Creative AI & synthetic media
As an artist, designer, researcher, and speaker, I navigate the intersecting worlds of AI and creativity, challenging the boundaries of human-AI co-creation, exploring generative AI's creative potential, and future-casting the implications of AI-generated synthetic media on our creative landscape.
Boasting over a decade of expertise in graphic design and art direction, coupled with a deep dive into creative AI for more than five years, I empower clients to harness generative AI tools for bespoke visual strategies and products. My consultancy services span the integration of AI into creative processes and keeping a pulse on AI trends in the creative sector. I also design and facilitate workshops and brainstorming sessions to spark innovation within creative teams.As a proactive community builder, I initiated the creative AI meetups in Prague and co-founded the Uroboros collective and its accompanying festival. My academic journey includes pursuing a Ph.D. at FAMU in Prague, where I'm exploring collective human-AI co-creation and innovative participatory methods in AI-assisted media synthesis. This research complements my Master's in Design from the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, and a Bachelor's in Visual Communication from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava.
talks, panels and presentations
2024Challenges, visions and opportunities for artistic research and/in society (panel discussion) w/ Natalie Loveless & Anne-Helen Mydland | Society of Artistic Research Conference 2024, Tilburg, NL, 10-4-2024
AI & Kreativita (panel discussion) | AI Horizonty, AI Dětem, Kampus Hybernská, Prague, CZ, 14-03-2024
AI's Journey from Deepfakes to Creative Partnerships | Creative Edge Conference Prague, CZ, 22-01-2024
AI vs. Graphic Design 4.0 (panel discussion) | Creative Edge Conference Prague, CZ, 22-01-2024
2023
Creative Collaboration with AI | Pecha Kucha Night Bratislava, Bratislava, SK, 27-09-2023
How to Art with AI (pilot to Creative AI meet-ups) | Uroboros Loops, Petrohradská Kolektiv, Prague, CZ, 08-07-2023
Sensing the Synthetic: Exploring the Role of Affect and Human Embodiment in AI-Media Synthesis / Symposium: Rethinking Technology, Reframing the Machine, Under the Radar - Festival and Conference for Artistic Film, Animation and Experimental Sequential Media, Vienna, AT, 20-04-2023
PARADOX: Kreativní umělá inteligence (panel discussion) | DOX - Center for Contemporary Art in Prague, CZ, 19-04-2023
AI-Augmented Creativity: How AI Is Helping Us All Embrace the Mundane (And How to Avoid It) | Technologické centrum UMPRUM, Prague, CZ, 08-03-2023
2022
Syntetické médiá a human-AI co-creation / FUD Embassy, FUD UJEP, CZ, 23-11-2022
Sensing the synthetic (panel discussion) | Uroboros Festival 2022, Kasárna Karlín, Prague, CZ, 07-10-2022
Vytváření poznání prostřednictvím alternativního využití neuronových sítí v uměleckém výzkumu | Doktorandská konference a diskuse u příležitosti bienální výstavy UMPRUM Postup jako výstup, UMPRUM, Prague, CZ, 26-05-2022
2021
Od vektoru k textu: vývoj syntetických médií od GANs k syntéze řízené textem. / Úvod do AV studií, FAMU, CZ, 20-12-2021
Od vektoru k textu: vývoj syntetických médií od GANs k syntéze řízené textem. / seminár Digitální kultury, UMPRUM, CZ, 15-12-2021
Festival Uroboros - online rotácie v znepokojivej dobe | Curating Online - The show goes on? Media art festivals during COVID times, Galerie TIC, CZ - online, 20-10-2021
Uroboros Festival: Sociálně angažovaný design | TIM Master Class, FFMU, CZ - online, 05-10-2021
Paradox: Co můžou umělci udělat pro umělou inteligenci? | panel discussion #DATAMAZE, DOX, Prague, CZ - online, 12-03-2021
Speculative look on the future cities | Crash course: Beyond sustainability, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden - online, 18-01-2021
2020
Visual Uncertainty in Synthetic Reality | CAS Guest Lectures, CAS, FAMU, CZ - online, 16-12-2020
Ako nastaviť druhú tvár: Identita a umelá inteligencia / panel discussion at Mobilis Festival 2020, Diera do sveta, Liptovský Mikuláš, SK - online, 06-12-2020
Syntetická média a jejich kreativní potenciál | Blok expertů KISK, MUNI, CZ - online, 19-11-2020
Udržateľný dizajn budúcnosti | panel discussion at Festival Nasuti 2020, Bratislava, SK - online, 24-10-2020 (2:04:00)
Illuminating the Black Box panel discussion at The Arena, Dutch Design Week, NL, - online, 20-10-2020
Syntetické médiá a nové vnímanie reality | HUMAIN Conference, Industra Brno, CZ
The Hmm on___ Deepfakes / The Hmm, Amsterdam, NL,
- online, 17-06-2020 (1:22:00)
Seeing is no longer believing. Visual uncertainty in the post-truth era. / VALS, Prague College, CZ, - online, 07-05-2020
Syntetická média a vizuální nejistota - když vidět ještě nic neznamená / Obraz vs. Osobní Data, Fresh Eye, CZ, - online, 24-04-2020
