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Magda Stanová

Education
2016 Ph.D. in Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Czech Republic
2010 MFA New Genres, San Francisco Art Institute, USA (Fulbright scholarship)
2008–2007 Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy, Faculty of Arts and Design – clasAV – Visual Arts
2007 Mgr. Art (MFA) Photography and New Media, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia
2005–2003 Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich, Switzerland – Fine Arts
2003 Bc. (BFA) Photography and Video, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia
2002 Slippery Rock University, PA, USA – exchange semester

Books
Roberto Casati, Magda Stanová, and Stéphanie Roisin. The Pedestrian's Venice. Monographic issue
of Magazine X — magazine for contemporary drawing, No°11, Bratislava, 2017
Magda Stanová. Algorithms in Art. Nakladatelství AVU / Academy of Fine Arts & CEE PhotoFund, Prague, 2016
Magda Stanová. Algoritmy v umení. Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, 2015
Magda Stanová. W Cieniu Fotografii, Fundacja Sztuk Wizualnych, Krakow, 2008

Solo exhibitions
2018 Algorithms in Art, Consulate of the Slovak Republic in Texas, Dallas, USA
2014 Dáma s dvomi hlavami, Galéria mladých, Nitrianska galéria, Nitra, Slovakia
Travel Guide, Altán Klamovka, Prague, Czech Republic
Travel Guide, Generator, Venice, Italy
2013 Ve stínu fotografie, Communication Space Školská 28, Prague, Czech Republic
Dovolenkovo turistický, Space Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
With Scientists on Art, etc. gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2011 Algoritmi nell'arte, V.M.21 arte contemporanea - Project Room, Rome, Italy
2010 In the Shadow of Photography, Fremantle Arts Center, Fremantle, Australia
2009 In the Shadow of Photography, Rencontre d’Arles, Arles, France
2008 W cieniu fotografii, Galeria ZPAF i S-ka, Krakow, Poland
2006 Schiller, Cucina e Libri, Zurich, Switzerland
2001 Schiller, Bludný Kámen, Opava, Czech Republic
2000 Rathaus, Plettenberg, Germany
Cultural center, Poprad, Slovakia
1999 Smetisko dejín, Alter Ego, Kežmarok, Slovakia

