Jennifer Helia DeFelice
Jennifer Helia DeFelice is an artist, pedagogue and cultural organiser. She is head of the Center for Audiovisual Studies at FAMU, Prague. She also co-founded Vašulka Kitchen Brno — Center for New Media developed to preserve and mediate the work of electronic art pioneers Steina and Woody Vašulka and to develop their legacy through the development of archival, exhibition, and education programming.
Jennifer Helia DeFelice studied New Media Development at Empire State College, The State University of New York and earned a doctoral degree at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology (FaVU VUT) for her research on Performative Meditation and Interpretation. She has subsequently worked at FaVU as a studio assistant to Tomáš Ruller in the Performance Studio before assuming an academic position in the Visiting Artist’s Studio coordinating artistic appointments across various media from 2020 until 2025. She was a guest artist at the Department of Social Design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Die Angewandte). She lectures on Documents of Presence and Experience at the Theory of Intermedia Department, Masaryk University (MUNI). At Prague City University, she led the course Ideas Generation: Conceptual Tendencies and the seminar Understanding Historical, Cultural, Sociopolitical, and Curatorial Influences on Art Making. In addition to her artistic endeavours and lecturing, she has developed projects as a curator for new media at the Brno House of Arts, most recently Organic Circuits, an interdisciplinary art and science exhibition and colloquium realized at the LÁ Art Museum in Hveragerði, Iceland. She completed a Master’s degree in Sound Design and Multimedia Technology at the Faculty of Arts, MUNI in 2024. (2025)
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