Nella Piatek

Nella Piatek is a critical designer, researcher and cyberwitch challenging the evolution of the human in conjunction with digital technology, along with the implications and values that this entanglement conjures. Their practice is a multimedia chronicle of a coven, materialised through performances, films and haunted operated systems. Through the lens of ecofeminism, cyberfeminism, and post-humanism, they meditate on contemporary myths around archives, impermanence and hauntology.  

Through the alter-ego Xris and the clan of cyberwitches/eco-priestesses, they meditate on anarchival practices, the consumptive relationship of the human species with nature and the cyborgist behaviour already present in our everyday interactions with information technology.

Nella is also an academic at Goldsmiths University and University of the Arts London, and artist exhibited internationally at various exhibitions, festivals, and conferences including The Photographers’ Gallery (UK), Ars Electronica (AT) and Oddstream Gallery (NL).

Research Interests

• Cyberfeminism 
• Eco-feminism
• Cyborg Theory
• Anarchiving practices
• Hauntology
• Post-humanism 
• Speculative Design & Alternative Realities