Syndicate: Prague: New Media Lab

["katerina pavlickova" <katerina.pavlickova@ecn.cz>]

THE SCCA-PRAGUE LABORATORY FOR NEW MEDIA ART

The Soros Center for Contemporary Arts-Prague is opening a Laboratory
for New Media Art on its premises -  in the historical center of
Prague. The laboratory has been equipped in cooperation with the Czech
branch of the Silicon Graphics. The Laboratory is going to be open for
Czech artists who are going to make use of it to produce art
projects to be presented at local and international exhibitions. It is
important to say that young Czech artist have not had an equal
opportunity so far: this laboratory should therefore enable them to
carry on their work when they leave the Academy.



The NEW MEDIA ART has played an important role in the SCCA-Prague
overview of a development of contemporary art, as it is a rear branch
of human activity in which free imagination of artists is a natural 
part of general development. The SCCA-Prague prepared the first 
extensive exhibition of new media art, entitled Orbis Fictus, in the 
Czech Republic in December 1995. The establishment of the Laboratory 
on the premises of the SCCA-Prague is the second step that naturally 
follows the former activities of the SCCA-Prague in the field of new 
media art. The activity of the SCCA is conducted in close cooperation 
with the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, National Gallery in Prague 
and the Goethe Institute.

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Soros Center for Contemporary Arts-Prague, Ujezd 40, Prague 1 - 118 00
Telephone number: +420-2-57 00 74 05, fax number: +420-2-55 14 88
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