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AFAD on Biela noc 2024

Invitations Division of Drawing Studio Multimedia Intermedia Digital Arts Visual Communication

This weekend, the next edition of the international festival of contemporary art, White Night, will take place in the streets of Bratislava. As part of the rich evening program, you can experience light and interactive installations or performances by our teachers and students.

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Where?

When?

  • 4. - 6. 10. 2024

 

MediaLab* / MIMIC

  • Interactive Installation
  • Church Klarisky, Klariská 5
  • 04. 10. - 06. 10. 2024, 19.00 - 00.00
Medialab BN24

Are you ready to let a machine examine and imitate you? Experience a personalized visual journey at White Night!

The MIMIC project explores the concept of imitation, examining not just interactions between individuals, but also how machines mimic human behavior for machine learning purposes. Utilizing computer vision technology, MIMIC tracks and analyzes human movement and physical traits. The system identifies individuals and displays their digital doubles on a screen, surrounded by dynamic objects that change in response to the observed characteristics. This installation offers a unique reflection of each viewer.

MediaLab*

Antonín Kindl, Linda Berkyová, Dominika Korbašová, Terézia Jandušíková, Hugo Hrivňák

MediaLab* is a multimedia studio within the Department of Visual Communication at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. It provides a technological, theoretical, and human framework for studying key phenomena such as time, interactivity, and multimedia in visual communication. Founded through the initiative of designer and educator Ján Šicko, MediaLab* began in 2005 with workshops and presentations on VJing and animation. The studio addresses practical aspects of working with technology while also engaging with the broader context of multimedia culture. Within the Department of Visual Communication, MediaLab* explores the intersections and thematic overlaps of graphic design.

Co-organization: BKIS – Bratislava Cultural and Information Center

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Ján Šicko / Flow

  • Interactive installation
  • Propeller - Námestie Ľudovíta Štúra
  • 04. 10. - 06. 10. 2024, 19.00 - 00.00
Šicko BN24

Immerse yourself in FLOW, a large-scale interactive projection that allows you to influence its visual character through intuitive controls. You can engage with the dynamic, generative graphics, which continuously flow, evolve, and change. Just like a stone thrown into water creates ripples that gradually disappear, the visitor's interaction with the artwork temporarily alters its visual appearance, leaving a gradually fading trace.

Supported by ZSE.

Ján Šicko (SK) - A multimedia artist, graphic designer, and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, where he founded and leads MediaLab*—a specialized environment exploring the boundaries of visual communication. He is a creator of interactive installations, audiovisual performances, computer games, and a VJ operating under the brand DevKid. He is also a recipient of the National Design Award and a long-distance runner. More at www.devkid.com or @jsicko.

 

Roman Mackovič / LEDsGo

  • Interactive Light Installation
  • kaviareň Emil, Františkánske námestie 11
  • 29. 04. 10. - 06. 10. 2024, 19.00 - 00.00
Mackovič BN24

Rediscover your inner child as you blow into a propeller and watch your breath bring Roman Mackovič's audiovisual installation to life at Café Emil in the Mirbach Palace. By interacting with this spatial construction - composed of a hundred LED modules - your breath activates beams of light. When these beams intersect, they trigger a sound accompaniment. Through digital algorithms, a reactive and dynamic audiovisual composition emerges, pulling you into the experience and inviting you to engage with the space.

Roman Mackovič (SK) is an artist, designer, and educator at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava (MediaLab* studio, Digital Art platform). His work centers on post-digital creation and physical computing - the creation of physical objects with digital elements. He has designed several interactive installations and objects that invite viewers to engage, touch, and influence the work. As an educator, he teaches artists and designers the fundamentals of electronics, microcontroller programming, and multimedia integration.

With the support of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava.

 

Viktória Revická / Kvasný pohyb

  • Movement performance
  • Beginning by the sculpture Čumil
  • 5. 10. 2024, 20.00, 21.00
Révická BN24

Come and be inspired as you immerse yourself in the fermenting process, brought to life through a captivating movement performance. The non-human motions of single cells, their sounds, and the living essence of yeast collectively draw in your attention, relax the body, and heighten your awareness of a world usually invisible to the naked eye. The performance itself becomes like yeast within a fermenting culture, undergoing its own natural process of transformation.

