Anna Szylar

Anna Szylar is the founder of Monster Mind Studio, a curator, and a cultural manager with over a decade of experience in international collaboration within the immersive media field. She initiated and curated the Digital Cultures festival and has been a propagator and promoter of Polish art, building its recognition through collaborations with festivals such as SXSW, MUTEK, Tribeca Film Festival, and Sheffield Doc Fest. From 2014 to 2021, she was associated with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, and later with the Visual Narratives Laboratory (vnLab), where she was responsible for VR distribution and international relations. She is a frequent speaker and moderator at international industry conferences.

Anna Szylar also served as a program advisor for IDFA DocLab, one of the world’s leading festivals dedicated to interactive and immersive documentary. Her curatorial work includes exhibitions such as “Ground Control” during the Venice Film Festival (2023), Mixer Festival (2024) and MDAG Vision (2025), Elusive Sense. On the Fluid Boundaries of Perception (2025). She is also an alumna of the prestigious Biennale College Cinema Immersive program, through which her Monster Mind Studio is producing the VR piece “Channelers” (2025), directed by Jakub Wróblewski.

Her past and present partners include the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, vnLab, IDFA DocLab, Millennium Docs Against Gravity Festival, Biennale di Venezia, the Korea Foundation and numerous cultural festivals and institutions in Poland and abroad.