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Photographic Conference - PHENOMEN OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Tereza Jobová

19. 11. 2025

10:00 – 16:00

Conference

The conference brings together photographers, theorists and experts from different fields to reflect on the role of photography in the current technological and social context. Discussions will include the impact of new media, the role of artificial intelligence in the creation and interpretation of images, as well as the social and environmental challenges to which photography responds.

The event will offer a space for presentations and debates on the current form and future of photography. Institutions such as the Silesian University in Opava, the Technical University in Liberec, the Faculty of Art and Design of the University of Applied Sciences and the Fotografic Gallery will be represented.

The conference will be moderated by MgA. Silvie Milková, Ph.D.

PROGRAM

Block I – Photography as a visual language of the present

  • MgA. Veronika Daňhelová, assistant professor at the Documentary Photography Studio, FAMU, head of the AMU gallery – Documentary photography strategies in the global world of the 21st century
  • Mgr. et MgA. Jana Orlová, Ph.D., lecturer at Silesian University (Opava) – Performance art, trance, and documentation
  • MgA. Radka Anna Chocholoušová, doctoral student at the Technical University of Liberec – Sacred jewelry
  • MgA. Tereza Jobová, doctoral studies at the Faculty of Arts and Design, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University (Ústí nad Labem) – Contemporary spiritual art as a response to the crisis in the world
  • MgA. Jiří Dvořák, lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Design, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University (Ústí nad Labem) – Photography as a space for return
  • MgA. Tereza Bonaventurová , curator at the Fotografic Gallery (Prague) – Metanoia

Block II – Photography in exhibition practice: contemporary forms of presentation

  • MgA. Tomáš Hrůza , doctoral studies, FaVU (Brno) – Photography, events, virtual space
  • Mgr. Eva Imr Mráziková, Ph.D., lecturer at FUD UJEP, director of the Emil Filla Gallery (Ústí nad Labem) – Photography: art versus mainstream
  • Mgr. Veronika Marešová, doctoral studies at FUD UJEP (Ústí nad Labem), curator at GASK (Kutná Hora) – Photographic projects in exhibition operation at GASK
  • MgA. Tomáš Jiráček, doctoral student at ITF (Opava), operator and curator at the Teleport Gallery (Prague) – Photographic publications as a tool for authentic artistic expression
  • Mgr. Wlasta Laura Laurenčíková, doctoral studies at Masaryk University (Brno) – Changes in the perception of originality in photography