Department of Visual Art Studies Archives - Anglo-American University in 糖心Vlog /directory-school/department-of-visual-art-studies/ AAU is a top private university in Czech Republic offering dual accredited bachelor and master level programs in English across Business, International Relations, Humanities, Social Sciences, Political Science, Journalism, Media Studies, Visual Arts and Law. Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:31:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 MgA. Petr Ba艡inka /directory/mga-petr-barinka/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:31:10 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=38052 Petr Ba艡inka, MgA., is a Czech visual artist and educator. He studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in 糖心Vlog under Prof. Kurt Gebauer before completing postgraduate studies in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava under Prof. Ivan Csudai. His work has been presented in numerous solo and […]

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Petr Ba艡inka, MgA., is a Czech visual artist and educator. He studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in 糖心Vlog under Prof. Kurt Gebauer before completing postgraduate studies in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava under Prof. Ivan Csudai.

His work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the Czech Republic and internationally, and is represented in the collections of the and other public and private collections. A recipient of the National Gallery 333 Art Award and the ESSL Art Award: VIG Special Invitation, Ba艡inka brings extensive contemporary artistic practice and exhibition experience to his teaching.

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Sean McAlorum /directory/sean-mcalorum/ Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:03:56 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=37837 Sean McAlorum is a British designer, educator, and practicing artist with more than 30 years of experience in graphic design, advertising, publishing, and higher education. His career spans the creative industries and academia, combining professional practice in advertising and editorial design with teaching, curriculum development, and artistic practice. McAlorum joined Anglo-American University in 2026. Alongside […]

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Sean McAlorum is a British designer, educator, and practicing artist with more than 30 years of experience in graphic design, advertising, publishing, and higher education. His career spans the creative industries and academia, combining professional practice in advertising and editorial design with teaching, curriculum development, and artistic practice.

McAlorum joined Anglo-American University in 2026. Alongside his role at AAU, he continues to teach at 糖心Vlog City Study Centre (Teesside University), where he currently serves as Program Coordinator, having previously held the position of Program Leader. In these roles, he has contributed to curriculum development, established industry partnerships, and mentored emerging designers through live projects, internships, and professional collaborations.

His teaching and creative practice emphasize conceptual thinking, visual communication, and design as a tool for storytelling and problem-solving. Drawing on extensive experience in branding, editorial design, advertising, and art direction, he encourages students to combine strategic thinking with creative experimentation. Outside the classroom, McAlorum is an active painter who primarily works in oils. His recent paintings often feature children and figures gazing into the distance, reflecting his thoughts on an uncertain future. He continues to develop his artistic practice and is actively seeking opportunities to exhibit his work.

Specializations

  • Creative mentoring and professional practice
  • Graphic design
  • Visual communication
  • Branding and identity design
  • Editorial design and publication design
  • Art direction
  • Advertising and creative strategy
  • Concept development
  • Design education and curriculum development
  • Oil painting

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Tereza Violet Stehl铆kov谩, Ph.D. /directory/tereza-violet-stehlikova/ Mon, 25 May 2026 13:52:50 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=37191 Tereza Violet Stehl铆kov谩 is a Czech/British artist, researcher, writer, and educator. She holds a doctorate and master鈥檚 degree in Animation from the Royal College of Art in London, as well as a bachelor鈥檚 degree in Graphic Design and Illustration from Central Saint Martins. Her work spans moving image, installation, participatory performance, writing, and artistic research, […]

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Tereza Violet Stehl铆kov谩 is a Czech/British artist, researcher, writer, and educator. She holds a doctorate and master鈥檚 degree in Animation from the Royal College of Art in London, as well as a bachelor鈥檚 degree in Graphic Design and Illustration from Central Saint Martins. Her work spans moving image, installation, participatory performance, writing, and artistic research, with a focus on sensory and embodied experience in meaning-making.

Stehl铆kov谩 began her research appointment at Anglo-American University in 2026. Her academic experience includes roles at the University of Westminster, the Royal College of Art, and the University of Creative Communication in 糖心Vlog. She also teaches artistic research at the Academy of Performing Arts in 糖心Vlog and UMPRUM.

