Responsible for curating the digital storytelling and immersive media programme at the Digital Cultures conference. She co-hosts "the Odbiornik” podcast for dwutygodnik.com magazine, covering art, technology, and the art of living with technology. For over a decade, she has been designing and organising international events to bring together audiovisual and digital media creators and enthusiasts. She provides consultations and devises strategies on interactive projects for Polish and foreign institutions.

Co-founder of the Total Immersion Foundation, she received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, and currently has a residency on the ArtHouse programme. As a child, she wanted to be an anthropologist and her dream came true. She is based between Warsaw, Sokołowsko, and Berlin, where she works for the Creatives’ Catalysts agency.

Artist, designer, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. In her artistic and research work, she investigates the relationship between humans and the urban space, focusing on the subjective and emotional perception of the environment.

Co-founder of the GrubyPunkt Urban Lab. Its main initiative is SubjectiveMap – a project of subjective mapping of places that focuses on intangible urban layers. It is based on spontaneous exploration of places and involves participants that are often excluded from everyday discussion about urban space (e.g. seniors, immigrants or blind people). The project has been presented at various festivals and exhibitions, among others 8th International Festival of Creativity, Innovation & Digital Culture ESPACIO ENTER (Tenerife, ES), Post Screen Festival - International Festival of Art, New Media and Cybercultures (Lisbon, PT), EME3 BOTTOM-UP Festival (São Paulo, BRA), Architecture as human nature exhibition (Berlin, DE) or the 7th EME3 International Architecture Festival (Barcelona, ES) and conferences, including Memory Studies Association (University of Copenhagen, DEN), Urban Culture at the Crossroads (the University of IUC in Dubrovnik, HR) and QUAM (Center for Contemporary Art in Vic, ES).

She participated in Festival Strangelet (Vigo, ES), Platforma 11 (Leipzig, DE), Stores Art Attack Projects (Abrantes, PT) and 24h BRL/GDA (Gdańsk, PL). She is a member of international network Women in Architecture.

www.subjectivemap.com

Project presented during the Digital Cultures Festival:
Miastofon

Composer, sound artist, improviser (piano, drums, electronics) with a PhD and post-doctoral degree in music, professor at the Academy of Music in Poznań.

Thanks to his experience in counterculture and collaborations from different artistic disciplines, Zapała moves beyond the boundaries of music acquired through academic education (he holds a PhD in music composition and MA in choir conducting). His works are presented at contemporary music festivals, in jazz clubs, experimental music venues and open urban spaces.

He was an artist-in-residence at Stanford University–CCRMA (01-03/2014), Zamek Culture Centre in Poznań (2014), Świętokrzyska Philharmonic in Kielce (2014/15), ZK/U Berlin (2016), and Vertigo STARTS (2019), among others. Founder of Kołorking Muzyczny, founder and chair of an_ARCHE New Music Foundation as well as a number of music ensembles and projects (performing composed as well as improvised, electronic and experimental contemporary music).
His original idea of Live Electronic Preparation (LEPTechnique) was published as a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio (Oxford University Press, 2014). A special place in his art is occupied by sound interventions and installations embedded in the urban space, such as Sensorium (monumental installation at ZAMEK Culture Centre’s clock tower, Poznań) and Post-Apocalypsis (gold medal for the Polish pavilion for Sound Design at the Quadriennale in Prague, 2015).

Project presented during the Digital Cultures Festival:
Scrolling to Zero (2018/2019)

A creative programmer, researcher, and artist from Poznań.
He is mainly involved in designing digital tools for creative expression, developing interfaces, and visualising data. His boutique studio Flow/Control has worked on major professional projects.
He also makes experimental drone/ambient music using deconstructed acoustic sounds, for which he builds special equipment and writes and his own code.
Additionally, he offers consultations on technical projects, holds workshops, and gives lectures.

www.szymonkaliski.com

Project presented during the Digital Cultures Festival:
FabFungus

The TR Warszawa theatre is one of the key locations on the Warsaw and Polish cultural map. For over 20 years, the artistic director of the theatre, Grzegorz Jarzyna, and his team have been developing new methods of artistic activity and work organisation addressing the needs of the evolving theatre art and culture audiences. The theatre offers complementary programme categories: international, new talents, field activities, and, since spring 2020, TR Online.

NATALIA DZIEDUSZYCKA
Culture manager and director of TR Warszawa since 2019. Previously, she worked for the Foundation Culture, the National Centre for Culture, and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, among others. At TR Warszawa, she and her team have carried out subsequent stages of TR Warszawa’s investment process at the Parade Square in Warsaw. She also initiated the preparation of strategic documents, i.e. the 2019-2023 TR Warszawa Team Strategy and the TR Online Strategy.

AGATA KOŁACZ
Culture manager working at TR Warszawa since 2017, where she manages a team of international projects as well as establishes and develops the theatre’s international relations. Previously, she worked for the National Audiovisual Institute, Arte Europe, and the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw. For years, she has cooperated with Malta Festival Poznań. At TR Warszawa, she has co-created the Stay at Home, Don’t Leave the Theatre programme and the TR Online Strategy.

Project presented during the Digital Cultures Festival:
TR Online programme Stay at Home, Don’t Leave the Theatre