Jana Horáková
Associate professor @ Masaryk University
Jana Horáková (CZ) is an Associate Professor of New Media Art at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. She leads the MA program Theory of Interactive Media and the PhD program Digital Culture and Creative Industries. Her research focuses on the history of local new media art, robotic art, and innovative methodologies for researching and mediating digital art. She has presented her work internationally, including in Austria, Germany, Hungary, Russia, Finland, the United States, and Japan. Her publications include scholarly articles, book chapters, and monographs on the cultural history of robotics, robotic and software art, and strategies for preserving new media art. Dr. Horáková has been explored the use of emerging technologies as research tools in digital art history and aesthetics. She co-curated the virtual reconstruction of Computer Graphic (Brno House of Arts, 1968/2017, 2018), one of the earliest exhibitions of computer graphics. She recently led the interdisciplinary project Media Art Live Archive (Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, TL02000270), which applied machine learning to The Vasulkas’ video art archive and developed curatorial experiments using unsupervised learning (The New Archivist, part of The Black Box online exhibition, https://cerna-skrinka.cz/). Currently, she is the principal investigator of Local Digital Art and Culture as a Subject of Historiographical Research (GA24-10667S), supported by the Czech Science Foundation.