Jozef Cseres

Assoc. Prof. PhDr. Jozef Cseres, PhD. (also known under the artistic pseudonyms HEyeRMEarS and Hermovo ucho) is an aesthetician, musicologist, publicist, conceptual artist, educator, and cultural organizer of Slovak origin. Under the name HEyeRMEarS, he has performed and presented his work at conferences, exhibitions, festivals, and symposia across many European and Asian countries, as well as in the USA.

His research and theoretical interests focus on symbolism, structural relationships between music and myth, the problem of representation in art, intermedia and multimedia forms, and experimental and improvised music. He is broadly oriented toward contemporary art and, within musical genres, he particularly reflects on new opera, experimental music, jazz, multimedia projects, sound art, and film music. As of 2025, he lives in Brno and lectures on aesthetics, philosophy of music, visual arts, and intermedia at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University.

In the past, he also taught at the Department of Aesthetics at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava and at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Brno University of Technology. From 1999 to 2010, Jozef Cseres was a member of the editorial board of the prestigious Hungarian art magazine Magyar Műhely. He is the author of several books and numerous studies, essays, articles, reviews, and translations. He regularly publishes popular and scholarly articles in the online magazine His Voice and in Profil – Contemporary Art Magazine. Alongside his academic and teaching career, he is also active as a curator and publisher (he runs the label and publishing house HEyeRMEarS/Discorbie, dedicated to nonconformist music).

In 1990, together with Milan Adamčiak, he co-founded SNEH (Society for Unconventional Music), with the aim of documenting the intermedia scene in Slovakia and presenting it in both domestic and international contexts. That same year, he collaborated with Czech artists (David Šubík, Zdeněk Plachý, Marian Palla, Miloš Štědroň, etc.) to establish a center for experimental culture in Brno called Skleněná louka (“Glass Meadow”). Between 1995 and 2002, he organized the alternative music festival Sound OFF, which he co-founded with Michal Murín. Together, they also established (in 2000) the civic association Kassák Center for Intermedia Creativity (K2IC) in Nové Zámky, aimed at overseeing and connecting non-profit activities in the field of intermedia art. There, he organized the concert series Not So Good Music. He also co-founded the art groups LENGOW & HEyeRMEarS and The Lazy Anarchists.