Radek Rudnicki
New media artist and sound designer specialising in generative AI and spatial sound within multidisciplinary projects. He serves as the lead sound designer and music composer for the Precyzja Foundation and as the director of Wave Folder Records. He runs a digital studio and develops immersive experiences presented at venues such as the elbPhilharmonie in Hamburg and Bright Moments, LA. His professional activities include managing new media art projects, contributing to the development of generative AI projects, synthesizers, and Eurorack modules, and collaborating with studios, visual artists, and media creators on audiovisual experiences.
In 2008, he was shortlisted by SPNM (UK) as an emerging composer. In 2013, he was named Ambassador of Jazz in Northern England for his project Space F!ght, supported by Sound and Music, UK, for touring. He received the Emerging Excellence Award in 2014 and completed residencies at EMS Stockholm in 2015-2017 and 2022. In 2018, his project Careview was acknowledged in Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas. In 2019, Massey University, New Zealand, awarded him the Provost Award for World-Class Excellence in Research, recognising his contributions to immersive experiences and spatial audio.
His recent work bridges technology and art through engagement with open-source AI. Radek is training models, creating genAI animations, consulting on user experience (UX) and collaborating with multiple generative AI focused projects and companies. Rudnicki’s audiovisual outputs, including abstract generative art, animations, and sound for interactive media, are exhibited globally. He collaborates with artists across cultures, integrating traditional music with electronics.
Rudnicki also operates as consultant, and educator, delivering workshops in the USA, Europe, and Japan. He has taught at universities in the UK and New Zealand and collaborated with organisations such as NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, SpaceBase, and the Stockholm Environment Institute on art-science initiatives. His contributions include the Wellcome Trust-funded Sonicules project, exploring spatial sound in anti-cancer drug design. His projects have appeared at events like the Metaverse Music Festival, Decentraland, Tokyo Festival of Modular, Miami Art Week, Stockholm Tech Fest, New Frontiers in New Zealand, the London Jazz Festival, the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw and Token 2049 in Dubai.