Vestre is a design-driven Norwegian outdoor furniture company that designs and produces outdoor meeting spaces for global cities. Together with BIG, the architectural office of Bjarke Ingels, Vestre has just finished The Plus - hailed as next generation and as the world’s most environmentally friendly furniture factory located in Norway. Jan-Hendrik Schlüter from the Berlin...
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...
The first Visiting Artist Lecture will be a journey to arto.to gallery at Uhelný mlýn in Libčice nad Vltavou.
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...
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...
Martin Žampach is a product and industrial designer. He studied glass art at the Secondary Art School in Luhačovice. He graduated in industrial design at the Tomas Bata University in Zlín and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland. His design of the KON cooking glass collection won the Good Design Award...
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...