Program

Ludwik Kamiński

Ludwik Kamiński - VJ, visual artist, stage and light structure designer. In his artistic work, he combines various media, such as generative graphics, animation, laser, LED light, and mapping. His projects are closely linked to the club scene and electronic music, having collaborated with festivals such as Up To Date Festival, Carbon Silesia, Tauron Nowa Muzyka, Patchlab Festival and the Krakow-based event series called "Nurt".

Elwira Wojtunik-Láng

Initiator and Artistic Director of the Patchlab Digital Art Festival (patchlab.pl), organized in Krakow since 2012 and recognized by the Creative Industries Institute as a key Polish event in the art & tech field. She is an international curator of exhibitions and events, specializing in digital art, new media, and immersive experiences, as well as the founder of the Photon Foundation, which promotes the growth of digital art and international collaboration. As a visual artist, she works within the Elektro Moon Vision duo, designing and producing interactive and immersive experiences utilizing AR, VR, XR, and AI. She is a recipient of the Creative Scholarship of the Mayor of the City of Krakow (Digital Culture), the Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (Visual Arts), the MuseumsQuartier residency in Vienna, and Japan's Omosiroi Award for Innovation. She collaborates with the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where she is currently pursuing her PhD, alongside other European academic institutions. She has represented the Polish digital art scene at international events and conferences, including initiatives associated with Poland’s Presidency of the Council of the EU, UNESCO Creative Cities, ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art), the Athens Digital Arts Festival, and SAT Fest in Montreal. She serves on international juries for new media competitions, including NewImages XR in Paris, SIGGRAPH Asia, and the WRO Biennale Best Media Art Diplomas Competition. Since 2023, she has served as a nominator for the Paszporty "Polityki" awards in the Digital Culture category.

Mateusz Witczak

Journalist and reporter. He publishes in "Polityka," "Replika," Dwutygodnik, "Gazeta Wyborcza," and "CD-Action," was the editor-in-chief of the PolskiGamedev.pl website and magazine, collaborates with Krytyka Polityczna and OKO.press. Program director of CD-Action EXPO, co-organizer and host of stages at Poznań Game Arena and Warsaw Game Days. Winner of the Bauer Publishing journalist award and the Digital Dragons Award, and nominated for Amnesty International’s "Pen of Hope" for his human rights advocacy.

Dr Sandra Gaudenzi is a scholar in interactive and immersive narrative, co-curator of Image Ouverte festival, as well as the author of the WHAT IF IT methodology used to design interactive factual narratives. In her talk, she will challenge XR creators to think about impact not as an add-on to a project, but as something built into its narrative structure from the very start. She will discuss the shift from story-telling to “story-living" - experiencing a story rather than simply observing it, and how phenomenological frameworks for experience design help immersive creators shape the emotional and social resonance of their work more deliberately.

Jin LEE

Jin LEE is a Seoul-based expert in the field of Contemporary Art and Digital Culture, with interests in the critique of new technology, media philosophy, and communication. She is Director of CC. Magnet, a curatorial collective for visual arts; co-organizer of VUUP, a media culture research collective; and Curator at the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA). She has worked with a range of art institutions and platforms, including the media art journal AliceOn, the Korean video art archive theStream, Coreana Museum of Art, and Art Center Nabi. She was selected as an emerging curator for the 8th Doosan Curator Workshop and served as a curator for the SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 Art Gallery.

Ubac Studio

Ubac Studio is a Seoul-based media artist duo composed of Hyeunjoo Woo and Jiyun Park. Centering on XR-based interactive installations, they explore moments when technology’s construction of the world collides with individual sensory experience. Their works have been presented at the Immersive Competition of the 79th Festival de Cannes, Venice Immersive at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, Ars Electronica, and Powerhouse Museum. They received the Festivals Connexion Award for an Immersive Work at Annecy 2026 and the New Media Artist Award at Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Art Festival (NeMaf) 2025.

SunJeong Hwang

SunJeong Hwang is a transmedia artist, new media composer, and performer whose practice explores the evolving relations among posthumanism, generative technologies, and ecological systems. Hwang has been developing Tanhamu, a long-term speculative project concerned with relational forms of being and networked intelligence emerging among human and nonhuman bodies, mycelial and artificial networks, memory, and environment. Through her research-based practice Planetary Weaving, Hwang attunes to the entangled rhythms of bodies, environments, and technological systems—how they sense, remember, and transform one another, and how collective embodied cognition and symbiotic relations may emerge through these encounters. Grounded in multidisciplinary research and artistic experimentation, she works across poetry, manifestos, AI, generative coding, data, moving image, sound, and movement, weaving these elements into multisensory environments where biological and computational temporalities, embodied memory, and situated perception intersect. Her installations, films, sound works, and performances form living interface-environments—evolving ecologies. Hwang recently held a solo exhibition at the National Museum of Kazakhstan (2026) and participated in the 16th Curitiba International Biennial (2026), following a residency at transmediale, Berlin (2025). Her work has been presented at Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), ISEA (Paris), Abu Dhabi Festival, SeMA (Seoul), and Mutek, among others. She is part of the generative art duo organic Operators (oOps.50656) and leads Hertz and Dough, a sound research lab dedicated to biosphere listening and spatial sound.

Julia Makivic is a game designer and creative technologist who divides her time between London and Belgrade. She creates alternative controller games using Raspberry Pi, Arduino and various sensors. Her games explore what it means to have an emotional exchange with a computational system and how our emotions are mediated by technology. She completed an MFA in Computational Arts from Goldsmiths College, and is currently a lecturer in Creative Electronic Engineering at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her projects have been featured in a variety of international games festivals including A MAZE, Jeugdfilmfestival Antwerpen,Game Happens, Interactive Futures, and the Leftfield Collection at EGX Rezzed.

