Visiting Artist Lecture: Dita Maleckova ‘Digital Philosopher’

The next VALs digital lecture will feature Dita Malečková, a philosopher, new media theorist and Artificial Intelligence (AI) enthusiast. Dita will be presenting some of her projects that utilise AI machine learning, interestingly combined with philosophical ideas that present from using a contentious technology. By utilising AI technology as an artistic tool, Dita questions how these technologies will shape our future and if they will contribute to the advancement of our evolution.

Visiting Artist Lecture: Victoria Vesna, Alien Star Dust: Signal to Noise

The final VALS lecture for 2020 heads to the stars with Victoria Vesna, a renowned Artist and Professor at the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts and Director of the Art|Sci Center at the School of the Arts and California NanoSystems Institute. The lecture is highly relevant to IT students as well as Art, as Victoria combines art and science to investigate how communication technologies affect collective behaviour and perceptions of identity, in relation to scientific innovation.

Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Hynek Alt; Infrastructures of the Obvious

The first VALS lecture for 2021 features Hynek Alt, a visual artist and Head of Studio of Photography & New Media at FAMU who shifts between photography, video, object and installation and is concerned with forms of perception of the human in the current digital era and how we navigate from physical surroundings to constructed social systems.

Visiting Artist Lecture: Grace Schwindt

The Visiting Artists Lecture for May features Grace Schwindt, an artist originally from Germany who works across film, live performances, sculpture and drawing.

Visiting Artists Lecture Series (VALS) Juliane Foronda, coping mechanisms

We are excited to announce our first VALS event for the new semester and look forward to welcoming Juilane in person at our Bishop's Court Campus. For those students who are unable to attend in person you can join the VALS lecture on zoom here: https://praguecityuniversity-cz.zoom.us/j/95929328008 coping mechanisms Juliane Foronda (she/her) is a Filipina-Canadian artist, organizer...

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Žil Julie Vostalová, Rendering Realities

Rendering Realities: PhyGital Fashion ™ and The New Paradigm in Fashion? Žil Vostalová is a Czech designer who specializes in digital fashion design. Žil's lecture will introduce her concept of PhyGital Fashion ™ that serves as a modus operandi for her designing methods. This method is combining traditional pattern-cutting craft with the creative work of a...

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Milan Mikuláštík

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

Curator and artist Milan Mikuláštík is our featured speaker for the final Visiting Artist Lecture Series of 2021. More details to come in the next few days.

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Tomáš Džadoň, Aspiring to Eternity

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

Tomáš graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He spent a year at the Art Institute in Kankaanpää, Finland and had residencies at the Neue Galerie in Graz, Austria, and at the Center for Central European Architecture in Prague. He works in a non-conceptual way,...