The 12th Signal Festival is here! We hope you have saved the date of 10th-13th of October! Join us in planning your route through the festival so you don’t miss out on the best of digital art! This year’s edition has 7 installations exclusively in the Gallery Zone, where you can already get tickets at a better price!
Signal Festival is in the Castle district!
Within the packed programme of the Castle District route, you can look forward to Filip Hodas’ video mapping of the Archbishop’s Palace, Jiří Příhoda’s monumental objects in Šternberk Palace in collaboration with the National Gallery of Prague, a project by the London-based studio United Visual Artists using kinetic pendulums in the Kunsthalle Prague gallery, and much more. Here is a quick taste!
Filip Hodas → Eternal Recurrence
The video mapping Eternal Recurrence will add new dimensions and stories to the history of the Archbishop’s Palace, which has stood at the Prague Castle District since the 16th century. The layered video mapping will highlight the various architectural elements of the magnificent mansion. The late Baroque palace with its rococo façade was used by the projectionist Filip Hodas to tell a digital saga about the origin and evolution of life forms.
The Czech artist with more than half a million followers on Instagram has won fans around the world. His most popular series is the 2018’s Pop Culture Dystopia.
Jiří Příhoda → Capriccio, Karbola, UAPs
The installation of three objects by Jiří Příhoda in the Sternberg Palace represents the different paths that the author has been developing in his monumental sculptural works for a long time. They are all constructed on the precise foundations of Cartesian geometry, the proportional canons of classical architecture and the physical laws of balance. They work with the movement of light, shadow, the contrasts of a strictly solid skeleton and a delicate transparent mass. Although all the objects are solid and static, they evoke the impression of dynamic movement.
Jiří Příhoda is one of the most important contemporary Czech artists. He lives and works partly in New Mexico. He works on monumental realisations on the border between architecture and object, exploring the laws of perspective of space, geometric proportions and the dynamics of light, sound and moving image.
Walk through the heart of Prague!
The second route of the 12th edition is the already popular route through the centre of Prague. On this route you can also look forward to videomapping, impressive object installations and even a musical programme.
Desilence → The Rhythm of the Ocean
One of the two videomappings at this year’s Signal Festival, created by the Spanish-Danish studio Desilence for the Municipal Library of Prague on Marinánské náměstí, is a monumental, dynamic mural depicting processes and rhythms in the depths of the ocean.
Desilence invites viewers on a journey beyond the limits of ordinary experience and into the dark underwater currents that, at regular intervals, carry away vital resources. The projection is a visual concert and a dancing display of colours, while surprising with the sound design of the analogue synthesizer by the American musician Suzanne Ciani.
Near this video mapping, you will also be able to admire the partner installation called MERCEDES-BENZ: AURA, the author of the creative concept of the installation is Václav Mlynář, his team from Monument Office studio and one of the largest domestic studios for the creation of new art and visual experiences – Signal Creative.
Cao Yuxi → Dimensional Sampling
Cao Yuxi creates an association with contemporary society, which is similarly inclined to worship its idols, but through digital technology. The visual form of the installation is based on the symbol of the QR code, or the unique imprint of a web page used to enter the data information space. The unfolding geometry of the QR code, along with the cube-shaped monolith motif, symbolizes the interface between our parallel worlds. The audiovisual version of the installation in the centre of Old Town Square was created in collaboration with Hong Kong artist Lawrence Lau.
2 routes, 6,7 km, 105 minutes of walking
Not only will you see the best of digital art during the walk-through of Signal Festival, you can also help with the kilometers you cover. With ČEZ Group, the main partner of the Signal Festival, we annually support a project that helps through movement. The ČEZ Foundation’s EPP app makes it possible – and particularly you. Download the app and help a good cause during your walk through lit-up Prague. This year, thanks to the connection with the Tady Vary project, it’s supporting the nearly century-old Kotva Biograph in České Budějovice.
Want to learn more about this year’s routes? In cooperation with Kooperativa, the main partner of the festival, we have prepared a guide to the festival with useful tips, simply for Signal as it is! All the videos have english subtitles!
Clothing is essential!
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