Embodiment in new digital realities. The role of immersees in XR projects

Doctoral degree holder in humanities, cultural studies specialist and sociologist, with a focus on new media studies, dance studies and gender studies in research work. Lecturer at the Cultural Studies Chair of the SWPS University of Life Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. Member of the Interdisciplinary Humanities / Art / Technology Research Centre of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Author of the book Taniec w sprzężeniu nauk i technologii. Nowe perspektywy w badaniach tańca (Dance in the Coupling of Science and Technology. New Perspectives of Researching Dance, 2017). Researched perception of dance in virtual reality in collaboration with the Institute of Psychology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Director and academic supervisor of the work VR Noccc / VR Nightsss (2020, http://bit.ly/Nightsss).

Theatrical director, author of adaptations he has been using as a foundation for so-called theatrical installations combining performance, visual arts and music. First Polish artist to work with Virtual Reality-based technology. Graduate of the Faculty of Direction and Drama at the AST Ludwik Solski Academy of Theatre Arts in Cracow. Winner of multiple awards, including the Polityka Passports (2012). Works he adapted for the stage include i.a. The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol) (play Nirvana, Polski Theatre in Wrocław, 2009) and Witold Gombrowicz’s Chronos (Polski Theatre in Wrocław, 2013). Directed the following theatrical performances: Odyssey (Jan Kochanowski Theatre in Opole, 2009), Sexual Life of Savages (Nowy Theatre in Warsaw, 2011), Balladyna (Polski Theatre in Poznań, 2013), Sky of Stone instead of Stars (Nowy Theatre in Warsaw, 2013), Victory over the Sun (Grand Theatre – Polish National Opera, 2014), Hamlet (Helena Modrzejewska National Stary Theatre in Cracow, 2015), Robert Robur (TR Warsaw 2016), The Symposium (Nowy Theatre in Warsaw, 2017), The Peasants (Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw, 2018). In 2018, on invitation by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and having joined forces with the Dream Adoption Society collective he founded, he designed a theatrical performance and exhibition focusing on poet Allen Ginsberg’s associations with the Polish art scene in the 1960s and 1970s. Visitors to the “Arsenal” Gallery had an opportunity to learn more about his oeuvre, VR elements included, at the 2019 exhibition Krzysztof Garbaczewski. Fieldwork.