Visiting Artist events happen on Thursdays, this edition of VALs will be hosted by the Minimum Waste showroom at Zlatnicka 12 - two blocks from Bishops court. All are welcome to attend.
“It's not difficult to create something that will look like art; you just need to imitate an already existing genre or style. The challenge is to create something that will be able to trigger an art experience.”
Vitek Škop is a visual designer, freshly graduated from UMPRUM with experiences from famous design offices in London and New York.
Sláva Sobotovičová (b. 1973) is an artist. In her installations, videos and performances she focuses on voice and music as tools of critical reflection on popular culture.
Aleksandra Vajd has devoted her career to experimenting widely with all elements of photographic language, its laws and structural variations.
The last VALS lecture for 2019 will introduce you to the world of immersive technologies. What are they, what do they do and when are they most often applied in today's market? And are they really the future anyway? This immersive overview will be delivered by the two founding partners of one of Prague's leading creative studios dedicated to augmented and virtual reality.
Our second VALS lecture for 2020 features Osamu Okamura, an architect and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Architecture at the Technical University of Liberec who will discuss the importance of art in in public spaces.
Theatre maker and visual artist Jan Mocek will offer an insider's look at the methods used for devising and developing a contemporary theatre piece. Not only will he speak about his artistic practice, but he also focus at the institutional background of the Prague’s independent scene.
Visual uncertainty in the post-truth era.
Our next VALs digital lecture features Lenka Hamosova, an independent design researcher and lecturer who focuses on the transparency of visual communication and the future scenarios of AI-generated synthetic media.
Our VALs digital lecture this week features Marie Doucet, a French designer based in Prague currently undertaking her PhD. Marie works across many mediums including installations, sculpture, research, graphics and digital design.