Lenka Hamosova is a design researcher and educator with a background in visual communication and strategies.
 
In her critical design practice, she embraces fiction and speculative approach in tackling ethical issues of the latest technological advancements and envisions the future scenarios of AI-generated synthetic media, transparency of visual communication and visual perception in the post-truth era. Her projects often use satire and absurd hyperbole to communicate projections of future scenarios based on the current status quo.

Lenka is a graduate of the Sandberg Institute’s Design department - Masters Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2014). In 2018, she co-founded the Czechoslovak platform for critical and speculative design ALTTAB and regularly collaborates with several transdisciplinary research and design platforms. She writes and lectures on the frictions in visual culture, design and architecture, organizes workshops and participates in various educational programmes.

Education

MDes. Design, Sandberg Institute, Masters Rietveld Academie

Bc. in Visual Communication, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, SK 

Professional Activities:

2023 - Prague City University - lecturer

2021 - leading lecturer at the Inspiration Forum LAB 2021 within festival MFDF Jihlava, CZ

2020 - 2023 - Uroboros Festival: Designing in Troubling Times, CZ - initiator, organisator, curator and a design

2019 – Runway ML - workshop organisation

2019 – Material Times, Prague - illustrator, visual publisher

2018 - Fresh Eye, CZ - platform for the study of visual culture, graphic designer 

2017 - Seyhan Lee, US - visual artist

2012 - 2023 - graphic designer and visual critic (Faculty of Architecture STU, LUSTR Festival, Fresh Eye, Material Times Magazine, OneWorld Magazine NL, BNO NL, b-Epic NL, Mindshare, SK)

2012 - 2013 - Sandberg Instituut, NL - graphic designer 

Teaching Experiance 

2019 – Summer School for Teachers, DOX - lecturer

2019 – Study of New Media, FF UK, Prague - guest lecturer

2016 – Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Prague - guest teacher

2016 – Sandberg Institute, NL - guest teacher

2016 – Hogeschool voor de Kunsten - visiting teacher

Design Research Projects:

2021 — Expanding the set of creative ML/AI tools  - experimental procedures in author's work, FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts Prague, CZ

2020 - 2021 — Collective Vision of Synthetic Reality: https://syntheticreality.com

2018 - 2019 — The visual Language of Real Estate Projects, Bratislava

2019 – Al Tools In Design Methodology - resources for designers

2019 – Visual Scepticism in the Post-truth era - synthetic media vs. transparency of visual communication, experimentation with visual generative tools such as GANs

2018-2019 – The visual Language of Real Estate Projects in Bratislava - analysis of visual strategies and architecture visualisations, visual research, speculative design objects

2014 – Apathy Paradox, NL - apathy triggered by visual overload

2013 – Exercises on Democracy - experimental participatory workshops and shared research platform between students of Royal cCollege of Arts, London and Sandberg Insittuut, NL

2012 – Visual Pollution and Its Visual Language in Graphic Design - bachelor project

Professional Lectures (selection): 

2021 — Paradox: Co můžou umělci udělat pro umělou inteligenci? ︎︎︎ | panel discussion #DATAMAZE, DOX, Prague, CZ - online

2021 — Speculative look on the future cities | Crash course: Beyond sustainability, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden - online

2020 — Visual Uncertainty in Synthetic Reality ︎︎︎ | CAS Guest Lectures, CAS, FAMU, CZ - online

2020 — Syntetická média a jejich kreativní potenciál ︎︎︎ | Blok expertů KISK, MUNI, CZ - online

2020 — Udržateľný dizajn budúcnosti︎︎︎| panel discussion at Festival Nasuti 2020, Bratislava, SK - online

2020 — Illuminating the Black Box ︎︎︎ - panel discussion |The Arena, Dutch Design Week, NL, - online, 2020 — Syntetické médiá a nové vnímanie reality ︎︎︎ | HUMAIN Conference, Industra Brno, CZ

2020 — The Hmm on___ Deepfakes ︎ / The Hmm, Amsterdam, NL, - online, 17-06-2020 (1:22:00)

2020 — Seeing is no longer believing. Visual uncertainty in the post-truth era. ︎ / VALS, Prague City University, CZ - online, 

2020 — Syntetická média a vizuální nejistota - když vidět ještě nic neznamená ︎ / Obraz vs. Osobní Data, Fresh Eye, CZ, - online 

2019 - Deepfakes & Synthetic Media - Pralelná Polis, SK

2019 - Visual Scepticism - The Hmm, NL

2019 - Synthetic Vision - Paralelní Polis, CZ

2019 - How Generative Adversarial Networks Changed the Way We Look on the World, or Necessity of Visual Scepticism in the Post-truth Era, Brno

2018-2019 – The Visual Language of Real Estate Projects in Bratislava - Days of Architecture and Design, Final_Final, Obraz vs. Gentrifikace

2016 – Participative Online Visual Strategies, NL

2016 – How to Create a Visual Strategy, NL

Workshops and public presentations (selection): 

2021 — Collective Vision of Synthetic Reality | Umanesimo Artificiale, IT, online, 22-05-2021

2021 —AI & Syntetické obrazy | #Datamaze, DOX, Prague, CZ, online, 27-03-2021 & 10-04-2021

2021 —AI & Syntetické obrazy | Scholastika, Prague, CZ, online, 02-03-2021

2021 —Collective Vision of Synthetic Reality ︎︎︎ | Interactions 2021, online, 03-02-2021