2019
Deepfakes | Syntetické médiá /Paralelná Polis, Bratislava, SK
Visual Scepticism /The Hmm, NDSM-Fuse, Amsterdam, NL
Synthetic Vision /Paralelní Polis, Prague, CZ
Develodystópie /DAAD, Primaciálny Palác, Bratislava, SK
Spekulativní a Participativní design w Tereza Lišková /Studia nových médií FF UK, Prague, CZ
How Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) Changed the Way We Look on the World, or the Necessity of Visual Scepticism in the Post-truth Era /CTJB, Jedovnice, CZ
How Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) Changed the Way We Look on the World, or the Necessity of Visual Scepticism in the Post-truth Era /DATATATA Conference, FA VUT, Brno, CZ
Vizuální jazyk developerských projektů bratislavského Manhattanu /Praha v Brne, Brno, CZ
2018
Vizuální jazyk developerských projektů bratislavského Manhattanu /Fresh Eye: Obraz vs. Gentrifikace, CAMP, Prague, CZ
workshops (selected)
2024Kreativní AI: Představení nástrojů AI pro praxi podnikání v kultuře a umění, etické aspekty využití AI | Krenovka, Prague, CZ, 17-4-2024
More-than-Human Co-creation: Making Sense with AI in Artistic Research w/ Markéta Dolejšová | Society of Artistic Research Conference 2024, Tilburg, NL, 10-4-2024
Využití generativní AI v kreativním procesu | Business skills UMPRUM, online, 22-3-2024
Umělá inteligence v tvůrčím procesu | KDU & KTD, Fakulta Designu a umění Ladislava Sutnara, Plzeň, CZ, 20-3-2024
Tuning In: Alternatives to Human-AI Co-Creation / KAT, Vysoká škola výtvarných umení v Bratislave, SK, 27-2-2024
2023
Tuning In to Each Other: Alternatives to Human-AI Co-Creation / Performative Dialogues with AI, Fresh Eye & Uroboros Festival, Prague, CZ
Umělá inteligence a kolektivní imaginace / Katedra filozofie FF a CCS-Lab ZČU in Pilsen, CZ
Rising Together - Reimagining Human-AI Co-Creation through Encountering the (Sour)dough / Uroboros Festival 2023, Petrohradská Kolektiv, Prague, CZ
Reimagining Human-AI Co-Creation through Encountering the (Sour)dough / Living-with Feral Ecologies Festival, Helsinki Design Week, Helsinki, FI
Co-Creation with AI Algorithms: participatory perspectives to AI-media Synthesis / FAMU & Petrohradská Kolektiv, Prague, CZ
Umělá inteligence a kolektivní imaginace / FUK Festival, Prague, CZ
Generativní nástroje AI v uměleckém procesu / studios DDT & GDVK, UMPRUM, Prague, CZ
2022
Sensing the Synthetic / .zip space, Rotterdam, NL
Sensing the Synthetic / Uroboros Festival, online
2021
Scrying through AI / Center for Audiovisual Studies, FAMU - Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, CZ
Scrying through AI / Digital Arts department, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, SK
Workshop: AI na vlastní kůži - Helena Lukášová, Lenka Hamošová, Tomáš Javůrek ︎︎︎ | SVITAVA - transmedia art lab, Brno, CZ
Fictioning Synthetic Reality / AIxDesign, NL - online
Collective Vision of Synthetic Reality / Umanesimo Artificiale, IT - online
AI & Syntetické obrazy / #Datamaze, DOX, Prague, CZ - online
AI & Syntetické obrazy | Scholastika, Prague, CZ - online
Collective Vision of Synthetic Reality / Interactions 2021 Conference, IxDA - online
2020
Collective Vision of Synthetic Reality | ML Ethics Team, Google - online
Syntetická budoucnost ︎︎︎| Letní škola, Nahlížet dějiny, DOX, Prague, CZ
Kolektivní vize syntetické reality | Letní škola Občankářů 2020, DOX, Prague, CZ
Syntetické médiá / DOX, Prague, CZ
Collective Vision of Synthetic Reality / MA Future Design, Prague College, Prague, CZ,
Collective Vision of Synthetic Reality /CtrlZ.AI Zine Fair, 2020 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*), Barcelona, ES
2019
Syntetická média – výzva pro ověřování původu a pravosti informací ︎
/Letní škola pro učitele „Stopovat dějiny: práce s prameny ve výuce“
Centre for Contemporary Art DOX, Prague, CZ
Bob Ross Lives! Creative potential of GANs / Hackers & Designers Summer Academy, Amsterdam, NL
2015
More Images More Power / Typolab, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, SK
w Stefan Schäfer
teaching
2023designed the course “AI & Artistic Practice“, FAMU / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, CZ
2021-2024
head tutor at Inspiration Forum LAB 2021/22 and 2023/24, JI.HLAVA, CZ
2020-2022
module leader at MA Future Design / Prague City University, Prague, CZ
2021
Digital Earth fellowship - guest lecturer at Digitálne Umenia / Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, SK
2020
lecturer at katedra Grafického a mediálneho designu, Vysoká škola kreativní komunikace, Prague, CZ
2016-2023
guest lectures at art schools and universities (UMPRUM, FAMU, FUD UJEP, KISK FF MUN, Studia nových médií FF UK, Scholastika, Prague College, VŠVU v Bratislave, Chalmers University of Technology Sweden, Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, HKU Utrecht)