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New media most commonly refers to content available on-demand through the Internet, accessible on any digital device, usually containing interactive user feedback and creative participation. Common examples of new media include websites such as online newspapers, blogs, or wikis, video games, and social media. A defining characteristic of new media is dialogue. New Media transmit content through connection and conversation. It enables people around the world to share, comment on, and discuss a wide variety of topics. Unlike any of past technologies, New Media is grounded on an interactive community.

  • Žilina shines with New Year’s light

    Žilina shines with New Year’s light

    We are pleased to announce that our civic association TRAKT, in cooperation with the city of Žilina, is preparing a unique New Year’s Eve experience. We will decorate beautiful Žilina with an enchanting light show – video mapping, which will come to life on the facade of the Church of the Conversion of St. Paul on Marian Square. We want the New Year’s Eve night in Žilina to be unforgettable. Videomapping is a modern and visually impressive way to celebrate the arrival of the New Year and create an atmosphere of joy and anticipation. We have prepared a stunning visual spectacle that will transport you into a world of fantasy. You will witness a unique symbiosis of art, technology and architecture.

    When and where?

    When: New Year’s Eve, 31 December 2024, we start a few seconds before midnight

    Where: Marian Square, Žilina (on the facade of the Church of the Conversion of St. Paul)

  • Test of lights

    Test of lights

    Light Art Festival will light up Trenčín for the first time. The “Rehearsal of Lights” awaits us!

    The newly emerging LAF Light Art Festival is organizing its first event called The Trial of Lights, which will take place on 15 November 2024 at the Peace Square in Trencin. The dominant feature of the programme will be the lighting of an eight-metre high installation created by Czech light art artist Lukáš Dřevjany. The work will be the first of this size in Trenčín and will also be an interactive creation. This means that what will be displayed on the installation will be directly influenced by people’s movements.

    The rehearsal of the lights will start on Friday, 15 November at 7.30 pm. The following days will offer the experience from 8am to 10pm, until Sunday 24 November. The event will be a taster of what the first edition of the LAF, which will take place from 11-13 April 2025, will subsequently bring on a larger scale.

    Come and enjoy culture and creativity and experience Trenčín in a new light.

    Are you interested in the light work Fragment, which is located on Peace Square? Come to a guided tour by its author, Czech digital artist Lukáš Dřevjaný. You will learn how the work works, get answers to your curious questions and find out more than you can fit on the information board.

    Sunday 24.11.2024 at the Fragment installation

    5:00 to 5:30 p.m.

    from 18:00 to 18:30

    You can visit the light work Fragment at Mierovo Square until 24 November. Then it will be replaced by the traditional Christmas tree.

    About the work and its author

    The light installation “Fragment” was designed by Czech artist Lukáš Dřevjaný alias oxoo, who uses screens, moving lights or lasers in his work. For him, light is a means to bring powerful experiences. It is the same in Trenčín. In addition to its monumental dimensions, the work also attracts attention with its interactive content. What is displayed on the installation will be directly influenced by people’s movements.

    Lukáš Dřevjaný is a digital artist who combines abstract expressionism and contemporary technologies to create interactive audio-visual creations. His works tell a story of the tension between chaos and order, technology and humanity. Dřevjaný studied theatrical lighting and sound design at JAMU in Brno and at The Theatre Academy in Helsinki (Finland). More at www.oxoo.digital.

  • Park camp 10

    Park camp 10

    International visual arts workshop and accompanying exhibition RE_THINK

    Opening of the exhibition RE_THINK: 23 August 2024 /Friday/ at 7 p.m.

    Venue.

    Curator of the exhibition. Jozef Suchoža, ArtD.

    Miroslav Nicz (SK), Viktor Fuček (SK), Marek Galbavý (SK), Ivana Sláviková (SK), Peter Valiska Timečko (SK), Jozef Suchoža (SK), Vladimír Kovařík (CZ), Csaba Fürjesi (AT, HU), Eszter Palik (HU), Szabina Péter (HU), Kristóf János Bodnár (HU), Olívia Zséger (HU)

    Opening of PARK CAMP: 23.8.2024 /Friday/ at 20.00.

    Programme:

    – Guided tour of visual interventions in the City Park with curator M. Nicz (meeting at 20:00 in front of Koniarnia)

    – MAPPING to the ruins of Parič Castle: 21:00, 21:30, 22:00 – Lukáš Matejka and TRAKT o.z.

