Posts By: Agnieszka Wodzińska

Young Creatives Unite at Blend 2021

By Agnieszka Wodzińska, November 6, 2021

Illustrators, designers and other creatives gathered in a skatepark in Breda last month to learn from each other and discuss the realities of working in precarious conditions where disciplines merge, creativity flows, and we all negotiate ways to stay afloat – financially and emotionally. What came out of the two-day event? Gathering energy The spacious [...]

Out Now – Pandemic Exchange: How Artists Experience the COVID-19 Crisis

By Agnieszka Wodzińska, July 19, 2021

Theory on Demand #41 Pandemic Exchange How Artists Experience the COVID-19 Crisis Edited by Josephine Bosma News reports on the Covid-19 pandemic seldom include how the virus and the societal lockdowns affect artists. A lively circuit of cultural events, meetings, and exhibitions has come to an almost complete stop, leaving artists often not just with [...]

What Doesn’t the Algorithm See? With Rosa Menkman and Joanna Zylinska

By Agnieszka Wodzińska, May 15, 2021

“We need to focus on what remains unrendered, or unseen – what we are blind to.” – Rosa Menkman On Friday evening May 14, 2021, the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and The Digital Hub hosted a webinar with Rosa Menkman and Joanna Zylinska. It was the fifth event in the Digital [...]

Self-Surveillance, Step by Step: Tracking My COVID Walks

By Agnieszka Wodzińska, May 7, 2021

“A journey implies a destination, so many miles to be consumed, while a walk is its own measure, complete at every point along the way.” – Francis Alÿs Most of us are used to knowing that our devices track how we interact with them and monitor what we do when they are around. But the [...]

Copy before you transfer. Digital archiving strategies with nGbK Berlin

By Agnieszka Wodzińska, April 27, 2021

Collectivity, copying, care. Sharing knowledge is key; no one should be irreplaceable. Copy before you transfer. Care about your content and be transparent about your biases, as archiving is never truly objective. Last Friday, the first event in the Networks of Care series initiated by nGbK Berlin took place. Artist Cornelia Sollfrank introduced Old Boys Network [...]

“Please move through this site with care.” On Maya Man’s Compassionate Digital Experiments

By Agnieszka Wodzińska, April 15, 2021

Maya Man is a young artist, dancer and technologist from New York. Utilising her background in coding and computer science, she makes projects that enhance and expand online experiences. Her work incorporates themes of joy, nostalgia and curiosity all at once, often leaning on early internet aesthetics while projecting a vision of embodied technological bodies [...]

Freedom of Face: Nxt Museum Q&A with “Coded Bias” director Shalini Kantayya

By Agnieszka Wodzińska, March 24, 2021

Who wants a ‘perfect’ algorithm? On March 23 2021, the Nxt Museum hosted a Q&A with filmmaker and activist Shalini Kantayya. She is the director of the investigative documentary “Coded Bias” (2020) which exposes and explores the biases of artificial intelligence technologies prevalent yet mostly invisible in daily life. During the event moderated by filmmaker [...]

Resting in Pixels: One year of “Animal Crossing: New Horizons”

By Agnieszka Wodzińska, March 19, 2021

Growing up, my friend had a Nintendo Entertainment System knock-off called Pegasus. I think it was only sold in Eastern Europe in the 1990s. I spent a few summers in her attic, playing a variety of side-scrolling and vertical-scrolling pixelated games. It was fun to see each other get better at different levels and challenges, [...]

Imagining Possible Worlds with “Aesthetics of the Commons”

By Agnieszka Wodzińska, March 5, 2021

Part of a series by the Institute for Contemporary Art Research at the Zürich University of the Arts, Aesthetics of the Commons investigates the fruitful intersection between the idea of the commons, and the aesthetics of practices that relate to the concept. Overall, the publication ponders how to enact a shift in academia, arts and [...]

Seven years since #GirlBoss. Where is she now?

By Agnieszka Wodzińska, February 17, 2021

Who remembers the first time they heard the term ‘Girl Boss?’ For most, it was around the time founder of the fashion brand Nasty Gal, Sophia Amoruso, published her autobiography ‘#GirlBoss’ in 2014. Since then, the term has grown in popularity to the extreme, creating its own aspirational ‘category’ of woman, archetypal image, and countless [...]