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| Honza Svasek |
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1954 - Vianen, the Netherlands.
System Programmer turned artist.
werkplaats LUNA-TIKS
Katendrechtse Lagedijk 461
Online since 1984
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| 关于此艺术家 |
I am a Linux, Unix, Networking specialist with more than 20 years experience and a skilled debugger and trouble-shooter. Since 1996 I make computer music. In 2004 I started working with Javascript Animations and Web Design. Beginning 2007 I changed my focus away from commerial programming projects and concentrated on creating Interactive Digital Art. Since beginning 2008 I have a art production shop in Rotterdam.
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Come Out
2007 mixed 92 x 69 |
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Mosaic with embedded Linux laptop alternating two photo's of the face of Antony Hall made at DEAF07. (Dutch Electronic Arts Festival) |
Cyber Vodoo
2007 mixed material 92 x 69 |
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Mosaic with embedded motherboard. |
touchMe 0.0
2007 mosaic with embedded laptop 92 x 69 |
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Interactive Mosaic with embedded Linux laptop, Webcam, Magnets, LEDs and USB. |
Reflections of a Traveler
2007 Mirror mosaic 92 x 69 |
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Mirror Mosaic with embedded digital photo frame displaying webcam recordings made from the window of an ICE train. |
seeMe.ath.cx
2008 framed laptop with internet connection 40 x 60 |
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An Open Source Software Mosaic consisting of imgSeek: a Content Based Image Retrieval System, a hacked version of Motion: a Software Motion Detector, Apache, PHP and Firefox in kiosk mode and some scripts, running on a hacked Packard Bell laptop under Ubuntu.
Currently this artwork can be seen and interacted with at the Katendrechtse Lagedijk 461 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where it is usually mounted in the door of Werkplaats LUNA-TIKS, an art production facility run by Honza Svašek and friends.
This work displays a matrix of 20 images which are visually similar to the current image. Usually the current image shows the observer of the artwork as observed by the artwork.
If the current image does not change for some time, the system goes in sleeping mode and starts dreaming: a random matrix of the past gets displayed. |
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| 教育程度与个人自传 |
I studied Physics at the Delft Technical University. After 2 years I knew how to program in Algol and PL1, how to make holograms and how to operate punchcard machines. I also had learned a little Job Control Language.
The programming virus got me, but academic life was nothing for me and after I completed my propedeuse and left with my girlfriend to see the world. We sold everything and set of for Norway. I never arrived there but ended up in Copenhagen, Denmark, where I worked for 7 years at a small publishing house as a graphic designer before returning to the Netherlands in 1983 with a wife and two daughters.
Back in the Netherlands, I soon found a job at the Dutch Refinery from Kuwait Petroleum. My task was managing and programming their IBM 360 type mainframes, but after a few month something incredible happend.
I am still not sure, but apparently one of the top Kuwait bosses shared an atlantic flight with Ken Thompson, resulting in a telex explaining that no more finances would be approved for non UNIX projects. After the initial shock faded away, I ordered the first Unix system, learned basic UNIX hacking from the founders of AT Computing, became member of the NLUUG and got on-line via UUCP at the incredible speed of 2400 baud. The year 1984 had begun...
From 1985 until 1996 I worked as a freelance Unix specialist on a score of projects for customers in Holland, Denmark, Germany and he UK. I programmed in C
In 1997 I moved to Miliře, a small village in the Czech Republic, to find my roots and to learn a bit of the Czech language. I did some commercial projects to cover my living expenses.
From 1997 until 2005, whilst based in he Czech Republic, I travelled a lot, had a good time :) and experimented with computer generated music, mainly with csound. Also I created sound installations where recorded sound of a space is chopped up in one minute intervals, randomly played back in the same space, whilst recording the sound of that space, creating strange strange multible feedback effects. I lived within one of these installations for 3 months.
At the end of this period I got more and more interested in Grapic Design, applying what I had learned much earlier on the drawing board and in the darkroom on the computer using HTML and Javascripti abd Gimp (and a little bash, python, perl as 'glue'), Some of this work is published on the internet as the Tachov X Meuseum of InterActive Art
In the end of 2005 I moved back to the Netherlands, for family reasons. Here I learned php and continued playing with graphics on my Linux box. I created the website www.honzasvasek.nl where part of my work is published on the internet.
2006 I lived spent my time 50% in the Netherlands and 50% in the Czech Republic, continued exploring Javascript and HTML for art production. I build 'mouse boots', shoes with build in wireless mice. With a self developed program that translated the mouse events to midi events I could control synthesizers by dancing. During a summer workshop at the Sju Huis in Utrecht I performed successfully with this system.
2007 I participated in the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival. I worked as a volunteer, and followed the DIY Networksworkshop, where I got introduced to circuit bending and expanded my knowledge of pdp. Later that year I created 4 mosaics with embedded linux systems.
2008 I found a place in Roterdam Zuid, on the Katendrechtse Lagedijk where I set up Werkplaats LUNA-TIKS. |
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