The conference organized by the Faculty of Fine Arts BUT, the Society for Queer Memory, the Institute of Economic and Social History at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, will deal with queer history in the Czech Lands in Central European and international context in autumn 2019 at the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the ground-breaking conference Homosexuality in the Czech Lands and the Humanities. By “queer history” we mean approaches to historical research, which endeavor to critically analyze heteronormative structures in society and stereotypes in thinking, related to the bipolar image of gender and biological sex, using the selection of topics and applied methods.

International Conference Focused on Data and Fine Art. Conference Datatata aims to discuss a wide range of questions about how the artistic practise is affected by contemporary phenomena of massive data collecting and data interpretation. The conference was one of the outputs of the project Decentralized Big Data Collection, Analysis, Visualization and Interpretation in Art Practice, which is supported by Technology Agency of the Czech Republic.

The conference realized by the Faculty of Fine Arts of Brno University of Technology (FFA BUT) thematically covers questions of relation between the art, mainly the digital image, and truth. In the age denominated by the attribute "post-factual", the new evaluation is taking place: how have the conditions of digital distribution changed in the Information Age? Does this new situation make fertile ground for cynical resignation, or conversely, for the hopeful creation of new ethical and political possibilities? What role should the art play in the reformation of our understanding of truth?