Magda works as a research assistant in iRes. Her recent projects include curating Participation, a contemporary exhibition in open media. She has also organised a series of iRes Open Research Meetings titled Presenting Participation, during which artists presented their works for the exhibition in their research and work-in-progress stage.

Her current research interests include collaboration, the common, community and networks in the network society. As part of her research in the field of new media curating titled “New Models of Curating?” she has organised a series of online debates with international collaborative groups, such as UNWETTER, C:cred and Basekamp. In her research she is influenced by theories of Jacque Rancière and especially excited by his ideas discussing the connections between aesthetics, politics and ethics and possibilities which arise when applying the theory of partition of the sensible in the context of network cultures.

Magda was a part-time lecturer on the MA Interactive Art & Design course at University College Falmouth, delivering lectures and workshops on new media project management.

She graduated in 2007 from MA course in 20th Century Art & Design: Histories and Theories course at University College Falmouth with a thesis titled Subtle Resistance. Aesthetics of Collaboration in the Network Society.

Her background is marketing and e-marketing. Whilst at Warsaw based
e-marketing agency, K2 Internet, Magda worked as project manager and creative director on web and multimedia projects for companies such as Nokia, Philips and Ford.

Magda is part of a collective of people who are behind Art in Hidden Places of Falmouth.

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