Kat Zavada

Kat Zavada is a curator, digital artist, and internet researcher working across artistic practice
and theory. Her research focuses on digital cultures, technological imaginaries, and the
political and affective dimensions of being online.

Her selected curatorial projects include the group exhibitions beta tales (Galeria Salon
Akademii) and what if we kissed at the intersection of art and technology (Warsaw Fringe);
please be tender with my data (Import Export), featuring work by Eternal Engine; and Before
They Delete This, developed with Letta Shtohryn.

In her artistic research, Zavada creates playgrounds for feral ideas, testing socio-political
imaginaries and examining emerging forms of digital power, network states, and new models
of governance. Her projects include Ideology Generator, co-created with Günseli Yalcinkaya,
and Digital Monarchies.

She is pursuing a PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków with a doctoral project titled
Cartographies of Digital Monarchies. A recipient of the 2024–2025 Fulbright Junior Research
Award, she also received a scholarship from the Polish Minister of Culture in 2025.