Magda Szpecht: In the Crosshairs of the Cyber Elf

Participants can bring their laptops and switch on their viewfinders – they too can fight disinformation online.

The day after her lecture performance Cyber Elf opens the 10th Bazaar Festival in Prague, Magda Szpecht offers a practical afternoon workshop on how to seek out and neutralize disinformation online – and even verify what may actually be true. In Magda’s practice sharing, participants will discover OSINT (open source intelligence) tools and learn how to use them in cyber-activist and/or artistic contexts.

Magda Szpecht was born in 1990 in Jelenia Góra, Poland, and is an award-winning theatre and opera director and the author of many installations and performances in Poland and Japan (in collaboration with Festival/Tokyo). She studied theatre directing at the Ludwik Solski State Theatre School in Kraków. Previously, she graduated with a degree in journalism and social communication with a specialisation in creative writing from the University of Wrocław. She is interested in creating post-post-post-postdramatic theatre that is political, but intense and intimate, and balancing dark humour with sincere emotional experience and a surrealist, abstract world. Szpecht often explores non-human perspectives and unobvious ways of describing reality. She often combines elements of movement practice, film work, documentary archives, visual arts and contemporary music. Since the war started, Magda became a full-time cyberactivist, fighting russian propaganda and disinformation as a Cyber Elf.