#video

Truthify: Dataset Lobbying

Truthify: Dataset Lobbying, in collaboration with Vilem Duha and Petr Racek, is a speculative video (7:38) about the eponymous startup that seeks to manipulate the perception of reality of future neural networks through the manipulation of open source datasets. Specifically, to map a dataset of images of Czech art under the general tag of art, with the aim of promoting Czech art as more detectable and known, and therefore as more artsy than global art. Working with hyperbole and a slight ironic patriotism, the video exposes the serious topic of biased datasets and neural networks that have and will have impacts on our everyday lives.

Love Your Nation

Love Your Nation is an artwork thematizing the nationalism as a form of love of one’s own nation. What happens when the love exceedes the limits of control and overflows into a sexual desire towards own nation? How to deal with the sexual pressure in situations like quarantine when you cannot meet other fellow neo-nazis? The DIY national flag vagina is here to save you!

Návod na umělou vagínu z české vlajky // Instructions for homemade vagina made of the czech flag

Czech flag can be substituted with any other national flag.

Conclusions of Police Investigation

Conclusions of Police Investigation is a site-specific video created for exhibition at gallery Umakart. In the video two persons are playing a board game Unusual Suspects. In this game one person is the witness to a crime. He knows who the culprit is but can only answer “Yes” or “No” to questions about the suspect. The second person is a detective trying to make sure the right person gets locked up from a line up of twelve hand drawn suspects. However contrary to original game the version for gallery Umakart consisted of real photo portraits of frequent visitors of the gallery. And the questions were highly political. The visitors of the exhibition thus could saw what do the two random strangers think of them. And thus were directly confronted with prejudice of others.

Dusk /Simulation 1/

Dusk /Simulation 1/ is a video of shopping mall interior from which were removed all moving objects. Without those in hurry the resting and waiting persons, who contradicts the logic of shopping mall are shown and amplified. The removal was done automatically in real time with custom program written in C++ with library OpenFrameworks. Original plan was to provide a live stream from shopping mall, but this was refused by its managment.