Emma 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..
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2020 - 2024 | Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Department of Digital Arts
2023 | Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Department of Design and Digital Technologies, Study stay
2023 | Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Module for Sustainability and Civilizational Issues - Planet B, Transdisciplinary Studies, Study stay
2021 | Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest, Department of Intermedia, Study stay
2016 - 2020 | Josef Vydra School of Art Industry in Bratislava, Department of Graphic Design
2020 - 2021 | Summer Game Dev - 5 Weeks Program
2018 - 2019 | LEAF academy - TalentGuide Mentoring Program
🡪 Exhibitions
2024 | Exhibition - Biela Noc Festival, Dancing with Myself, Dancing with My Cells, Visit Košice, Košice SVK
2024 | Exhibition - Biela Noc Festival, Dancing with Myself, Dancing with My Cells, Hviezdoslavovo námestie, Bratislava SVK
2024 | Exhibition - Junior Design Fest 2024, Crystals audiovisual installation, UMELKA gallery Bratislava SVK
2024 | Exhibition - Dancing with Myself, Dancing with My Cells, Graduate Exhibition, SATELIT Design Gallery, Slovak Design Center, SVK
2023 | Exhibition - MediaLab* Back to the Future | Experiments with image, sound and time; Medium Gallery, SVK
2023 | Exhibition - Neuroworm and Machines of Escape, Kunsthalle, Bratislava SVK
2022 | Exhibition - Junior Design Fest 2022, Crystals audiovisual installation, UMELKA gallery Bratislava SVK
2022 | Exhibition - Second Nature | Shape of Future Earth - Iteration One, AT HOME GALLERY, Šamorín SVK
2021 | Exhibition - Festival Hommage à Hvie100slav, Sonety na Divadle, Bratislava, SVK
2019 | Exhibition - 30 rokov slobody, Atelier 29, Rue Jacques de Lalaing, Brusel, Belgium
2018 | Exhibition - Pivnica, Klubová scéna pre Devín, SVK
🡪 Awards, Talks and Others
2022 | Award - Junior Design Fest International Competition - Slovak Design Center, Umelka Gallery Bratislava
2022 | Presentation speaker - #porcia_umenia - Digitálne umenie v hernom priemysle, speaker, Cooltajner, Považská Bystrica
2021 | Award - Summer Game Dev - Jury Award and Audience Award - TOWERACE game
2021 | Discussion guest - Machine Archeology, Emma Záhradníková & Richard Kučera Guzmán and dancer Tomáš Danielis Ralf Baecker and Theo Jansen - Sensorium festival
2021 | Discussion guest - Queer Hacking, HVALE VALE, CORNELIA SOLLFRANK, DALIA OTHMAN Sensorium festival
2020 | Residence Programme - Youth and A. I - (UN)Learning with robots - Sensorium Festival of Digital Arts and Culture
2019 | Award - National Competition Conference - JuniorDESIGN Award
2018 | Presentation - speaker, Y-GAMES, Refinery Gallery Bratislava
🡪 Work
2023 - Present | 3D Modeler, Generalist Artist, Graphic Designer - Charged Monkey Studio, Prague, Czech Republic
2023 - Present | Generalist Graphic Designer, 3D artist - AppAgent / Strategic & Creative Mobile Marketing Agency, Prague, Czech Republic
2022 - Present | Freelancer
2022 - 2023 | Mid Graphic Designer / UI Designer - TaterGames, Bratislava
2022 | Art Consultant - Katedra Digitálnych hier / TEDI - Theory of Digital Games, Trnava
2021 | Graphic Designer - Snapcommerce, Toronto, Canada
2018 - Present | UI Designer, ASO/UAC Graphic Designer - App Guardians, Vancouver BC, Canada
2020 - 2021 | Game lecturer / Graphic Designer - Hemisféra o.z.
2019 - 2020 | Graphic Designer Study stay, Creative Studio RICHIE..
🡪 Clients collaboration
2023 - Present | MonopolyGo, Stumble Guys, Governor of Poker 3 | 2D/3D Graphics (Scopely, AppAgent)
2023 | Pocket Trucks: Route Evolution by Nimblebit | Level Pixel Art (Nimblebit, SuperScale)
2018 - 2021 | Ten Percent Happier, TowerBall, Omnicoach, Color Collab, PayUp, Coinspash: The slots Game, hiMoment: Gratitude Journal, OurCommunity, DayOne Journal, Breethe, Cronometer, GraphicOne, Jokoka, The Mindfulness Ap | ASO, Campaigns, Presentations, Graphics, UI/UX, Visual Identities | (AppGrowthNetwork BC, CA)
🡪 Collaboration with Institutions, artists and projects
2023 | Slovak Game Developers Assosiation
2022 | Devolution, DeltaZone game
2023 | Atletics Championship game
Slovak Design Center
National Bank of Slovakia
Slovak National Gallery
Center for Folk Art Production | ÚĽUV
The University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava | Mentor
Slovak National Theatre
Sensorium Festival
Goethe-Institut Bratislava
Comenius University Bratislava
Richard Kučera Guzmán
Dorota Sadovská | Biela noc
Tomáš Danielis
Martin Kállay
🡪 Curriculum Of Skills
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe After Effects
DaVinci Resolve
Blender
Cinema4D
Maya
TouchDesigner
Resolume Arena
Python
JAVAOthers: Zbrush, Figma, Unity, Adobe XD, Processing