2021 — AI & Syntetické obrazy | #Datamaze, DOX, Prague, CZ, online, 09-01-2021 & 06-02-2021

2020 — Collective Vision of Synthetic Reality | ML Ethics Team, Google,  online, 04-11-2020

2020 — Syntetické médiá | DOX, Prague, CZ, 26-09-2020

2020 — Syntetická budoucnost ︎︎︎| Letní škola

2020 — Nahlížet dějiny, DOX, Prague, CZ, 28-08-2020

2020 —Kolektivní vize syntetické reality | Letní škola Občankářů 2020, DOX, Prague, CZ, 02-06-2020

2020 —Collective Vision of Synthetic Reality ︎︎︎/ MA Future Design, Prague College, Prague, CZ, 02-2020

2020 — Collective Vision of Synthetic Reality ︎collaboration with Pavol Rusnak / CtrlZ.AI Zine Fair, 2020 2020 — ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*), Barcelona, ES,

2019 — Syntetická média – výzva pro ověřování původu a pravosti informací ︎/ Letní škola pro učitele „Stopovat dějiny: práce s prameny ve výuce“ Centre for Contemporary Art DOX, Prague, CZ 

2019 – Bob Ros Lives!( But He's Trapped In a Silicon Chip Now) - Coded Bodies, Amsterdam

2019 – ALTTAB Exe.Cute This - Ústí nad Labem

2019 – ALTTAB Prototyping Reality That Doesn't Exist (Yet) - Humpolec

2016 – More Images More Power, Typolab Bratislava

2016 – Design Feedback Sessions - De Punt, Amsterdam

2015 – Factory of Choices - Festival de Keuze, Rotterdam, NL

2015 – Exercise on Democracy -  What Design Can Do, Amsterdam, NL

2014 – (Your Mother Was Right) It is Better To Share - Sandbert Instituut Amsterdam, NL

Curating:

2016 – More Images more power, Bratislava

2015-2016 - De Punt Gallery, Amsterdam

2015 – Hackers & Designers Summer Academy, Amsterdam

2014 – Factory of Choices, festival De Keuze, Rotterdam

2014 – Dialetheia, Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam

2014 – AA Amsterdam -Athens, Kunsthalle Athena, Athens

2012 – spatial installation for Sandberg Instituut during Kunstvlaai, NL

2012 – VoteBack Festival co-organising masterclasses and public programs, NL

Non-profit activities:

2018-2023– cofounder of the platform for critical and speculative design ALTTAB, Prague

2018-2023 – membership of the platform for the study visual culture Fresh Eye, Prague

2018-2023 – cooperation with BRUTUS – Anti-Award for Architecture, Bratislava

2015-2023 – cooperation with the platform Hackers & Designers, NL

2014-2016 – membership of De Derde Verdieping design collective, NL

Exhibitions (selection):

2020 — AI Art Gallery - NeurIPS 2020 Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design, online

2020 - Začarovaný kruh - DOX - Centrum současného umění, Praha, CZ

2019 – Okraj krajin. TL – LH – AI (Tereza Lišková, Lenka Hámošová & AI), Stará Škola, Vrané nad Vltavou

2018 – REAKCIA UMELCOV group exhibition, Ateliér XIII, Bratislava, SK

2016 – CYBER ISLAND. Past ≤ Now! ≥ Future group exhibition,  Halle, DE

2014 – Dialetheia graduation show. Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, NL

2014 – AA Amsterdam Athens, Kunsthalle Athena, Athens, GR

Grants and awards:

2021 — SGS AMU scholarship - Akademie múzických umění, Prague, CZ 

2020 — Nomination for the National Award for Design, SK - category: Digital for the visual identity (Uroboros Festival 2020)

2020 — Awwwards Website Honorable Mention For the website https://2020.uroboros.design

2019-2020 – Slovak Art Council Grant for design project development

2015 – Trnava Poster Triennial 2015 finalist. Trnava, SK

2011 – Erasmus Exchange Programme scholarship, AFAD Bratislava & HKU Utrecht

2010 – Dean‘s award, Faculty of Architecture, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, SK

Publications:

Book chapters:

Dolejšová, Markéta & Hámošová, Lenka. (2021). Designing in Troubling Times: Notes from the Uroboros Festival. In NERD - New Experimental Research in Design. Edited by  Michael Erlhoff  & Wolfgang Jonas. Birkhauser Basel. 

Hamosova, Lenka & Rusnak, Pavol (2020). Bob Ross Lives! Workshop on the creative potential of GANs. In Hackers & Designers: Coded Bodies. Hackers & Designers, Amsterdam.

Conference papers:

Hámošová, Lenka (2021). Syntetické médiá a nové vnímanie reality. In HUMAIN. Edited by Roman Novotný & Alina Matějová. FAVU VUT Brno. ISBN 978-80-88123-29-3

Hámošová, Lenka (2019). How Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) changed the way we look at the world Or the necessity of visual scepticism in the post-truth era︎ / in DATATATA,  Data and Art 2019, Conference Proceedings, Brno, Czechia, 

ISBN 978-80-214-5821-5

Magazine articles:

Krásavica snívajúca pri Dunaji /Material Times #4, 2019 (ISSN 2464-742X)

Online articles: https://hamosova.com/writing