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Arno Gisinger, Artist Talk

In his guest lecture Arno will present three of his latest installations : Archeology (Reims 2016), Ghost stories (Mannheim 2017) and Say Schibboleth (Hohenems 2018).

What is a Hint?

Whether we are artists, photographers, or writers, how can we organise our practice in an age of total uncertainty?

Final Foto FAMU

An exhibition of the Master’s and Bachelor´s Degree projects from the Department of Photography of FAMU at GAMU (Gallery AMU) and at the studios of the Department of Photography at Tržiště 20.

Phillip Zimmermann – Photo-Bookworks

Philip Zimmermann is an artist and teacher at the University of Arizona. He received a BFA from Cornell University and his MFA in Photographic Studies at the The Visual Studies Workshop. Although working in various media, his preferred form is the photographic artists’ bookwork.

Reframing Media: Objects, Sites, Histories

Media studies has opened up new avenues of research across fields, helping to reframe the objects, sites, and histories of scholarly inquiry, providing a way to challenge accepted historical layers of social and technical arrangements.

Antonis Pittas

As an artist I mainly create context-sensitive spatial installations and objects, that are informed by architecture, politics, art-historical references, the performative aspects of installation art and its social dynamics.

FAMU – Digital Naïve

Jsme v bodě nula. Naše post digitální vědomí zničilo vertikální. Všichni jsme uvnitř horizontálně rozložené, rozsáhlé, fluidní reality.

Jirka Skála – Litany of Precariat

The lecture focuses on the transition of a part of the world population from the state and corporations controlled economy to the shared economy. Jirka Skála will attempt to interpret the possible reasons for this social and economic transition, using the Internet phenomenon Unboxing.

Clifton Meador: Book Thinking

The term “artists’ books” usually refers to the publication of works that exist only as books—not catalogs of exhibitions or monographs— where the affordances of the book are integral to the creative expression.

Brownfeel – Martin Dušek

On the edge of the city is a swarming heap of snail shells jutting from pieces of packaging.
People are the cells of the city. The organism City can easily become infected by its excrement.

The Open Day

Fri. May 26th 2017 from 10am – 4pm
FAMU, Smetanovo náb. 2, Photography Department, 1st floor

Famugrafie 3

Opening: May 3rd 2017 at 6pm
May 4th – May 10th 2017
Holešovická šachta
Curator: Ondřej Chrobák
Adress: Na Šachtě 3, Praha 7

Hey, Master!

opening: December  19th  2016 at 6pm 
Dec. 20th  – 15th 2017
Galerie Panel — FAMU
Smetanovo nábřeží 2 (1. patro), Praha 1

 

FAMUFEST exhibition

November 24th — 26th, 1pm — 7pm
opening Wed. November 23th, 6pm
guided tour November 26th, 5pm
Veletržní 69, Prague 7, (ring FAMUFEST ♥)

open day

October 6th from 10am — 4pm
department of photography
Smetanovo nábřeží 2 (1. patro), Praha 1

OpenEye16 / Filip Suchomel

Photography in the Far East at Point Zero: Beginnings of New Media in China and Japan in the middle of the 19th Century

4. 5. 19:00 / U1, FAMU, Lažanský palác, Smetanovo nábřeží 2