VKB Archive Items
Works
Brotherhood
Brother_in_Diagrams - installation drawing
Brother_in_Electric_Image - installation software
Brother_in_General - photographs from ICC Tokyo 1998
Brother_in_HTML - website with historical photos related to the development of the installation at ICC Tokyo 1998
Brother_in_Movies - animation of individual parts of the installation
Brother_in_PDF
Brother_in_Text - collection of texts about the installation
Brother_Source_Slides
CerrillosStudio1 - photos Maiden and Scribe (1998)
CerrillosStudio2 - photos of the development process (1998)
CerrillosStudio3 - photos of collaborators (1998)
Manuál k instalaci
Light Revisited
Installation manual (2001, 2007)
Video registration from the exhibition at Špilberk (2016)
Photographs
Czech TV report on the "Light Revisited" installation at MG Brno (2017)
Video
Tools
Dual Colorizer
Field Flip/Flop Switcher
H.D. Variable Clock
Multikeyer
Programmer
Putney Audio Synthesizer
Rutt/Etra Scan Processor
Waveform Generator
Software
Boris
Digital Image Articulator
Image/ine
ImX
Interactor
Unicom
websites
Archival research
About
THE ARCHIVE COLLECTION of the Vašulka Kitchen Brno currently consists of physical and digital art works, multimedia installations, digital and analog data such as software, web pages, installation materials, expert studies, work concepts, media, various analogue and technical devices and players, as well as a personal collection comprising various documents, photographs and the Vašulkas’ personal correspondence.
THE CORE OF THE COLLECTION consists of a number of works by Woody and Steina Vašulka, all either owned or on long-term loan by the association. These include prints from the Lucifer’s Commission series (1977–2003), a computer study from the Triads series (2003) and the spatial installation Light Revisited – Noisefields (2001) which was created by transforming the Vašulkas’ original, one-channel video Noisefields from 1974.
THE ARCHIVE FILES now contain almost 870 GB of partly inventoried digital data, many Hi8 tapes, VHS tapes, MiniDV and DVD media, as well as a few boxes of unique catalogs and family photo albums. There is also a set of master tapes and their variations which the Vašulkas donated to the VKB association and which include the works of other artists from the MindFrames exhibition held at ZKM (2006), produced by the Vašulkas and Peter Weibel. Most of these materials date to the period of the legendary The Kitchen space in New York City, which Woody and Steina Vašulka co-founded and dramaturgically co-produced between 1971–1973. A part of our digital and personal collection also consists of much material donated by curator and art historian Lenka Dolanová who acquired it from the Vašulkas during her stay in Santa Fe.
ARCHIVE vkbamenu_itemS IN THE DATABASE are processed in both Czech and English and each one is logged under an inventory number and index. The inventoried materials include information about the date of their creation and the inventory entry, file format, authors and commentary on their original source. Keywords constitute an important part of the logs, allowing researchers and anyone interested in the life and work of the Vašulkas, as well as of other media and video artists from central Europe, to process the diverse and thematically connected materials across the entire database.
ARCHIVE AND COLLECTION PROCESSING TEAM (2023) Concept, methodology, production: Barbora Šedivá, Kateřina Drajsajtlová Inventory: Kateřina Drajsajtlová, Barbora Šedivá, Monika Szüczová, Dan Karmazin, Gabriela Štvrtňová Programming and database design: Lloyd Dunn, Dušan Barok Expert consultants: Dušan Barok, Sylva Poláková, Matěj Strnad, Jana Horáková, Michal Klodner
SUPPORT AND COLLABORATION Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Statutory City of Brno, State Cultural Fund, Vasulka Chamber Reykjavík, The National Gallery of Iceland, Brno House of Arts, Agosto Foundation, Theory of Interactive Media MUNI, Faculty of Fine Arts of the Brno University of Technology, Národní filmový archiv