Exhibition talk
Orbis Fictus Re-Visited

We warmly invite you to an exhibition talk on Orbis Fictus Re-Visited, taking place on Wednesday, April 29 at 5:00 PM at Vašulka Kitchen Brno. The exhibition will be introduced by its curators Jana Horáková and Monika Murgu, together with Marta Smolíková, co-curator of the exhibition Orbis Fictus: New Media in Contemporary Art (1995–1996; National Gallery, Prague), and David Junek, curator of the subsequent exhibition Orbis Fictus extractus: New Media in Contemporary Art (1996; Municipal Museum and Gallery Polička).

Free admission

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Exhibiting authors: Czech Digital Art Database
Research team: Adam Franc, Jana Horáková, Petr Macek, Monika Murgu, Štěpán Miklánek
Web design and development: Alina Matějová, Oliver Staša

The exhibition revisits a milestone in the local history of digital art—the exhibition Orbis Fictus: New Media in Contemporary Art (1995–1996; National Gallery, Prague; curated by Ludvík Hlaváček and Marta Smolíková). It takes the form of a retrospective project based on the staging of historiographic research results through a database interface, alongside a reinstallation of selected archival materials, documentation, and recorded interviews with witnesses.

We would like to thank the Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, Marta Smolíková, David Junek, Elen Řádová, Miloš Vojtěchovský, and Tomáš Ruller for providing archival materials and artworks from the original exhibitions in Prague and Polička. Special thanks to Jan Krtička for the sound intervention in the exhibition.

Acknowledgements: The exhibition was developed as part of the project Local Digital Art and Culture as a Subject of Historiographic Research at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno.
Grant provider: Czech Science Foundation
Grant no.: GA24-10667S

The exhibition is supported by the City of Brno and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.