https://nellapiatek.com Nella Piatek Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:58:16 +0000 https://nellapiatek.com en https://nellapiatek.com/News Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:24:59 +0000 Nella Piatek https://nellapiatek.com/News 2025 March Residency MAYES CREATIVE: DARTMOOR Residency <img width="1170" height="1593" width_o="1170" height_o="1593" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/257c5630f939f93b0a44200449b6e81189718017c8eecb1a466d9880daab00b5/IMG_2546.jpg" data-mid="229045159" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/257c5630f939f93b0a44200449b6e81189718017c8eecb1a466d9880daab00b5/IMG_2546.jpg" /> Residency at YHA Dartmoor: Creative Inspiration From An Ancient Landscape, Dartmoor, UK Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund amd Arts Council England. During our time at the residency, we intend to activate the site of Dartmoor National Park through the process of anarchiving. Anarchiving relates to the idea that sites can be understood as a living archives. As artists, Melissa Schwarz and I, engage with it as such and try to ‘re-alive’ the myth-infused sites of Dartmoor to imagine alternative realities. The output will be a ritual performance that will be captured and become part of a film in which we engage with the site’s past, present and future. As research-based practitioners,&nbsp; we intend to apply the lenses of hauntology, post-humanist thought and eco-feminist narratives to the history and mythologies of the area and connect them into narratives which can tell an audience about the hidden meanings of the site. In this context, we are also especially interested in the body in space, in connection to an eco-feminist approach which we bring out in our ritual performance. The residency output:&nbsp;Forest, Stone, Flesh: Spectral Traces and Bodily Archives ︎ 2024 Podcast Episode Just In Her Metapod:&nbsp;Digital Accelerationism in Modern Society with Nella Piatek <img width="1512" height="1208" width_o="1512" height_o="1208" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9fc51dc987eb8030514a3c57e206f463a14b85fe5778fad0034611da78158455/Screenshot-2025-07-02-at-22.50.51.png" data-mid="235330123" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9fc51dc987eb8030514a3c57e206f463a14b85fe5778fad0034611da78158455/Screenshot-2025-07-02-at-22.50.51.png" /> Part of podcast series led by Andrea Evgenieva, London (UK) For the first episode of “Just In Her MetaPod”, we are joined with Digital Artist, Future Researcher, And Associate University Lecturer (UAL, Goldsmiths) Nella Piatek. As part of my research on the processes of Accelerationism in Online cultures, I interviewed Nella to learn more about her futuristic creative-cyber practice. The conversation revolves around the impact of technology on society, exploring themes of accelerationism, nihilism, and the blurring of realities. Nella offers a nuanced perspective on accelerationism, while challenging traditional notions of art and technology. We discuss the potential of digital technology to accelerate societal progress and the importance of democratizing art and technology. The conversation also touches on the concept of the cyber witch, a symbol of empowerment and resistance in the digital age. Throughout, Nella and I emphasize the need for creativity and hope in the face of apocalyptic nihilism and doomerism. read/listen online︎ 2024 February Lecture and Workshop When Gesture Becomes an Event <img width="1626" height="1098" width_o="1626" height_o="1098" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e20f576defcd75ae38a192836371bb11528a8ce3a7dfc59d0de49e168832bad/Screenshot-2024-01-30-at-10.57.30.PNG" data-mid="227856958" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e20f576defcd75ae38a192836371bb11528a8ce3a7dfc59d0de49e168832bad/Screenshot-2024-01-30-at-10.57.30.PNG" /> <img width="992" height="612" width_o="992" height_o="612" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1fefc8472adfb7569750c97820001ed83e43deb9f333ec60b94c66b68ed5153/Screenshot-2024-01-30-at-11.02.32.PNG" data-mid="227856970" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/992/i/a1fefc8472adfb7569750c97820001ed83e43deb9f333ec60b94c66b68ed5153/Screenshot-2024-01-30-at-11.02.32.PNG" /> <img width="700" height="576" width_o="700" height_o="576" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e20c3fa64e477c7d5fb55d186f8512474a99f505c81b3810a069d0734ab770e6/Screenshot-2024-01-30-at-11.02.01.PNG" data-mid="227857010" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/e20c3fa64e477c7d5fb55d186f8512474a99f505c81b3810a069d0734ab770e6/Screenshot-2024-01-30-at-11.02.01.PNG" /> <img width="872" height="644" width_o="872" height_o="644" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9c2316997ceba5b8252e0dbdce3a0a1b3921b45a2162bb191011b3a909babbe/Screenshot-2024-01-30-at-11.02.45.PNG" data-mid="227857009" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/872/i/d9c2316997ceba5b8252e0dbdce3a0a1b3921b45a2162bb191011b3a909babbe/Screenshot-2024-01-30-at-11.02.45.PNG" /> I had the pleasure to run another workshop day with MA Design Expanded Practice on a topic I love - gesture, movement and ritual.We looked at Judith Butler’s Theory of Performativity, Speech-Act Theory, gestural metamorphosis, ritual making in the immediate space, participatory performance, environmental simulation, process as an event, the experiential evolution and many more.However what I enjoyed the most is seeing the fantastical and wacky narratives come out of this - alien love stories, performances of egg fertilization, dance infestation. Lecture given for MA Design Expanded Practice at Goldsmiths University London 2024 January Talk Cyber Identities:From Angels to Swamplings: The Sisterhood of Spectral Bodies An odyssey through the digital wilderness — from angels, girls, cyberwitches, cybernymphs, and swamplings, we trace the lineage of spectral bodies that have emerged from the digital ether. We delve into the cyberfeminist past and present, seeking not authenticity but the rich tapestry of artifice, play, and collective consciousness. In this talk Nella Piatek theorises what it means to inhabit the spectral body. A spectral body exists in the fissure of technological systems, navigating the delicate balance between visibility and obscurity. Defying normative constructs of presence and absence, the spectral body is a leakage, seeping through and haunting the spaces it inhabits. ︎ 2024 January Lecture and Workshop Deciphering the Unspoken <img width="625" height="348" width_o="625" height_o="348" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c2ad973c591ad967f0da685e50cbf6be36f7f17612c7ae6136048122a3e1a820/39C67468-73ED-4ACB-9408-BCEC7B188854-2.JPG" data-mid="227862460" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/625/i/c2ad973c591ad967f0da685e50cbf6be36f7f17612c7ae6136048122a3e1a820/39C67468-73ED-4ACB-9408-BCEC7B188854-2.JPG" /> <img width="658" height="367" width_o="658" height_o="367" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b2b2397675d1bcce24b3ebb15b9c3397c6f73846438c15b725284cff04ab774/FFAA7041-5994-443B-AC6B-106D3011F47E-2.JPG" data-mid="227862459" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/658/i/0b2b2397675d1bcce24b3ebb15b9c3397c6f73846438c15b725284cff04ab774/FFAA7041-5994-443B-AC6B-106D3011F47E-2.JPG" /> <img