dedicated to Carolus Linnaeus15.06.2010 - 29.08.2010
BEING LANDSCAPE25.03.2010 - 06.06.2010
Gardening10.03.2009 - 13.03.2009
Cartusiae Waldiczensis29.11.2008 - 01.03.2009
LANDSCAPE UNDER TOTALITARIAN16.09.2008 - 30.11.2008
Disk cannot be read
VAŠULKA KITCHEN BRNO
“If we want to understand where we come from and where we are heading, it is important to pause from time to time and look back. Because only in the rear-view mirror can we see what has changed around us and within us; when and where social, intellectual, and technological development reached a critical point at which the overall paradigm began to shift.”
The exhibition “Disk nelze načíst / Disk Cannot Be Loaded” is a notional journey through the hidden corners of analogue media, (pre-)digital technologies, media in general, and artistic experiments roughly since the 1990s. It suggests how (now often forgotten) media carriers and the related hardware and software — such as VHS/BetaMax/Hi-8 tapes, the Atari Video Console, diskettes, HyperCard, CD-ROM, Macromedia Director, or Second Life — shaped the development and research of both industrial and artistic applications, and what preserves their historical, artistic, and social value, as well as their uniqueness.
From the very beginning, information media and technologies — along with media art — were shaped above all by the imperative of moving toward the future. Paradoxically, they are still labelled with the old-fashioned term “new media.”In the second half of the last century, however, the interface between the new and the old kept shifting rapidly, and boundaries dissolved. What only yesterday appeared miraculous and rare, a prototype on the market, soon became either an everyday part of our lives, an obsolete and nearly unusable archival object, or even a candidate for recycling — or the landfill.
At times, the significance of an object may be restored and preserved in a physical or digital archive, cared for by a collector or even a media archaeologist. They recognise in the repository its value — traces and testimonies of the past, the present, even the future — its trajectory between old and new. The media archaeologist understands processes of decay, entropy, restoration, and the possibilities of revival. Some even claim that abandoned, once-“new media” do not disappear forever; that we can reawaken them and turn them into “undead” or “zombie” media.
The installation “Disk nelze načíst / Disk Cannot Be Loaded” emerged as a collaboration between the Vašulka Kitchen team (Miloš Vojtěchovský, Ondřej Merta, …), the research and development collective Handa Gote, and the Retro-herna collective devoted to the history of computer games. It features interactive works and studies by Miloš Šejn, Suzanne Treister, Zoe Beloff, Graham Harwood, Chris Marker, Antoni Muntadas, Karl Doing & Pierre Bastien, Thoru Yamamoto, JODI, Woody Vašulka, Bureau d’Études, Amanita Studio, Cyan Software, and others.
About the authors: The Prague-based artistic association Handa Gote research & development focuses on dramaturgical experimentation, integrating unconventional elements into its stage works, and cultivating a distinctive approach to post-dramatic and post-spectacular theatre inspired by science and technology. The group’s name — a term for a soldering iron — comes from Japanese culture and symbolises key aspects of their creative methods: DIY, playfulness, sensuous engagement with materials, recycling, folk culture, and inspiration drawn from non-European cultures. Another central theme for Handa Gote is the interest in and research of media archaeology and media geology as environments situated between ecology and technology. Current members of Handa Gote include Veronika Švábová, Tomáš Procházka, Jan Dőrner, Jonáš Svatoš, Vavřinec Němec, and producer Maria Cavina.
In the early 1990s, within the Imaginary Museum Projects group, Miloš Vojtěchovský collaborated on the interactive educational installation Orbis Pictus Revised for the ZKM Media Museum in Karlsruhe. Since then, he has developed an interest in both old and new media and in media archaeology.
https://agosto-foundation.org/project/colorvm-natvrae-varietas
VAŠULKA KITCHEN BRNO
09.12.2025 - 08.02.2026
“If we want to understand where we come from and where we are heading, it is important to pause from time to time and look back. Because only in the rear-view mirror can we see what has changed around us and within us; when and where social, intellectual, and technological development reached a critical point at which the overall paradigm began to shift.”
Peter Sloterdijk
The exhibition “Disk nelze načíst / Disk Cannot Be Loaded” is a notional journey through the hidden corners of analogue media, (pre-)digital technologies, media in general, and artistic experiments roughly since the 1990s. It suggests how (now often forgotten) media carriers and the related hardware and software — such as VHS/BetaMax/Hi-8 tapes, the Atari Video Console, diskettes, HyperCard, CD-ROM, Macromedia Director, or Second Life — shaped the development and research of both industrial and artistic applications, and what preserves their historical, artistic, and social value, as well as their uniqueness.
From the very beginning, information media and technologies — along with media art — were shaped above all by the imperative of moving toward the future. Paradoxically, they are still labelled with the old-fashioned term “new media.”In the second half of the last century, however, the interface between the new and the old kept shifting rapidly, and boundaries dissolved. What only yesterday appeared miraculous and rare, a prototype on the market, soon became either an everyday part of our lives, an obsolete and nearly unusable archival object, or even a candidate for recycling — or the landfill.
At times, the significance of an object may be restored and preserved in a physical or digital archive, cared for by a collector or even a media archaeologist. They recognise in the repository its value — traces and testimonies of the past, the present, even the future — its trajectory between old and new. The media archaeologist understands processes of decay, entropy, restoration, and the possibilities of revival. Some even claim that abandoned, once-“new media” do not disappear forever; that we can reawaken them and turn them into “undead” or “zombie” media.
The installation “Disk nelze načíst / Disk Cannot Be Loaded” emerged as a collaboration between the Vašulka Kitchen team (Miloš Vojtěchovský, Ondřej Merta, …), the research and development collective Handa Gote, and the Retro-herna collective devoted to the history of computer games. It features interactive works and studies by Miloš Šejn, Suzanne Treister, Zoe Beloff, Graham Harwood, Chris Marker, Antoni Muntadas, Karl Doing & Pierre Bastien, Thoru Yamamoto, JODI, Woody Vašulka, Bureau d’Études, Amanita Studio, Cyan Software, and others.
About the authors: The Prague-based artistic association Handa Gote research & development focuses on dramaturgical experimentation, integrating unconventional elements into its stage works, and cultivating a distinctive approach to post-dramatic and post-spectacular theatre inspired by science and technology. The group’s name — a term for a soldering iron — comes from Japanese culture and symbolises key aspects of their creative methods: DIY, playfulness, sensuous engagement with materials, recycling, folk culture, and inspiration drawn from non-European cultures. Another central theme for Handa Gote is the interest in and research of media archaeology and media geology as environments situated between ecology and technology. Current members of Handa Gote include Veronika Švábová, Tomáš Procházka, Jan Dőrner, Jonáš Svatoš, Vavřinec Němec, and producer Maria Cavina.
In the early 1990s, within the Imaginary Museum Projects group, Miloš Vojtěchovský collaborated on the interactive educational installation Orbis Pictus Revised for the ZKM Media Museum in Karlsruhe. Since then, he has developed an interest in both old and new media and in media archaeology.
https://agosto-foundation.org/project/colorvm-natvrae-varietas
https://www.sejn.cz/works/movies-videos/colorvm-natvrae-varietas-1999
https://issuu.com/nvbes/docs/1999_colorvm_natvrae_varietas_by_milos_sejn