Pavel Mrkus (1970) is an audiovisual artist who makes use of digital moving images and sound often in relation to specific space. He graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. His later study of Religious Studies at the Charles University in Prague together with experience of four years teaching position at Toyama City Institute of Glass Art in Japan lead him to unique mixture of cultural paradigms within his work. He participated in many group and solo shows around world. Together with Daniel Hanzlik they established Time-Based Media studio at Faculty of Art and Design at J. E. Purkyne University in Ústi nad Labem. Pavel together with Jan Krtička was the initiator and organizer of the second CENSE gathering — Murmurans Mundus conference in Ústí nad Labem, 2019 and the co-editor of the antology Sound and Enviroment.