Group exhibitions
2021 Odhady budoucnosti, POP-UP Galerie AVU, Prague, Czech Republic
Pictures—Windows—Systems, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2020 Smoke and Mirrors, part of Month of Photography, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
DIVOCe!, NoD, Prague, Czech Republic
2019 Datami—Resonances III, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
Posledních 30 let emancipace (III.), Galerie Klementinum, Prague, Czech Republic
220 kreseb, AVU, Prague, Czech Republic
Traces of Landscape, Galerie G18, Zlín, Czech Republic
The essayist, The Cross Art Projects, Sydney, Australia
2018 Apparatus 2.0: The Unreliable Library, Foundation and Centre for Contemporary Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
Connections, TRAM – Train Gallery and Cultural Center, Bratislava, Slovakia – Vienna, Austria
Algoritmy obrazov—obrazy algoritmov, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2017 Working Exhibition, Nová synagóga, Žilina, Slovakia
2016 Apparatus for a Utopian Image, EFA Project Space, New York, USA
White Spaces in Slovak Photography: The creative communication by Milota Havránková
and her students, 1972 - 2016, Leica Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2015 Quiet Works (Dining Chair), Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, USA
2014 STOPs, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia
Open Studios, Triangle Arts Assosiation, Brooklyn, USA
Nulla Dies Sine Linea, Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
2013 Vrstvy / Layers, Médium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2012 Kroužek, Gallery of the Slovak Institute in Prague, Czech Republic – guest of Dušan Záhoranský
Concentrado V. A4, Apis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Koncentrát V. A4, Krux Gallery, Brandýs nad Labem, Czech Republic
There Will Be Others, Angus Hughes Gallery, London, UK
Hotel de Inmigrantes: Cosmopolitan Stranger, Studio Koen Vanmechelen, Hasselt, Belgium
Posun o devadesát stupňů, Nod, Prague, Czech Republic
2011 Crazycurators Biennale III, Vasváry Ház, Pécs, Hungary
Voices from the Center, ThreeWalls, Chicago, USA
Unfree Freedom, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, USA
Mladé médium, Dom umenia, Bratislava, Slovakia
MAPY/MAPS 1960–2011, Galéria mesta Bratislavy, Bratislava, Slovakia
Crazycurators Biennale III, CK Zamek, Poznań, Poland
2010 Predpremiéra, Stredoslovenská galéria, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Crazycurators Biennale III, Space Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
MFA Exhibition, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, USA
La Collezione Spazio Libro d’Artista, Museo Regionale di Messina, Messina, Italy
Talent Latent, Centre Cultural de Ripollet, Ripollet, Spain
2009 Twentysix Gasoline Stations ed altri libri d’artista, Museo regionale di Messina, Messina, Italy
Reorientation, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, USA
MAPP, Rosie’s Cheeks, San Francisco, USA
V priestore a v čase, Galéria mesta Bratislavy, Bratislava, Slovakia
Toys, Scala Mata Gallery, Venice, Italy
Fulbright Art Exhibit, IIE, San Francisco, USA
Talent Latent, Centre d’Art Torre Muntadas, El Prat, Spain; Sala Muncunill, Terrassa, Spain
2008 Talent Latent, El Refugi – Moll de Costa del Port de Tarragona, Tarragona, Spain
Talent Latent, Sales d’Exposiciones de Can Palauet, Mataró, Spain
Talent Latent, El Museu d’Art de Sabadell, Sabadell, Spain
IN/visible, Festival of Visual Art, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Arrivals + Departures, Sala Samonà, Padova, Italy
2007 BOOM!, Gallery Scala Mata, Venice, Italy
Diplomové práce 2007, Dom umenia, Bratislava, Slovakia
I have a dream … za plotom, Embassy of the U.S.A. Bratislava, Slovakia
Human Nature, Kostol Zvestovania Panny Márie, Bratislava, Slovakia
Tatranské šťavy, Gallery Baronka, Kežmarok, Slovakia
2006 Jump into Cold Water, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Real Presence 06, Museum of the City of Belgrade, Serbia
2005 Diplomausstellung, HGK Zurich, Switzerland
2004 ISTROART 2004, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Real Presence 04, Museum of 25th of May, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
2003 Privat Frei, Open Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2002 Tri dielne, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2001 Istroart 2001, Slovenska umelecká beseda, Bratislava, Slovakia

Awards and scholarships
2018 Leonardo Emerging Artist Award
2017 The Most Beautiful Books of Slovakia 2016 (for the book Algorithms in Art)
2016 NOVUM Foundation Award
2011 CEC ArtsLink - Independent Project Award
2010 Plat(t)form 10, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland – special mention
2009 Rencontre d’Arles, France – nomination for the Discovery Award (by Joan Fontcuberta)
Anne Bremer Memorial Library Artist’s Book Contest – winner
2008 Fulbright scholarship
2003 Bundesstipendium für ausländische Studierende, Kunstschaffende und Forschende (ESKAS), Switzerland

Residencies
2021 Literární pobyty v Luhačovicích, Pramen Luhačovice Foundation, Luhačovice, Czech Republic
Brno Artists in Residence, Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic
2019 Regular Line, Nástupište 1–12 / Emmemm Publishing, Seattle, USA
2014 Triangle Arts Association, Brooklyn, USA – Visegrad/Futura Artist-in-Residency Program
Generator Residency Program, Venice, Italy
2011 Futura, Prague, Czech Republic – Visegrad Artist-in-Residency Program
2007 Habit at Ypenburg, Den Haag, Holland
2006 (Gast)Gewerbe, dieHasena, Dalvazza, Switzerland
2003 GARBa, Montescaglioso, Italy

