Art historian, writer and curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Collection at National Gallery Prague, Monika Čejková, was opening our brand new talk series Women in Focus. Monika discussed her interest in contemporary art which paved her journey to becoming an author and curator, and she described her recent projects mostly dealing with the notion and modification of art in the digital age. Specifically, she was talking about the philosophy of new technologies, artificial intelligence, cyber culture and the topics of post-gender world, post-humanism and digisexuality.
About the speaker:
Monika Čejková is a curator of the next Fotograf Festival 2023: #Hypertension23 at National Gallery Prague and Ora et lege II at Broumov Monastery, 2023. Recent exhibitions include e.g., The Palace of Concrete Poetry at Writers House of Georgia in Tbilisi (2022), Neo-rising at Polansky Gallery in Prague (2022), Ora et lege I at Broumov Monastery (2021), Fantasy Finery at Berlínskej model Gallery in Prague (2021), Blasted Heathat AM 180 Gallery in Prague (2020). She studied History of Art at the Charles University in Prague. She is currently undergoing curatorial residency at the Delfina Foundation in London during which she plans to continue to expolore the theme of art in the (post) digital age and extend her research to art in relation to the new identity of the human being whose original form has been abstracted by digital space.
In 2020, Monika launched a long-term nomadic project titled "Ora et lege" – a critical dialogue between contemporary art and the teachings of the Benedictine order and the Catholic Church in general. This project is thematically focused on the work of contemporary visual artists with text and paved the way for another subject that Monika is currently exploring: the literary turn in visual art, which has brought to the fore various forms of authorial writing in relation to the overabundance of digital text.
More info:
www.monikacejkova.com
www.instagram.com/monika_cejkova
Czech Centre London:
https://london.czechcentres.cz/en/program
Recorded at the Czech Embassy Cinema in London on Wed 23 March 2023.
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