For the first time in its history, Signal Festival will transform the Prague Castle District into a district full of art. Prague Castle District will become one of the two routes of the twelfth edition of the festival, which will present the best of the world of digital and creative culture from the 10th to 13th of October. The second route will show visitors the work of renowned Czech and international artists in the Prague city centre. This year’s Signal Festival will present 22 installations, 7 of them exclusively in the Gallery Zone, for which you can already buy tickets.
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In the packed program of this year’s festival, you can look forward to Filip Hodas‘ video mapping of the Archbishop’s Palace, Jiří Příhoda’s monumental objects at Sternberg Palace, a project by London-based studio United Visual Artists using kinetic pendulums at Kunsthalle Prague, or an audiovisual projection by Italian artist Quayola at the Centre for Architecture and Urban Planning (CAMP). Another thing to attract your attention will be The MERCEDES-BENZ AURA installation by Monument Office & Signal Creative.
This year, Signal Festival is once again opening the Gallery Zone, which offers the opportunity to experience art in a unique atmosphere. With limited capacity, this paid part of the festival brings a diverse program that you won’t see at any other time.
What can you expect from the Gallery Zone?
For four days, places such as the Prague Castle Riding Hall or the Baroque Refectory of the Dominican Monastery will be transformed into places where art, technology, history and present are combined.
Our partner institutions, such as Kunsthalle Praha and the Centre for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning (CAMP), contribute to an unforgettable once-a-year experience, all in one ticket that reveals the flipside of Prague.
As part of this year’s Gallery Zone, you can get carried away in the Prague Castle Riding Hall with Korean artist and professor Seohyo, whose work combines inspiration from historical elements of Prague architecture with the media technologies of generative art to create a unique dynamic projection of abstract shapes reflecting the rhythm of our city. Then, in the Baroque Refectory, Bill Fontana, one of the founders of sound art, will remind us of the fragility of climatic and cultural balance in his installation Silent Echoes. He has transported the tones of the silent bells of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris to the icy caves of Dachstein. In total, you can look forward to 7 of the 22 installations in the Gallery Zone.
What about the winner of Signal Calling?
The transmedial sculpture Audire Fluctus, which will be presented at this year’s edition by Kryštof Brůha, winner of the Jindřich Chalupecký Prize, is on the borderline between a light object and an interactive work in the form of a data totem. Kryštof Brůha developed Spektraflux with the aim of creating a physical medium that enables visual work that transcends the limits of digital media. The installation is located in the space of the National Theatre piazza, a place with a high concentration of electromagnetic devices.
The installation was realized within the open call Signal Calling in collaboration with PrusaLab by Prusa Research, Josef Průša’s prototype workshop.