about
Maria Smigielska is a new media architect and researcher from Poland, based in Zurich. Her work centers on crafting meaningful experiences in architecture and art installations by integrating mixed media, digital design, advanced fabrication techniques, and interactive technologies. With a rich academic background, including roles at ETH Zurich, ZHdK Zurich, and HGK FHNW Basel, she now contributes to BFH AHB with research focused on human-centered digital crafts. Her artistic work often fuses arts&sciences and span residencies (ZKM, EMAP/EMARE), commissions (Copernicus Science Center) and multiple exhibitions.
Publication list: researchgate
Exhibitions:
2024
- “Bits of Proteus memory” at Art Proxima, Xpanse, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- “Proteus 4.1” at ESC, Graz, AT
- “Proteus 4.1” at Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, AT
- “AR Wonderland” at House of Switzerland Milano, Milano Design Week, Milano, IT
- “Proteus 4.0” at Laboral, Gijon, Spain
- “Virtual Playgrounds” at HGK, FHNW, students projects, Basel, CH (students show)
2023
- Proteus 4.0”, Kontejner 3.0 Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, CR
- ”Proteus 3.5”, „Human 2.0” exhibition at Copernicus Science Center, PL
- ”Proteus 3.5” during Festival Przemiany at Copernicus Science Center, PL
- ”Proteus 3.0” video, during „Intelligent Museum is round the corner”, ZKM Karlsruhe, DE
2022
- “Proteus 3.0”, during “Bio-Media” exhib, ZKM Karlsruhe, DE
2021
- “CoDeFa” at S AM- Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel / with CoDeFa research team IIG, HGK FHNW
- “CoDeFa” at Baumuster Centrale, Zurich / with CoDeFa research team IIG, HGK FHNW
- “Material Wonders” during Scientifica: Zurich Science Days, Zurich, CH
- “Proteus 3.0”, during “Bio-Media” exhib, ZKM Karlsruhe, DE
2020
- “Craftsmanship in the digital era”: Final exhibition of student project of the Institute of Integrative Design MasterStudio, HGK, Basel, CH
- “Proteus 2.5”, Meta Morf X: Digital Wild, Trondheim Biennale for Art &Technology, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, NO
2019
- “Proteus 2.5”, New Media Festival Lab30, Augsburg, DE
- “The Means”, Design Festival Bern, CH
2018
- Czapsky Art Foundation, Poznan, PL
- “The first dance”, ZhDK Digital Tag, Zurich, CH
- “The first dance”, Kulturfolger, Zurich, CH
- duo exhibition “Bits bots and brains”, Tetem gallery, Entschede, The Netherlands
- “Proteus 2.0” Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, AT
- “The Means”, Ars Electronica, Linz, AT link
- “Proteus 1.0” Creative Robotics exhibition (curated by Johannes Braumann and Kristina Maurer), Ars Electronica Linz, AT / link
2017
- ‘drawN’, DRAWBOT exhibition (curated by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou, Leslie Ware), ART[n+1] gallery Paris, FR link
- “The Means”, Tallinn Architecture Biennale, Tallinn, EE (curated by Claudia Pasquero) / link
contact us
maria at mariasni dot com
+41 78 682 45 26
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