Martin Blažíček

Blazicek/Blazsek

2010, live video, 30min

Live video with stage installation and live sound by Andras Blazsek. Performed live at +3dB Contemporary Sound Art Festival, Budapest.

Swing(2)

Live video installation. For CAMP festival, Karlsruhe, HfG 2010

Two video cubes transmitting and instantly re-editing live video signal from festival bar. This work is a small tribute to Kurt Kren's 1979 classics Sentimental punk.

Swing(1)

Live video installation. For PAF Festival, Olomouc 2009

"Nobody understand how this works, but everybody love it. This is the most beautifull piece in the festival." (Alexandr Jančík, PAF festival director)

42:43 asi

2009-10, app 25min.
Kateřina Zochová - harp, electronics.
Martin Blazicek - live film/video

After Lethaby

After Lethaby video performance by by Martin Blažíček and Steven Ball, Lethaby Gallery, Central St Martins College of Art and Design, London, 20 May 2009. Video.

Mikroloops

Expanded cinema performance. Since 2007. With Stanislav Abrahám, Michail Cabowitz, Georgij Bagdasarov.
Mikroloops is a/v event, live cinema, noise-ambient, improvisation, 16mm screening, optical toys, diy instruments, stroboscopic imagery, sound engeneering, realitime sampling, open-ended performance. myspace.com/mikroloops, foto.

Mikroloops est un évenement visuel et sonore imprévisible: cinema en direct, musique ambiante bruitiste, improvisation, projection 16mm, jouets optiques, instruments bricolés maison, imagerie stroboscopique, traitement sonore en temps réel et fin ouverte. La performance de Mikroloops est liée aussi bien à la tradition du "cinéma élargi" qu'aux recherches sonores actuelles. Mikroloops propose une expérience unique d'images projetées et de sons improvisés changeant de manière inattendue notre perception du cinéma et de la musique.

MTPS28

2008, collaborative site specific installation
3 days workshop resulting into one day installation at Školska 28 gallery Prague. Commissioned project for Multiplace 2007 festival. Michail Cabowitz (interactive sound), Martin Blažíček, Kryštof Pešek and Michal Kindernay (interactive video), Aleš Zemene (networking). Video.

Orfeus

2008, collaborative installation
Audiovisual interactive enviroment. With: Viktor Fuček (video); Audio: Michail Cabowitz, Lasonick, Jiří Maha (PureData); Interactivity: Kryštof Pešek (Processing); Project supervisor: Miloš Vojtěchovský. Video, img1, img2, img3

Near Zlaté piesky

Collaborative video performance. Workshop with Steven Ball, Bratilava, 13m3, August 2007. Steven's comments, video documentation, other workshop videos (via DirectObjective).

xxx/untitled

2006, video, sound, live typing, app.5 min
A small improvised intervention into Antonioni's Behind the Clouds.

Eutopia

2006, Live video with Steven Ball, KeyWorks, 40min, b/w, sound
Eutopia is an improvised web video performance creating new architectural structures based on images from Prague and London. Performed Nov-17 2006 at Školská28 Gallery Prague and St Martins College London. Video.

P-P (pleonasm)

2006, cooperation with Ondřej Vavrečka, performance 16mm, 15-20min, b/w, sound
A visual (inter)play between two projectors, the space and the screen.

Š28²

2005, cooperation with Ondřej Vavrečka, performance 16mm, 28min, b/w, sound
The performance was designed exclusively for the space of Školská 28 Gallery in Prague inspired by the rectangular lay-out of two projecting stations. Through the grid of rectangular windows the filmscreen placed outside the gallery space was exposed to a communication of two different pictures. The screen was in a 45° angle to all projectors and to the windows.

Koridor

2004, 35mm slide, video, installation
Instalation of video and slide projection in Kellertheater Kuenstlerhaus Boswil, Switzerland. A picture loop connecting passers-bys on Zurich streets with fragments of a horror movies.

Walking Man

2003, 16mm, 10min, live projection
Live 16mm film/slide performance with Eva Klimáčková (dance) and Ayel Ramos (music) at Multiplace2 festival Žilina, SK

Lumiere project

2003+2006, performance 16mm
Multi-screen 16mm installation in a remake of the classic Lumiére brothers' film.

Ultra

2000-2002, 16mm performance, 45min
Ultra (also V_ltra) initiated in 2000 as a continuation of F.A.G improvisation group. Ultra's production is based on multiple 16mm film projection accompanied by improvised music. Ultra members and co-operators (2000-2003) were Martin Blažíček [16mm film], František Wirth [16mm projection], Alice Ružičková [16mm projection], Filip Novák [violin], Marcus Godwyn (UK) [drums&percussion], Viola Ježková [piano], Ladislav Soukup [contrabass], Pavel Malý [drums], Vladimír Špulák [clarinet], Petr Marek [guitar, violin, keyboard, sampler, tapes], Prokop Holoubek [drums, clarinet, keyboard, sampler], Sergej Kotov (RUS) [guitar, tapes], Jiří Nezhyba [drums], Ludmila Chábová [violin]