Ondřej Zunka, Michal Kučerák, Jan Netušil, Tomáš Hříbek
Ondřej Zunka
London-based digital artist and creative director Ondrej Zunka began experimenting with design and digital art after a creative pivot that followed a master’s degree in Economy and System Engineering. He has since worked with various esteemed design houses around the world and gained a reputable status in the commercial design world. As a result, Zunka uses a range of constantly evolving VFX and procedural design tools in his workflow. The speculative realities within his digital artworks investigate notions of surrealism and play with reality in a futuristic spirit. Immersive and visceral in their photorealistic aesthetic, Zunka creates strikingly convincing windows into different realms. In addition to his artistic practice, Ondrej is a co-founder and a Creative Director of London based zunc.studio
Michal Kučerák
He is a curator and lecturer collaborating with the DOX Center and TBA21–Academy, where he is in charge of the Ocean-Archive.org project. He is currently a PhD student at the Faculty of Fine Arts BUT in Brno. He is also the author of the #DATAMAZE project (DOX, Prague, 2018 – 2022) – the concept of an extended exhibition focused on strengthening digital and data literacy through contemporary art and design projects in a gallery environment. Michal Kučerák is part of the team that realizes the festival focused on socially engaged design and art UROBOROS. In his practice he focuses on digital projects, art mediation and critical art and design practice as a medium for educational projects.
Tomáš Hříbek
Tomáš Hříbek is a philosopher and theoretician of art. He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University and he also received postgraduate education at Bowling Green State University in Ohio (M.A.) and the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis (PhD) in the USA. He specializes in philosophy of mind and consciousness, selected topics in ethics and applied ethics (especially bioethics), as well as in aesthetics and philosophy of art. He has also published several studies on the philosophical relevance of Darwinism. Although aesthetics may appear remote from the philosophy of biology, Tomáš Hříbek is interested in the extent to which the creation and perception of art can be integrated into evolutionary psychology. Recently, he has also started to deal with the philosophy of new technologies, especially robotics. He works in this field within the interdisciplinary Karel Čapek Center for the Study of Values in Science and Technology, which he co-founded in 2018. He works at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and at the same time teaches at Charles University (UPCES-CERGE), Anglo-American University in Prague, and the Academy of Fine Arts.
Jan Netušil
Jan Netušil graduated at UMPRUM (Film and television graphics studio). After his studies, he combined the acquired experience with animation and graphics in the field of motion design. Shortly after that, he joined the Oficina studio where he works as a motion designer and art/technical director. He mainly specializes in interactive multimedia projects and animated graphics. He is the co-founder of the Mouvo platform and co-organizer of the international conference of the same name, which presents the intersection of graphic design, film, animation and technology in the form of lectures by world-renowned creators. From 2021, together with Jiří Hölzel, he leads the Design and Digital Technologies studio at UMPRUM in Prague.