OpenStreetMap Changesets (2024)
A website that shows changesets made by an OpenStreetMap user; including small static maps.
Jakub Valenta
The Law Is the Law (2024)
A series of videos with quotes from Czech debt collectors; part of the exhibition The Law of Conservation of Violence at Display Gallery, Prague.
Measurement Terror (2022)
A group exhibition at Fotograf Gallery, Prague, featuring my projects Account, Ankety z Novinky.cz and Website Colors.
- Read the exhibition text.
- See the Account project.
- See the Ankety z Novinky.cz project.
- See the Website Colors project.
Tessellation (2020)
in collaboration with Sébastien Mazauric
A web app to arrange tiles according to specified rules.
Tessellation allows you to upload square images and define how they connect. The app will then try to arrange the tiles into a larger composition adhering to the connection rules. This is similar to the Wang tiles problem.
Covid-19 is... (2020–2022)
A Twitter account that tweets about all the opportunities Covid-19 gives us. @covid_chance
Website Colors (2020)
A visualization of the history of colors of selected websites.
Real Emoji (2019)
A proposal for 35 new emojis that go beyond the hugs and kisses of the standard emoji set.
This project tries to provide many pictures that are not included in the standard emoji set, possibly because they are controversial in certain cultures, overly specific, too weird, too local, too personal or just forgotten.
Voting advice application comparison (2019)
A chart comparing the Czech and German voting advice apps for the 2019 European Parliament election.
Human Activities (2019)
in collaboration with Jiří Skála
A desktop application that should help us understand which of the work we do on our computers is paid and which is unpaid.
This application is part of the Human Activities project focusing on limiting the exploitation of individuals in the current production relationships.
- Read about the project.
- Install the application: Windows, macOS, Ubuntu.
- See the code and other technical information.
Automatic Diary (2019)
A software tool to describe my life.
It creates one timeline from various digital sources: calendar appointments, completed tasks,sent and received emails, sport activity, social media posts, software development work, films watched, traditional diary.
It doesn't cover: unplanned activities (meeting someone, visiting a place), house work, repairs, reading books, unpublished projects, conversations, health, sleep, feelings, what other people did.
- My personal timeline created by the program is not public.
- See the code of the program.
Account (2016–2023)
My bank account transaction history made public.
I have been keeping my finances open since 2016 to help reveal who gets paid how much and for what in our society.
Ankety z Novinky.cz (since 2016)
Archive of all opinion polls from the Czech online newspaper Novinky.cz since January 1, 2015.
People leaving the room (since 2016)
A collection of scenes from films and TV series, in which the main characters need to talk in private, so they ask the supporting characters to leave the room.
This project uses an unrealistic film trope as an illustration of the problems of privacy.
Live broadcast from Z/KU Berlin (2015)
in collaboration with Viktor Vejvoda
In June and July 2015, Viktor Vejvoda and I were broadcasting a live webcam stream from Viktor's studio in his institution Institute for Art and Architecture in Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (IAUZK/U), Berlin.
This work is currently not available online. Write me an email to the address below, if you'd like to receive more information about it.
Poznámky / výpisky / zdroje (2015)
In 2015, I published all my notes online, specifically all the notes I made while working on my diploma work at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.
The notes are currently not available online. Write me an email to the address below, if you'd like to read some of the notes or receive more information about the project.
Sešit = knížka = papíry = portfolio (2015)
In 2014 and 2015, I was printing booklets with short texts and images commenting on various bizarre aspects of the everyday life.
This work is currently not available online. Write me an email to the address below, if you'd like to receive more information about it.
Šaloun — Visiting Professor Studio of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (2014)
A web archive of the life and work at the Visiting Professor Studio of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague lead by Artur Żmijewski in the summer semester of 2014.
