Biography

Antonín Kindl (b. 2000, Czech Republic) works with new media and installations. He builds custom electronic systems that sense and interpret their environment, turning machines into organisms that observe, react, and sometimes make mistakes. His ongoing research deals with perception, feedback, and the question of what it means for a machine to see.

He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, where he completed his MA at MediaLab, and also spent a semester at the Image and Media Department at HKU Utrecht. His diploma project System (2025) investigated autonomous machines and agency in machine behavior. His earlier works, such as Receptor (2023) and Synapse (2024), defined a consistent line of research into interactivity, processes of perception, and their materialization in space.

He won Signal Calling 2025 with OKO, an installation fabricated in collaboration with PrusaLab (Prusa Research) and presented at Signal Festival in Prague. The same work is a finalist for the 2026 Lumen Prize Experiential Innovation Award. Other work has been shown at Biela noc (Bratislava), Prototyp festival (Brno), and various exhibitions or events across central Europe. He recently completed a residency at V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam) and has taught multimedia at a secondary school of applied arts.

Making of Exhibizz (2025)

Education

2023–2025 Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (Slovakia) Department of Visual Communication (Master)

2023–2025 Additional Pedagogical Education

2021–2022 Erasmus semester at HKU Utrecht (Netherlands) Department of Image and Technology

2019–2023 Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (Slovakia) Department of Visual Communication (Bachelor)

2015–2019 Secondary School of Applied Art in Uherské Hradiště (Czech Republic) Multimedia department

Exhibitions & Events

2026 Antennae at PIFcamp Art-tech camp, Soča (SI)

2026 The Guest and the Host, Microdosing A.I. Residency V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam (NL)

2025 Summit, 200th anniversary of Slovenská sporiteľna Incheba, Bratislava (SK)

2025 OKO at Signal Festival Sady Svatopluka Čecha, Prague (CZ)

2025 OKO I at Biela noc Kaplnka sv. Ladislava, Bratislava (SK)

2025 Chaos as seen by a machine at Noc Vedy The Old Market Hall, Bratislava (SK)

2025 α, β, γ at Nocturno Zechenterov dom, Kremnica (SK)

2025 System, Collective exhibition TL;DR Dom Vanek, Bratislava (SK)

2025 Exhibizz, Interactive design w/ SORRYWECAN The Old Market Hall, Bratislava (SK)

2025 TechLab at Divadlo Štúdio Tanca Banská Bystrica (SK)

2025 Digital Mask at Bratislavské fašiangy The Old Market Hall, Bratislava (SK)

2024 Receptor at Prototyp Water Tanks under Žlutý Kopec, Brno (CZ)

2024 MIMIC at Biela noc Clarissine Church, Bratislava (SK)

2024 Cyklus Svetla Visuals on stadium w/ Stroon & Martin Gabčo, Biela noc National football stadium, Bratislava (SK)

2024 Reviving Machines at Prienky festival Bratislava Puppet Theater (SK)

2024 OKO I at Gelnické Iluminácie Evangelic church, Gelnica (SK)

2024 Laboratorium Obrazu a Zvuku at Nocturno Zechenterova záhrada, Kremnica (SK)

2024 OKO-EYE II Cosmos Cyklonaut II, Comic Avatar Litterra, Revúca (SK)

2024 Time_line at NaFilm Prague (CZ)

2024 Receptor II at UFF Uničov (CZ)

2024 Synapse at Galeria 19 Bratislava (SK)

2023 Synapse at Bratislava Design Week OD Prior, Bratislava (SK)

2023 Perception Lab at Medialab* Back to the Future Medium Gallery, Bratislava (SK)

2023 Light terrorism at Nocturno Zechenterova záhrada, Kremnica (SK)

2023 Receptor, Collective exhibition 9+9 NOC - House of Art, Bratislava (SK)

2023 Cyklus Svetla, Collective exhibition Light Cube Galéria Ludovíta Fullu (collaboration), Ružomberok (SK)

2022 fytopaleontologia book (re)design Slovak National Design Awards exhibition, Bratislava (SK)

2022 Cyklonaut Litterra, Revúca (SK)

2022 Kontinuum at Nastevřeno festival Moving Station, Plzeň (CZ)

2021 Animation for the festival on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of the poet Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav Bratislava (CZ)

2020 Explicit, VJing, Stage design ArtBar, Brno (CZ)

2020 Anything else at Best in Design exhibition Zlín design week (CZ)

2019 Barum van Nó, Collective exhibition Continental Barum HQ, Otrokovice (CZ)

2018 Riot at the International Biennial student design DESIGN.S Brno (CZ)

2018 Vizuální deník at collective exhibition ”Umprumka zapadá” Zlín (CZ)

2018
Prestige, Collective exhibition Klub Kultury, Uherské Hradiště (CZ)

2016 Tak dlouho se chodí... at Svitavská Klapka first Award in the Best Junior Animated Film category, Svitavy (CZ)

Work & Experience

2023–2025 Secondary School of Applied Arts in Uherské Hradiště Teacher at Multimedia Department

2020–2023 32b Multimedia Studio Head of Graphics Department