width="1195" height="663" width_o="1195" height_o="663" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80c202b1d1e175ad38c2ea5e44a66d85a448dbe31bd8815aa669866e0915cbbc/1AD5D25F-9790-42F9-BEC6-7C63C2538CC6-2.JPG" data-mid="227862458" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/80c202b1d1e175ad38c2ea5e44a66d85a448dbe31bd8815aa669866e0915cbbc/1AD5D25F-9790-42F9-BEC6-7C63C2538CC6-2.JPG" /> <img width="1187" height="659" width_o="1187" height_o="659" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/edbe997a9d3ac69a6e17426fd56961dea57efeb5017c612fe22eb68140ee0315/A13A6082-8869-4A1D-91C3-BF078CC83F25-2.JPG" data-mid="227862457" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/edbe997a9d3ac69a6e17426fd56961dea57efeb5017c612fe22eb68140ee0315/A13A6082-8869-4A1D-91C3-BF078CC83F25-2.JPG" /> <img width="1199" height="670" width_o="1199" height_o="670" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83bd0624e54deb35f5baa8efcd9685abb305a8df9fe3bbc9429cb7a9653c8261/BD7EAA84-4616-4B15-96E0-772EB4C8888C.JPG" data-mid="227862456" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83bd0624e54deb35f5baa8efcd9685abb305a8df9fe3bbc9429cb7a9653c8261/BD7EAA84-4616-4B15-96E0-772EB4C8888C.JPG" /> <img width="1213" height="673" width_o="1213" height_o="673" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ba30c8a968a5b2433e3e5a7174ad1e5e040b61e9a9c0b43c5fe62e16569ad72/5E92D910-9FE2-4005-8661-1C72915072C5.JPG" data-mid="227862455" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ba30c8a968a5b2433e3e5a7174ad1e5e040b61e9a9c0b43c5fe62e16569ad72/5E92D910-9FE2-4005-8661-1C72915072C5.JPG" /> <img width="1130" height="697" width_o="1130" height_o="697" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44f88615218c7c809fc17b240c259ae32140d97352c95d59643f799fc5686868/3BBB6C35-5E76-4FA9-97D2-0779BE5428C4-copy.PNG" data-mid="227862501" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44f88615218c7c809fc17b240c259ae32140d97352c95d59643f799fc5686868/3BBB6C35-5E76-4FA9-97D2-0779BE5428C4-copy.PNG" /> From sigils, runes, alchemy and symbols to the post-apocalyptic, otherworldly and non-human languages.Had a fun time running this workshop with the Communication and Experience studio at MA Design Expanded Practice, focusing on semiotics and communication across space and time. “A picture can hold a thousand words” but…which words? Playing the role of the archeologist and the alien anthropologist we looked at how meaning is created culturally and how it can equally be re-interpreted based on our cultural perception. Lecture given for MA Design Expanded Practice at Goldsmiths University London 2023 December Article Il Giornale Dell’Arte:&nbsp;The Photo Object Beyond its Boundaries <img width="2828" height="1452" width_o="2828" height_o="1452" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aadb27cb0331ddcea5034991bff3a499d428122bd53c58a0cc17b2a9fba49242/Screenshot-2025-03-07-at-23.48.42.png" data-mid="227862955" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aadb27cb0331ddcea5034991bff3a499d428122bd53c58a0cc17b2a9fba49242/Screenshot-2025-03-07-at-23.48.42.png" /> Extended reality and the economy of experience: how the contexts of image production and distribution are changing.In an era dominated by constant technological innovation and global interconnectivity, it seems that the search for individual material possession has lost momentum, and that, on the contrary, more value is given to the experiences that enrich people's lives. This phenomenon, defined by some scholars as the "economy of experience", is particularly evident in the younger generations and marks a detachment from the ethics of consumerism that characterized much of the twentieth century. ︎ 2023 July New Position Course Leader at Era Vision <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03443a890a64a12bac1b945346bc65763716d51f71d6dabba8f590263c377360/IMG_7490.jpeg" data-mid="227857077" border="0" data-scale="66" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03443a890a64a12bac1b945346bc65763716d51f71d6dabba8f590263c377360/IMG_7490.jpeg" /> New position as&nbsp;Course Leader and writer of a 7-day intensive art course called "Worldbuilding, Alternative Realities and Story Realms". In this week-long course, we explored radical ways of seeing as a means to create alternative story realms and practice short filmmaking to examine how these can serve as catalysts for envisioning alternative realities and future narratives. Course Leader and writer of a 3 week multidisciplinary design course called “Interactive and Critical Design” . I offer a quick theoretical and practical dive into the world of speculative design, critical design, cyberfeminism, non-human design, psychogeography and many other topics that I’ve had the pleasure to engage with over the years. I prompt participants to re-think how we interact with technology, space, and other beings and explore ways how values can be translated into design experiences. 2022 October New Position Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths University of London <img width="1856" height="1476" width_o="1856" height_o="1476" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f97ed0b808a83a183e900a1afb6d7f5342d4ec8e6225b431cc6ba6117fdf738f/Screenshot-2025-03-07-at-19.11.57.png" data-mid="227856082" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f97ed0b808a83a183e900a1afb6d7f5342d4ec8e6225b431cc6ba6117fdf738f/Screenshot-2025-03-07-at-19.11.57.png" /> Starting a new position as Associate Lecturer in the Design Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. Teaching across various units on MA Design: Expanded Practice throughout the entire academic year. Tutoring, lecturing, leading group seminars, workshops and supervising the Masters Project. Units include 'Studio Expanded Practice' or as unit co-lead 'Transfocality'&nbsp;staff profile&nbsp;︎ MA Design: Expanded Practice&nbsp;︎ 2022 October New Position Associate Lecturer at The University of the Arts London <img width="1458" height="1344" width_o="1458" height_o="1344" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8cb00813cc20859a6f75b97335c8d54eb4da4c9c5c1ab97c0a122cedefcc902/Screenshot-2025-03-07-at-19.13.44.png" data-mid="227856190" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b8cb00813cc20859a6f75b97335c8d54eb4da4c9c5c1ab97c0a122cedefcc902/Screenshot-2025-03-07-at-19.13.44.png" /> Starting a new position as Associate Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication at the London College of Fashion (LCF) and at the London College of Communication (LCC) at the University of the Arts London. Tutoring, lecturing, leading group seminars, workshops andsupervising the Masters Project across MA Interaction Design and MA Fashion Media and Communication. MA Interaction Design &nbsp;︎ MA Fashion Media and Communication&nbsp;︎ 2022 September Talk LCF: HYPERBODIES&nbsp;Summit MA Fashion Media &amp; Communication presents: HYPERBODIES: A Summit on the Role of Bodies in an Age of Extremes September, 2022&nbsp;In a time of massive technological development, social upheaval, and environmental instability, what role do bodies now play in an age of extremes?When the primacy of the physical is being superseded by the digital, when our faces, skins, and profiles are pinched, stretched, and optimised, what does it even mean to have and be a body today?Through a series of presentations, provocations, and group discussions, MA Fashion Media &amp; Communication and invited guests will put our emerging hyperbodies into focus of intellectual enquiry.