Biography
Born in Most, northern Bohemia, Feb. 10, 1956. After studies at a college of chemistry, he pursued his education at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, reading Art Teacher-training, and Czech Language and Literature. He graduated in 1980, earning a degree for a thesis on kinetic art Real Motion as a Medium of Art (under the tutorial guidance of Ass. Prof. Zdeněk Sýkora). During the 1980s and early 1990s he was engaged in various editorial jobs: between 1981 and 1984 as a language and art editor in the Art Department of the record company, Supraphon, from 1984-1990 as its head; and in 1994 he won in the competition for the post of chief editor at the National Gallery in Prague, where he stayed until 1994.
Throughout that period, he pursued his own endeavours as an artist (focusing on computer-generated and variable structures), simultaneously working on various applied graphics assignments (record sleeves, posters, books, catalogues, and occasional prints).
In 1994 he took up a part-time job as assistant-lecturer in the creative module of the Institute of Fundamental Studies, Charles University in Prague, from 1996 carrying on there on full-time basis. His scholarly concern turned towards the issues of modern and contemporary art, visual semiotics, visual studies, practical visual creation, and digital image creation. In 2000 the Institute of Fundamental Studies was transformed to the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, where he was appointed head of the creative module in 2001. Since the establishment of the Faculty, he has been a member of the Academic Senate, since 2003 till 2007 repeatedly elected to its chair.
Concurrently with his academic duties, he enrolled for graduate studies for a PhD degree in Anthropology, currently finalizing work on a doctoral thesis on Equilibrium as an Anthropological and Aesthetic Value.
He is a member of the Concretists Club. He lives and works in the town of Poděbrady, central Bohemia, and in Prague.