Jacek Smolicki
Jacek Smolicki (Kraków born, Stockholm based) is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and researcher. His work explores the transformative potential of sound and listening in reimagining how we shape and care for our environment.
He is the cofounder of the Walking Festival of Sound, a transdisciplinary and nomadic platform uniting artists, researchers, and local community members to explore the creative and critical role of sound in understanding our lived environments. Recently he founded Ekoton, a sound-focused art and design studio in Stockholm.
Working both independently and with international institutions, Jacek has developed projects that foreground sound to draw attention to natural and built environments, highlighting their often imperceptible dimensions, histories, and actors—human and other-than-human. His practice, manifested through soundwalks, soundscape compositions, archives, and audiovisual installations, has ranged across diverse geographies, including the Canadian Pacific Coast, the Nordic Arctic Circle, Walden Pond, the Krakow Jewish Ghetto, and the Canaveral National Seashore.
As a sound and media scholar and writer, Jacek has published on the ethics, politics and poetics of listening, soundscapes, field recording, and audio technologies in academic and popular science outlets. He has pursued his theory and practice-based research at Malmö University, where he earned his PhD, Simon Fraser University, and Uppsala University. In recent years, he received an international postdoc grant from the Swedish Research Council and was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard.