Jacek Smolicki, PhD, is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and researcher whose work explores the critical, existential, and technological dimensions of listening, recording, and archiving across human and more-than-human contexts. His practice includes soundwalks, soundscape compositions, experimental archives, and installations, presented internationally at venues such as Ars Electronica, Sonorities, and In-Sonora. He co-founded the Walking Festival of Sound, a nomadic platform connecting artists, researchers, and local publics around the role of sound in shaping our environments. As a scholar, he has published widely on the ethics, politics, and poetics of listening and recording technologies. Smolicki earned his PhD from Malmö University and has held research positions at Simon Fraser and Uppsala Universities. He was a Swedish Research Council postdoc (2020–2023) and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard (2022–2023). He is editor of Soundwalking. Through Time, Space, and Technologies (Routledge, 2023) and co-editor of Relational Technologies(Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2026). In 2025-2026, he is affiliated with the Harvard Graduate School of Design as a Loeb Fellow.