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  • Prague MicroFestival

    Jingle for Prague MicroFestival, 11.-14.5. 2014 at Studentský klub Celetná

    Authors: Adam Široký (video), Honza Horký (audio), Michaela Casková (visual material)
    Tools: NI Maschine (audio), vvvv (video).
    Hand-drawn visual material was digitally edited and cut into required bitmap images. Images were then composed into a scene using single vvvv patch. This patch was directly controlled by MIDI output from Maschine. The resulting audiovisual piece was played and recorded live.

    The Prague MicroFestival (PMF) came about in an effort to resuscitate the Prague International Poetry Festival, which took place in 2004, a major undertaking on the scale of the Prague Writers’ Festival, with over 40 writers participating from over 20 countries.

    The purpose of the PMF is to provide a forum for poetic exchange, an alternative to the existing Festival circuit which caters to primarily establishment writers with the inclusion of token Czech authors, and is commercially orientated. The PMF is run by artists, volunteers and students; all events are fully bilingual (English/Czech). The focus of PMF is threefold: to present writing that is innovative/experimental; writing that moves across genres and media (visual culture, music, film) and writing that could be broadly defined as “translocal”, that is, writing outside the confines of nationalism, pursuing a broadly cosmopolitan agenda. It aims to introduce new innovative approaches into the Czech milieu, as well as put Prague on the map of experimental world literature, show Prague as a re-ememerging genuinely cosmopolitan centre, whose citizens from all backgrounds and nationalities are contributing to a vital and unique literary culture.

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