About
Emma Zahradníková (SK) is a conceptual-visual artist based in Prague with a passion for medicine, focusing on working with new technologies, media, and their intersection with the real world. In her concepts, she contemplates the future, human existence, the environment, and their mutual influence. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, in the Digital Arts studio. At the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, she completed a transdisciplinary module on sustainability and civilizational issues focused on the future of nuclear energy. In the professional sphere in the game industry, she holding positions as a Generalist Artist, 3D Modeler and Graphic Designer. She works in game studio Charged Monkey in Prague and also for American companies on game graphics, such as Netflix Studios, Monopoly Go and Stumble Guys by Scopely, Pocket Necromancer, Pocket Trucks: Route Evolution by Nimblebit etc..
Prague based, globally active.
CONTACT
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Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (SK)
Department of Digital Arts
BcA. Program
Assoc. Prof. MFA Assoc. Prof. András Cséfalvay, ArtD.
2020 - 2024
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Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (CZ)
Department of Design and Digital Technologies
Exchange Semester
2023
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Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (CZ)
Module for Sustainability and Civilizational Issues - Planet B
Transdisciplinary Studies
Exchange Semester
2023
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Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest (HU)
Department of Intermedia
Short-term Study stay
2021
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Josef Vydra School of Art Industry in Bratislava (SK)
Department of Graphic Design
2016 - 2020
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Summer Game Dev
5 Weeks Summer Program
2020 - 2021
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LEAF academy
TalentGuide Mentoring Program
2018 - 2019
Exhibitions
White Night Festival,
Vihorlatská knižnica, Humenné SK
2025
White Night Festival,
Visit Košice, Košice SK
2024
White Night Festival,
Dancing with Myself, Dancing with my Cells,
Hviezdoslavovo námestie, Bratislava SK
2024
Junior Design Fest,
UMELKA gallery, Bratislava SK
2024
Graduate Exhibition,
SATELIT Design Gallery, Slovak Design Center, SK
2024
MediaLab* Back to the Future | Experiments with image, sound and time;
Medium Gallery, SK
2023
Neuroworm and Machines of Escape,
Kunsthalle, Bratislava SK
2023
Junior Design Fest,
UMELKA gallery Bratislava SK
2022
Second Nature | Shape of Future Earth - Iteration One,
AT HOME GALLERY, Šamorín SK
2022
Festival Hommage à Hvie100slav, Sonety na Divadle,
Bratislava, SK
2021
30 rokov slobody, Atelier 29, Rue Jacques de Lalaing,
Brusel, BE
2019
Exhibition - Pivnica, Klubová scéna pre Devín,
SK
2018
Publications
Neuroetics and Current Limits of Neurogaming (study)
Glosolalia
2024
Awards
Junior Design Fest International Competition
Crystals Audiovisual installation
2022, Slovak Design Centre, Bratislava SK
Summer Game Dev
TOWERACE game
Jury Award and Audience Award
2022, Bratislava SK
JuniorDESIGN Award
SlowDown music app
2019
Talks
Speaker - #porcia_umenia
Digital Art in Game industry
2022, Cooltajner, Považská Bystrica SK
Discussion guest - Machine Archeology
Emma Zahradníková & Richard Kučera Guzmán and dancer Tomáš Danielis, Ralf Baecker and Theo Jansen
2021, Sensorium festival
Discussion guest - Queer Hacking
Hvale Vale, Cornelia Sollfrank, Dalia Othman
2021, Sensorium festival
Speaker - Y-GAMES
Mobile app design
2018, Refinery Gallery Bratislava
Residence
Residence Programme - Youth and A. I - (UN)Learning with robots
Sensorium Festival of Digital Arts and Culture & Goethe institut
2022
Work
Charged Monkey Studio
3D Modeler, Generalist Artist, Graphic Designer
2023 - Present
Prague, CZ
AppAgent: Strategic & Creative Mobile Marketing Agency
Generalist Graphic Designer, 3D artist
Prague, Czech Republic
2023 - Present
Freelancer
2022 - Present
TaterGames Studio
Mid Graphic Designer, UI/UX Designer
Bratislava, SK
2022 - 2023
UCM FMK Katedra Digitálnych hier, Theory of Digital Games
Art Consultant
Trnava, SK
2022
Snapcommerce
Marketing Graphic Designer
Toronto, Canada
2021
App Guardians
UI Designer, ASO/UAC Graphic Designer
Vancouver BC, Canada
2018 - 2022
Hemisféra o.z.
Game lecturer & Graphic Designer
2020 - 2021
Creative Studio RICHIE..
Graphic Designer
Study Stay
2019 - 2020
Clients collaboration
Scopely x AppAgent
MonopolyGo, Stumble Guys, WWE
2D/3D Graphics, renders, modeling
2023 - Present
Supercell x AppAgent
Clash of Clans
2D Campaigns
2024
Netflix Studios x AppAgent
2D painting
2024
Playtika x AppAgent
Governor of Poker 3
2D campaign
2023
Nimblebit x Superscale
Pocket Trucks: Route Evolution by Nimblebit
Character and Level Pixel Art
2023
App Guardians
Ten Percent Happier, TowerBall, Omnicoach, Color Collab, PayUp, Coinspash: The slots Game, hiMoment: Gratitude Journal, OurCommunity, DayOne Journal, Breethe, Cronometer, GraphicOne, Jokoka, The Mindfulness App
Graphic Designer: ASO, Campaigns, Presentations, Graphics, UI/UX, Visual Identities
Vancouver, BC, CA
2018 - 2021
Collaboration with Institutions, artists and projects
Devolution, DeltaZone game , Atletics Championship game, Slovak Game Developers Assosiation,
Slovak Design Center, Slovak National Gallery, Center for Folk Art Production | ÚĽUV, The Slovak National Theatre
National Bank of Slovakia, Goethe-Institut Bratislava, Sensorium Festival, White Night Festival
University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Comenius University Bratislava
Richard Kučera Guzmán, Dorota Sadovská, Tomáš Danielis, Martin Kállay
Softwares
Blender, Maya, Cinema 4D, Zbrush, Marvelous Designer
Marmoset Toolbag 5
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe After Effects
DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere Pro
TouchDesigner, Resolume Arena
Unity, Unreal Engine
Figma, Adobe XD
Python, Processing