Digital artist, educator, and internet researcher exploring socio-political dreaming through speculation and technology. Working with new and emergent media (workshops, video, language models), she creates a testing playground for feral ideas. She is a recipient of the Polish Minister of Culture scholarship (2025) and a 2024–2025 Fulbright Junior Research Award grantee.
She is currently pursuing a PhD, Cartographies of Digital Monarchies, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. She holds an MA in Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) & Artistic Research from The Glasgow School of Art, and an MA in Polish Philology (Social Communication and Media Studies) from the University of the National Education Commission, Kraków. 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, as well as post-work imaginaries🛠️👩🏻💻.
Recent projects include: Embassy (solo exhibition at CCA Zamek Ujazdowski, PL), Omega Secret Society (performance with Julek Ploski at Unsound Festival 2025),
Cartographies of Digital Monarchies (PhD thesis, Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow), PEREVIRKA – Resistance Infrastructures (research project with the Nerdka collective).
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Get in touch ︎kat.zavada [at] gmail.com
Pronounce: ︎ she/her | he/his
My very serious research ︎ /kat-zavada
I’m sometimes here ︎/katzavada
and often funny here ︎/cyber_kmieciowa ︎︎︎
Urbit ~ridwer-pinmel

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