Office hours: Fridays, 3:00–4:00 p.m. (Room C218; tel. +385 4092 181)

Email: mvigato@m.ffzg.hr

Address: Ivana Lučića 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia, Room C218

Photograph: Antoni Jeśmanowicz

Biography in Croatian

Biography

Matija Vigato was born in Zadar, Croatia, where she graduated from Blagoje Bersa Music School and Juraj Baraković Grammar School. She completed her undergraduate and graduate studies in Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, where she has been employed as a Teaching and Research Assistant at the Chair of Ontology, Department of Philosophy, since 2021.

In 2026, she defended her doctoral dissertation entitled “The Subject–Object Relation in Perception and Introspection”. During her doctoral studies, she spent a research semester at the University of Oxford. In the 2024/2025 academic year, she completed a one-month CEEPUS research stay at the University of Graz and a two-month Erasmus+ research stay at the University of Malta. In the 2025/2026 academic year, she was awarded a one-month CEEPUS research scholarship at the University of Warsaw.

During her studies, she received the Rector’s Award from the University of Zagreb and the Franjo Marković Award from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She served on the editorial board of Čemu and as editor-in-chief of Bioetika, umjetnost i mediji. Since 2022, she has been a member of the Young Editors’ Circle of Filozofska istraživanja.

She has participated in several institutional research projects at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, including Philosophical Analysis of Emotions: Shame, Reason Is but the Slave of the Passions, The Public Life of Compassion: Ethical and Political Perspectives, and The Subject in the Classroom: A Philosophical–Pedagogical Analysis of the Possibility of the Critical Subject, all of them led by Professor Ivana Zagorac.

She is a Senior Research Associate on the Humane Philosophy project, conducted in collaboration with the University of Oxford, and the Network Coordinator of the CEEPUS network Philosophy and Interdisciplinarity, which brings together 30 institutions across 14 countries in Central and Southeastern Europe.

She is a member of the Croatian Philosophical Society, the Croatian Bioethics Society and Matica hrvatska, as well as the research committee Bioethics, Technology and Transhumanism at the Scientific Centre of Excellence for Integrative Bioethics.

Teaching

2026/2027: Metaphysics; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Play; Ontology – Seminar: The Future;

2021/2022–2025/2026: Ontology – Seminar: Infinity; Ontology – Seminar: Hegel’s Science of Logic; Ontology – Seminar: The Ontology of Perception; Ontology I; Selected Topics in Philosophy – Seminar; Ontology – Seminar: Aristotle’s Categories; Ontology – Seminar: The Subject–Object Relation; Ontology – Seminar: Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics; Ontology – Seminar: The Ontology of Games; Human Nature and Human Enhancement; Ontology – Seminar: Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology; Ontology – Seminar: Kant’s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics.

Scholarships

• 2025/2026 – One-month CEEPUS research scholarship at the University of Warsaw.
• 2024/2025 – Two-month Erasmus+ research scholarship at the University of Malta.
• 2024/2025 – One-month CEEPUS research scholarship at the University of Graz.
• 2021/2022 – One-semester research scholarship at the University of Oxford (Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion).
• 2021/2022 – New Generation Research Exchange programme, organised in collaboration with the Universities of Zagreb, Warsaw and Oxford.
• 2021/2022 – Generation Google Scholarship: for Women in Gaming.
• 2019/2020 – Algebra University College Scholarship for graduate studies in Applied Computer Engineering.
• 2013/2014, 2014/2015, 2015/2016 – City of Zadar Scholarship.

Edited Books

• Bioetika, umjetnost i mediji: zbornik radova Studentske bioetičke radionice sa 17. i 18. Lošinjskih dana bioetike, Udruženje studenata filozofije, Zagreb, 2021.