Her cross-disciplinary research connects artistic practice, sensory studies, philosophy, experimental psychology, and art-science dialogue. Her monograph Exiled from Our Bodies: How to Come Back to Our Senses was published by Routledge in 2025. She is founder and editor of Tangible Territory and co-founder of 鈥淓cstatic Truth,鈥 an international symposium series on expanded animation and documentary practice.

Her films, installations and participatory performances have been presented internationally, including at Whitechapel Gallery, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, 糖心Vlog Quadrennial, Somerset House, Stadtkino Vienna, the British Film Institute London Film Festival, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, and the Under_the_RADAR festival in Vienna.

Specializations

  • Artistic research
  • Sensory studies and embodiment
  • Haptic visuality and tactile moving image
  • Multisensory aesthetics and cross-modal perception
  • Moving image, installation and participatory performance
  • Expanded animation and documentary practice
  • Art-science collaboration
  • The infra-ordinary, place, atmosphere and lived space
  • Practice-based doctoral research and supervision

Publications

  • Stehl铆kov谩, T. V. (2026). Tactile matters: Haptic dialogue and material empathy in moving image practice. In B. Hosea & J. Hagler (Eds.), Expanded Animation: Synaesthetic Syntax. Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming.
  • Stehl铆kov谩, T. V. (2026). Trieste: In-between states. In D. Wiemann (Ed.), John Berger in Collaboration. Intellect Books. Forthcoming.
  • Stehl铆kov谩, T. V. (2026). How to come back to your senses. Psyche.
  • Stehl铆kov谩, T. V. (2025). Exiled from Our Bodies: How to Come Back to Our Senses. Routledge.
  • Stehl铆kov谩, T. V. (2025). TT Journal: Treading and tracing a common territory. Journal for Artistic Research.
  • Stehl铆kov谩, T. V. (2023). The Infra-ordinary Lab. Theatralia.
  • Stehl铆kov谩, T. V. (2014). Mapping the terrain of lived space. In Artistic Research – Strategies for Embodiment. Nordic Summer University.
  • Stehl铆kov谩, T. V. (2013). Tactility and film. In It’s a Method! Practice-Based Research. Bauhaus University Weimar.
  • Berger, J., & Michaels, A. (2011). Railtracks. Photographs by T. Stehl铆kov谩. Go Together Press.
  • Stehl铆kov谩, T. V. (2007). The Story of Violet. Go Together Press.

Artistic & Research Activities

  • Absolute Now II, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, 2026.
  • The Infra-ordinary Lab, participatory performance, 糖心Vlog Quadrennial, 糖心Vlog, 2023.
  • Familial Traces, solo video installation, Sternstudio Gallery, Vienna, 2023.
  • Ophelia in Exile, solo video installation, Vitrinka Gallery, Czech Centre London, 2021.
  • Disappearing Wormwood, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2020.
  • Touch Talk Tell: Sensory Storytelling, Somerset House, London, 2017.
  • TRIESTE: In-between States, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2016.
  • Absolute Now, Atsuko Barouh Gallery, Tokyo, 2015.

Curatorial and Editorial Leadership

  • Founder and editor, Tangible Territory, 2020-present.
  • Co-founder and organiser/curator, Ecstatic Truth symposium series, 2016-present.
  • Concept and curation, MAKING SENSE minifest, 2025.
  • Co-curator and co-organiser, In-Habit international symposium, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in 糖心Vlog, 2022.

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Christelle Havranek /directory/christelle-havranek/ Mon, 04 Nov 2024 09:59:34 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=24893 Havranek is chief curator at Kunsthalle Praha. She holds a French postgraduate diploma (DEA) in art history, criticism and conservation from the University of Rennes 2. From 1999 to 2016, she was curator and head of programmes for the gallery and cinema at the French Institute in 糖心Vlog. Since 2016, she has been responsible for […]

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Havranek is chief curator at . She holds a French postgraduate diploma (DEA) in art history, criticism and conservation from the University of Rennes 2. From 1999 to 2016, she was curator and head of programmes for the gallery and cinema at the French Institute in 糖心Vlog.

