Nomination for NIKE 2025 Literary Award at PJAIT

Lecturer of the Faculty of New Media Art at PJAIT Gdansk nominated for the NIKE 2025 Literary Award.

Ms. Kora Tea Kowalska - nominated for the NIKE 2025 Literary Award and the GDYNIA 2025 Literary Award!

It is with great pleasure that we announce that Kora Tea Kowalska, MA, lecturer at the Department of New Media Arts at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Gdansk, has been nominated for prestigious awards: Nike and the 2025 Gdynia Literary Award for her debut book "Look under your feet. On collecting things" (Karakter Publishing House).

Her scientific and artistic activities have inspired students and the art community for years, and her achievements are an excellent showcase for our university.

Kora Tea Kowalska brilliantly combines the worlds of art, technology and media in innovative ways. Her nomination is not only an honor for herself, but also a confirmation of the high level of education and creativity at PJAIT in Gdansk.

We encourage you to watch a short film interview with Ms. Kora, where she talks about her passion, inspirations and the role of art in today's society. This is a great opportunity to get to know a person who is shaping future artists and new media art leaders on a daily basis.

"Look under your feet.
On collecting things"

Karakter Publishing

Photos of the book are the property of Karakter Publishing House.

We all collect something. We are surrounded by things, they arrive, collections are born. But this is not a book about investing in works of art. Its author is consumed by the world of celluloid, Bakelite and things found in the mud. They form the backdrop for reflections on the meaning of collecting, the constant sense of loss and the anguish of those who collect.

In a passionate essay, Kora Tea Kowalska, an archaeologist, cultural studies scholar and collector, examines what causes us to place some objects in museum or private display cases more readily than others. She proposes her own rules of collecting, only to immediately mock them. She reaches back to her experiences and wanderings in the frontiers and basements of her native Gdansk, and the uncountable matter, plunging into entropy, delights her with abstract beauty.

She sees an afterimage of the old world in things. She traces stories hidden in trifles, and their interconnections allow her to reconstruct fractions of everyday life of ordinary people. And they remind us that things are not always what they seem, and that you can't have everything.

Photos of the book are the property of Karakter Publishing House.