Mgr. Tomáš Staudek, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae

Department

• Masaryk University
  Faculty of Arts
  Department of Musicology
  Arna Nováka 1
  602 00 Brno
  Czech Republic

Employment - Position

• Algorithmic art lecturer, software aesthetics researcher.

Education and Academic Qualifications

• 2003:  Ph.D. in computer science (Faculty of Informatics). Thesis topic: Exact Aesthetics—Object and Scene to Message.

Employment

• 2025 — :  Researcher (CIIRC ČVUT). Co-investigator, UX designer and frontend developer of the TACR grant project “Artificially intelligent teacher of art education” aimed at exploring new ways of teaching arts remotely by designing an AI assistant for distance education of painting & sculpting.
• 2023 — :  Lecturer of computer art (Artgoritmy.cz). Organizing workshops on digital creativity for art school students.
• 2023–2025:  Researcher (Faculty of Arts). Co-investigator of the grant project “Strengthening the excellence of the Theory of Interactive Media program” focused on transforming educational processes in response to the challenges associated with the massive adoption of artificial intelligence applications in creative industries.
• 2020–2022:  Lecturer (Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs). Author of courses and workshops introducing open-source solutions and enforcing security and privacy in public administration.
• 2020–2022:  Researcher (Faculty of Arts). Co-investigator of the grant project “Art–design–media / Exploration and mediation of creative production” focused on expanding knowledge and advancing the analysis of art & media intersections in digital culture and creative industries.
• 2018–2020:  Educational content creator (Fund for Further Education). Author and supervisor of online courses focused on computer-aided creativity and transferable digital competencies for the Strategy of Digital Education (2015–2020).
• 2007–2016:  Web designer (Institute of Computer Science). Designer & consultant for the Uniweb team delivering new web presentation for Masaryk University. Formerly designing user interface and interaction metaphors for the Integrated Students’ Data Registry system and the university Moodle-based environment for creating and sharing e-learning resources.
• 2002 — :  Visual artist. Presented at a variety of art shows and festivals, incl. Ars Electronica (Linz), Computer Multimedia Art (Prague) or DOX Center for Contemporary Art (Prague).
• 1998–2006:  Faculty researcher (Faculty of Informatics). Co-founder of the Graphic Design & Multimedia Group, researcher of software aesthetics and computational foundations of art.
• 1993–2011:  Event organizer (Faculty of Informatics). Organizing committe member of conferences and academic events of both local and international impact (SOFSEM, DATAKON, MEMICS).

Teaching Activities

• 2018 — :  Algorithmic art practice (Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University).
• 2014 — :  Algorithmic art theory (Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University).
• 2013–2014:  Design, typography & typesetting (Caritas Czech Republic).
• 2008–2009:  New media art (Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University).
• 2008:  Internet as the medium for artistic expression (Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University).
• 2006 — :  Visual creativity informatics (Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology).
• 2003–2006:  Digital photography (Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University).
• 2003–2006:  3D modeling with Cinema4D (Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University).
• 1999–2006:  Visual creativity informatics (Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University).

Internship

• 2002:  Visiting researcher (Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol). Doctoral fellowship at the Digital Media Group aimed at proposing and examining algorithmic criteria for aesthetic evaluation.

University Activities

• 2017 — :  Founding member (Spolek Interier). Association supporting students’ creative activities.
• 2017 — :  Editorial board member (JOINME). Online peer-reviewed journal on digital media culture theory & praxis (with Dušan Barok, Barbara Büscher, Martin Flašar, Jozef Kelemen, Denisa Kera and Katarína Rusnáková).
• 2004–2005:  Editorial board member (IM6). Journal for new media and information technology culture.

Activities Outside University

• 2017 — :  Co-founder and endowment board member (Napříč.cz). Cultural non-governmental organization (with Josef Prokeš, Robert Král and Zdeněk Filipec).
• 2005 — :  Professional member (International Association of Art). Partner of UNESCO with the status of consultative association.
• 2005 — :  Professional member (Union of Visual Artists of the Czech Republic). Member of the national legal body of professional artists and art theoreticians.

Awards Related to Science and Research

• 2021:  Happy Moments in Generative Art (invited lecture with Helena Vymazalová). Prototyp Festival. BVV – Brno Fairs, Brno.
• 2018:  Math => Art! Mathematical Constructivism in Visual Arts (invited talk). New Histories for New Media Art. Computer Graphic Re-visited 2.0 exhibition. House of Arts, Brno.
• 2014:  The Rhythm of Gestures in Mathematical Images (invited talk). 4th International Conference on Performance, Performativity and Media. Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University.
• 2012:  Computer Art & Fractals (invited talk). Summer School of Computer Science. Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology.
• 2011:  Math + Art (invited talk). Software Studies Symposium. Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University.
• 2010:  Algorithmic Aesthetics / Aesthetics of Algorithms (invited talk). Summer School of Computer Science. Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology.
• 2009:  Computer Art Now: Exact Aesthetics Practically (invited talk). Software Studies Symposium. Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University.
• 2003:  Rector's Award for the best students in doctoral study.

Major Publications

• HORÁKOVÁ, Jana; Martin FLAŠAR; Adam FRANC; Michael FRANĚK; Tomáš STAUDEK a Monika SZŰCSOVÁ. Navigating Through eXistenZ. 2024. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/. URL info
• HORÁKOVÁ, Jana; Monika SZŰCSOVÁ; Adam FRANC a Tomáš STAUDEK. RE:Galerie. Teorie interaktivních médií v re:akci. 2023. FB událost info
• VYMAZALOVÁ, Helena a Tomáš STAUDEK. Šťastné okamžiky v generativním umění. In Prototyp. Festival umění, vědy a technologií. 2021. URL info
• HORÁKOVÁ, Jana; Jiří MUCHA; Monika SZŰCSOVÁ; Adam FRANC; Martina IVIČIČ; Tomáš STAUDEK a Filip JOHÁNEK. Hands-on Media Art Theory. Linec / Linz: Ars Electronica Festival, 2019. Out of the Box. URL info
• STAUDEK, Tomáš. Math => Art! Matematický konstruktivismus ve výtvarném umění. In New Histories for New Media Art. 2018. info
• STAUDEK, Tomáš. Artgorithms: The Rhythm of Gestures in Mathematical Images. In Media – Performance 4 / Gesture. 4th International conference on performance, performativity and media. 2014. info
• LINKOV, Václav a Tomáš STAUDEK. Chaotic Attractors as a Possible Tool for Psychological Diagnostics. In Psychological Diagnostics of Children and Adolescents, Brno, Czech Republic. 2011. info

2026/06/07