Homage of Jiřina Hauková and Jindřich Chalupecký
- Location:
- Praha 10 – Vršovice
- park Jiřiny Haukové a Jindřicha Chalupeckého
- Vršovická
- Ukrajinská
- Investor:
- MČ Praha 10
- Author:
- Adam Rajnoch, Vojtěch Tecl, Tereza Brussmannová, Savka Marenić
- Typology:
- Public space, Landscape
- Status:
- Urban planning proceedings
- Project start:
- Q3 2020
- Total investment:
- CZK 5 million
- Updated:
- 10/25/2021
- Sources:
- cceamoba.cz
The subject of the competition was to find the best artistic representation of the homage to Jiřina Hauková and Jindřich Chalupecký - the best solution of artistic intervention in the Park of Jiřina Hauková and Jindřich Chalupecký between Vršovická and U Vršovického nádraží streets in Prague 10. The competition aimed to find a partner for the city district of Prague 10 to create a quality contemporary art installation in a public space, following the rules set by the Art for the City Program.
Annotation:
The tribute to Jiřina Hauková and Jindřich Chalupecký is a synthesis of both - "together." It speaks through a new hybrid billboard. Using existing technology, it can create new texts through the texts of both authors. By connecting these two personalities, endless variations of intelligent generated text are born. It is invented by a neural network system, taught by all available texts and archives left behind by both authors. A combination of two approaches to creating written text is created, creating new immortal poetry and ideas that are constantly being updated.
Jury Evaluation:
An interesting project of a "hybrid auto-intellectual billboard" - technologically, formally, and content-wise. The automatic generation of new texts corresponds to several current procedures thematizing the limits and possibilities of artificial intelligence and automation (Chalupecký also wrote with some apprehension in his canonical text The World We Live In). An interesting part of the work is the creation of an archive of generated texts. The project works interestingly with the legacy of both authors. It uses a simple display, common for public space, but typically for a nearby train station rather than a park. A kind of living archive based on the generation of new texts using a neural network system relates both authors' work to the present. At the same time, it is an attractive element for the users of the place. Straightforwardly, it also evokes a slightly inappropriate, unpathetic "retro" atmosphere of a kind of drive-in cinema.