Jacek Smolicki

Jacek Smolicki, BioMe and the Hub’s communication and web presence coordinator.

PhD and researcher at the BioMe Project at the Department of Informatics and Media. Committed to practice-based, artistic and design research methodologies, Smolicki explores temporal, existential and technological dimensions of listening, recording and archiving practices in human and more-than-human realms. His work is manifested through soundwalks, soundscape compositions, diverse forms of writing, and a/v installations. His research within the BioMe project concerns human and other-than-human voices in the context of obsolete and emerging technologies of capture. In 2020, as a Swedish Research Council postdoc grantee, he was affiliated with Simon Fraser University and in 2022/2023, he was a Fulbright visiting scholar at Harvard. He is a co-founder of the Walking Festival of Sound. His edited book Soundwalking. Through Time, Space and Technologies was published by Routledge in 2023. www.smolicki.com