Scientific Publications

• “Problem odnosa kauzaliteta i teleologije u disertaciji Marijana Tkalčića”, Prilozi za istraživanje hrvatske filozofske baštine, 52 (2026), 103, pp. 161–179.
• “Prostornost u Gojirinoj pjesmi ‘Flying Whales‘: od zvukova do simbola”, in Bruno Ćurko, Josip Guć and Bojana Radovanović Šuput, Metal i životinje (2026), Udruga “Mala filozofija”, pp. 223–248. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22098961.
• “Realno i imaginarno u iskustvu mjesta: Slučaj otoka Silbe”, Silbenske kulturološke teme II (2026), forthcoming.
• “Objektno orijentirana ontologija igre”, Filozofska istraživanja, 162 (2021), 2, pp. 433–447.
• “Research on Gamer Motivation Factors based on the Gamer Motivation Model Framework”, 44th International Convention on Information, Communication and Electronic Technology (MIPRO) (2021), pp. 782–787. Co-author: Tihana Babić.
• “Autonomija lutkarske predstave i videoigre u odnosu na literarni predložak”, Dani Hvarskoga kazališta: Građa i rasprave o hrvatskoj književnosti i kazalištu, 47 (2021), 1, pp. 401–420. Co-author: Teodora Vigato.
• “Avatar kao lutka”, in Teodora Vigato (ed.), Sve je lutka, lutka je sve!, University of Zadar, Zadar, 2019, pp. 107–117.
• “Jesu li videoigre umjetnost?”, awarded the University of Zagreb Rector’s Award for the 2018/2019 academic year. https://apps.unizg.hr/rektorova-nagrada/javno/akademske-godine/2018/nagradeni-radovi

Professional Publications

• “Narativ i videoigre”, Čemu, 15 (2019), 1, pp. 272–280.
• “Trip the Ark Fantastic kao Gesamtkunstwerk”, Stručna konferencija računalne igre 2019: zbornik radova, Varaždin, 2019, pp. 19–26. Co-author: Aleksandar Gavrilović.

Book Chapters

• “Lutkarstvo i videoigre”, in Teodora Vigato, Zadarsko lutkarstvo za 21. stoljeće, Ogranak Matice hrvatske u Zadru, Zadar, 2022, pp. 172–195. Co-author: Teodora Vigato.

