Air/bio

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Monika Bakke works in the Philosophy Department at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. She writes on contemporary art and aesthetics, with a particular focus on posthumanist, gender and cross-cultural perspectives. She is the author of two books: Bio-transfigurations. Art and Aesthetics of Posthumanism (2010, in Polish) and Open Body (2000, in Polish), co-author of Pleroma: Art in Search of Fullness (1998), and editor of Australian Aboriginal Aesthetics (2004, in Polish) and Going Aerial: Air, Art, Architecture (2006). Since 2001 she has been an editor of the Polish cultural journal Czas Kultury (Time of Culture).