A Tribute to the brothers Čapek

FROM THE NEW YORK PREMIERE OF R.U.R. in 1923
Karel CapekOpera o třech dějstvích od Zdeňka Blažka, adaptace Jan Jirásek. Libretto je založeno na stejnojmenné divadelní hře Karla Čapka z roku 1921.
Zdeněk Blažek Milan Kaňák Pawel Janicki Jan Jirasek Jana Prekova Woody Vasulka Petr Vrana
PARTNERS
MARS Media Archiv Prague National Theatre Brno WRO Center for Media Art
SUPPORT
Culture 2000 Programme Czech Cultural Department

THE VASULKAS

WOODY VASULKA
IN FRONT OF NATIONAL THEATRE, BRNO
BENT SCAN BY STEINA VASULKA & ROB SHAW
The Vasulkas have always been fascinated by the creation of new technical tools, and their work reflects a kind of playful discovery of a medium that continually reveals itself anew through new technologies of control and manipulation, whether analogue or digital. They have fostered and encouraged countless technicians, tinkerers, programmers and artists in a collective creative dialogue, always furthering a collective knowledge as a context for their own work. At the same time, they have experimented with a variety of support and educational structures, from the founding of The Kitchen in New York - one of the first informal presentation spaces - to their years as teachers at the Center for Media Study in Buffalo, to their retreat in an adobe studio/house in Santa Fe, New Mexico where they recently started a research and educational institute called . With the work of artistic couples it is always difficult to assign separate roles. Theirs is a collaboration which seems to compliment their individual characters and backgrounds: Woody, a Moravian born film school-graduate, has the curiosity and patience of an engineer and scientist; Steina, a classically trained violinist born in Iceland, carries an intuitive sense of musical and natural structure.

www.vasulka.org

R.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robots, 2008