︎ 2022 July Lecture Praxis Plugged In: Applying Feminist Theory In An Increasingly Digital World <img width="2164" height="1214" width_o="2164" height_o="1214" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55ec6867e709ce1114ff6e0c09de060220e3fbae4c71f4089536824927d20be9/Screenshot-2025-03-07-at-18.44.53.png" data-mid="227855423" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55ec6867e709ce1114ff6e0c09de060220e3fbae4c71f4089536824927d20be9/Screenshot-2025-03-07-at-18.44.53.png" /> Lecture for the Praxis Plugged: Applying Feminist Theory In An Increasingly Digital World conference led by the&nbsp;Feminist Graduate Student Association (FGSA) Conference, Florida Atlantic University, Florida (US)In this&nbsp;talk I speak about cyberwitchcraft as a design methodology for exploring alternative futures. I open the discussion with analysis of the current proliferation and how it hints towards a desire for new ways of creating connection, resistance and self care. I introduce cyberwitchcraft as a form of digitized feminism, that reclaims the figure of the witch and seeks ways for emancipation and empowerment in a patriarchal and capitalist determined world. However, most importantly I aim to discuss how cyberwitchcraft can be a valuable thinking tool in Critical and Speculative Design practice. 2022 July News Article Dazed:&nbsp;Six emerging artists on your radar right now <img width="2750" height="1398" width_o="2750" height_o="1398" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ba43193a38da8ceb78d187149f35f3286ca78a3fc89d6a7694dd49682b2b21a4/Screenshot-2025-03-06-at-11.30.24.png" data-mid="227780373" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ba43193a38da8ceb78d187149f35f3286ca78a3fc89d6a7694dd49682b2b21a4/Screenshot-2025-03-06-at-11.30.24.png" /> We’re barely glimpsing the vast potential and scope of technology. As new developments in the metaverse and VR continue to expand the realms of our experience, artists are finding innovative ways to explore the seemingly limitless potential of these new worlds.Open Space at The Photographers’ Gallery has enabled six emerging young artists to experiment with augmented reality.︎ 2022 July - October Exhibition POST Nijmegen:&nbsp;What Are Men to Rocks and Mountains? <img width="2840" height="1588" width_o="2840" height_o="1588" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe794e2c9d85f97a31c867eed5316346cee9ae78061cce748b09357ad1a7efba/Screenshot-2025-03-06-at-11.27.14.png" data-mid="227780359" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe794e2c9d85f97a31c867eed5316346cee9ae78061cce748b09357ad1a7efba/Screenshot-2025-03-06-at-11.27.14.png" /> The artworks in 'What Are Men to Rocks and Mountains?' rebel against our endless desire for innovation and control, to which the extraction of minerals is inextricably linked. They regard minerals as independent entities that are given a voice in a world in which Western people are no longer the center of attention. For what are men compared to rocks and mountains?︎ 2022 July Project Launch The Photographers’ GallerXRiS-00222 by Nella Piatek <img width="2798" height="1554" width_o="2798" height_o="1554" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a79e31a260f80b50e868b17d8266aa2b9ef7f805e4c8afd327afdca6585ff03a/Screenshot-2025-03-06-at-11.22.53.png" data-mid="227780323" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a79e31a260f80b50e868b17d8266aa2b9ef7f805e4c8afd327afdca6585ff03a/Screenshot-2025-03-06-at-11.22.53.png" /> Between face filters, coloured lenses and floating aliens lies a portal into a digital gravestone of a cyberwitch. The first Open Space online Augmented Reality commission. XRiS-00222 explores the entanglements of the metaverse with the physical space to reflect on how augmented reality (AR) filters can become means of connecting with archived digital identities. This interactive AR filter opens a communication portal between a visitor and a cyberwitch avatar. The audience can explore an intimate story as the cyberwitch reflects on cyborgism, the archive as a sanctuary and spiritual technology. ︎ 2022 June Exhibition Magic Mirrors &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="800" height="800" width_o="800" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2dacd8085ecd844908f69fae55a3a97550ec5276ac086e9188f96d9cac90e701/1664542249791.jpeg" data-mid="227726402" border="0" data-scale="74" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/2dacd8085ecd844908f69fae55a3a97550ec5276ac086e9188f96d9cac90e701/1664542249791.jpeg" /> Every day we look at the black reflection of the screen of our phone, tablet or laptop. We see ourselves, but we can't look further at what's happening in the device. Yet the screens magically pull us towards them, we stare and reach for it. New technologies have always been considered something magical, because they are abstract and often hermetic. We can't open them, we don't know how they came about. In Magic Mirrors, we want to show how magic and magical rituals can break open its seemingly hermetic. A scientific approach alone is not enough. We invite artists and visitors to break out of the black box together through imagination. Tonight Nella presents Into the Ethereal (2021), an interactive and fictional narrative set in a post-internet future, where the servers of smaller social platforms such as Tumblr have been shut down as the larger platforms have become a monopoly. Using witchcraft rituals, the interactive work aims to explore radical future perspectives and new experiences that emerge when we relate to digital technologies in a more spiritual, sensual and emotional way. ︎ 2022 April Residency Open Space Programme <img width="2862" height="1480" width_o="2862" height_o="1480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/abb801368423dc0a491427f03ea8b5e04f168820d6db27e2db178b15f0e65c80/Screenshot-2025-03-06-at-11.18.33.png" data-mid="227780251" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/abb801368423dc0a491427f03ea8b5e04f168820d6db27e2db178b15f0e65c80/Screenshot-2025-03-06-at-11.18.33.png" /> Following a series of workshops for selected artists held in December, run by The Photographers' Gallery in partnership with curator Zaiba Jabbar (HERVISIONS), we have commissioned six new Augmented Reality works. The final works will be launched monthly on The Photographers' Gallery website and social media from May 2022.Each commission will also be supported by a series of one-to-one online guidance sessions with established curators and AR artists from the Open Space programme. ︎ 2021 April Podcast Episode Witchcraft Made Science <img width="1536" height="864" width_o="1536" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9eedfcfc22800bcf0727d77650a69f441edb6050f7e72d3e8800cb55bf52b13e/Witch-craft-podcast-1-1536x864.jpg" data-mid="227725742" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9eedfcfc22800bcf0727d77650a69f441edb6050f7e72d3e8800cb55bf52b13e/Witch-craft-podcast-1-1536x864.jpg" /> This podcast is part of the Witchcraft made Science series, a collaboration with curator Lieke Wouters. In this podcast, we approach the witch as a stereotype as well as a new feminist icon. Making space for the spiritual, the scientific and the sceptical aspects of witchcraft, all seen from an