Investigating Synthetic Aesthetics, Generative AI and Worldbuilding
My research explores how generative artificial intelligence transforms artistic creation, authorship and visual culture. I focus on the creative process as a dialogue between human intention and machine-generated probability, where images, videos and worlds are not simply represented, but simulated, negotiated and iteratively constructed.
At the centre of my doctoral research is the concept of Synthetic Aesthetics: a theoretical and artistic framework for understanding AI-assisted creation through synthetic partnership, synthetic resonance, synthetic gesture and synthetic worldbuilding. This framework connects my practice-based artistic work with broader questions of authorship, visual trust, cultural bias, simulation and the changing role of the artist in generative media.
PhD & Doctoral Focus
The Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Artistic Creation Process: A Creative Approach Using Algorithms and Deep Neural Networks
This doctoral research investigates how artificial intelligence reshapes the artistic creation process. Rather than treating AI as a neutral tool, the project examines generative systems as synthetic partners that actively influence form, authorship, decision-making and the construction of visual worlds.
The research combines theoretical reflection with practice-based artistic production, focusing on AI-generated moving images, audiovisual installations and speculative worldbuilding. Its central aim is to define the principles of Synthetic Aesthetics as a contemporary framework for understanding human–machine co-creation.
Synthetic Aesthetics
Synthetic Aesthetics is my theoretical and artistic framework for describing the shift from image-making as representation to creation as simulation. It understands generative AI not only as a production tool, but as an active system that participates in the formation of images, narratives and worlds.
The framework is structured around four interconnected concepts:
Synthetic Partner — AI as an active creative counterpart that expands the author’s cognitive and aesthetic space.
Synthetic Resonance — the iterative feedback loop between human intention and machine-generated responses.
Synthetic Gesture — the visible trace of negotiation between human authorship and computational logic.
Synthetic Worldbuilding — the construction of coherent speculative worlds through generative media.
Applied Research Projects
SGS Grant
Neural Networks in Artistic Creation
From Generated Image to Virtual World
This project focuses on the development of an authorial AI-driven environment connecting images, spatial design, and narrative structures. The outcome is a functional prototype of a world created through neural networks.
RUR
Industrial Bestiary
A multimedia exhibition project inspired by the industrial history of the Ústí nad Labem region. It combines sound, AI-generated visuals, and fictional mythology of a post-industrial landscape. The result is a speculative ecological narrative in the form of an installation and video.
