JOANNA ZABIELSKA504/GWT
Digital Artist, Designer
working at the intersection of digital art, design and architecture I specialize in 3D scanning, photogrammetry and motion capture to create highly detailed and immersive environments for VR and AR. By merging real-world data with digital artistry, I enhance interactive storytelling and world-building across games, animations, and both physical and virtual exhibitions.
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01 DESIGN OF THE ANONYMOUS
The red-white-blue bag became a symbol of migration, carrying with it the hopes, dreams, and uncertainties of those who leave for various reasons their home country. Known all around the globe but under different names. For many it is also associated with the fall of the Soviet Union, with war, broken lives and economic collapse. Others connect it with shopping at nearby markets or bazaars, with informal economy, trading across-border and the struggle to make a living. More recently this 2 euro bag has been absurdly introduced into the luxury fashion industry by brands like Balenciaga and Louis Vuitton.
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02 DESIGN OF THE ANONYMOUS
“Design of the Anonymous” is an audio-visual performative exhibition that opens an experimental physical and digital space where people can engage with stories, bodies, objects and materials. Based on the research and participatory performances conducted in various public spaces within Vienna’s newly developed districts, performers transform their experiences into the exhibition space, retelling stories about being on the move, migration, home, feeling of belonging, displacement, re- settlement and transformation.
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03 DE:CONSTRUCT
The project began a year ago in Japan, inspired by the ever-changing urban landscape of Nakano, a district of Tokyo. Using construction bags, I created a costume that reflects the short life cycle of residential buildings. I concluded my stay in Tokyo with a performance on a rooftop in a space of construction and transformation. The entire process was documented through 3D scans and 360° video, evolving into an interactive, digital VR world.
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04 POSTGRANICZE
Postgranicze is a world of speculative fiction built upon a foundation of reality. Set in the borderland forests of Podlasie, where Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine converge, it is a place where the soil speaks—its voice rich with histories and myths, personal testimonies, and magical tales, woven into a tapestry of languages and dialects.
Postgranicze is both a story and a provocation— a call to imagine the unimaginable, rooted in the whisper of the land.
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05 LIMINAL OLD-GROWTH
This sci-fi/mythical forest is a digital habitat for spirits and apparitions, inspired by pre-Christian Slavic beliefs and mythological tales of Leshy. This space merges fantastical elements with a nonfictional narrative, built upon documentary materials and testimonies. The forest landscape consists of 3D scans taken in Austria (Wiener Wald and Wiener Alpen), Poland (Białowieża Forest), and Japan (Aokigahara and Yakushima), enriched with 3D models and textures. This creates a space at the intersection of reality and myth, where the past and present intertwine into a new, multidimensional narrative.
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06 WHITE GOAT RITUAL
The voice of Mala Herba, combined with the heavy sounds of electronic music, intertwines with the ecstatic, powerful movements of Agata Sokół. This fusion, digitally captured by Joanna Zabielska, creates a sense of sacred suspension, while the performance itself induces trance and disorientation. Both the vocal and dance elements can have a physical, somatic impact on the audience's bodies, generating collective knowledge through resonance in bones and muscles, and provoking emotional responses through encounter and exchange.
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07 THE CRAFT OF UNDOING
The animation explores the role of feminist collectives, which provide crucial emotional, informational, and financial support to individuals undergoing the abortion process. Contemporary support systems reflect historical practices of communal care, fighting for reproductive autonomy and creating judgment-free spaces for those in need.
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08 WOUNDED HEALER
is the name of the new album by Zosia Hołubowska alias Mala Herba. It combines sinister demonic incantations, pummelling rhythms, and ecstatic sounds: synth witchcraft. At Mala Herba’s concerts, this soundscape is augmented with ritualistic choreographies and visuals that envelop the senses and the body: creating a moment of communion and healing understood as a collective effort – that is the very aim of these extraordinary performances.
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