Shape of the Future World

The three-year grant project Shape of the Future World (KEGA 010VŠVU-4/20210) brings new imaginative visions of the future for the Digital Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts and seeks the place of art in the creation of visualizations, models, utopias – for understanding the present.

An important part of the project is the knowledge transfer between educators of the Digital Arts platform
and international experts, whom we have invited into the Future Earth fellowship program.

Future Earth fellows

Lenka Hámošová

Interdisciplinary artist, designer, and researcher delving into the integration of artificial intelligence in artistic creation, with a keen focus on maintaining human creative agency. Resides in Prague.

https://hamosova.com

Lukáš Likavčan

Philosopher focused on emerging technologies, ecology, and astronomy. He is a researcher at Antikythera program incubated by Berggruen Institute, a research fellow at University of Giessen’s Panel on Planetary Thinking, and an affiliate researcher at NYU Shanghai.

https://www.likavcan.com

Enda O’Riordan

Artist, editor and author operating in the intersections of science, philosophy and art. Graduate of the prestigious Goldsmiths, University of London.

Oleksiy Kuchansky

Young artist and filmmaker from Kyiv. Interested in art as a political expression. Currently stationed in western Europe.

https://e-flux.com

Natalia Trejbalova

Milan-based artist whose artistic program involves microworlds and their role in narratives about ecological coexistence of beings.

https://www.trejbalova.info/

Guest lectures

Besides the fellows of the program, we were lucky to invite several more guests to Digital Arts platform to give attractive lectures on the topic of future of society and biology:

Publications and events

We published a book of our fellows’ essays named Shape of Future Earth (ISBN 978-80-8189-072-7). A curated selection of student works was exhibited in At Home Gallery in Šamoríne. Together with our fellows and their guests we organized a colloquium in Július Koller Society.