dr Anna Paprzycka

Anna Paprzycka, graduate student of the: Knowledge of Theater and Interactive Media and Performance in UAM Poznań.

In 2024, under the supervision of UAM Professor Agnieszka Jelewska, she defended her dissertation entitled Software as a Cultural Operating System. Between history and contemporary practices. Earlier, in 2017, she defended her master’s thesis under the title Processing as a programming language of digital generative art. History, Contexts, Perspectives, whose supervisor was Professor Jacek Wachowski. She is interested in software studies, the issue of the cultural impact of software, creative programming and do-it-yourself culture. In 2019, she participated in the NPRH research grant Negotiated Environments. New Humanities Practices in Transdisciplinary Research, whose supervisors were Prof. UAM Dr. Agnieszka Jelewska and Dr Michał Krawczak.

Author of scientific publications related to the subject of software studies, among which we can point
out the most important:

• The Importance of Practice for the Digital Culture Researcher (2021) published by the journal “Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica”,
• To Dominate or to be Dominated. About the Attitude of Humans to Technology in Modern Culture (2020), published in English by the journal “Sensus Historiae”.
• The bilingual article Sztuka programowania. Processing jako narzędzie artystyczne i kulturotwórcze /The Art of Programming: Processing as an Artistic and Culture-Forming Tool, published by the journal “Czas Kultury” (2019).

Co-author of art installations: Ping Sensors (2017), Well-Tempered (2019), author of the EMET installation (2019) and live-coding performances. She conducts workshops on creative programming in Processing language and open lectures on issues related to digital reality.