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 [...]

“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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

The Hustler Mirage: Selling Toxic Productivity under the Guise of Coaching

By Agnieszka Wodzińska, February 5, 2021

“30 years. 18-hour days. Not 8-hour days, 10-hour days, 12-hour days, 18-hour days. If anybody thinks you can be successful without paying that price, you’re wrong.” – Grant Cardone If you have an account on any of the most prominent social media platforms, you are already somewhat familiar with ‘hustlers’. Sure, you might have seen [...]

Cottagecore as a Budding Anti-Capitalist Movement

By Agnieszka Wodzińska, January 21, 2021