artistic lens. In this episode, we welcome designer and researcher Nella Piatek. listen&nbsp;︎ 2021 November Talk Vanished Web During Vanished Web, artists and designers Mariana Marangoni (UK/BR), Nella Piatek (UK/PL) and Wesley Goatley (UK) discuss recent work related to current and speculative endings of the internet. This gathering focuses on aestheticizing the frayed edges of the internet, resisting planned obsolescence of Big Tech and using witchcraft to honour our devices, but most of all it wants to show us that even when the internet ends, it will come back to haunt us. ︎ 2021 January Exhibition A View from Somewhere - Desktop Cinema <img width="2700" height="1402" width_o="2700" height_o="1402" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c748878798dc897c9706660d2b40aaabc9d88c1e5990d7014b11a560b4b9168a/Screenshot-2025-03-07-at-17.41.19.png" data-mid="227852779" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c748878798dc897c9706660d2b40aaabc9d88c1e5990d7014b11a560b4b9168a/Screenshot-2025-03-07-at-17.41.19.png" /> Presented at the&nbsp;‘A New Digital Deal’ Festival at Ars Electronica (AT) During the UK lockdown of January 2021, the students of MA Interaction Design at UAL’s London College of Communication were isolated in their homes, most of them having only arrived in the country two months previously. At this time, the students started a short practice brief we called “Desktop Cinema”: a hybrid form of digital performance and filmmaking that uses the computer desktop as its stage, using on-screen text files, images, webcams, laptop microphones, and found footage from YouTube as common components of storytelling. For Ars Electronica 2021 we present the desktop cinema performances that the students produced during the long lockdown: a series of moving and personal works, captured through the intimate environment that had become their window to the world in their isolation: the desktop. These stories of discovery, loss, hope, and mystery remind us that amidst all the reactionary claims that our screens are reducing us to less-than-humans, there are deep and intimate aspects of humanity that can be found within them. The performances were be from: Mat Denney (UK), Céleste Mueth (FR), Nella Piatek (PL), Joana Nuñes (PT), Qingyi Ren (CN), Jiayi Liu (CN), Em Argiro (US), Tinayi Ren (CN), Shrey Kathuria (IN), Shenghe Xuan (CN), Melissa Schwarz (DE). ︎ 2020 July Collaboration Modual Open: Futures Modual: Open Futures was the University of the Arts London’s collaborative online workshop. In July 2020, we collaborated as design studios to develop creative initiatives that will address humanity’s needs at this unique moment in history.&nbsp; Over two weeks we imagined, developed and pitched creative projects for positive change, focusing on the climate emergency and a post-COVID world.Funded by the British Council and in collaboration between The University of the Arts London, Glasgow School of Art, Design Machest, Studio Moross, Blast Theory and Extinction Rebellion︎ 2020 January Exhibition Future Experiences For Future Experiences, BDes Product Design students were asked to consider the changing relationship between Sustainable Development and the Global South. Working with experts from the Sustainable Futures in Africa Network (the project’s partner), the students explored what might happen in a global landscape ten years from now, where Sustainable Development has evolved to the extent that new forms of work transform how people engage, learn and interact with each other. 2019 September Summer School Summer Shift School SHIFT was a new collaboration between The Glasgow School of Art (GSA), the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RSC) and Queen Margaret University (QMU). We came together to produce the first project, SHIFT summer school (9-13th September 2019), to support the entrepreneurial development and transition of our creative industries students and new graduates out of Higher Education. Working with the Creative Entrepreneurs Club, we focused on inspiring, engaging, and focusing the creative students we work with on what it means to have a creative business and/or career. https://nellapiatek.com/Talks Wed, 02 Jul 2025 20:39:23 +0000 Nella Piatek https://nellapiatek.com/Talks 2025 June Panel Discussion at Ethereal Maison&nbsp;(UK) Scarring Artist Talk <img width="1466" height="1152" width_o="1466" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5cd40e008bf8edf11307ae4864cb4936fe8738f0d41e1d5e75e613deecd7357f/Screenshot-2025-07-02-at-22.35.08.png" data-mid="235329903" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5cd40e008bf8edf11307ae4864cb4936fe8738f0d41e1d5e75e613deecd7357f/Screenshot-2025-07-02-at-22.35.08.png" /> Moderated by Yaiza Hernandez This artist talk discussed the piece Scarring, a site-specific evolving process that uses the act of scarring as both method and metaphor; an intervention that reclaims what is often hidden, dismissed, or pathologised. Centring a waste pipe as subject and collaborator, the panel discussed its presence as a scar: a visible glitch in architectural systems that speaks to histories of erasure, marginalisation, and resilience.Drawing from Object-Oriented Ontology, Cyborg Theory, and Glitch Feminism, Scarring reframes the glitch not as failure, but as continuity—where damage becomes form and healing becomes assertion. The pipe’s identity as both scar and glitch invites us to question whether disruption lies in the object itself or in our perception of it. Like bodily scars, the pipe is an essential eyesore; an inevitable, visible trace of survival. 2025 May Panel Discussion at Bread and Butter&nbsp;(UK) ALTEREGOISM Panel <img width="1460" height="806" width_o="1460" height_o="806" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd06b382c5c074c27a423c433f4646f0039282f3b0cfab0de54029bf381f4beb/Screenshot-2025-07-02-at-22.33.34.png" data-mid="235329892" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd06b382c5c074c27a423c433f4646f0039282f3b0cfab0de54029bf381f4beb/Screenshot-2025-07-02-at-22.33.34.png" /> The panel discussed the impact of weirdness in mainstream culture, driven by the blend of emerging tech and art. Shumon Basar introduced the concept of the "new new normal," highlighting the rapid changes in societal norms, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The discussion led by moderators Andrea Evgenieva (AE) and Ester Freider (EF) explored the normalization of abnormal events, the role of AI in storytelling, and the shift from irony to sincerity in online interactions. The panelists- Shumon Basar (SB), Zaiba Jabbar (ZJ), Marisa Musing (MM), Nella Piatek (NP), and Bailey Davis (BD)- emphasised the importance of digital intimacy, the nostalgia for early internet experiences, and the emergence of third spaces as alternatives to social media. They also touched on the ethical considerations of using AI and the need for critical engagement with digital tools. keywords: weirdness, emerging tech, art culture, user identity, personal style, authenticity, new normal, digital identity, cyber feminism, AI storytelling, social media, sincerity, accelerationism, third spaces, community engagement read/listen online︎2024 May Just in Her Metapod Podcast Just In Her Metapod: Digital Accelerationism in Modern Society with Nella Piatek <img