Oficina: Marek Cimbálník a Jan Netušil (CZ)
Marek Cimbálník is a Czech graphic designer and co-founder of the multidisciplinary studio Oficina, which is a pioneer in the field of motion design in the Czech Republic. He focuses on visual identities with the potential for movement and development, utilizing procedural graphic systems and experiments in his design practice. He is a graduate of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM).
Jan Netušil is also a graduate of UMPRUM, where he studied film and television graphics. After his studies, he specialized in motion design and soon joined the Oficina studio, where he primarily focuses on interactive multimedia projects and animated graphics. Since 2021, he has been leading the Studio of Design and Digital Technologies at UMPRUM in Prague together with Jiří Hölzel.
In 2016, the studio launched Mouvo, a conference dedicated not only to motion design but also to connecting graphic design, film, animation, and technology through lectures by internationally recognized creators.
Keywords: motion design, visualizations, complex systems, creative software, cities
Afternoon topic: Into the Universe
Technology enables discovery, exploration, and new understanding of the universe we are a part of. How deep can we go? How does the connection between art and science contribute to discovery? Can the Moon become our next home?
We can understand the dimensions that transcend us with the help of mathematics, physics, computing, statistics and other artificial tools. These not only give us the illusion that we understand our universe, but also the illusion of order that reflects the nightmares of perceived chaos. But we refuse to acknowledge that this illusion has gradually become law. The space we call the Universe seems to have multiple possible interpretations, and meanwhile advanced data systems are gradually building a parallel, virtual, imprint of it. Scientific models and explanations of the nature and origin of the Universe, like other theories, have naturally gone through phases of acceptance and transcendence. Do we now find ourselves once again in a similar era that, albeit without corporal punishment, is moving on to another paradigm of interpretation of the physical nature of matter and the universe? How many more interpretations and plausible theories will have to gradually fall before we finally find the answer?
