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LUKÁŠ PILKA PAVEL SIKORA
Lukáš Pilka is a digital designer and media theorist focusing on interactive Pavel Sikora is an expert in image processing, computer vision, and neural
and communication design, contemporary technologies, new media and networks. He received his master’s degree in Communications and Infor-
the overlap between these fields and the world of fine art. His research matics in 2018 at the Faculty of Electrical engineering and Communication
at the University of Applied Arts in Prague focuses on the use of com- at the Brno University of Technology (BUT), Czech Republic. During his
puter neural networks for the automated classification and quantitative studies for a Ph.D. at the same university, he wrote several publications
interpretation of works of art, especially classical paintings, drawings and focused on computer vision and optical networks. He collaborated on
prints from the collections of Central European museums. Lukáš Pilka scientific projects focused on video art, analysis of traffic situations and
is also a university lecturer and a regular contributor to media channels data from cameras in public transport, and an analysis of cryptographic
such as Art Antiques, Flash Art and Artalk. He is the initiator of the Open methods based on deep learning applied to side-channel attacks.
Collections project, creator of the experimental application DigitalCurator.
art, programmer, podcaster and a fan of old and new generative art.
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