width="1468" height="1218" width_o="1468" height_o="1218" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ca44173bc11c14faa9f8a45fc6b7bdd730500d93a7a305613f374cce5a10118/Screenshot-2025-07-02-at-22.55.32.png" data-mid="235330138" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ca44173bc11c14faa9f8a45fc6b7bdd730500d93a7a305613f374cce5a10118/Screenshot-2025-07-02-at-22.55.32.png" /> Part of podcast series led by Andrea Evgenieva, London (UK) For the first episode of “Just In Her MetaPod”, we are joined with Digital Artist, Future Researcher, And Associate University Lecturer (UAL, Goldsmiths) Nella Piatek. As part of my research on the processes of Accelerationism in Online cultures, I interviewed Nella to learn more about her futuristic creative-cyber practice. The conversation revolves around the impact of technology on society, exploring themes of accelerationism, nihilism, and the blurring of realities. Nella offers a nuanced perspective on accelerationism, while challenging traditional notions of art and technology. We discuss the potential of digital technology to accelerate societal progress and the importance of democratizing art and technology. The conversation also touches on the concept of the cyber witch, a symbol of empowerment and resistance in the digital age. Throughout, Nella and I emphasize the need for creativity and hope in the face of apocalyptic nihilism and doomerism.read/listen online︎ 2024 January Talk Part of Cyber_Identities, at Hypha Studios (UK) From Angels to Swamplings: The Sisterhood of Spectral Bodies A part of "Cyber_Identities" presented by Autonomous SheepAn odyssey through the digital wilderness — from angels, girls, cyberwitches, cybernymphs, and swamplings, we trace the lineage of spectral bodies that have emerged from the digital ether. We delve into the cyberfeminist past and present, seeking not authenticity but the rich tapestry of artifice, play, and collective consciousness. In this talk Nella Piatek theorises what it means to inhabit the spectral body. A spectral body exists in the fissure of technological systems, navigating the delicate balance between visibility and obscurity. Defying normative constructs of presence and absence, the spectral body is a leakage, seeping through and haunting the spaces it inhabits. watch online︎ 2024 January University Lecture for MA Design Expanded Practice at Goldsmiths University London (UK) Deciphering the Unspoken <img width="1170" height="1178" width_o="1170" height_o="1178" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cdfee3b8846c428c2abb6476dd2d53404169383ff024bca3146728238c9ab625/IMG_3675.jpg" data-mid="235328246" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cdfee3b8846c428c2abb6476dd2d53404169383ff024bca3146728238c9ab625/IMG_3675.jpg" /> <img width="658" height="367" width_o="658" height_o="367" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b2b2397675d1bcce24b3ebb15b9c3397c6f73846438c15b725284cff04ab774/FFAA7041-5994-443B-AC6B-106D3011F47E-2.JPG" data-mid="235328253" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/658/i/0b2b2397675d1bcce24b3ebb15b9c3397c6f73846438c15b725284cff04ab774/FFAA7041-5994-443B-AC6B-106D3011F47E-2.JPG" /> <img width="625" height="348" width_o="625" height_o="348" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c2ad973c591ad967f0da685e50cbf6be36f7f17612c7ae6136048122a3e1a820/39C67468-73ED-4ACB-9408-BCEC7B188854-2.JPG" data-mid="235328254" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/625/i/c2ad973c591ad967f0da685e50cbf6be36f7f17612c7ae6136048122a3e1a820/39C67468-73ED-4ACB-9408-BCEC7B188854-2.JPG" /> <img width="1199" height="670" width_o="1199" height_o="670" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83bd0624e54deb35f5baa8efcd9685abb305a8df9fe3bbc9429cb7a9653c8261/BD7EAA84-4616-4B15-96E0-772EB4C8888C.JPG" data-mid="235328250" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83bd0624e54deb35f5baa8efcd9685abb305a8df9fe3bbc9429cb7a9653c8261/BD7EAA84-4616-4B15-96E0-772EB4C8888C.JPG" /> <img width="1187" height="659" width_o="1187" height_o="659" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/edbe997a9d3ac69a6e17426fd56961dea57efeb5017c612fe22eb68140ee0315/A13A6082-8869-4A1D-91C3-BF078CC83F25-2.JPG" data-mid="235328251" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/edbe997a9d3ac69a6e17426fd56961dea57efeb5017c612fe22eb68140ee0315/A13A6082-8869-4A1D-91C3-BF078CC83F25-2.JPG" /> <img width="1213" height="673" width_o="1213" height_o="673" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ba30c8a968a5b2433e3e5a7174ad1e5e040b61e9a9c0b43c5fe62e16569ad72/5E92D910-9FE2-4005-8661-1C72915072C5.JPG" data-mid="235328249" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ba30c8a968a5b2433e3e5a7174ad1e5e040b61e9a9c0b43c5fe62e16569ad72/5E92D910-9FE2-4005-8661-1C72915072C5.JPG" /> <img width="1195" height="663" width_o="1195" height_o="663" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80c202b1d1e175ad38c2ea5e44a66d85a448dbe31bd8815aa669866e0915cbbc/1AD5D25F-9790-42F9-BEC6-7C63C2538CC6-2.JPG" data-mid="235328252" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/80c202b1d1e175ad38c2ea5e44a66d85a448dbe31bd8815aa669866e0915cbbc/1AD5D25F-9790-42F9-BEC6-7C63C2538CC6-2.JPG" /> From sigils, runes, alchemy and symbols to the post-apocalyptic, otherworldly and non-human languages.Had a fun time running this workshop with the Communication and Experience studio at MA Design Expanded Practice, focusing on semiotics and communication across space and time. “A picture can hold a thousand words” but…which words? Playing the role of the archeologist and the alien anthropologist we looked at how meaning is created culturally and how it can equally be re-interpreted based on our cultural perception.Lecture given as part of the Communication and Experience studio at&nbsp;MA Design Expanded Practice at Goldsmiths University London (UK) 2022 September University Lecture for LCF: HYPERBODIES Summit Hyperbodies and the Digital as Sanctuary A Part of MA Fashion Media &amp; Communication presents: HYPERBODIES: A Summit on the Role of Bodies in an Age of Extremes In a time of massive technological development, social upheaval, and environmental instability, what role do bodies now play in an age of extremes?When the primacy of the physical is being superseded by the digital, when our faces, skins, and profiles are pinched, stretched, and optimised, what does it even mean to have and be a body today?Through a series of presentations, provocations, and group discussions, MA Fashion Media &amp; Communication and invited guests will put our emerging hyperbodies into focus of intellectual enquiry. watch online︎ 2022 July University Lecturer at&nbsp;Florida Atlantic University, Florida (US) Praxis Plugged In: Applying Feminist Theory In An Increasingly Digital World <img width="2164" height="1214" width_o="2164" height_o="1214" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/482a8f12b620d29a70b65b80858230a860733e3c48d7614c45397ced4291daab/Screenshot-2025-03-07-at-18.44.53.png" data-mid="235328763" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/482a8f12b620d29a70b65b80858230a860733e3c48d7614c45397ced4291daab/Screenshot-2025-03-07-at-18.44.53.png" /> Lecture for the Praxis Plugged: Applying Feminist Theory In An Increasingly Digital World conference led by the Feminist Graduate Student Association (FGSA) Conference, Florida Atlantic University, Florida (US)In this talk I speak about cyberwitchcraft as a design methodology for exploring alternative futures. I open the discussion with analysis of the current proliferation and how it hints towards a desire for new ways of creating connection, resistance and self care. I introduce cyberwitchcraft as a form of digitized feminism, that reclaims the figure of the witch and seeks ways for emancipation and empowerment in a patriarchal and capitalist determined world. However, most importantly I aim to discuss how cyberwitchcraft can be a valuable thinking tool in Critical and Speculative Design practice. 