VALS: Jiří Žák, Consensual Hallucinations and Poetic Investigation

PCU, Bishop's Court Studios Biskupsky dvůr 1147/6, Prague, Czech Republic

Jiří Žák graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and works for Artyčok TV.  In 2015 he became a laureate of the EXIT award and in 2020, he became co-holder of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award. His works have been shown at art biennales in Kiev, Warsaw and Prague. As an artist, Jiří Žák works mainly […]

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Arto.to gallery trip

arto.to galerie Uhelný mlýn Areál Šroubáren 860, Libčice nad Vltavou, Czech Republic

The first Visiting Artist Lecture will be a journey to arto.to gallery at Uhelný mlýn in Libčice nad Vltavou.

Visiting Artist Lecture: Tamara Moyzes, Artistic Activism, Artistic Freedom & its limitations

PCU, Bishop's Court Studios Biskupsky dvůr 1147/6, Prague, Czech Republic

Art + activism = artivism Tamara will explain the complex relationship established between art and freedom in contemporary societies, in the context of art’s aspiration towards absolute, and freedom’s impossibility to be absolute. The starting point is the factual observation that society tends to consider artistic creation as a special form of human activity and […]

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Michal Kindernay, Fragile Paths of listening

PCU, Bishop's Court Studios Biskupsky dvůr 1147/6, Prague, Czech Republic

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 […]

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Jorge Boehringer, The Sound of Everything

PCU, Bishop's Court Studios Biskupsky dvůr 1147/6, Prague, Czech Republic

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 […]

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Shotby.us, Lenka Glisníková & Karolína Matušková

PCU, Bishop's Court Studios Biskupsky dvůr 1147/6, Prague, Czech Republic

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 […]

Visiting Artist Lecture: James Dyer, Graphic Events: Journeying in Bohemia

PCU, Bishop's Court Studios Biskupsky dvůr 1147/6, Prague, Czech Republic

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 […]

Visiting Artist Lecture: Markéta Magidová, Children’s Imagination

PCU, Bishop's Court Studios Biskupsky dvůr 1147/6, Prague, Czech Republic

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 […]

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Julie Dítětová, AI-Generated Patterns

PCU, Bishop's Court Studios Biskupsky dvůr 1147/6, Prague, Czech Republic

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 […]