Visiting Artist & Lecture Series

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...

For a first VALS of this semester, students of MA Future Design and MA Fine Art will travel to Ostrava, to visit City Gallery of Contemporary Art PLATO.

Lucia Sceranková graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. The lecture will present her recent projects and her film Waves. She has been nominated for several major awards for young artists - in addition to the Start Point Prize 2011, she was also nominated for...