2022 April Witchcraft Made Science Podcast (NL) Witchcraft Made Science: Episode 4 <img width="1536" height="864" width_o="1536" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/033135aa666f952b1a260a14656744479247e8de18a2caa6035c0c1b3888eff8/Witch-craft-podcast-1-1536x864-1.jpg" data-mid="235328757" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/033135aa666f952b1a260a14656744479247e8de18a2caa6035c0c1b3888eff8/Witch-craft-podcast-1-1536x864-1.jpg" /> This podcast is part of the Witchcraft made Science series, a collaboration with curator Lieke Wouters. In this podcast, we approach the witch as a stereotype as well as a new feminist icon. Making space for the spiritual, the scientific and the sceptical aspects of witchcraft, all seen from an artistic lens. In this episode, we welcome designer and researcher Nella Piatek. 00:00:00 Introduction / 00:02:20 Art and practice of manifesting our hopes and dreams / 00:03:00 Into the Ethereal / 00:05:30 Tumblr witchcraft / 00:08:00 Relationship with technology / 00:10:00 CTRL+R to Re Flesh / 00:13:00 Error, glitch and haunting / 00:15:20 Cyberfeminist flâneur / 00:17:00 Minerals and crystals / 00:19:30 Popularity of witchcraft / 00:22:30 Digital impermanence listen online ︎ 2021 November ‘Goodbye Internet’ Festival at Oddstream Gallery, Nijmegen (NL) Into the Ethereal: Speculative Post-Internet Narratives During Vanished Web, artists and designers Mariana Marangoni (UK/BR), Nella Piatek (UK/PL) and Wesley Goatley (UK) discuss recent work related to current and speculative endings of the internet. This gathering focuses on aestheticizing the frayed edges of the internet, resisting planned obsolescence of Big Tech and using witchcraft to honour our devices, but most of all it wants to show us that even when the internet ends, it will come back to haunt us. watch online&nbsp;︎ https://nellapiatek.com/Written-Work Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:56:06 +0000 Nella Piatek https://nellapiatek.com/Written-Work the gnomes are updating this page. https://nellapiatek.com/Index Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:58:16 +0000 Nella Piatek https://nellapiatek.com/Index the gnomes are updating this page. https://nellapiatek.com/About-me Sun, 21 Jun 2020 12:56:21 +0000 Nella Piatek https://nellapiatek.com/About-me <img width="2232" height="2759" width_o="2232" height_o="2759" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b634af2fdf122644df36761421d040af2d30576813c8297a9dad0316e38aec07/1.jpg" data-mid="226076590" border="0" data-scale="74" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b634af2fdf122644df36761421d040af2d30576813c8297a9dad0316e38aec07/1.jpg" /> Nella Piatek Nella Piatek is a Polish critical designer, researcher, academic and cyberwitch based in London. As a critical designer, Piatek considers ways to challenge the evolution of the human in conjunction with digital technology, by paying attention to the socio-political and eco-economic implications and values that this entanglement conjures. As a researcher, they test how eco-feminism, cyborg theory, post-humanist thought and media archaeology can aid in such practice. As an academic, Piatek lectures in the Design Department at Goldsmiths and the Department of Media and Communication at the University of the Arts London. Lastly, as a cyber witch, they consider ways to bridge critical theory with creative practice. Forming a multimedia chronicle of an eco-feminist coven, Piatek practice merges performance, film, artefacts and haunted operated systems to resist and reflect on capitalist relations. This practice looks at the human’s entanglement with capitalist economies and ideologies to consider alternative perspectives. The use of fictioning and embodiment of the cyberwitch as a vessel, allows Piatek to see technology, environment and bodies as interrelated. Research interests: Cyborg Theory Posthumanist Thought Media ArchaeologyCyberfeminism Eco-feminism Anarchiving practices Hauntology Speculative Design &amp; Alternative Realities Currently a Lecturer in the Design Department at Goldsmiths and the Department of Media and Communication at the University of the Arts London. Piatek also develops this discussion through international exhibitions, festivals, and panel talks, some including: The Photographers’ Gallery (UK), Hypha Studios (UK), Ars Electronica (AT) and Oddstream Gallery (NL).Nella is also a member of the research group Critical Climate Computing, at UAL, London College of Communication https://criticalclimatecomputing.com/ WORK&nbsp;Lecturer, Goldsmiths University London October 2025 - Present Fractional Lecturer in the Design Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. Teaching across all units on MA Design: Expanded Practice throughout the entire academic year. Co-lead of Communication and Experience Studio.Co-lead on the 'Transfocality 1’ module.&nbsp;staff profile ︎ MA Design: Expanded Practice ︎ Associate Lecturer, University of the Arts LondonOctober 2022 - Present Associate Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication at the London College of Fashion (LCF) at the University of the Arts London. Tutoring, lecturing, leading group seminars, workshops and supervising the Masters Project on MA Fashion Media and Communication. MA Fashion Media and Communication ︎ Associate Lecturer, University of the Arts LondonOctober 2022 - September 2026 Associate Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication at the London College of Communication (LCC) at the University of the Arts London. Tutoring, lecturing, leading group seminars, workshops and supervising the Masters Project on MA Interaction Design.MA Interaction Design ︎ Associate Lecturer, Goldsmiths University London October 2022 - October 2025 Associate Lecturer in the Design Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. Teaching across all units on MA Design: Expanded Practice throughout the entire academic year. Co-lead on the 'Transfocality 1’ module. staff profile ︎ MA Design: Expanded Practice ︎ Course Leader and Consultant, Era Vision, Beijing July 2023 - Present Course Leader and writer of a 7-day intensive art course called "Worldbuilding, Alternative Realities and Story&nbsp;Realms". In this week-long course, we explored radical ways of seeing as a means to create alternative story realms&nbsp;and practice short filmmaking to examine how these can serve as catalysts for envisioning alternative realities and&nbsp;future narratives. Course Leader and writer of a 3 week multidisciplinary design course called “Interactive and Critical Design” . I&nbsp;offer a quick theoretical and practical dive into the world of speculative design, critical design, cyberfeminism, non-human design, psychogeography and many other topics that I’ve had the pleasure to engage with over the years. I&nbsp;prompt participants to re-think how we interact with technology, space, and other beings and explore ways how&nbsp;values can be translated into design experiences Guest Speaker/Special Lecturer (SL2), University of the Arts London October 2021 - October 2022 Guest speaker leading workshops, talks and group discussions. 