Michael Bielický & Kamila B. Richter (CZ)

Michael Bielický has lived in Germany since 1969. He studied fine arts at the Academy in Dusseldorf under Nam-June Paik, with whom he later worked as an assistant. In 1991 he founded and directed the first ever New Media Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Since 2006, he has held the chair of Media Art at the University of Art and Design at the ZKM in Karlsruhe. Bielický is one of the first artists to develop work with electronic and digital technologies in the European and Czech environment. Most often he works with themes and tools of communication, navigation, video and VR technologies and in recent years also with web-based information in public space. His work has often been developed in collaboration with the ZKM in Karlsruhe, and presented at the Ars Electronica festival and in art museums such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris and MoMA in New York. 

Kamila B. Richter collaborates with Michael Bielicki on a number of digital projects, especially in the field of information technology. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and the Technikon Natal University in Johannesburg, she has begun to explore the coonection of classical painting, printmaking and digital technologies. She is working on a unique method based on the transfer of data from failing digital media to the medium of oil painting, using the techniques of medieval painting.