Signal Festival, the festival of light and digital culture, ends today in Prague
Update: 16/10/2022 07:25
Issued by: 16/10/2022, 07:25
Prague – The 10th annual Signal Festival of light and digital culture ends today in Prague. For those interested, the organizers have prepared two routes and an accompanying program in the Kunsthalle Prague, the Center for Architecture and Urban Planning (CAMP) or the Gallery U Betlémské kaple. According to its director Martin Pošta, more than three million people visited the festival in previous years.
Designer Maxim Velčovský prepared an installation of abandoned and broken cars brought from war-torn Ukraine on Mariánské náměstí. The work, entitled The physical possibility of death in the mind of someone living, consists of burned-out cars imported directly from those affected by the war. They are supplemented by concrete stories of people who lost not only their cars, but also often all their possessions or loved ones.
Turkish designer and artist working with artificial intelligence Refik Anadol used a machine learning algorithm to process data from a three-dimensional model of more than 4,500 kilometers of Prague streets for a large-scale projection in the CAMP center. Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech University of Technical Equipment for the installation of Forum Robotum Karlové náměstí autonomous robots with light trusses. Light installations can be found, for example, in Klementin, at U Salvátor and St. Wenceslas churches, St. Ludmila’s Basilica, in Bezručové and Heroldové orchards or at the Vršovice castle.
In cooperation with Laterna magika, the Signal Festival presented a production combining video mapping and dance in the Kateřinská garden. Choreographer and performer Miřenka Čechová directed the performance of LUNAtic, who was inspired by the work of surrealist poets, French Joyce Mansourová and Czech Jana (Honza) Krejcarová.
Admission to most of the program is free. The gallery zone includes six places, for which you need to buy a Signal Plus ticket, which can be visited repeatedly. Signal Festival tries to minimize the impact of the event on the environment in the long term. It uses resources with a reduced need, limits the creation of printed programs and promotional items. The program is located at www.signalfestival.com.