Faculty Members
MgA. et Mgr. Jennifer Helia DeFelice, Ph.D. – Head of Department. Artist, educator, and cultural organizer. Jennifer Helia DeFelice is a co-founder of Vašulka Kitchen Brno — Center for New Media Art established to preserve and mediate the work of pioneers of electronic art Steina and Woody Vašulka and to further develop their legacy through archival, exhibition, and educational programs. She studied New Media Development at Empire State College, State University of New York, and earned her Ph.D. at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology (FaVU), with research on Performative Meditation and Interpretation. She subsequently worked at FaVU as an assistant in the Performance Studio before taking an academic position at the Visiting Artist Studio between 2020–2025, where she coordinated artistic residencies across various media. She was a visiting artist at the Social Design Department of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. In 2024, she completed a Master’s degree in Sound Design and Multimedia Technologies at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University (MUNI), where she also lectures in Interactive Media Theory. In addition to her artistic and pedagogical work, she has realized curatorial projects in new media art for the Brno House of Arts and other institutions.
Mgr. Georgy Bagdasarov, Ph.D. – Earned his Ph.D. at FAMU, where he has been teaching since 2010. His artistic practice focuses primarily on material processes of photochemical image-making and generative algorithmic structures. His works have been presented at festivals and cultural institutions across all continents except Antarctica. In addition to his role at the Center for Audiovisual Studies, he also teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Mgr. Anežka Bartlová, Ph.D. – Studied Art History at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University; Theory and History of Art at UMPRUM; and completed doctoral studies in Theory and History of Contemporary Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (AVU). She is the editor of the book Manual of the Monument (UMPRUM, 2016). She co-ran INI Gallery and the Věra Jirousová Award (2014–2016). From 2016–2019, she was an editor of art+antiques magazine; since 2018, she has been a member of the editorial board of Sešit pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny. She is currently editor-in-chief of Artalk.cz. Her work focuses on art criticism, cultural institutions, memory, and their manifestations in public space. In 2014, she received the Věra Jirousová Award for Young Art Critics. She publishes in art+antiques, Flash Art CZ/SK, A2, Artalk.cz, and a2larm. Anežka Bartlová is a member of the association Skutek, a solidarity platform for communication within and beyond the art scene, for which she prepared the brochure The Social Status of the Artist, Curator, and Critic (2018).
Assoc. Prof. MgA. Martin Blažíček, Ph.D. – Programme Guarantor.
A graduate of FAMU (Editing), he earned his Ph.D. for research on Live Cinema. His work explores film and video as living audiovisual forms, often employing open and performative approaches. Central to his work are questions of perception, the flicker effect, and the emotional experience of media viewing. From the 1990s to the early 2000s, he frequently combined traditional film techniques with digital media; in recent years, he has developed his own software tools. He is the author of studies on Czechoslovak underground film of the 1980s, video art, and experimental film. He is co-author of Mapping the Moving Image (NFA / Spector Books, 2023). He contributes to journals including Iluminace, Kino Ikon, Artalk, A2, and Art+Antiques.
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Mgr. Palo Fabuš, Ph.D. – Art critic and theorist. Born in 1983 in Dubnica nad Váhom. He studied computer science at Masaryk University in Brno, media studies and journalism there as well, and sociology at Charles University. Between 2005 and 2008, he worked as an editor at Literární noviny. His focus is on new media; selected texts are available at palofabus.net.
Mgr. Nela Klajbanová – Curator and cultural manager. She completed a BA in Theory and History of Dramatic Arts at Palacký University in Olomouc and an MA in Interactive Media Theory at Masaryk University in Brno. Her work focuses on curatorship, distribution, presentation, and archiving of contemporary moving-image art. She works as a curator for the cultural platform PAF and coordinator of the Jiné vize CZ competition. She is the director of the LITR art book fair. Currently, she curates the exhibition program of the Luhovaný Vincent festival and the year-round program of gallery etc.
MgA. Marie Lukáčová, Ph.D. – A graduate of UMPRUM in Prague, she also studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology, and the Kunstakademie Mainz in Germany. She is one of the three founders of the feminist group Fourth Wave, which initiated a public debate on sexism at universities in 2017. She works primarily with video and video installation; her films transform symbols borrowed from politics, mythology, geology, and science. Moving across different temporal layers and locations, her work addresses questions of uncertain futures through distinctive narratives and poetics. Lukáčová has presented her work mainly within the independent Czech gallery scene, as well as internationally in cities such as Wrocław, Ljubljana, and Stuttgart.
