VKB Archive Items | Vašulka Kitchen Brno

Archiv a databáze Vašulka Kitchen Brno

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

Master copies: A-G, H-Q, R-Z

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

Archival research

Vasulka Mediascape
tool for navigating the media landscape of Vasulkas

Vašulka Live Archive
intelligent tool and special interface for studying Vasulkas' work

Vašulka & The Kitchen
series of posts from the VKB archive on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of The Kitchen

Vašulka Kitchen Brno - archive and collection in 2024
research on software, new acquisitions of personal holdings and curatorial selection of works from the V-M-P studio

Vasulka.org
version of the Vasulka website with reconstructed moving images

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

filtered search:

Inv. no.	S/A	Medium	Folder	Název	Key words	Technique	Author(s)	Místo
VMP0131	A		Archiv_VMP/Pavucek_Frantisek/	Prach	VMP		Pavůček František
VMP0076	A		Archiv_VMP/Tancekova_Petronela_Estrada/	Frida Kahlo DOX	VMP, performance		Tancekova Petronela Estrada (P.E.T.)	Brno
VMP0012	A	digitální záznam	Archiv_VMP/David_Čech/	Volání	performance, VMP	video	David Čech
VMP0100	A		Archiv_VMP/Orel_Tomas_Jakub/	Cesta vody Vyvěrání Jedovnického potoka	VMP, performance		Orel Tomáš Jakub
VMP0045	A		Archiv_VMP/Lorenc_Tomas/	Rukavička	VMP, audiovizuální dílo		Lorenc Tomáš	Brno
VMP0132	A		Archiv_VMP/Helia DeFelice_Jennifer/	Vasulka Chamber	VMP		Helia DeFelice Jennifer
VMP0077	A		Archiv_VMP/Trnkova_Barbora/	All Idiots Virtual Visit	VMP		Trnková Barbora	Brno

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