Andrej Sýkora elected head of the Game Design Department

In the selection procedure for the head of the newly established Department of Game Design, it was decided: we would like to warmly welcome Andrej Sýkora as the head of the department.

Andrej Sýkora comes from an environment devoted to practical and theoretical work on the border between fine art and moving images. He studied audiovisual art at the FAMU Center for Audiovisual Studies. He often uses web technologies and interfaces, javascript game engines, databases and procedural content generation in his work. In his theoretical work, he focuses on broader philosophical and social science contexts - whether video games or digital technologies in general. Since 2008 he has been professionally engaged in programming web applications and systems.