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Jiri Suchanek

is a Czech sound and media artists focused on creating permanent audio-light installations and systems that are usually interactive and placed in natural or public spaces (like a cave, astronomic observatory, bridge…). In his intermedial work he synesthetically combines sound, light, objects, mechanics, electronics + code with carefully selected spaces and often involves natural, chaotic, thermodynamic processes in the generation or controlling of emerging music and light patterns. He promotes the idea of ​​open, shared authorship, where the environment is a crucial co-author of the art piece. Through the transformation – sonification of chaotic events, he explores the possibilities of experiencing reality through sound. He realized a large number of long-term multimedia installations in public space, exhibited and performed concerts at a number of international festivals and conferences such as: CTM, UNSOUND, ICAD, NEXT, ENH, NIME, klingt gut! STEIM or Institute of Sonology. Among other things, he teaches courses dealing with sound art and audio technologies (at FaVU and JAMU). In 2020, he founded the association SVITAVA – transmedia art lab and co-established SONDA – festival of experimental music and sound art.