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MICHAL KLODNER MARIKA KUPKOVÁ

Michal Klodner works in the field of visual and audiovisual live perfor- Marika Kupková works as a contemporary art curator and participates
mances and independent film. As an assistant he worked at FAMU film in the organization of the International Short Film Festival Brno 16. Her
school and completed his doctoral studies on the subject of postmediality. curatorial and dramaturgical work are centered at Galerie TIC in Brno.
In the National Film Archive he is involved in digital curation and research She studied film history at the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University
in the field of documentation, presentation, and analysis of moving images. and afterwards at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University. She concen-
trated on institutional history and cultural politics in Czech cinematog-
raphy of the 1940s and 1950s throughout her post-graduate studies.
The results of her research were published, for example, as part of five-
part collective project Kultura a totalita (Culture and Totalitarianism) at
the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. She is also interested in film beyond
its cinematographic frameworks and in experimental forms of audiovisual
production. Since 2010, she has been a lecturer at the Theory of Inter-
active Media program at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, where
she teaches courses in film history, new media, and curating. From 2006
to 2014 she was a member of the civic association S.P.K.H., focused on
art in public spaces, environmentalism, and urbanism. She also writes
art criticism and journalism. She is a member of the curatorial collective
Café Utopia.