Performative lectures / Lecture shows
2021 Algoritmy v umení, Graphic Design Studio 2, Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Techonology, Czech Republic
Algoritmy v umení, Dům umění města Brna, Brno, Czech Republic
2019 Narrative: The Making of Datami, part of Datami - Resonances III festival, Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy
Algorithms in Art, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Prague College, Prague, Czech Republic
2018 Algorithms in Art, MIT Open Documentary Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Algorithms in Art, School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication, The University of Texas
at Dallas, USA
Algoritmy v umení, Ateliér Místoprostor, Prague, Czech Republic
Algoritmy v umení, part of OE18 lecture series, CAS FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic
2017 Algorithms in Art, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
2014 Dáma se dvěma hlavami, Situace 52, Galerie Pavilon, Prague, Czech Republic
2013 The Lady with Two Heads, Communication Space Školská 28, Prague, Czech Republic
Algorithms in Photography, conference The Lure of the New, Cognition Institute, University of Plymouth, UK
Algorithms in Photogaphy, Studio of Photography, UMPRUM, Czech Republic
2012 Přednáška a panelová diskuze, Sympózium školy umění, AVU, Prague, Czech Republic
Algorithms in Photography, Günter Grass Gallery, Gdańsk, Poland
Algorithms in Photography, Angus Hughes Gallery, London, UK
2011 V tieni fotografie, Studio Letná, Prague, Czech Republic
Life and Culture of a Foreign Speaking Region, part of Revolution, Transformation and Identity: Central European
Artists Reflect upon Post-Communistic Art, Urbanism and Culture, Graham Foundation, Chicago, USA
Algorithms in Art: A Rehearsal for an Upcoming Lecture, Futura, Prague, Czech Republic
2010 The Metric System, with David Peña Lopera, part of the Alternative Lecture Series, San Francisco Art Institute,
San Francisco, USA
2009 In the Shadow of Photography, part of the Alternative Lecture Series, San Francisco Art Institute,
San Francisco, USA

Non-performative talks
2021 Artistic thinking in scientific research, X-disciplinary Congress on Artistic Research and Related Matters,
Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania
2020 3x artistic research, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague & Fresh Eye (online)
2019 Chodec v meste (The Pedestrian in a City), Galerie G18, Zlín, Czech Republic
2013 Pecha Kucha Night Vol 25, Dom umenia / Kunsthalle, Bratislava
2012 Nápaditý aktivizmus (Creative Activism), part of the workshop Abandoned (Re)creation, Trenčianske Teplice, Slovakia
2011 Places, Non-places, and Anti-places: Society, Automobile, and Concrete in San Francisco, with Michal Růžička, conference The Third City, Faculty of Sociology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Twist, UQBAR, Berlin, Germany

Papers/chapters in peer-reviewed journals/books
Michal Růžička, Magda Stanová: Separate and Unite: The Architecture of Social Inequalities in the Republic of Venice
[published in the Czech language], Czech Sociological Review, 2013, Vol. 49, No. 5: 703-727
Magda Stanová, Michal Růžička: Beton a automobil vs. společnost v San Francisku in Vacková, B., Galčanová, L.,
Ferenčuhová, S., eds.: Třetí město, Nakladatelství Pavel Mervart, Masarykova univerzita, Červený Kostelec, 2011

Other publications
220 míst AVU, Akademie výtvarných umění v Praze, Praha, 2019 (two drawings)
Fotonoviny, 43/18, Bratislava, 2018 (cover image)
Philosophie Magazine No°66, Paris, February 2013 (work Starry Sky)
There will be others.., The Modern Language Experiment, London, 2012
A2, Galerie - Zo série Travel Guide, Praha, 15/2012
Roberto Casati, Magda Stanová, Stéphanie Roisin: (Corner)stones of Venice: Targeting the Island Advantage
in the Topological Representation of the City, www.radicalcartography.net, 2010
Miriam Petráňová, Magda Stanová, Illah van Oijen: Build a House, Plant a Tree, Bear a Son, Den Haag, 2007
AZYL 2005, Compilation of short films, SME, Bratislava, 2006
Illywords N°13 Progetto Consapevole, Italy, 2005
Ohne Titel: Diplompublikation 2005, Edition Fink – Verlag für zeitfenossische Kunst, Zürich, 2005
No Credits – Themenheft zu Kunstausbildung und "Repräsentation", "Ausgebildete Leute" (drawing), published by
Annatina Caprez, Berni Doessegger, Maria Eichhorn, Yelitz Palak, Christian Ratti and Nils Vije, Zürich, 2005

Film festivals
2007 The One Minutes Belgian Open
2006 International Film Festival in Bratislava, Slovakia
AZYL, internet festival of 1minute’ and 5minute’ films, www.azyl.sk
SMART, Student Media Art Festival, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
2005 International Film Festival in Bratislava, Slovakia
AZYL, internet festival of 1minute’ and 5minute’ films, www.azyl.sk
Minimotion, Switzerland
2004 ÁČKO Film Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia

