The publication Mapping the Moving Image. Media Agents and Sites in the Czech Context is
dedicated to a critical assessment of the practice of the moving image in the Czech art world
from the 1970s to the present day. Its central theme is the critical analysis of the relevant
planes of negotiation for an autonomous position for this practice. The separate commissioned
essays by authors representing the discourses of both art history and film studies as well as
the perspective of archivists and curators are arranged into a coherent volume that makes up
for the currently fragmentary historical image of this practice. Sylva Poláková is a film
historian and curator. She focuses on experimental film and art of the moving image from an
interdisciplinary perspective. Martin Mazanec is a curator and pedagogue. His focus is the
curatorship and mediation of art of the moving image in the context of the gallery and the
cinema.