2021, MA Interaction Design, LCC, University of Arts London. 2022, MA Fashion Media &amp; Communication Summit 1: HYPERBODIES, LCF, University of Arts London. Modual: Open Futures Collaborative Workshop, University of the Arts LondonJuly 2020 Co-created a brief that imagined, developed and pitched a speculative project for positive social change.&nbsp; Post-Interia Initiative, Port 0: Future design research team, Escola Massana June - July 2020 Took part in a collective experiment aimed at critical inquiry and exploration of speculative practices for social re-stabilization post Covid-19. Was part of a working group focused on social practices around conviviality and their connection to the ecological transitions. Shift Summer School, Glasgow School of Art September 2019 Part of a progressive week of design innovation and creative project management workshops, in partnership with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Queen Margaret University TALKS2026 “ULTRA/INFRAstructures: Landscapes of Capitalism” performed with Melissa Schwarz for ‘In/Human Infrastructures: A 3-day Symposium’ by Xeno Futurism at Alt_R, London (UK)2025 “Digital Angels Are Watching You: They Kept Your Girlhood For Late” &nbsp;for Everyone is a Girl Online: Tumblr Symposium at Theatreship, London (UK)&nbsp; 2024 “Accelerationism and Fluid Cyber-Identities” Part of podcast series led by Andrea Evgenieva, London (UK) "From Angels to Swamplings: The Sisterhood of Spectral Bodies” Part of Cyber_Identities, at Hypha Studios, London (UK) 2022 "Praxis Plugged In: Applying Feminist Theory In An Increasingly Digital World"&nbsp;Feminist Graduate Student Association (FGSA) Conference, Florida Atlantic University, Florida (US) 2021 ‘Witchcraft Made Science’ : Episode 4 Part of a podcast series led by Future Based (NL) "Into the Ethereal: Speculative Post-Internet Narratives"at ‘Goodbye Internet’ Festival at Oddstream Gallery, Nijmegen (NL) EXHIBITIONS 2025 ‘Interstices of Inhabitance’ - &nbsp;Ethereal Maison Gallery, London (UK) 2024 ‘Mudsimmer’ - Alt R x Gossamerfog Gallery, London (UK) ‘Eden Transcends Reality’ - Pushkin House, London (UK)2022 ‘What Are Men to Rocks and Mountains?’ - Oddstream Gallery, Nijmegen (NL) ‘Open Space AR’ - Photographers’ Gallery, London (UK) ‘Magic Mirrors’ - Oddstream Gallery and Extrapool Dubbelweekend, Nijmegen (NL) 2021 ‘Visceral Realities’ - University of the Arts London, London (UK) 2020 ‘A View from Somewhere’ - ‘A New Digital Deal’ Festival at Ars Electronica (AT)‘Future Experiences’ - &nbsp;in collaboration with Glasgow School of Art and the Sustainable Futures in Africa Network at&nbsp;The&nbsp;Lighthouse, Glasgow (UK)2019 ‘Post-Interia 2020’ - published by Port 0, online 2018 ‘わノべ (Wanovation)’ - at Kyoto University of Arts, Kyoto, (JP) ‘Synesthésie' - ‘Nuit Blanche Kyoto’ Art Festival, at 大垣書店四条店, Kyoto, (JP) RESEARCH PROJECTS Ongoing Framing Cyberfeminist Hauntology as a Socio-Cultural Artefact of Cyberspace: Spectral Modalities and Traces of&nbsp;Presence in Internet Subcultures 2021 Through the Lens of Nonconformist Cyberwitches: Witchcraft as a Design Methodology to Explore Alternative&nbsp;FuturesMachine Visions: AI and ML Representation in BBC Media, in collaboration with BBC Research and Development andUniversity of the Arts London Seeing the Invisible: Aestheticising the entanglements of Google’s reCAPTCHA (Research Project + Satirical Output) The AI Blackbox: Theistic conceptions of artificial intelligence prediction (News analysis) 2020 Re-imagining Flânerie as a Design Tool (Epistemology)IO: Future Responses to the Tensions of Fast-paced City Life (Participatory Design, Psychogeography, Spectrum Mapping) Future Experiences: Sustainable Development and the Global South, in collaboration with Sustainable Futures in Africa Network (SFA), Innovation School at Glasgow School of Art and University of Glasgow2019 Evolve: Sustainability and compactness in new forms of furniture that adapt and grow with the contemporary&nbsp;families, as they move towards a more volatile, temporary and closely packed living environment *winner of the Annual Neil Morris Prize - Best Furniture Design 2019 RESIDENCIES2025MAYES CREATIVE DARTMOOR Residency at YHA Dartmoor: Creative Inspiration From An Ancient Landscape, Dartmoor, UK funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund ETHEREAL MAISON Residency - Resident at the Ethereal Maison Gallery, London, UK 2024 ERA VISION Residency - Beijing, China commissioned by Era Vision to create ‘What Would They Have Wanted’ film QUEERING NATURE: THE QUEST - A RANDOM KINGDOM Digital Residency funded by the European Union, Goethe Institute, OFAJ DFJW, Insitute Francais, Lios Labs, Deathless Flowers 2022 OPEN SPACE AR - Digital Residency commissioned by the Photographer’s Gallery&nbsp;London and Hervisions (Zaiba Jabbar) PUBLICATIONS 2024 Everyone is a Girl Online Vol. 2: Seduction - ‘loving_bytes’ piece published EDUCATION University of the Arts London, London College of Communication, England Masters of Arts (MA) in Interaction Design Communication with DistinctionGlasgow School of Art, School of Innovation, Scotland Bachelor of Design (B.Des.) in Product Design with Honours of the First Class Dissertation Distinction - Published in GSA Library Kyoto University of Art and Design, Japan 6 month Exchange Program in Advanced Design https://nellapiatek.com/Contact Sun, 21 Jun 2020 13:02:57 +0000 Nella Piatek https://nellapiatek.com/Contact Contact email: nelpiatek@gmail.com ︎ Instagram ︎ Linkedin https://nellapiatek.com/Introduction-Text Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:46:32 +0000 Nella Piatek https://nellapiatek.com/Introduction-Text A a multimedia chronicle of a coven, materialised through performances, films and haunted operating systems. Through the lens of media archaeology, hauntology, and eco-feminist thought, Nella reflects on how the practice of anarchiving can offer insight into the myths and politics of cultural, ecological and digital archives. The alter-ego, Xris and the clan of cyberwitches and eco-priestesses, offers a perspective on how sites can be perceived as living archives. Anarchiving or ‘re-animation’ of these archives offers the opportunity to unveil the forgotten, often hidden narratives and failed futures that deserve existence as an alternative reality. Such a perspective offers a vessel to embody a voice against the consumptive relationship of the human species with nature and a figure that challenges the cyborgist behaviour already present in our everyday interactions with information technology. https://nellapiatek.com/Forest-Stone-Flesh-Spectral-Traces-and-Bodily-Archives Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:22:41 +0000 Nella Piatek https://nellapiatek.com/Forest-Stone-Flesh-Spectral-Traces-and-Bodily-Archives 2025 Short Film Collaboration Forest, Stone, Flesh: Spectral Traces and Bodily Archives <img