2025-2026 Loeb ArtLab Fellow Jacek Smolicki, PhD, is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and researcher whose work explores the critical, existential, and technological dimensions of listening, recording, and archiving across human and more-than-human contexts. His practice encompasses soundwalks, soundscape compositions, experimental archives, and installations, which have been presented internationally at venues such as Ars Electronica, Sonorities, and In-Sonora. He co-founded the Walking Festival of Sound, a nomadic platform that connects artists, researchers, and local communities around the role of sound in shaping our environments.
As a scholar, Jacek Smolicki has published widely on the ethics, politics, and poetics of listening and recording technologies. Smolicki earned his PhD from Malmö University and has held research positions at Simon Fraser and Uppsala Universities. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Swedish Research Council (2020–2023) and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard (2022–2023). He is the editor of Soundwalking. Through Time, Space, and Technologies (Routledge, 2023) and co-editor of Relational Technologies (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2026).