About

Jiří Philippe Janda is a Czech visual artist, filmmaker and researcher working across generative moving image, audiovisual installation and speculative worldbuilding.

His work examines how bodies, technologies, landscapes and memory are transformed within synthetic visual environments. Rather than treating artificial intelligence as a neutral production tool, he works with generative systems as active participants in a process of iteration, negotiation and selection. His projects often take the form of speculative ecosystems and fictional worlds shaped by desire, consumption, ecological change and unstable visual memory.

Drawing on his background in architecture, Janda approaches moving image as a spatial and worldbuilding practice. His artistic work is closely connected to his doctoral research at the Faculty of Art and Design at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, where he is developing Synthetic Aesthetics: a practice-based framework for examining authorship, visual trust and human–machine co-creation.

About the Practice

My work begins with the construction of a world rather than the production of a single image. I develop fictional environments in which bodies, technologies and landscapes are subjected to unstable processes of transformation. These worlds often emerge from familiar situations—a family holiday, a school reunion, hunger or an industrial landscape—but gradually shift towards the speculative, grotesque or uncanny.

I work with generative systems through an iterative process of prompting, selection, recombination, editing and montage. The image is never the result of a single instruction. It develops through a negotiation between an initial intention, the model’s probabilistic responses, technical limitations and my own decisions. I understand this encounter as a synthetic partnership, while retaining responsibility for the conceptual and formal shape of the work.

Although artificial intelligence is central to the process, technology is rarely the subject on its own. I use synthetic imagery to explore desire, consumption, memory, ecological change and the ways people project themselves into images. My works move between film and audiovisual installation; sound, duration, scale and spatial presentation transform generated images into environments that the viewer can inhabit rather than merely observe.

Research

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