Kateřina Svatoňová is a Head of the Department of Film Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. She he has long been involved in media theory, history, archeology and philosophy, visual culture and the relationship between film and other media. She is a curator of several exhibitions from the history of film and media, (co)editor of monothematic periodicals and professional publications and author of books 2 ½ D: Prostor (ve) filmu v kontextu literatury a výtvarných umění (2008), Odpoutané obrazy: Archeologie českého virtuálního prostoru (2013) a Mezi-obrazy: Mediální praktiky kameramana Jaroslava Kučery (2016), for which she received the F. X. Šalda Award, and co-author of monograph Dictator of Time: (De) contextualization of Laterna magika (2019) and Ester Krumbachová (2022).