Petr Svárovský

Petr Svarovsky (b. 1962 in Mlada Boleslav, Czechoslovakia) lives and works in Oslo, Norway. He focuses on relation between technology and consciousness. He is a lecturer in the Department of Intermedia, Sound and Digital Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of Visual Arts, Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

Petr Svarovsky started his art career in the mid 90's , when he co-founded Silver, a collaborative platform for new media art production. He worked within the field of interactive sound installations (Sirenes, Amnesty, Dribble, DribbleX), advanced virtual reality (Resident, Shadows of Flames), investigated the Internet as an art medium (Rose, MegaStasis with Marek Chalupa), utilized mobile phones for art (TrolleySingers, Intrigue, Visitor). He has recently been working on merging software art, mobile technologies and street art, investigating the influence of computer code on human social behavior (Flirtman) and researching the possible usage of living cells as a medium for dream transferance (RoyBurger).

Petr Svarovsky has exhibited his work internationally at institutions including Laboral (Gijon, Spain), the Netherlands Media Arts Institute (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), the Hennie Onstad Kultursenter (Oslo, Norway) and the Ars Electronica Center (Linz, Austria), at independent venues and galleries including UKS (Oslo, Norway), Backspace (London, United Kingdom), STATIC (Liverpool, United Kingdom) and Aktions galerie (Berlin, Germany), and at festivals including the FILE Festival (Sao Paolo, Brazil), Ars Electronica (Linz) and the Venice Biennale (Venice, Italy). He has given presentations and lectures at institutions including the University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway), the Goethe Institut (Prague, Czech Republic) and the Univesitat Politecnica de Valencia (Valencia, Spain).

Awards / Nominations / Grants:

2009 KHiO, FoU grant

2009 OCA, International Support

2008 Art Council Norway, Art and New Technology

2006 Art Council Norway, Art and New Technology

1996 Ars Electronica '96: Honorary Mention in the cathegory "Interactive Arts"

1995 Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Art and New Technology Grant

Curatorship:

Young & Sound, CIANT Gallery, ENTER – 4th International Art / Science / Technology Festival, Prague, Czech Republic

Selected Talks / Presentations:

2009

Flirtman & Comp., project presentation, Narrative Strategies in Digital Arts, GRIG, University of Oslo, Oslo School of Architecture & Design

Northern Sound, CIANT Gallery, ENTER – 4th International Art / Science / Technology Festival, Prague, Czech Republic

Flirtman, project presentation, Atelier Nord (at Oslo Central Station), Oslo

2007

project presentation, Art Claiming The Urban Void, Urban Interface, Fabrikken, Oslo

Freedom Experience, Fine Art Training and the European Higher Education Area, Valencia, Spain

2006

Trolley Singers, project presentation, Atelier Nord

2005

Teaching program presentation, Music Technology Days, University of Oslo, NOTAM

2003

Virtual Soundscapes, work presentation, NOTAM, Oslo

1996

RESIDENT, project presentation, New Media Symposium, Goethe Institut, Prague

Collaborative works:

2009

Flirtman: together with True Solvang Vevatne

Concept, coordination, programming, design Oslo

2008

SellYourRolex: together with True Solvang Vevatne

Concept, coordination, programming, design

Gijon

2007

Intrigue E: together with Hanne Rivrud

Concept, coordination

Linz, Istanbul

2007

Visitor Beta: together with Hanne Rivrud

Concept, coordination

Venice

2007

Intrigue: together with Hanne Rivrud

Concept, coordination

Duisburg, Prague

2006

TrolleySingers: together with Atelier Nord and Henrik Sundt

Oslo

2005

Mobile Troops: together with Laura Beloff and students from Art Academy,

Oslo, coordination, contribution

2004

Airquarium; together with Laura Beloff and students from Art Academy, Oslo

and Jin Jiangbo, Shanghai.

Coordination, programming.

Shanghai, Oslo

2004

Eye; together with Laura Beloff and students from Art Academy, Oslo and Jin

Jiangbo, Shanghai.

Coordination, programming.

Shanghai, Oslo

2002

Marek Chalupa: MegaStasis

Software for interactive growing architecture.

Software concept, programming, interface.

Prague

2001

Robert Ellman: Friction

Virtual sets, postproduction, visual supervision of special effects

Czech TV, various film festivals

2001

Silencer: Tokyoman 1.02

3D model, animation, postproduction, visual supervision

videoclip

Prague

1999

Michael Bielicky: Delvaux's Dream

3D model, textures, sounds

ZKM, Karlsruhe

2009

Freedom Experience, Fine Art Training and the European Higher Education Area, ISBN 978-84-8363-433-2, vol. 1 (ISBN 978-84-8363-434-9), p. 326 - 333

2008

Olivier, Julian Be My Controller, opening up the urban, button by button, Neural, issue 30, page 38

Sedlák, Pavel Nové umění z kráteru, A2, 40/2008

Andersson, Cat Flirtující software (interview with Petr Svarovsky), A2, 40/2008

Homo Ludens Ludens catalogue, page 404, ISBN 978-84-612-4141-S

2007

Enter 3, International Festival for Art, Science and New Technologies, catalogue

Goodbye Privacy, Ars Electronica catalogue, ISBN 978-3-7757-2025-0, p. 278

Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind, Venice Biennale catalogue,page 264, ISBN 978-88-317-9256

2005

Mobile Troops

1998

Contemporary Collection - Czech Art in the ´90s, City gallery Prague, Prague (texts by Olga Malá, Miroslav Petříček jr., Karel Srp)

1997

Marta Smolíková, Virtuální fiktivní realita (interview with Silver), in. Atelier 10/1997, issue 2, page 12

Havránek, Silver a stíny plamenů, in. Atelier 10/1997, issue 2, page 12

1996

Silver Shadows of Flames / Stíny plamenů, City Gallery Prague, Prague (texts by Silver, Marta Smolíková, Karel Srp, Miloš Vojtěchovský)

Ars Electronica catalogue

1995

Orbis Fictus, eds. Marta Smolíková, Ludvík Hlaváček, Prague

1993

Jiří Zemánek, Sirénés Petra Svárovského, in. Atelier 6/1993, issue 25, page 5