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The Faculty of Fine Arts at BUT invites you to its annual conference, where current research projects of the Specific University Research programme for 2025 will be presented. These projects were developed by PhD candidates of FFA in their individual and team-based work, as well as in collaboration with students from other faculties of BUT. The conference will take place on Tuesday, 27 January 2026, starting at 10:00 a.m. at the TIC Gallery, located at Radnická 4 in Brno, and will be open to the general public. A total of nine projects will be presented at the upcoming faculty conference, including junior faculty projects, standard projects, and interfaculty projects that reflect the current research topics of PhD candidates at FFA. “The regular doctoral conference of the Specific University Research projects is one of the key activities through which FFA aims to support artistic research, foster interdisciplinary and international collaboration, and encourage the publication of high-quality research outcomes,” explained Lenka Veselá, Vice-Dean of FFA for Artistic Research and Publishing Activities. The presented projects focus, for example, on the contemporary aesthetics of nostalgia in the context of AI-generated images on social media, or on the exploration of interactions between different social groups in online environments. Doctoral research at FFA also addresses the human body itself and the question of visually representing invisible processes of the human organism and nervous system. Attention is also paid to opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration in the field of material design. One of the unifying themes of the currently addressed projects is the issue of memory and the archive – whether in the context of critical analyses of archival practices of various subcultures and initiatives, decolonial perspectives, or through a focus on the personality and legacy of the significant intermedia artist Radek Pilař. An interfaculty research team composed of students from the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Architecture will present the results of a case study focused on multispecies coexistence in urban environments, phenomena of ecosystem resilience, and the emergence of new forms of collectivity. The conference schedule and annotations of all presented projects are available on the faculty website.