Tomas Ruller

Birthyear
1957
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http://www.ruller.cz
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Tomas Ruller is a multimedia performance artist. He studied sculpture in the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and is Dean in the Univerity of Technology in Brno. Ruller aims to create an alternative way of thinking, by continually confronting the systemization of art and life. Ruller's performances incorporate enviromental art, narrative scripts, mythologies, social intervantion and bridges craftmanship and ritual practices in new media strategies. Ruller co-founded the European international performance movements which have become the symbols of political transformation and European East - West integration.

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1997 Artslink Grant, New York (USA)
1996 Visual Arts Competition, Arts America (USA)
1995 degree of docent (associate prof. ), Academy Bratislava
1995 Artist in Residence, Atlanta, Georgia (USA)
1993 head of the Video-Multimedia-Performance Department
1992 assistant professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, UT Brno
1990 Pollock Krasner Grant, New York (USA)
1976 - 1982 Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, M. F. A. Sculpture
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