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Sara Pinheiro, MA, Ph.D. – Sound-maker. She works in film and video art with sound recording, processing, foley, and mixing. In her solo practice, she creates acousmatic compositions, usually for multichannel performances, radio broadcasts, or installations. She studied film in Lisbon (2008) and earned a Master’s degree at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague (2012), where she also serves as a visiting lecturer. Since 2013, she has been a faculty member at CAS–FAMU and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Music and Media at Bangor University (UK). Her doctoral project, funded by the Parry Williams Scholarship, titled Acousmatic Foley, focuses on sound performativity and the integration of soundscape theory and musique concrète into film sound. Based in Prague, she created Regardless, a manifesto on pioneers of electronic music and sound art. She is a member of the live-coding group k-o-l-e-k-t-i-v and the noise trio SHLUK.
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MgA. et MgA. Vojtěch Radakulan – Studied sculpture at UMPRUM and earned a second Master’s degree in architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He also spent a semester studying interaction design at Zurich University of the Arts. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Department of Computer Graphics and Interaction. His work spans visual art, architecture, and game design. At its core is the exploration of simulations and the creation of fictional worlds. His tools include hand drawing, text, physical installation, game engines, and rendering software. Within these worlds, visitors can attempt to become something or someone else, viewing complex themes such as new technologies, asymmetrical relationships, or globalization from the perspective of another person, a computer, or even a pinecone. He has participated in exhibitions including the Venice Architecture Biennale (2021), Ars Electronica (2018), and Husslehof Gallery.
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Eric Rosenzveig – (Montreal, Canada) Musician, artist, artistic researcher, cultural manager, curator, and academic. His collaborative works with visual artist Willy LeMaitre have been exhibited in New York at venues including The Kitchen, Bitforms Gallery, and The New Museum, as well as in Canada and elsewhere. Their projects include the artificial life system The Appearance Machine, the Space Arm series of interactive installations, consumer electronics as artworks (e.g. FUNTV), and collaborative media creation and presentation platforms playListNetWork and displayList (2001–2005). From 2013–2018, he continued his exploration of open narrative structures through his software project NARRA 1.0, culminating in the book Conflations, playListNetWork and NARRA: Software Design as Artistic Practice (NAMU, 2020). For over 15 years, he served as Executive Director of the Liz Gerring Dance Company; was Artistic Director of the pioneering New York sound art gallery Engine 27; curated the music series Musiques et Traditions du Monde for Montreal’s 350th anniversary; and produced field recordings, including Mahmoud Guinia and Pharoah Sanders – Trance Of Seven Colors, which received DownBeat magazine’s Beyond Category Album of the Year award. Since 2024, he has focused on research projects including Place is the Space, documenting and sharing acoustic environments of forests and meadows in Šumava National Park, and Uncanny Valleys, which uses AI tools to create new music. He builds on his long-standing practice of generative music and research into the relationship between sound and image, place and sound. He was Head of CAS from 2009–2018 and continues to teach there. Since 2011, he has also lectured on contemporary composition and film sound at NYU Prague Global.
Rebecca Salvadori, MA (Visiting Mentor, Academic Year 2025/2026) – Filmmaker whose practice connects diverse approaches to live and authored audiovisual recording, primarily in the contexts of music, performance art, and visual art production. She works across media—from digital video to 16mm film—creating audiovisual essays on the boundary between documentary and experimental cinema. She frequently collaborates with art institutions, music and art festivals, and individual artists, while maintaining a strongly personal authorial approach.
rebeccasalvadori.com
Assoc. Prof. MgA. Ondřej Vavrečka, Ph.D. – Studied programming in secondary school. He graduated from the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, and later from the Editing Department and the Center for Audiovisual Studies at FAMU. He volunteered in Lourdes and undertook several internships in Moscow (VGIK), where he also lectures. His work spans theory and artistic practice. He makes films rooted in lived documentary reality, assembling them into larger, structured wholes (the as-yet-unfinished pyramidal pentalogy The Beginning and the Lion, Ultimum refugium, Between Us, De potentia dei). He has published in the collections On the Morphology of Montage Structures and Distant Montage of Artavazd Peleshian. He sews and plays music. His interests include theology, gardening, and transversal sciences.
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External Faculty:
MgA. Martin Búřil
MgA. Andreas Gajdošík
MDes. Lenka Hámošová
MgA. Dominik Krutský
Bc. Klára Kacířová
MgA. Šimon Levitner
Mgr. Dita Malečková, Ph.D.
Ing. Martin Ožvold, MA
Prof. Miroslav Petříček, Dr.
MgA. Natálie Pleváková
Mgr. Noemi Purkrábková
Mgr. Jiří Sirůček
MgA. Žil Julie Vostalová