The artist have joined in the project Technospiritual Visionary, where they create both material and virtual experiences based on the reinterpretation and recycling of archaic cultural contexts, seeking new applications for them.

Over the coming weeks, they will use Egyptological and archaeological sources to explore the identity of the ancient Egyptians, revealing similarities with modern society. As a result, the artists will create an immersive artwork called “The Book of the Dead: Virtual Gates” – an installation that will present the world composed of metaphors of modern technology that can be found in Egyptian mythology.

Agata Konarska was born in 1995 in Poland. Her artistic activities are based on the use of various media, such as video, sound and performance, with the help of which she creates interactive situations and creates virtual realities. In my activities, I touch the subject of religiosity, oscillating between the sacred and the profane. She explores the phenomenon of woman iconicity, looking for the anthropological origins of matriarchy and its references in the Anthropocene era. He often uses political, geological and animal motifs. She is fascinated by modern myths and rituals, as well as the coming apocalypse. He notoriously dreams about animal hybrids and the spaciousness of architecture.

Jakub Kosecki is a visual artist, musician and curator, born in Szczecin in 1996, living and working in Poznań since 2016. In 2019, he earned his bachelor's degree in Intermedia, and in 2022, he earned his master's degree in Curating and Theories of Art, both at the University of the Arts in Poznań. As a visual artist he creates installations and objects, using found objects, assemblage, sculptural techniques and drawing. As part of his musical activities, he creates electronic compositions and experimental site-specific music installations. From 2017 to 2021, he co-managed the Luka Gallery. In 2020, together with the curator Julianna Kulczynska and the Luka collective, he founded Luka 5G, a virtual space for art. Since 2021 part of collective Domie.

More about the artists and their project: emare.eu/artists

About the European Media Art Platform:  

The European Media Art Platform (EMAP), initiated by werkleitz and co-funded by Creative Europe since 2018, is a consortium of 16 leading European media art organisations specialised in Digital and Media Art, Bio Art and Robotic Art. The consortium includes several renowned festivals dealing with these interdisciplinary art forms. In addition to the 16 permanent members of the consortium, an annually changing international residency host organisation is part of the EMAP board. Besides the two-month residency programme, EMAP focusses on sharing knowledge via workshops and connecting artists and institutions through a partner presentation grant.