Hot academic chic🔥 Artist, curator, and internet researcher exploring socio-political dreaming through speculation and technology. Member of Nerdka collective and grantee of the 2024-2025 Fulbright Junior Research Award.


She is currently pursuing a PhD in Cartographies of Digital Monarchies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. She also holds an MA in Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) from The Glasgow School of Art. Her research spans tech utopias & dystopias, South China Morning Post newsletters, Reddit memes, and digital monarchies. She is intrigued by the network state concept, the politics of software, digital identity, data collection as exercises of power, as well as post-work imaginaries🛠️👩🏻‍💻.

Recent projects include:
Cartographies of Digital Monarchies (PhD thesis, Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow)PEREVIRKA – Resistance Infrastructures (research project with the Nerdka collective) Metaverse Consulting (performative lecture and performance at Unsound Festival with Martix Navrot).


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Get in touch ︎kat.zavada [at] gmail.com

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