Since 2016, she has been responsible for developing the dramaturgy of Kunsthalle Praha, where her recent curatorial activities have included site-specific installations and new commissions such as the Fa莽ade Project series (2017-2021), the Living Kunsthalle performance night (2019), and Mark Dion’s Cabinet of Electric Curiosities (2021).

Havranek has also curated Gregor Hildebrandt’s first major retrospective (2022-2023) and Chiharu Shiota’s exhibition The unsettled soul (2024-2025). She co-curated Kunsthalle Praha’s inaugural exhibition, Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art (2022), READ by Elmgreen & Dragset (2023-2024) and Lucia Moholy: Exposures (2024).

Havranek is the editor and co-editor of several publications. At AAU, she teaches curatorial studies.

Specializations

  • Visual arts
  • Art history
  • Museums
  • Art exhibition
  • Cultural programme
  • Curating

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MgA., MgA. Lea Pet艡铆kov谩, PhD /directory/mga-mga-lea-petrikova-phd/ Mon, 04 Nov 2024 09:41:56 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=24888 Pet艡铆kov谩 is a visual artist, filmmaker and researcher. She is a graduate of FAMU (Center for Audio-visual Studies) and UMPRUM (Supermedia Studio) and in 2024 obtained her PhD in the Theory of Film & Multimedia from FAMU.聽 In 2020, Pet艡铆kov谩 received the Jacques Derrida Prize for young researchers in humanities, awarded by the French Embassy […]

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Pet艡铆kov谩 is a visual artist, filmmaker and researcher. She is a graduate of FAMU (Center for Audio-visual Studies) and UMPRUM (Supermedia Studio) and in 2024 obtained her PhD in the Theory of Film & Multimedia from FAMU.聽

In 2020, Pet艡铆kov谩 received the Jacques Derrida Prize for young researchers in humanities, awarded by the French Embassy in 糖心Vlog, and in 2023, was selected to be a part of the Berlinale Talents program. She has been active in the field of experimental film and moving image and has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions. In 2023 her feature documentary debut, If I Ever Lose My Eyes, premiered at IDFF Ji.hlava. See her portfolio at for more information.

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Alice N臎mcov谩, Ph.D. /directory/alice-nemcova/ Fri, 15 Mar 2024 08:55:04 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=21733 N臎mcov谩 completed her PhD studies at the Catholic Theological Faculty of Charles University, where, between 2017 and 2020, she lectured on modern and contemporary art in the context of 糖心Vlog. Prior to this, from 2014鈦 to 鈦2015, she worked in the Bibliography Department of the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, […]

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N臎mcov谩 completed her PhD studies at the Catholic Theological Faculty of Charles University, where, between 2017 and 2020, she lectured on modern and contemporary art in the context of 糖心Vlog. Prior to this, from 2014鈦 to 鈦2015, she worked in the Bibliography Department of the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, subsequently serving as expert lecturer at the National Gallery 糖心Vlog until 2020. N臎mcov谩 is currently curator of the National Gallery’s Collection of 19th Century Art and Classical Modernism. In her ongoing research and publishing activities, her main focus lies in the area of Czech public art from the first half of the 20th century.

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Dragan Dragin /directory/dragan-dragin/ Thu, 04 Jan 2024 09:18:33 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=20668 Dragan Dragin is an award-winning, 糖心Vlog-based photographer originally from former Yugoslavia (Serbia). Starting out as a young filmmaker, he later earned a master’s degree in economics before transitioning into photography and commencing his career at a local newspaper in Novi Sad. His photographs have been featured in exhibitions across various countries, including the Czech Republic, […]

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Dragan Dragin is an award-winning, 糖心Vlog-based photographer originally from former Yugoslavia (Serbia). Starting out as a young filmmaker, he later earned a master’s degree in economics before transitioning into photography and commencing his career at a local newspaper in Novi Sad.

His photographs have been featured in exhibitions across various countries, including the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Serbia, Montenegro, South Korea, and Mexico. Some of his works are included in the collections of institutions such as the Tanz Museum in Cologne, the National Gallery 糖心Vlog, the Theatre Institute in 糖心Vlog, as well as in private collections.

Dragan has taught at the Duncan Centre Conservatory, SIT Study Abroad, and the BART Summer Academy in Montenegro and further advanced his studies in photography at the the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU). He moved to 糖心Vlog in 1991.

