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Andreas Gajdošík is a Czech new media artist working with useful art and socially engaged projects through programming, interventions, and performance. His interests include digital sovereignty, decentralized media, ethical/open source software, sustainability, and veganism. He is a member of automatonomy.net and teaches at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology. He received the Jindřich Chalupecký Award in 2019.

Education

• 2019: Doctoral study - Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Fine Arts - doc. MgA. Mikuláš Macháček
• 2016-2018: Masters study - Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Fine Arts, Intermedia Studio - MgA. Pavel Sterec, Ph.D.
• 2012-2016: Bachelors study - Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Fine Arts, Multimedia Studio - Filip Turek, Mgr. Slavomir Krekovic, Ph.D.

Awards

• Award holder of Josef Hlavka Award 2021 for young academics
• Award holder of Jindrich Chalupecky Award 2019 for emerging artists

Exhibitions

• 2025
  • Feed’Em, Screen Saver Gallery, online
• 2024
  • Biased Play, Trinec City Gallery, Třinec, CZ
• 2022
  • It’s in your hands, router.gallery, Berlin, DE
• 2021
  • App-art 3: Bots of obvia & nomin, Kontext Gallery, Brno, CZ
• 2020
  • The Best of Possible Researches, collaboration with Barbora Šimková, Vysocina Regional Gallery in Jihlava, CZ
  • Seventh Class, collaboration with Barbora Šimková, Gallery Art, Brno, CZ
• 2018
  • Conclusions of Police Investigation, Gallery Umakart, Brno, CZ
• 2017
  • Do It Yourself, gallery Rampa, Faculty of Art and Design, Usti nad Labem, CZ
  • Take Away, MP7 Gallery, festival TRANSFORMA, Tabor, CZ
• 2016
  • Rising Superstar Hotline, media event and performance as member of group Pavel Ondracka, Manifesta 11, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland
• 2014
  • Digital Subconsciousness, gallery Art, Brno, CZ

Group Exhibitions

• 2026
  • ShadowFrame, Brno House of Arts - G99, CZ
• 2025
  • Podklady pro uvažování, Hraničář gallery, Ústí nad Labem, CZ
• 2024
  • Bezohlední / Unscrupulous, Off Format Gallery, Brno, CZ
  • Škvíra v Extázi II, Sculpture ark Olšiny, Prague, CZ
  • Re-connect Art biennale, Prague, CZ
  • Good Job, Hraničář gallery, Ústí nad Labem, CZ
• 2023
  • Škvíra v Extázi, Sculpture park Olšiny, Prague, CZ
• 2022
  • Can We Help You?, Gampa - City Gallery Pardubice, CZ
• 2021
  • All Idiots, Meetfactory Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • The More Profiles You Have, The More of a Person You Are, House of Arts Usti nad Labem, CZ
  • The Art of Appreciating, Modern Gallery AVU, Prague, CZ
  • Unscrupulous, Photogether Gallery, Zlín, CZ
  • Here and now!, with Global Genocide Inc., Brno House of Arts, Brno, CZ
• 2020
  • Sand in the Gears, gallery PLATO Ostrava, CZ
  • Inhabitated.net, Ústí nad Labem House of Arts, CZ
• 2019
  • The Power of the Powerless, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia
  • Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2019, Moravian Gallery, Brno, CZ
• 2017
  • The Last Word, Gallery In:Out, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 2015
  • Exhibition of Painters, Milos Zeman Gallery, Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno, CZ
  • Intuition, Vasulka Chamber, National Gallery of Iceland, Reikjavik, Iceland
• 2014
  • World Wide Waldeinsamkeit, gallery Oberwelt, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Hypertext, gallery Aula, Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno, CZ

Publications and public activity

• 2025
  • Curator of exhibition Hands that Hold the Networks with artists Chaline Bang, Ren Loren Britton and Alice Strete & col. Cristina Cochior
  • Curator (with Tomas Zato) of exhibition Together Yet Alone (with Cornelia Sollfrank, Manu Luksch, Corinne Whitaker (aka Digital Giraffe), Dagmar Schürrer), Festival XY 2025 - Studio G21, Olomouc, CZ
• 2023
  • Identity as a Tool of Artistic Intervention in the Media Space of Late Capitalism, chapter in book Gestures of power: six shades of power in art and design. Chapter written with Marika Volfová.
• 2021
  • On the Laical Edge of Software, Art and Activism, a lecture. Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ
  • Cambridge Artalytica: Software art as a tool of psychogeography, online lecture at Faculty of Art and Design UJEP, Usti nad Labem, CZ
• 2020
  • Curator (with Martina Růžičková) of Faculty of Fine Arts BUT Graduate 2020 Exhibition
  • Diplomantky.cz, coding and co-design (with Jakub Polách) of FFA BUT gender-neutral web of graduates
• 2019
  • Party-Extinct-Repeat, 3-day long performance with Global Genocide Inc., Terén - Center of Experimental Theater, Brno, CZ
• 2018
  • Article The end of the exploration: Internet art in transition to society, Artalk.cz
  • Presentation at (un)conference ‘How to Weather The Shrit Storm?’, 4AM, Brno, CZ
  • Article Hodina mezi mízou a jantarem: Digitální dílo v době své technické dvojjedinosti, Journal of Interactive Media - JOINME, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ
• 2017
  • Presentation with Studio of Pavel Ondracka, conference ‘What to do?’, Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, CZ
  • Presentation at Pecha Kucha 20 - Postmodernity, 4AM, Brno, CZ
• 2016
  • Pavleni - series of student run lectures in Studio of Pavel Ondracka, Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno, CZ - organization of events
• 2015
  • Connect - 3 workshops of creative programming, organization and teaching, Brno, CZ
  • Musical workshop of group Pavel Ondracka, Museums Night, Ceske Budejovice, CZ - teaching, design of DIY instruments
  • Presentation on topic of ‘Magicariat’, international conference Intuition, Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno, CZ
• 2013
  • Platform for Intervention of Electronic Media, Brno, CZ - organization

Residencies & Schools

• 2023
  • residency at TALM Le Mans, France
• 2020
  • artistic residency at Czech Centre Bucharest, Romania
• 2019
  • The Bratislava BAK Winter School, participant, LOM, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
  • New Alphabet School: (Un-)Learning Place, participant, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

Collectives

• 2025+: automatonomy.net
• 2020-2026: Kalich, an industrial noise techno duo (bandcamp)
• 2019-2021: Global Genocide Inc., an artistic group / fake company
• 2017-2019: European Union, a performative noise music group (soundcloud, youtube)
• 2015-2017: Studio of Pavel Ondracka, a student-run DIY studio at FFA BUT
• 2014-2017: Pavel Ondracka, a performative noise music group (soundcloud, youtube)