Bibliography
TypeTogether, “Type in Use: The Pedestrian's Venice”, 11/2020
Ivan Gerát a Marián Zervan, eds.: Algoritmy obrazov - obrazy algoritmov, Bratislava: Slovart / Nadácia Novum / VŠVU, 2020
MAG D A, Peter Michalík: “The Pedestrian's Venice”, magdamag.sk, 2/8/2018
Lenka Sýkorová, ed.: Postkonceptuální přesahy v české kresbě, Fakulta umění a designu Univerzity Jana Evangelisty
Purkyně, Ústí nad Labem, 2015
etc. galerie 2004–2015, etc. galerie, Praha, 2015
Dennik N, “Dielo dňa: V tieni fotografie”, Bratislava, 1/21/2015
Juraj Čarný, Barbora Geržová, Richard Gregor, Diana Majdáková, Katarína Müllerová: Päťdesiat súčasných umelcov
na Slovensku / Fifty Contemporary Artists in Slovakia, Art Academy / Slovart, Bratislava, 2014
FlashArt Czech & Slovak Edition, Viktor Čech: “Magda Stanová”, No. 32-33, September - December 2014
FlashArt Czech & Slovak Edition, Lýdia Pribišová: “Magda Stanová”, No. 2 English Issue, 2013
Fotograf, Image and Text, “Magda Stanová”, Prague, #22/2013
Sme, “Kam chodíme”, Bratislava, 9/9/2013
FlashArt Czech & Slovak Edition, “Magda Stanová – Je možné vytvoriť algoritmus na tvorbu umenia?”, No. 26,
December 2012 - March 2013
Sme, “Nekupujte mužom šálku”, Bratislava, 10/16/2010
ProPhoto, “FotoFreo's Femme Fatales”, July 2010
Fulbright. V priestore a čase, exhibition catalogue, Bratislava, 2009
Rencontres d'Arles 2009, exhibition catalogue, Arles, 2009
Kwartalnik Fotografia, “Magda Stanova, W cieniu fotografii”, 31/2009
The Black Snapper, “Photo.sittcomm – A Little Bit of Punk, Day 3”, 8/24/2009
Fugitive Vision, blog by Evan Mirapau, “Impressions from Rencontres d’Arles ‘09”, http://fugitivevision.blogspot.com,
7/14/2009
Obieg, “Zacie(m)nienie. ‘W cieniu fotofrafii’ Magdy Stanovej”, www.obieg.pl, 1/18/2009
Kultura Popularna, “Ankieta”, Warsaw, 1/2009
El Pais, “Miradas nacidas en los margenes”, Barcelona, 4/18/2008
Talent Latent, exhibition catalog, Barcelona, 2008
Schweizer Buchhandel, “Schillers Leben als Apfel”, Zürich, 7/2006

Teaching
2021— assistant professor, Department of Art Theory and History, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Czech Republic
2020—2017 adjunct lecturer, class: Doctoral Seminar, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Czech Republic
2014 adjunct lecturer at the Studio of Documentary Photography (with Lucia Nimcová), FAMU, Academy of
Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic
2010 teaching assistant for the bookbinding part of the Digital Book class with John DeMerritt, San Francisco
Art Institute, USA
2009 teaching assistant for the Photoworks class with Tim Sullivan, San Francisco Art Institute, USA
2009 teaching assistant for the Frameworks for Art, Design, and Technology class with Paul Klein, San Francisco
Art Institute, USA

Guest lecturer
2018 ArtSciLab (with Roger Malina), School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication, The University of Texas
at Dallas, USA
2017 Studio of Authorial Theatre, Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague,
Czech Republic
Studio of Documentary Photography, Department of Photography, Film and TV School, Academy of Performing
Arts in Prague, Czech Republic
Academy of Contemporary Photography, Matela Studio, Prague, Czech Republic
2016 Studio of Drawing and Printmaking, Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Techonology, Czech Republic
Advanced Sculpture Studio, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, USA
Sculpture Seminar, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, USA
Basic Drawing I, Emmanuel College, Boston, USA
Doctoral Seminar, Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Techonology, Czech Republic
2013 Studio of Photography, Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague, Czech Republic
2010 Laboratory of Photography, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia
Visual Studies class, Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín, Czech Republic