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Peter Cusack is a field recordist and musician with a long interest in the acoustic environment. He initiated the “Favourite Sounds Project” to discover what people find positive about everyday soundscapes and ‘Sounds from Dangerous Places’ that uses sonic journalism to investigate places of major environmental damage like the Chernobyl exclusion zone or the Aral Sea, Central Asia and to track sonic impacts of the climate crisis. He plays improvised music on guitar and occasionally writes songs. In 2011/12 was a guest of the DAAD Künstlerprogramm in Berlin. More recently he has become involved with radio.aporee/radio.earth, remote audio streaming, soundwalking and making music on guitar that regards the sound environment as an equal participant.
He has also developed ways to play field recordings ‘live’ in performances with other musicians and as a soloist.

Elia Moretti (1986) is a composer, performer, and researcher exploring the performativity of sound and listening as critical tools within contemporary music theatre. In his interdisciplinary practice, he creates site-specific and participatory projects that intertwine sound, movement, and objects.
In Slovakia, he has worked as curator of the Carpathian New Wave series in Prešov and co-initiated the Symposium Musicum project for the UM UM festival in northern Spiš – later released by the independent label mappa.
His work moves between radio, theatre, and dance, with projects presented throughout Europe. As an educator, he focuses on listening as a relational and transformative act that transcends the boundaries of music.

Michal Kindernay (1978) is an intermedia artist, sound artist, performer, and curator. His audiovisual installations connect the realms and tools of art, technology, and science. He often engages with ecological themes, using technological approaches to reflect on environmental issues and their relation to nature. His work ranges from video and interactive installations to intermedia and documentary projects, sound objects, and compositions. He also participates on theatre, dance, and music projects. Kindernay is a co-founder of the non-profit art organization yo-yo and the initiator of the RurArtMap project. He has long been an external lecturer at the Department of Audiovisual Studies at FAMU and also works with the Institute of Intermedia. He is currently enrolled in the master’s program Art & Research at Prague City University and pursuing doctoral studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno. He lives and works in Prague and has contributed as an artist, curator, and organizer to numerous international projects.

Tomáš Prištiak (1988) is an artist working in sound art and performance, with a particular focus on sound. Through sound, he seeks new, gentle approaches to things, environments, and both human and non-human communities. Since 2015, he has performed with various experimental music ensembles and created solo sound performances as well as collective listening sessions. His solo works have been presented at festivals such as Kiosk, Next – Festival of Advanced Music, Kinobus, Less is Sound, Sensorium, and others. He has performed in Prague, Brno, Budapest, Ljubljana, and Vienna. In addition to performative works and sound installations, he also composes music for film and independent theatre. He studied documentary filmmaking under Dušan Hanák at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava.

Michaela Prablesková (1993) is a student at the Department of Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. In her work, she focuses on questions of identity, memory, nostalgia, inner experience, and feminism. She is drawn to alternative versions of reality, to situations that never happened and to stories that were forgotten. She enjoys experimenting, working with physical matter, humour, and moments of awkwardness or kitsch.

Erik Ždiľa (1996) was born in Bardejov. After graduating from the School of Applied Arts in Košice, he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, earning a bachelor’s degree in Intermedia from the Ateliér VVV under Martin Piaček and Dávid Koronczi. He then spent two years studying music theory at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava before returning to the Academy of Fine Arts and Design to complete his master’s degree in Intermedia. After his first year of the master’s program, he moved to Prague, where he is currently studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in the Intermedia 2 Studio under Dušan Záhoranský and Paula Sceranková. In addition to visual art, Ždiľa is also active in music – he plays drums in the projects Krstní otcovia, Alten Kompoten, Krtko Bain, and Digästorcie, with which he performs and releases new music.

Students of the Department of Intermedia at AFAD form a random group of individuals who enrolled in the course SOUND III in the winter semester of 2025/2026 and thus unexpectedly found themselves tasked with creating a sound installation.

Fero Király has been collaborating with the Department of Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (AFAD) since 2021. His teaching focuses on sound-related subjects divided into four parts. SOUND III is dedicated to experimenting with the nature of various speakers, microphones, and DIY amplifiers. He studied piano performance and electroacoustic music. His practice centers on interdisciplinary projects addressing ecological and social themes, extending into performance, sound art, installation, and contemporary music interpretation.

Soundcamp Cooperative is an international art collective based in London, Glasgow, Berlin, Lisbon, and Crete. Active since 2013, its members work on projects exploring transmission ecologies. Their interests range from DIY broadcast tools to public sound and radio projects. As part of the Acoustic Commons network, they coordinate the long-term broadcast project REVEIL (since 2014), marking the annual Dawn Chorus Day on the first weekend of May, bringing together sound art from across the world. Recent Soundcamp projects include: Work Shop #1 at Loughborough Junction (since 2023); Radio With Palestine (2023), a series of live transmissions from demonstrations; Spree ~ Channelsea Radio Group (2023), connecting rivers in London and Berlin; and As if radio… (AIR) — an experiment in ecological activist radio during COP26 in Glasgow (2021), among others.

Soundcamp is interested in the live transmission of sound between places and situations, drawing attention to lesser-heard human and non-human communities. Their work spans broadcasts, workshops, sound devices, and events.

Lucia Gregorová Stach (1975) is an art historian specializing in modern and contemporary art, particularly of the 1960s and 1970s. She researches performative and intermedia art in Central and Eastern Europe and is partly engaged in art theory, the history and future of exhibition-making, and new museology. She worked at the Slovak National Gallery as a senior curator, managing the Collection of Other Media. She is the author and co-author of numerous exhibitions and publications, including Adamčiak, BEGIN! (SNG Bratislava, 2017; Ľ. Fulla Gallery, 2018, with M. Murin); Jana Želibská – Swan Song Now (Czech and Slovak Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale, 2017); and the long-term exhibition Model: Museum of Contemporary Art (SNG Bratislava, 2024).

Csilla Nagy (1983) studied sculpture at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and completed her doctoral studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava in 2015. Through exploring craft techniques and materials, her works address layers and fragments of memory — individual, familial, or collective. Recently, she has been deeply engaged with both ancient and contemporary ceramic techniques, seeking connections between ceramics and visual art.

Slávo Krekovič (1977) is a musician, sound artist, musicologist, and curator. A graduate of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, he is the artistic director and co-founder of A4 – Space for Contemporary Culture and the NEXT music festival. Between 2013 and 2017, he headed the Multimedia Studio at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology. He performs solo and as a member of ensembles such as Shibuya Motors, Vritti, and the Bratislava Improvisation Orchestra, among others. His work focuses on generative processes, human-machine interaction, and improvisation in various contexts through the use of hardware and custom software.