📖 Official school information for onboarding of fresh students can be found here (Slovak only):
https://www.vsvu.sk/workspace/media/documents/vsvu-buddy-final-926.pdf

Physical spaces

Digital Arts AFAD has three main spaces for you. All of them are in the building od Drotárska 44:

🔑 You can access Studio and Engine rooms at any time. The key can be picked up from the reception by presenting your student ID card. There's only one key, don't take it home with you 😃

Digital spaces

Discord

🗨️ Our main communication within Digital Arts AFAD runs on Discord. We will send you invitation link to our Digital Arts Discord server.

E-mail

📧 School emails ( @student.vsvu.sk ) are the main information channel for official school information and for updates from the school's information system AIS. Installing the Outlook email client (desktop, mobile) to not miss any important updates.

Onedrive

📁 Your school accounts ( @student.vsvu.sk ) grant you 100 GB of storage space on OneDrive. Use this to save and backup your projects.

Terminology

Semestral topic / semestrálna téma
Theme that is supposed to inspire students' artwork for that semester. We usually have guests and lectures related to the topic.
The Joker / Žolík
Once during your study, you can decide to chose a topic of your own, if you do not like the semestral topic.
Stand-up
Short format presentation (around 3-5 minutes) where you present your progress from the previous week; usually happens during Tuesday studio meetings. Don't be scared to show incomplete work in progress. We all do it.
Checkpoint
Bigger presentation presented in pecha kucha format where you present your progress and work of the previous section of the semester; your research, prototypes, experiments, achievements, plans for the next section of the semester.
Pecha Kucha
Automated format of presentation, where you present (in our case) 10 slides and you have 20 seconds to present each; slides are either in form of png image, or if you feel like you need a video, you can upload mp4 that is max 20 seconds long (but there is a possibility of it glitching out)
Defense
The final presentation of your finished work.
Prieskum / Inspection
Public exhibition of student works. At the end of each semester, the school studios open to public for three days and we exhibit our semestral works. This is the biggest event of our semester.

Buddy system

Students in the first year can ask their buddies for first-hand (and first-class) information regarding student life, administration, courses and basically anything.

Your buddies are:

More info

This page lists the information for first-year students. Get familiar with the information for all students too: