Disrupted Signals. Antivideoart. Pavel Kopřiva.
25/8—18/9
Disrupted Signals. Antivideoart. Pavel Kopřiva.
- Exhibition
Disrupted Signals, subtitled Antivideoart, presents objects and reliefs made from television screens, electronic components and fragments of technology at the Linserka Cultural and Creative Centre. Pavel Kopřiva explores broken communication and shifting meanings at a time when digital images permeate everyday life.
https://pavelkopriva.name
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Free admission. Opening hours:
Mon–Fri / 1–7 pm
Sat / 10 am–4 pm
Guided tour: 27 August 2026, 6 pm
Opening: 12 September 2026, 2 pm
What traces do contemporary media leave behind, and how will future generations interpret our technological heritage? The exhibition considers the image both as a means of communication and as material subject to decay, transformation and new readings.
The exhibition is exceptionally open during https://crystalvalleyweek.cz.
Kopřiva engraves fictional messages and traces of unknown communications into screen surfaces, leaving their origin and meaning unresolved. His work moves between an archaeology of the future and a critique of technological dependence.
Remnants of devices once used to transmit information become artefacts of a world whose communication systems have failed. The artist replaces the moving image with a physical intervention in the material: an engraved mark he calls “antivideoart”. The installation raises questions about technology, memory and matter, inviting visitors to see familiar electronic materials in a new light.
Pavel Kopřiva is a leading figure in Czech intermedia art. His work brings together objects, installations, light, sound and digital technology to explore our relationship with technology and the changing nature of perception. Alongside his artistic practice, he is deeply involved in teaching. Since 2007, he has led the Interactive Media Studio at the Faculty of Art and Design, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem. There, he and his students explore experimental approaches to new media, interactive art and technology. For many years he was director of the glassmaking school in Kamenický Šenov, the oldest of its kind in Central Europe. His longstanding contribution to education in art, design and glass connects contemporary art with the North Bohemian glassmaking tradition, an integral part of the region’s cultural identity.
A short glossary:
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Video art is an art form that uses video as its main medium. Unlike a conventional film or television programme, its purpose is not necessarily to tell a story. It may stir emotions, prompt reflection or experiment with image, sound, time and space.
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Archaeology of the future means looking at the present through the eyes of someone who will one day consider it the distant past. It helps us think about the traces we leave behind as a civilisation.
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Technology encompasses the knowledge, processes, tools and devices people use to solve problems, make things or change their surroundings.