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  •       Transdisciplinary research platform steered by visual artist Adam Vackar and biologist Jindrich Brejcha. Our practice at the intersection of visual art and biology, with overlaps in anthropology, architecture, geology, and philosophy, aims to explore paradigms of knowledge based on the understanding of the biological perspective of life and existence for both humans and non-human species. The fascinating processes underlining non-human life can contribute to better understanding of human existence in wider context of evolution, behavior and culture.




Sensing Change:
Festival of Visual Art, Science, and Ecological Imagination
New York, USA


October 4 – 18, 2025

Pratt Institute: Practicing Resilience
Symposium
Sat, Oct 4,  3–5 PM
Pratt Institute

BioBat Art Space: Plant, Fungal, and Human Perceptions of Change
Panel discussion and exhibition
Sat, Oct 11, 1–5 PM
BioBat Art Space

Museum of the Moving Image: Fire of Love
Film Screening
Fri, Oct 17, 6 PM
Museum of the Moving Image

Parsons School of Design: Rhythms of Change
Symposium
Sat, Oct 18, 4–7 PM
Parsons School of Design

NOoSPHERE Arts: Tuning into Nature
Sound Performances
Sun, Oct 19, 3–5 PM
 NOoSPHERE Arts




Sensing Change Festival is presented by Transparent Eyeball (Prague) and Art/Switch (New York), a citywide series of public events exploring how change is sensed, measured, and embodied across human and non-human systems. The interdisciplinary focused festival invites artists, scientists, architects, anthropologists and thinkers to examine the dynamic processes shaping the living world.

The program unfolds across Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, BioBAT Art Space, Noosphere and the Museum of the Moving Image, activating each site with talks, performances, and site-specific interventions. Sensing Change engages process philosophy and resilience thinking to reframe how we witness transformation: from migrating birds to thawing glaciers, from botanical movements to molecular shifts.

At a moment when climate data can feel abstract or overwhelming, Sensing Change proposes an alternative form of measurement. One grounded in attention, memory, imagination, and care. The project invites a deeper kind of listening, recognizing the planet not as backdrop, but as collaborator.

Sensing Change is supported by the Ministry of Culture Czech Republic, Teiger Foundation, and 1014 Space for Ideas.






Niche Construction
Group Exhibition
NOD
Prague, CZ

25.7. – 14.9.2023


Artists:
Gerard Ortin Castellvi, Shezad Dawood, Andro Eradze, Pilar Mata Dupont, Martin Netočný, Andrey Shental, Adam Vačkář


Biologist - texts:
Vojtěch Abrahám, Martin Adámek, Jindřich Brejcha, Kristýna Eliášová, Roman Figura, Petr Tureček, Martin Weiser

Niche construction, a vital biological process, involves organisms altering their environment or that of other species. This change can manifest as a physical alteration, a shift in the organism's role within a new environment, or even the adoption of novel behaviors prompting responses from other organisms.

Currently, niche construction theory stands as a focal point in evolutionary ecology, captivating the attention of both artists working through moving images and biologists expressing their insights in written form. Collaboratively, artists and biologists delve into specific natural processes that underlie human existence.

The texts penned by biologists serve as a wellspring of inspiration, sparking curiosity about the narratives of these natural processes. Understanding these processes should ideally be at the core of future education, shedding light on the intricate ways in which humans and nature are shaped and interconnected, aspects of which many remain blissfully unaware.







In-habit: Transdisciplinary symposium at Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design
Prague, CZ



December 1 - 2. 2022

Václav Cílek
Geologist, climatologist, writer

Mareike Dittmer
TBA21-Academy, Madrid

Habima Fuchs
Visual artist

Johanna Gibbons
Landscape architect, London, UK

Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido
Prof. of ecology University of Minnesota, USA

Stefan Helmreich
Professor of Anthropology at MIT, USA

Tereza Stehlíková
Visual artist

Sissel Tolaas Visual
Artist

Neal White
CREAM, University of Westminster, UK

Šárka Zahálková
Visual artist, curator and cultural activist

Are we active enough in the face of the scale of current planetary and environmental challenges? Where are we heading in our thoughts and actions? How can we change our habits to protect our habitat (environment)? Place and environment shape us as much as we shape it; there is a deep reciprocity on Earth that has long been neglected.

This transdisciplinary symposium was born out of an urgent need to reformulate our relationship to our physical and mental environments, near and far, human and non-human. The In-habit Symposium will bring together scientists, artists and cultural workers from the Czech Republic, the USA, Germany and the UK, institutions such as MIT, University of Minnesota, TBA21-Academy, Charles University.

Where is the right balance in our relationship between human and non-human agents? How can contemporary art, science and other disciplines come together to rethink and shift our point of view, to access non-human perspectives, non-human motivations, to change our habits and successfully coexist? What role does embodiment/senses play in training our sensibility? We need to rethink human behavior and point out the functional behavioral systems for the future.

Organized together with Tangible Territory, an open access art, science & philosophy journal, which focuses on how we make sense of the world through all our senses and the importance of place and embodied experience in giving meaning to everyday experience of life and art.

The symposium received financial support from Ministry of Culture Czech Republic.

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Life Discussions: Transdisciplinary symposium at Centre for Contemporary Art
Prague, CZ



March 12, 2022

Speakers:
Adam Vackar and Jindrich Brejcha
Introduction, Transparent Eyeball
Michael Bok
Biologist, Lund University, Sweden
Reuben Fowkes
UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, London, UK
Johannes Jaeger
Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Vienna,
Miranda Lowe
Scientist, Natural History Museum, London, UK
Katja Novitskova
Visual artist, Amsterdam
Michael J. Ryan
Professor, University of Texas in Austin
Kostas Stasinopoulos
Curator, Serpentine gallery, London, UK
Antonin Strizek
Scientist, Academy of Sciences, Prague  
Life Discussions is a transdisciplinary symposium dedicated to exploring how art and culture can coexist, complement one another, and open new ways of understanding urgent biological questions. Bringing together artists, theorists, and biologists, the program investigates the principles of life that drive creativity and communication, while also seeking inspiration in the adaptive solutions that living systems provide.

Today’s environmental challenges are highly complex, and developing strategies that foster public awareness and responsibility is crucial for the long-term conservation of species and ecosystems. The symposium emphasizes collaborations between artists and biologists to create innovative forms of participatory research while helping to share ecological knowledge with wider, non-specialist audiences.

Internationally renowned scientists, artists, and cultural thinkers exchange ideas on the evolutionary roots and the deep interconnectedness between humans and the natural world. Themes include invasiveness in plants and humans, beauty as a biological concept, public interventions that reshape our relation to the environment, and non-human perspectives—from the overlooked agency of plants to the extraordinary vision of the mantis shrimp, a species with the most complex sight system known.

Life Discussions sets pats for art and science to reveal together new perspectives, expand collective imagination, and remind us that humans are inseparable from the living networks we share this planet with.

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