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JANA HORÁKOVÁ RODDY HUNTER

Jana Horáková is an associate professor of new media art at the Faculty Roddy Hunter is an artist, curator, educator and writer. He began teach-
of Arts of Masaryk University, Czech Republic, where she guarantees ing at Dartington College of Arts in the late 1990s and has since taught
the study programs Theory of Interactive Media (MA), and Digital Culture internationally, including at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, and now
and Creative Industries (PhD). She specializes in local new media art his- at The Glasgow School of Art. He has an MA Contemporary Arts from
tory, robotic art, and innovative methodologies of new media art research, Nottingham Trent University and a PhD from Duncan of Jordanstone
preservation, and mediation. She presented her research in Austria, College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. His performance art
Germany, Hungary, Russia, Finland, USA or Japan. She is an author of and body-based action art has been seen worldwide, and features in
several papers, book chapters and books on cultural history of robot(ics), the survey ‘Ice Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture’ and his monograph
robotic art, software art, and new media art preservation strategies based ‘Civil Twilight and Other Social Works’. While the exploration and experi-
on the appropriation of the concept of gestural art and the preservation ence of live presence have always been central to his practice, his work has
of live arts discourse. For a number of years, she has been experimenting become increasingly concerned with art and performance in the context
with cutting edge applications of new media, with her research grounded in of post-internet, post-digital globalisation and working in hybrid online/
the history and aesthetics of digital art. She co-curated the virtual recon- offline spaces, such as through his PhD, 'Curating The Eternal Network
struction of one of the very first computer graphic exhibitions Computer after Globalisation' which led to the artistic-curatorial project 'The Next
Graphic (The Brno House of Arts, 1968/2017, 2018). Recently she led Art-of-Peace Biennale 2015-17'. He also researches digital archiving and
the interdisciplinary research project Media Art Live Archive, supported by preservation alongside pre-internet histories of networked art practice.
the Technical Agency of the Czech Republic (No. TL02000270), focusing Often adopting a collaborative, networked and workshop-based approach,
on the application of machine learning to The Vasulkas’ video art archive projects include 'Resisting Recuperation' with Dr. Judit Bodor as part of
(vasulkalivearchive.net) and unsupervised machine learning methods ‘Curating Living Archives’, 2021 and ‘Networked Art Practice After Digital
that are applied in the curatorial experiment The New Archivist part of Preservation’ with Professor Sarah Cook at the International Symposi-
The Black Box projects. um on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2020. His research has been published by
Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan, among others, in international jour-
nals such as Apparatus, Berlin, Acoustic Space, Riga and Inter: art act-
uel, Québec, and he has written monograph essays on artists including
Alastair MacLennan, John Newling, and André Stitt. He supervises and
examines PhD students researching performance art, sculpture and
site-responsive practice, media art histories and practices, particularly
networked art, and contemporary curatorial practice.

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