Anna Nacher is an associate professor at the Institute of Audiovisual Arts, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland; Vice Editor-in-Chief for Arts & Cultural Studies Review (PrzeglÄ…d Kulturoznawczy); and the 2019 Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence in Creative Digital Media program at Winona State University (USA).
Her research interests include media art, electronic literature, media theory and environmental humanities. She is currently pursuing a 3-year long research project on the post-digital imagery grant from Polish National Science Centre (entitled, The aesthetics of post-digital imagery: between new materialism and object-oriented philosophy, ). The author of three books in Polish; the newest one published in 2016 focuses on a locative media imagery. A reworked version of one chapter has appeared as “Internet of things and automation of imaging: beyond representationalism” in communication+1, vol. 5 (2016). She has published numerous articles in journals and chapters in edited volumes including Hyperrhiz, Electronic Book Review, communication+1. The most recent publication: VR – the culture of (non)participation? “Reframing the participative edge of virtual reality” in Cultures of participation: Arts, Digital Media and Cultural Institutions: Eriksson B., Stage C., Valtysson B. (eds.) (Routledge 2019).
She is also a part-time musician and a passionate gardener in a tiny permaculture farm located in Slovakian Carpathians.