    23:59 – End of the event and deinstallation of works in the park exterior

    Authors of interventions in the park:

    Lukáš Matejka, Ľubomír Slovinský, Alex Hrehová, Jakub Mlynarčík, Kristína Kerekešová, Lucia Hudecová, Sandra Cseresznyésová, Petra Macková, Dominika Leckešová, Viktória Hrnková, Jakub Podhora, Tomáš Brichta, Viktor Fuček

    Curator.Miroslav Nicz, akad. Miroslav Nicz.

    Lecturers. Mgr. Miroslav Nicz, akad.

  • Happy audio in Garage

    Happy audio in Garage

    The garage will appear again in Trencin, this time in the KKC Hviezda area. Within the 4th year, which organizing Trencin 2026 in cooperation with the Pohoda festival, it will bring 3 Saturdays of concerts of the upcoming generation of bands from all over Slovakia. The performing bands were selected by an expert jury from 214 entries.

    15:30 – 18:30 TRAKT: Happy audio – Interactive music workshop for children – playing on vegetables

  • Celebration of the 695th anniversary of the town of Kremnica

    Celebration of the 695th anniversary of the town of Kremnica

    On 16 November 2023, together with the City of Kremnica, we celebrated a historical milestone – the 695th anniversary of the granting of city privileges. The Kremnica Acropolis and Stefanik Square witnessed a unique event that brought the community together and celebrated the rich history of this beautiful city. An early evening parade started in front of the Acropolis, heading towards the town hall, and brought a wonderful experience full of light, colour and joy.

    At the end, we met at the Municipal Office, where a varied programme awaited us. The Fokoš mining choir brought us an unforgettable musical experience, along with speeches, video-mapping on the Municipal Office building and folk music by the Majer family. Together we created a memorable moment in the history of Kremnica. Thank you for your participation and we look forward to more celebrations together!

  • The Night of Museums and Galleries 2023

    The Night of Museums and Galleries 2023

    The Night of Museums and Galleries is a pan-European event held under the patronage of the Council of Europe with the aim of presenting cultural heritage and the importance of its preservation and protection in cultural exchange, dissemination of information about the cultural diversity of individual countries and regions of Europe, informal education and recreation.

    The activities of museums during the Night of Museums and Galleries are oriented towards activities that remain hidden from the public throughout the year. At that time, museums open their “hidden” chambers to the public and reveal secrets hidden from public view. In this way, the public can penetrate the secrets of the ‘museum kitchen’. ‘Unlocking the secrets’ also helps the public, through the knowledge and information thus gained, to better understand the importance of museums in preserving part of the cultural and natural heritage preserved in museums.

    As part of the Night of Museums and Galleries event in Trencin, TRAKT will present a pair of art projects in the Atrium under the Tower and in the City Tower on 13 May.

    CITY TOWER
    9.00 – 23.00 LIGHT HARF | Interactive game full of light beams. Become a player and try what it is like to play on the lights.
    With your movements and touches you create beautiful light curtains and melodies. This game immerses you in a world of light and music.

    ATRIUM UNDER THE TOWER
    21.00 – 23.00 LIGHT GRAFFITI | Do you want to become part of street art and leave your digital legacy? Put your light graffiti on the façade of the Atrium. Just press the spray nozzle and you can start creating huge works of art. What’s more, you don’t have to worry about damaging the history of the façade because it’s a digital projection.

  • Earth tour in Spain

    Earth tour in Spain

    After the successful creation and presentation of the interdisciplinary work “Earth: from traditional art to new media”, the authors Ivana Mer, Mária Júdová, Nina Marinová and Bára Zmeková are carrying out an international mobility in Spain. The authors will focus on crossing the boundaries between visual art, new technologies, music and traditional art.

    The aim of the project is to offer creators the opportunity to be inspired, to confront other creative industries and to make meaningful connections with professionals across sectors. Strengthening existing relationships and creating new ones is important.

    27.11.2022 Getxo, Utopian Getxo
    30.11.2022 Barcelona, Soda Acústic
    01.12.2022 Mojacar, Fundación Valparaíso

    Presentations supported by public funding from the Fund for the Promotion of the Arts. Thank you.