width="2872" height="1616" width_o="2872" height_o="1616" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b83dc65a22211d30ce3c85d93acc2f2f71b17af94e210067c34f1ba6d71956a9/Screenshot-2025-06-01-at-09.37.36.png" data-mid="234004843" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b83dc65a22211d30ce3c85d93acc2f2f71b17af94e210067c34f1ba6d71956a9/Screenshot-2025-06-01-at-09.37.36.png" /> <img width="2860" height="1614" width_o="2860" height_o="1614" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ed54902a3587c6f99083355aaaeb8f50027acadd7cd7f03a9331eaf0816ba27/2_Forest--Stone--Flesh---Kitty-Jays-Grave.png" data-mid="234004845" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ed54902a3587c6f99083355aaaeb8f50027acadd7cd7f03a9331eaf0816ba27/2_Forest--Stone--Flesh---Kitty-Jays-Grave.png" /> <img width="2872" height="1618" width_o="2872" height_o="1618" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2323dd9fb3cbd84acd667e7f2b09d8523a253a0b2ba50b91118fbb101058eadd/Screenshot-2025-06-01-at-16.40.18.png" data-mid="234004847" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2323dd9fb3cbd84acd667e7f2b09d8523a253a0b2ba50b91118fbb101058eadd/Screenshot-2025-06-01-at-16.40.18.png" /> <img width="2872" height="1618" width_o="2872" height_o="1618" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8b946c94a5302ea14875fca90638c626efe94dcc39286ff67dd9e1cde5599f0/4_Forest--Stone--Flesh---Spinsters-Rock.png" data-mid="234004850" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8b946c94a5302ea14875fca90638c626efe94dcc39286ff67dd9e1cde5599f0/4_Forest--Stone--Flesh---Spinsters-Rock.png" /> <img width="2874" height="1618" width_o="2874" height_o="1618" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/307ee3145011520ba68d25020206242ae9c7012f90a18fdbe0f24b30dadafd12/5_Spinsters-Rock-Poetry.png" data-mid="234004851" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/307ee3145011520ba68d25020206242ae9c7012f90a18fdbe0f24b30dadafd12/5_Spinsters-Rock-Poetry.png" /> <img width="2872" height="1612" width_o="2872" height_o="1612" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c58e964944685b301883c5965d638885c67057d153f0c776576d69068009edf2/6_Forest--Stone--Flesh---Wistmans-Woods.png" data-mid="234004852" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c58e964944685b301883c5965d638885c67057d153f0c776576d69068009edf2/6_Forest--Stone--Flesh---Wistmans-Woods.png" /> <img width="2876" height="1620" width_o="2876" height_o="1620" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/38e3c59d9ca18a6aae1ef5a4c9437855ace64990564952767decfa1de83c6c18/7_Wistmans-Woods-Poetry.png" data-mid="234004853" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/38e3c59d9ca18a6aae1ef5a4c9437855ace64990564952767decfa1de83c6c18/7_Wistmans-Woods-Poetry.png" /> An eco-feminist journey across Dartmoor’s mythical sites ︎ Forest, Stone, Flesh is an eco-feminist journey across the mythical sites of Dartmoor National Park in Cornwall. Through the process of anarchiving, the body is used as a material to access histories and to activate the few locations which carry myths that centre around women and slow violence. Anarchiving relates to the idea that sites can be understood as living archives; as such the film ‘re-animates’ local narratives to imagine alternative realities. The film is a ritual performance in which two travellers journey across the site’s past, present and future. Through the lenses of hauntology and post-humanist thought, the history and mythologies of the area are re-examined in connection to an eco-feminist approach. Collaboration between Nella Piatek x Melissa Schwarz This project was created as part of the Mayes Creative Residency: Creative Inspiration From An Ancient Landscape&nbsp;funded by the Lottery Fund.&nbsp; https://nellapiatek.com/Scarring-1 Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:59:37 +0000 Nella Piatek https://nellapiatek.com/Scarring-1 2025 On-site Installation Collaboration Scarring <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4adfb0c4685652ca6b635bd3402402708f2aace488b2da6de765eabf5a01be95/3_Scarring.jpeg" data-mid="234159672" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4adfb0c4685652ca6b635bd3402402708f2aace488b2da6de765eabf5a01be95/3_Scarring.jpeg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92ac5d05a70d990e620e35c69b2cb8c19b66df8330d6f6689c487acdd5adf509/2_wide-Scarring.png" data-mid="234159968" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/92ac5d05a70d990e620e35c69b2cb8c19b66df8330d6f6689c487acdd5adf509/2_wide-Scarring.png" /> A methodological and conceptual tool that treats the act of scarring as a an intervention to reclaim what is typically hidden, dismissed, or pathologised ︎ Scarring is a site-specific evolving process that uses the act of scarring as both method and metaphor; an intervention that reclaims what is often hidden, dismissed, or pathologised. Centring a waste pipe as subject and collaborator, the work explores its presence as a scar: a visible glitch in architectural systems that speaks to histories of erasure, marginalisation, and resilience. Collaboration between Nella Piatek x Andrea Cheng This project was created as part of the Ethereal Maison Residency https://nellapiatek.com/Roman-Road Wed, 02 Apr 2025 14:18:46 +0000 Nella Piatek https://nellapiatek.com/Roman-Road 2025 On-site Installation and Performance Roman Road <img width="3024" height="2117" width_o="3024" height_o="2117" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3950303cf91848839bcf10931cd24d85ccc902cff535e0a88d75a1a51d3a2afe/3_Glass-Writing-copy.jpg" data-mid="234180533" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3950303cf91848839bcf10931cd24d85ccc902cff535e0a88d75a1a51d3a2afe/3_Glass-Writing-copy.jpg" /> <img width="3859" height="2513" width_o="3859" height_o="2513" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e8f2cbe19adbc258fc70d5f4145a680c22f7ca6887408b99f41ad8c6bb2d73d/2_Old-photo-copy.JPG" data-mid="234180350" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4e8f2cbe19adbc258fc70d5f4145a680c22f7ca6887408b99f41ad8c6bb2d73d/2_Old-photo-copy.JPG" /> <img width="4000" height="2720" width_o="4000" height_o="2720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f5a834d91ff0767b25935b3d9abc35bcd359f2eec8719f8569bb94ee15778dd2/1_Candle-photo-horizontal.JPG" data-mid="234180353" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f5a834d91ff0767b25935b3d9abc35bcd359f2eec8719f8569bb94ee15778dd2/1_Candle-photo-horizontal.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ef19902c93caf9f0eadb9bc803ec4679be78392b0ade33f54285562a99bb3134/DSC_0922.JPG" data-mid="234180458" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ef19902c93caf9f0eadb9bc803ec4679be78392b0ade33f54285562a99bb3134/DSC_0922.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b43a4da53ef042686a6dc613033d64790b59a51072326db71457d2775fee682/5_Close-up-copy.JPG" data-mid="234180622" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b43a4da53ef042686a6dc613033d64790b59a51072326db71457d2775fee682/5_Close-up-copy.JPG" /> A portal that embodies the temporal layering of a site, a residue of histories buried beneath the surface ︎ Constructed in situ, the work is a product of a meditative engagement with geography, where material itself becomes an archive. By bringing the layers of the site into the space, Roman Road operates as both a physical trace and an invocation, urging us to reconsider the ways we interact with place, memory, and transformation. &nbsp; This project was created as part of the Ethereal Maison Residency