Olesia Kvitka is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher from Ukraine, based in Vienna. Her practice explores how technological systems  can be reimagined as sensory tools for connecting with the body, memory, and more-than-human environments. She creates audiovisual works, interdisciplinary performances, psychogeographic walks, and web-based rituals bridging the digital and physical. Recent projects include Biophony: Dancing Nature (supported by Goethe-Institut), Neurographia (Ars Electronica Festival 2025) — an EEG-based visual composition in dialogue with Butoh. Kvitka weaves signals from the nervous system, plants, places, and code — composing fragile ecologies of perception that invite slow presence and poetic interaction between the human, the natural, and the algorithmic.

What does attention look like from the inside? In this lecture performance, artist Olesia Kvitka puts on an EEG headband and enters a state of meditative movement — breathing, slowing, turning inward. Her brainwave data streams live into a visual system, projecting the shifting landscape of her nervous system in real time. Attention becomes visible; presence becomes image.Afterwards, Kvitka reflects on the decisions behind the work: what it means to treat the body as a sensing instrument, how biological noise becomes pattern, and why slowness is a radical act in an attention economy built on speed and fragmentation. Drawing on her research into EEG-based composition and somatic practice, she invites the audience to reconsider what they are paying attention to.