  • Park camp 9

    Park camp 9

    The international project Park CAMP 9 creates space and suitable conditions for students, recent graduates and teachers of art colleges in Slovakia and abroad to improve and progress in the field of contemporary art – intermedia and interdisciplinary overlaps in the form of educational activities – workshops. The final output of the wokshops are visual works – interventions created for the specific environment of the city park in Trebišov (site-specific art) and the final exhibition focused this year on interactive art forms, in the environment of the park, where the participants work with the strategies of site-specific art, performance, public art, conceptual art and art of new media – technology.

    The exhibition featured Lukáš Matejka / TRAKT (tech. collaboration Alžbeta Bobulová), with the work Home X. Home – Time – Humanity – Technology – Space. Using digital video mapping, the author contrasts the dwelling of the past (the ruins of Parič Castle) and the possible home of the future (the universe).

    During the theoretical phase of the workshop, the participants improved their technical, technological and software skills while learning about current trends in the art field. During the practical phase, in cooperation with expert lecturers, they used the acquired experience directly in the field of the park. The educational laboratory provided direct experience with the realization of the work and confrontation with the viewer, where the participants gained new creative impulses, experience and knowledge in the field of contemporary visual art. The event included an accompanying activity GEO-Caching, an interactive game based on GPS coordinates designed for parents with children.

    FRIDAY 26/8/2022 – FINISSAGE

    18:00 Opening of the accompanying exhibition.

    19:00 Opening of the exhibition PARK CAMP 9 and guided tour of the park with curator Miroslav Nicza

    21:00 MAPPING to Parič Castle: Lukáš Matejka and TRAKT o.z.

    22:00 Musical solitaire – Raptor Koch – Koniareň

    23:30 End of the event and de-installation of works in the exterior of the park

  • Takt bridge

    Takt bridge

    Sound installation on the old railway bridge in Trencin

    The sound installation Takt, set in the environment of the old railway bridge in Trenčín, is a new work of art by the TRAKT civic association. The interactive work was created together with other invited colleagues from the cultural and technological field. The work was created with the help of the ECC Trenčín 2026 team, which worked intensively on the candidacy of the city of Trenčín in this prestigious cultural event (European Capital of Culture). The sound installation was first launched to the public in a test phase at the turn of November and December 2021.

    The author of the music is the young performer Toello, coming from Trenčianske Teplice, who layered 16 unique original tracks. These are triggered interactively by embedded sensors and thus react to people coming and going directly on the bridge. If one person enters the bridge the first musical layer is triggered, the next person crossing triggers the next, and so on. When the passer-by leaves the bridge, the track turns off again. If there are, for example, 10 people on the bridge at the same time, in the sensed environment directly above the river Váh, 10 sound tracks will play in parallel, which together will form a single musical unit. The maximum is 16 music tracks. At that point, passers-by will be able to hear the full track. If there is no one on the bridge, it will remain silent. Takt is available every day from 7:00 am to 4:00 pm.

    The work responds to collaboration, togetherness and connectedness in a local context. For example, in the quest to become ECoC 2026, but also in the unification of the cultural and artistic community. However, it also responds to global contexts such as the polarisation of society in different areas. The sound installation presents in a rather illustrative way the idea of “unity is strength”, where only by being present with each other can people play a musical piece in its full scope. Although the individual plays an essential role, he or she cannot create the whole on his or her own.

    Photos by Juraj Majersky and Lukas Matejka.

  • Festival of lights and shadow 2021

    Festival of lights and shadow 2021

    The Festival of lights and shadow in the heart of Slovakia came into existence in 2015 on the occasion of the UN declaration of that year as the International Year of lights and light-based technologies. The aim of this step is to remind people across the world of what a significant role light and optical technologies play in the everyday life and in the future development of our society.

    Our festival will bring an adaptation of a subject of MEMORY into the public space of the city of Banská Bystrica with the help of contemporary artists in December 2021. Many artists work with the subject of memory, often to record something for future generations. Others prefer to disrupt the memory in unexpected ways to change the methods by which we look at the past. How does the art influence our collective memory? And how can it inform our experience about significant events of our time?

    We want to do art that tells stories. Stories about personal and cultural memory. Art is open to interpretation. Memory of the past is not a clear story. It is a combination of opinions from different points of view.

    WHEN: 15. – 18. 12. 2021

    WHERE: public space of Banská Bystrica

    More information at: www.svetlo-tien.sk

    Festival was funded by the Slovak Arts Council from public resources. Thank you.