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Křest knihy | Nikola Ivanov: Oslepeni jasem
Baptism of the book Nikola Ivanov: Blinded by brightness
Event by: Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová v Praze, ArtMap, Knihkupectví ArtMap, Nikola Ivanov
Location: Knihkupectví ArtMap, Vojtěšská 196, Praha 1
Discussions and lectures
About event
We invite you to the baptism of Nikola Ivanova: blinded by brightness 12. 6. Shifting differences between the day and night of the dream of modernity, or its nightmare? When we shine into the darkest corners, does it really mean that we can see and understand everything? Or can omnipresent brightness blind us? The first part of the book defines and summarizes the current research of the topic of the colonization of the night and monitors its important speeches from antiquity to the present. The second part is already more specific oriented to the lighting of night areas with space mirrors. For the first time ever, it has comprehensively maps the history of these plans since their early 1920s until the present and sets them in social, political, cultural and environmental context. It is published by Czech-anglicky. He is an editor of the proceedings rest in restlessness, which is devoted to the issue of biopolitics of sleep. At present, the studio of applied photography at FUD UJEP in Ústí nad Labem works as a methodologist of the Department of Graphics UMPRUM. m. Prague, Prague 1 and the statutory city of Brno.