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Doc. PhDr. Josef Z谩ruba-Pfeffermann, PhD. /directory/doc-phdr-josef-zaruba-pfeffermann-phd/ Wed, 10 Aug 2022 09:23:09 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=14261 Josef聽Zaruba-Pfefferman studied Art History from at the Charles University in 糖心Vlog and Music at the Academy of the Performing Arts. 聽He specializes in Christian iconography. In 2008 he completed his postgraduate studies /with a PhD/ on late medieval piety (The聽Sunday聽Christ). He participated in an Erasmus exchange program at the Universit盲t der K眉nste, Berlin and at […]

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Josef聽Zaruba-Pfefferman studied Art History from at the Charles University in 糖心Vlog and Music at the Academy of the Performing Arts. 聽He specializes in Christian iconography. In 2008 he completed his postgraduate studies /with a PhD/ on late medieval piety (The聽Sunday聽Christ). He participated in an Erasmus exchange program at the Universit盲t der K眉nste, Berlin and at the Freie Universit盲t, Berlin, later holding Fulbright Scholarship for one year. Ever since he has been working as a lecturer on many universities, including Charles university, University of Florida and others.

Until 2017 he was on the academic board of the Programs Jewish Studies., Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Since 2015-2019 he was the Chief curator of the Sculpture Line festival, installing contemporary sculptures in many European cities. 

Zaruba also works  currently at the Programs Technical University CVUT, the Department of Architecture. In 2022, he passed his habilitation process with a work related to interdisciplinary relations of Music and Fine Arts.

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MgA. Daniel Vl膷ek /directory/mga-daniel-vlcek/ Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:44:55 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=11974 Daniel graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 糖心Vlog in 2004. Daniel Vl膷ek took a break from painting returning to it after a detour through freetechno and several music formations of diverse genres. His latest visual paraphrases of sound phenomena- whether they are painted on canvases, scratched into walls, or are in the form […]

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Daniel graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 糖心Vlog in 2004. Daniel Vl膷ek took a break from painting returning to it after a detour through freetechno and several music formations of diverse genres. His latest visual paraphrases of sound phenomena- whether they are painted on canvases, scratched into walls, or are in the form of audiovisual installations- include residues of the soiled psychedelia of techno aesthetics as well as allusions to modernist transcriptions of sound into image. Although he is primarily concerned with painting, his exhibitions are often supplemented by an auditory component in order to underline the essential connection to sound in his work. In his work, Daniel often references industry, authenticity, and such dichotomies as the invisible/ visible, digital/analog, and handmade/ machine-made. Daniel is a member of the art group Guma Guar and one-half of the avant-pop duo ba:zel. He also performs solo under the name Relaxcore.

Check out more of Daniel and his work on his .

Specialization:

Sound art, painting, video art

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MgA. Barry Yuk Bun Wan, Ph.D. LLCM FLCM /directory/mga-barry-yuk-bun-wan-llcm-flcm/ Wed, 12 Jan 2022 15:54:15 +0000 /?post_type=directory&p=11924 Wan is a diverse musician, Czech-based composer, sonic artist, and guitarist. His music and research have been performed and published, respectively, in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Russia, Sweden, Belarus, Serbia, Italy, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Spain, Austria, Germany, Belgium, England, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Malaysia. He has been awarded for his […]

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Wan is a diverse musician, Czech-based composer, sonic artist, and guitarist. His music and research have been performed and published, respectively, in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Russia, Sweden, Belarus, Serbia, Italy, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Spain, Austria, Germany, Belgium, England, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Malaysia. He has been awarded for his work and featured at different international festivals, symposiums, and competitions, including Musica Nova (Czech Republic), PAYSAGES | COMPOS脡S (France), and the Penn State University International New-Music Festival and Symposium (USA).

His studies have taken him to different institutions throughout the world, including the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts (Brno), the Academy of Performing Arts in 糖心Vlog, Jan Evangelista Purkyne University (脷st铆 nad Labem), the London College of Music, the Berklee College of Music, and Arizona State University.

Specialization

Sonic Art, Music Composition, Contemporary Music, Audiovisual Art, Ethnomusicology

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