Soundwalking – composing, recomposing, and decomposing with soundscapes

Bio

Jacek Smolicki is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, designer and educator. His work brings historical, critical and existential dimensions to listening, recording and archiving practices in human and more-than-human contexts. Besides working with historical archives, media, and heritage, Smolicki develops other modes of sensing, recording, and mediating stories and signals from specific sites, scales, and temporalities. His work is manifested through soundwalks, soundscape compositions, diverse forms of writing, site-responsive performances, and audiovisual installations (e.g. Young Art Biennial, Moscow, In-Sonora, Madrid, Ars Electronica, Linz, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Holden Chapel, Harvard University, Vancouver New Music, Vancouver).

Smolki holds a PhD in Media and Communications from Malmö University and has recently completed a postdoc position at Linköping University. He has also been a guest researcher at Uppsala University, Simon Fraser University, and 2022/2023 Fulbright visiting scholar at Harvard. In 2019 he co-founded the Walking Festival of Sound, a transdisciplinary event focusing on the creative and critical potential of walking through and listening to our everyday surroundings. Smolicki is the editor of “Soundwalking. Through Time, Space, and Technologies,” published in 2023 via Routledge.