Kat Zavada

Hot academic chic. Artist, curator, and internet researcher exploring socio-political dreaming through speculation and technology. Using media such as workshops, websites, performative lectures and video she creates soft playgrounds for feral concepts. Member of the Nerdka collective and grantee of the 2024–2025 Fulbright Junior Research Award.

She is currently pursuing a PhD in Cartographies of Digital Monarchies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. She also holds an MA in Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) from The Glasgow School of Art. 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, digital identity, data collection as exercises of power, as well as post-work imaginaries. 

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