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, Bařinka brings extensive contemporary artistic practice and exhibition experience to his teaching.

McAlorum joined Anglo-American University in 2026. Alongside his role at AAU, he continues to teach at Prague 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.

Stehlíková 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 Prague. She also teaches artistic research at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague 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 “Ecstatic Truth,” 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, Prague 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.

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 Façade 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.

In 2020, Petříková received the Jacques Derrida Prize for young researchers in humanities, awarded by the French Embassy in Prague, 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.

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 Prague, the Theatre Institute in Prague, 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 Prague in 1991.

Until 2017 he was on the academic board of the Prague 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 Prague 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.

Sound art, painting, video art

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 Prague, Jan Evangelista Purkyne University (Ústí nad Labem), the London College of Music, the Berklee College of Music, and Arizona State University.

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