Dr Iwo Zmyślony

Dr. Iwo Zmyślony is an organizational culture and change designer, business trainer, and consultant at the ICAN Institute, where he leads training in neuro-leadership and non-automatable skills of the future. As a methodology scholar, he has spent over twenty years studying expert knowledge management systems as well as the psychological and sociological determinants of innovation processes. He earned his PhD with a dissertation on the psychological and sociological drivers of creativity in empirical sciences (know-how, tacit knowledge). He lectures at the University of Warsaw and teaches postgraduate and MBA programs at Łazarski University. Additionally, he is a Research Fellow at the Rzeszów University of Technology, a member of the Scientific Council at the Human for Future Foundation, and the host of the "Limits of AI" podcast for MIT Sloan Management Review Poland.

Jacek Nagłowski

Jacek Nagłowski is a producer, director, researcher, and creator in the field of new media. He has produced nearly thirty documentary and feature films—mostly international co-productions—and fourteen VR experiences showcased at major festivals such as Sundance, Venice, Cannes, and Leipzig. He serves as Head of the VR/AR Studio at the Łódź Film School’s Visual Narratives Laboratory (vnlab.org), which combines media production with research into the evolving language of VR. Since 2020, his work has focused heavily on artificial intelligence. He is currently developing Conversations, an interactive VR experience co-created with various AI models spanning text, image, audio, and Unreal Engine spatial design. He is also developing AI Wilderness – Survival Guides, a project raising awareness of the social and psychological risks of rapid AI adoption, as well as AI Social Lab, an initiative dedicated to building AI systems that tackle social issues overlooked by the commercial sector, particularly supporting marginalized communities.

Evi Stamou

Evi Stamou is an award-winning filmmaker, producer and PhD researcher at the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication (University of the Aegean) based in Athens. She studied Political Economy at Athens University of Economics and Business, filmmaking at Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos, and holds an MA in Documentary Production. For over twelve years, her artistic practice has explored the relationship between traditional cinematic forms and contemporary art, focusing on emerging video technologies and new media. Her films have been presented internationally at festivals and exhibitions including Doclisboa International Film Festival, Visions du Réel International Film Festival, DOC NYC, Fipadoc International Documentary Festival, Cinemed - Montpellier International Mediterranean Film Festival and Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival. In 2021, she founded Maketa Media, a production company dedicated to independent documentaries, hybrid films, and experimental works by emerging directors. The same year, she co-founded Interferences, a nonprofit organization examining the intersections of cinema, art, science, technology, and politics. She is an EMERGING PRODUCERS 2026 alumna.

Ivona Tau

Ivona Tau, PhD is a new media artist from Vilnius, Lithuania, who works with neural networks and code in experimental photography and moving image. She creates universally relatable memories by transforming her experiences captured on analog and digital film through tools like generative neural networks (GAN) or other custom AI models. Central to her practice is working exclusively with her own photographic data or open-source datasets, allowing her to craft bespoke AI models tailored to her vision, rather than relying on commercial third-party tools. Tau comes from the intersection of arts and technology, with 15 years of combined experience in professional photography and A.I. research. She was awarded the best award in the Digital Ars 2020 contest for art created with AI, the Computer Animation category award in Computer Space International Computer Art Forum 2021, and elected as one of the TOP 10 Women in AI 2022 by the Women in Tech Foundation, nominated for ABS Art Prize, Digital Art Awards and Lumen Prize in 2025. Tau’s work has been exhibited widely, including Art Basel Miami Beach, UNTITLED Art Fair, SCOPE, CAFA, Art Week Shenzhen, Vellum, Bitforms New York, Venus Over Manhattan, Ars Electronica Garden, The House of Fine Art, Bright Moments Berlin, Christie's New York and Sotheby’s New York. Her work has been acquired by ZMK Museum of Contemporary Art in Germany & Francisco Carolinum Linz in Austria. Ivona Tau is active in the research community and holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. She published multiple scientific papers in the field of Computer Vision and Artificial Neural Networks.

Jacek Nagłowski

Jacek Nagłowski is a producer, director, researcher, and creator in the field of new media. He has produced nearly thirty documentary and feature films—mostly international co-productions—and fourteen VR experiences showcased at major festivals such as Sundance, Venice, Cannes, and Leipzig. He serves as Head of the VR/AR Studio at the Łódź Film School’s Visual Narratives Laboratory (vnlab.org), which combines media production with research into the evolving language of VR. Since 2020, his work has focused heavily on artificial intelligence. He is currently developing Conversations, an interactive VR experience co-created with various AI models spanning text, image, audio, and Unreal Engine spatial design. He is also developing AI Wilderness – Survival Guides, a project raising awareness of the social and psychological risks of rapid AI adoption, as well as AI Social Lab, an initiative dedicated to building AI systems that tackle social issues overlooked by the commercial sector, particularly supporting marginalized communities.

Monika Masłoń

Dr. Monika Masłoń is a media artist and lecturer working at the intersection of experimental film, digital media, and sensory experience. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź and holds a Ph.D. from the Łódź Film School. Her work focuses on embodied encounters, intersubjective presence, and mediated intimacy, translating emotional states into audiovisual and immersive forms including film, VR, installation, and sensor-based interfaces. She has taught at Leipzig University and the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw. She is the author of Four Percent, a documentary filmed entirely within VRChat exploring touch and presence in virtual space, and the VR experience Control Negative, which transforms disorientation into a tool for emotional reflection. In 2026, she was named a Lumen Prize finalist in the Experiential Innovation category. She is currently developing Feeling Touched, an experimental artistic documentary, and OCEAN, a multi-user VR experience inspired by Stanisław Lem’s Solaris.