Upcoming meeting: For the first time in the Live series, we invite you to meet a musical artist. Our guest will be Agata PLK Polak – an intermedia creator, sound designer, music producer, and researcher who operates at the intersection of art, technology, and science. Agata PLK Polak explores the world of sound as a living ecosystem – from digital sonic landscapes, through acoustic ecology, to bioart and immersive 3D environments. In her projects, she uses the latest technologies, such as artificial intelligence and sonic anomaly mapping, creating compositions that balance between club energy and experimental poetics. She smoothly crosses genre boundaries, resonating with both club culture and engaged art. In 2025, the artist graduated with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, presenting the project Mycosphere 3.0, in which mycelium becomes a model of an alternative, biointelligent data processing system. Her practice grows out of a fascination with ecology, speculative narratives, and queer methodologies of perceiving reality. As a co-creator of the Castello Bizzarro festival, organized at the castle in Będzin, and the Zgrzyt project, she has been promoting the independent music scene for years, consistently breaking genre and cultural boundaries. She is also a co-founder of the Nerdka collective – a grassroots center for artistic research, exploring digital art and the social impact of emerging technologies from a queer and feminist perspective. Her works have been shown at Zachęta, CSW Ujazdowski Castle, BWA Bielsko-Biała, Floating University in Berlin, and The Posthumanities Hub in Stockholm; she has participated in festivals such as Audio Art and Sanatorium Dźwięku. Currently, she runs an experimental music studio and an intermedia workshop at Apteka Designu. About the series: Every week we meet live with artists to talk about art: creative processes, works, and current experiences. Some people will appear for the first time, others have already visited the Center for Contemporary Art. In this series, we want to focus on individual attitudes and artistic practices. Why is it worth participating? In times of tension and crisis, collective thinking and conversations about contemporary art, which responds to the challenges of the present in unconventional ways, help strengthen social resilience. Art is not just an object. Equally important are: process, thinking, emotions, and relationships. Live meetings will allow you to take a close look at how art is created and – above all – who creates it. Events are open to everyone: to those professionally involved in culture and art, as well as to those who are curious about its creators. Or simply want to talk about art. Upcoming meetings: - 03/12 – Agnieszka Mastalerz We record the meetings for archival purposes. They are added to the Mediateka, where interested people can watch them online. We want the Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art to be for everyone. To adapt the event to you and your needs, please contact our accessibility coordinator Ewa Doan: e.doan@u-jazdowski.pl, no later than the Monday preceding the meeting. Visual identification: Nicola Cholewa #live Every week we meet live with artists to talk about art: creative processes, works, and current experiences. Some will appear for the first time, others have already visited the Center for Contemporary Art. In this series, we want to focus on individual positions and artistic practices. Why is it worth participating? In times of tension and crisis, collective thinking and conversations about contemporary art, which responds to the challenges of the present in unconventional ways, help strengthen social resilience. Art is not just an object. Equally important are: process, thinking, emotions, and relationships. Live meetings will allow you to take a close look at how art is born and – above all – who creates it. Events are open to everyone: to those professionally involved in culture or art, as well as to those interested in its creators. Or simply want to talk about art. We record the meetings for archival purposes. They are added to the Mediateka, where everyone interested can watch them online. We care that the Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art is open to everyone. To adapt the event to you and your needs, please contact our accessibility coordinator Ewa Doan: e.doan@u-jazdowski.pl, no later than the Monday preceding the event. Visual identification: Nicola Cholewa #live
