Lecture Series

Michal Kindernay is an intermedia artist, sound artist, curator and performer. His work reflects ecological issues through various technological approaches in relation to the natural environment. During his lecture Michal will present a selection of projects that include audiovisual performances, interactive installations, experimental documentary projects, sound projects and compositions. Michal's artistic, curatorial and educational practice […]

Data Sonification as a Sonic Arts Practice Everywhere we go, all the time, our ears are open. Whether we are paying attention or not, our ears and brain are teaching us about spaces we inhabit and helping us to navigate them. How can we make use of this type of environmental, spatial listening intentionally, for […]

Shotby.us is a Prague based photographic duo specialising in fashion photography working on the intersection of fine art and applied art. The artistic duo consists of artists Lenka Glisníková and Karolína Matušková. Each brings their own creative experience and aesthetics to create a complex recognisable intersection of different and close visual approaches. Karolína has previously […]

Dr James Dyer is senior lecturer of Graphic Design at the University of Huddersfield in the United Kingdom. He writes, often cynically, about visual culture. For his Visiting Artist Lecture he will be presenting on the origins of his collaborative book publication Graphic Events: A Realist Account of Graphic Design, which he co-authored and edited […]

Markéta Magidová is a Czech visual artist and a director. In her intermedia and feminist-oriented practice she seeks fragments, traces and catalysts of imagination across diverse minds, cultures and times. Images come to human minds in different ways. Through historical and visual representations they capture social stereotypes, expectations and codes as a cultural footprint. In […]

Machine learning: Programming Patterns PCU students, lecturers and the general public are invited to attend a VALS lecture by Julie Dítětová, a graphic designer, nominated for the Czech Grand Design awards for her current project Machine learning: Programming Patterns. Programming Patterns is an experiment that uses the StyleGAN 2 neural network to generate visual data […]