Anna Nacher

Ph.D. Hab., Jagiellonian University professor – works at the Institute of Audiovisual Arts of the Jagiellonian University. Her scholarly interests include digital culture, studying sound, media art, e-literature, ecological humanities and post-humanities. As Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, lectured as part of the Creative Digital Media curriculum at the Winona State University (USA) during the autumn term of the academic year 2019/20. Her achievements include guest lecturing at Aarhus University, Aalborg University (as part of the Media Art Cultures Erasmus Mundus curriculum), UCLA Art|Sci Programme, Washington State University Vancouver, and University of Minnesota. Author of three books, and multiple papers and chapters in monographic studies published in Poland and abroad. In 2021, co-curated an online exhibition of digital art and e-literature created during the COVID-19 pandemic, with Søren Bro Pold (Aarhus University) and Scott Rettberg (University of Bergen) under the aegis of the DARIAH-EU grant: https://eliterature.org/elo2021/covid. 

Editor-in-chief of the “Przegląd Kulturoznawczy” periodical, managing editor of the online periodical ebr – electronic book review (Open Humanities Press) https://electronicbookreview.com

Board of Directors Electronic Literature Organization member in the years 2019-2024.

Combines scientific activities with art and ecology. Co-creator of the Magical Carpathians Project of improvised music since 1999, the Project’s oeuvre including over a dozen CDs recorded in Poland and abroad, two concert tours in the USA, and multiple performances in Poland and across Europe. Active in field recording solo projects; collaborating with American artist Victoria Vesna since 2020. Online Artist-in-Residence at UCLA’s Centre for the Art of Performance in 2021. Currently working on Breath Library, a project combining sonic art with media studies as part of the exhibition Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption co-designed by UCLA’s Art|Sci Centre and the PST ART initiative in Los Angeles (September 2024 – March 2025).

Co-manager (with Marek Styczyński) of the Biotop Lechnica centre of permaculture in Lechnica, Slovakia, since 2015. Chairperson of the Biotop Lechnica Foundation since 2023.

More (including a complete list of publications): http://breathlibrary.org

More on the Biotop Lechnica Foundation: https://biotoplechnica.eu

More on the exhibition Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption: https://pst.art/en/exhibitions/atmosphere-of-sound-sonic-art-in-times-of-climate-disruption