Workshop on Music magazines in print
Date: January 20th, 2025
Facilitators: Ján Solčáni, Magdaléna Kobzová
The EM GUIDE project hosts 14 internal workshops: 12 online and 2 in person. These workshops are meant to help the project staff, and occasionally other contributors of the network, to acquire, improve, and exchange skills and knowledge relevant to the participating magazines and/or the network itself.
About the workshop:
The final three workshops in the 14-part series, including this one, were conducted by the project staff to collaboratively plan and implement activities with all magazines in the EM GUIDE network. Led by Atrakt Art, this workshop focused on sharing both theoretical and practical knowledge regarding print production, covering curation, editing, design, and distribution.
Specifically, through interactive discussions, participants collectively designed and decided on key aspects of the first EM GUIDE print magazine, which is planned to be a future annual magazine on music & more published always jointly by all members of the EM GUIDE network.
About the facilitators:
Ján Solčáni's practice moves between the positions of curator, sound artist and theorist. He is interested in the phenomena of culture that can be perceived and expressed through sound. He is the organiser of the lecture series on contemporary art practice and theory Videogram, co-founder and curator of the music label Skupina, curator of the sound archive Unseen, and editor of the magazine on new media and culture 3/4. Additionally, he manages the activities of the Roman Radkovič Collective. Currently, he is completing his PhD at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno, Czech Republic.
Magdaléna H. Kobzová has worked as an editor, writer and translator, as well as a cultural worker and organiser. She's interested in the contemporary philosophy and media theory, and this interest is reflected in her work as an editor of the 3/4 magazine and as a freelance translator. She co-organised a series of educational events called Summer Open Academy and was involved in the organisation of the Multiplace network festival. She holds a PhD from the FAMU Prague with a thesis on tactical media.
The cover picture is a still from the series Family Guy season 9 episode 6.