Performers (in alphabetical order):

Juraj Bilený, Dominik Dolník, Lucia Kupcová, Julia Pabst, Viktória Revická, Michal Zoller

Viktória Revická (SK) primarily focuses on performativity but also works with original texts, video, food, fermentation, and plants. She taps into the vulnerability of both the living and non-living environment, conveying it to us through visual metaphors and her own unique language. Her creative approach reflects a deep interest in the relationship with our surroundings, ecology, intuition, fermentation processes, and the concept of slowing down. She is a graduate of the Department of Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava

 

inwaterwethrust / SYNCHROSCOPE

  • multimedia performance
  • Swimming pool Lafranconi, University of Comenius, Nábrežie armádneho generála Ludvíka Svobodu 9
  • 04. – 06. 10. 2024, 20.00, 20.45, 21.30
Husárová BN24

Don't miss the unique fusion of sports and contemporary art, from literature and sound poetry to dance, music, and lighting design. This visually striking multimedia performance is the result of interdisciplinary collaboration between synchronized swimmers, dancers, choreographers Monika Thüringerová (coach of the Slovak national team) and Addy (dance), lighting designers from CTRL_space studio, poet and performer Zuzana Husárová, architect Elena Šoltésová, and musician Ľubomír Panák.

Together, they explore the symbolism of the water surface – emergence, distortion, and submergence of values, thoughts, actions, and relationships. In doing so, they raise questions buried beneath the surface (not only) about the state of our society and the search for truth amidst a flood of disinformation. This experimental kaleidoscope of art and sports, the first of its kind in Slovakia, promises an engaging experience for all generations.

Project concept: Masters team of the Slávia STU Artistic Swimming Club

  • Dramaturgy: Zuzana Husárová
  • Synchronized swimming choreography: Monika Thüringerová, Viktória Reichová, and the Masters team of the Slávia STU Artistic Swimming Club
  • Dance choreography: Addy, Barbora Petrušová
  • Original sound poetry: Zuzana Husárová
  • Original music: Ľubomír Panák
  • Lighting design: CTRL_space - Alexander Kupko, Viliam Zajíček, Dalibor Špilák
  • Visual architecture/graphic design: Elena Šoltésová

Performers:

  • Slovak National Synchronized Swimming Team: Viktória Reichová, Lea Anna Krajčovičová, Veronika Ásványiová, Michaela Bernáthová, Johana Lajčáková, Liza Zemanová, Mia Vilímová, Isabella Vilímová, Tamara Markušová
  • Masters team of the Slávia STU Artistic Swimming Club: Petra Horná, Denisa Chylová, Kristína Tomanová, Kristína Hollá, Zuzana Žáková, Petra Rezník Kováčová, Beáta Baláž Siváková, Katarína Sásiková, Jana Čelková, Katarína Špányi, Elena Šoltésová, Tomáš Jánoška
  • ADT crew - Barbora Petrušová, Gabriela Magalová, Simona Kováčová, Nina Mikulajová, Miriam Ivicová, Ema Kordošová, Viktória Kakalíková, Michaela Hamzová, Eliška Krajčovičová

This performance is supported by public funds from the Slovak Arts Council and the Bratislava City Foundation.

LIMITED CAPACITY. We recommend arriving early.

 

Marek Kvetan / Big Fat Diamonds

  • Objects
  • Hlavné námestie
  • 04. 10. - 06. 10. 2024, 19.00 - 00.00
Q-tan BN24

The Main Square in Bratislava will host monumental works by Slovak artist Marek Kvetan. These oversized, deformed representations of precious stones—diamonds, brilliants, and rubies—explore themes of consumption, economic growth, and sustainability. Kvetan presents these diamonds as inflated, oversized toys, questioning their perceived eternal value. The reality of diamond extraction, processing, and distribution is controlled by a handful of companies, often accused of price manipulation, exploitation, and connections to conflicts in Africa. Despite their hardness and brilliant light dispersion, diamonds eventually transform into graphite through a lengthy process, turning into a less energy-intensive form of carbon. Kvetan’s inflatable sculptures were created using 3D scanning and digital modeling techniques.

Marek Kvetan (SK) is a Slovak multimedia artist and a significant presence in the Central European art scene. He studied at the Department of Sculpture at Academy of Fine Arta and Design (VŠVU) in Bratislava, the Department of Fine Arts at VUT in Brno, and the Department of Painting, again at VŠVU. Kvetan’s work integrates post-conceptual approaches with a focus on calculation, conceptual thinking, and dual coding. He employs analytical methods across various media, with recent concentrations on digital prints and object creation.