Conference Presentations nad Public Lectures

• “Albert Bazala on the Subject–Object Relation”, Croatian Philosophy and Culture in Interaction and Context, 26 September 2025, Cres, Croatia.
• “On Tkalčić’s Dissertation ‘The Metaphysical and Epistemological Significance of Causality and Teleology’”, Croatian Philosophy and Culture in Interaction and Context, 26 September 2025, Cres, Croatia.
• “Is the Future Subjective, Objective – or Both?”, The Concept of the Future in Philosophy, Science and Society, 33rd Days of Frane Petrić, 22 September 2025, Cres, Croatia.
• “Idioms in the Confraternity Book Skula svetoga sakramenta”, 11th International Scientific Conference: Phraseology and Paremiology in Split, 12 September 2025, Split, Croatia. Co-authors: Ivica Vigato and Jan Defrančeski.
• “Playable Worlds: Intersecting Philosophy, Art, and Religion Through Game Design”, Third Summer School of the CEEPUS Network Philosophy and Interdisciplinarity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Philosophy, Art and Religion, 7 July 2025, Zagreb, Croatia.
• “Beyond Sentience and Telos – What Metaphysical Criterion Can Ground Duties to Ecosystems?”, Bioethics in Context XII: Nature and Normativity, 3 July 2025, Linz, Austria.
• “Do Plants Have Consciousness?”, Bioethical Arboretum, 22 April 2025, Zagreb, Croatia.
• “The Sky, the Ocean, and the Sinking Ship: Phenomenology and Symbolism in Gojira’s Flying Whales”, 6th Days of Animal Studies, 28 October 2024, Split, Croatia.
• “The Subject–Object Relation in Perception and Introspection”, New Generation Research Exchange 2024 Summer School, 30 August 2024, Trogir, Croatia.
• “Hegel’s and Wittgenstein’s Influence on Sellars’ Critique of the Myth of the Given”, International Conference Wittgenstein and Hegel – Normativity and Rationality, Zagreb, Croatia, 2024.
• “Breaking the Veil of Glass: The Problems of Merging Representationalism and the Transparency Thesis”, 25th World Congress of Philosophy: Philosophy across Boundaries, Rome, Italy, 2024.
• “Can Silicon Be a Substrate of Phenomenal Consciousness?”, Interdisciplinary Scientific Workshop Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Values, Zagreb, Croatia, 2024.
• “Phenomenology of Women in Sport: Subject–Object Relations and the Power of Directed Attention”, 4th International Conference Ethics, Bioethics and Sport, Varaždin, Croatia, 2024.
• “Phenomenology of Plants”, Arboretum Symposium, Zagreb, Croatia, 2024.
• “The Influence of Emotions on the Phenomenology of Women in Sport”, 1st International Scientific Conference The Role of Sport in Social Life: Women, Sport, and Social Changes, Zagreb, Croatia, 2023.
• “Consciousness and Self-Consciousness in Kant’s Theory of Transcendental Apperception”, 64th Annual Symposium of the Croatian Philosophical Society, Immanuel Kant: On the 300th Anniversary of the Königsberg Philosopher’s Birth, Zagreb, Croatia, 2023.
• “The Role of Emotions in Ingarden’s Theory of Aesthetic Experience”, Symposium The Experience of Art, 31st Days of Frane Petrić, Cres, Croatia, 2023.
• “Perceptual and Non-Perceptual Theories of Introspection”, Annual Conference of the Association for the Promotion of Philosophy, Philosophical Divergences, Zagreb, Croatia, 2023.
• “Entanglement of the Real and Imaginary in the Experience – The Case of the Island of Silba”, PhD and Early Career Researcher Conference The Adriatic as a Place of (Ex)Change, Zagreb, Croatia, 2023.
• “Postphenomenology and Video Games”, International Inter/Transdisciplinary Symposium Filozofema on Philosophy, Art, and Technology, Pristina, Kosovo, 2023.
• “If Sense Experience Is Transparent, Can It Be Representational?”, 2023 Croatia Study Week: Minds, Persons, and Cosmos, Trogir, Croatia, 2023.
• “Inner Music as a Metaphysical Problem”, International Conference Aesthetics of Music, Niš, Serbia, 2023.
• “Nonexistent Objects”, Meeting of the County Professional Council for Philosophy Teachers in the City of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 2023.
• “The Identity of Confraternities in the Zadar Region in the 17th and 18th Centuries – Metaphysical Foundations and Lexical Analysis”, Scientific Conference The Contemporary Concept of Homeland, 8th Days of Šime and Ante Starčević, Gospić, Croatia, 26 May 2023. Co-author: Ivica Vigato.
• “Existence as the Criteria of Moral Considerability”, Symposium Integrative Bioethics and New Epoch, 21st Lošinj Days of Bioethics, Mali Lošinj, Croatia, 15 May 2023.
• “Ontology of Perception and Augmented Reality”, Days of Technology, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade, Serbia, 2023.
• “Metaontology and the Problem of Holes”, National Professional Conference for Philosophy Teachers, Zagreb, Croatia, 2023.
• “Objects of Perception – Do They Exist Independently of Us?”, Annual International Symposium of the Association of Philosophy Students, Contemporary Approaches to Ontology, Zagreb, Croatia, 2022.
• “Hypertext in Philosophy”, Annual Symposium of the Croatian Philosophical Society, Bibliosophy: The Book in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Book, Zagreb, Croatia, 2022.
• “Ontological and Logical Problems of Nonexistent Objects”, guest lecture as part of a CEEPUS exchange at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš, Niš, Serbia, 2022.
• “What Is It Like to Be Another Person?: An Attempt of An Answer Using Object-Oriented Ontology and Play”, guest lecture as part of a CEEPUS exchange at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš, Niš, Serbia, 2022.
• “Perspective-Taking in Bioethics”, Integrative Bioethics and New Epoch, 19th Lošinj Days of Bioethics, Lošinj, Croatia, 2021.
• “The Autonomy of Puppet Theatre and Video Games in Relation to Their Literary Sources”, Days of Hvar Theatre: Confrontations in Croatian Literature and Theatre, Hvar, Croatia, 2020. Co-author: Teodora Vigato.
• “Democracy as an Object and the Democracy of Objects”, International and Interdisciplinary Symposium Democracy and Judgement?, Zadar, Croatia, 2020.
• “Zlatko Posavac’s Aesthetics of Comics”, 28th Days of Frane Petrić, International Interdisciplinary Symposium Croatian Philosophy in Interaction and Context, Cres, Croatia, 2019.
• “Trip the Ark Fantastic as a Gesamtkunstwerk”, Computer Games Professional Conference 2019, Varaždin, Croatia, 2019. Co-author: Aleksandar Gavrilović.
• “Empathy and Video Games”, Summa Studiorum Philosophiae Conference: Philosophy and Emotions, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2019.
• “Gameplay as Situated Activity”, Summer School of the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb: Philosophy and Technology, Zagreb, Croatia, 2019.
• “Art and Morality in Video Games”, 18th Lošinj Days of Bioethics, Student Bioethics Workshop Art and Morality, Mali Lošinj, Croatia, 2019.
• “Language and Video Games”, Interdisciplinary Conference of the Federation of Student Associations of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, United Faculty – Mosaic of Words, Zagreb, Croatia, 2019. Co-author: Jan Defrančeski.
• “Sexuality and Video Games”, Annual International Symposium of the Association of Philosophy Students, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Counterpoints of Sexuality, Zagreb, Croatia, 2018.
• “Bioethical Issues of Video Games as Mass Media”, 17th Lošinj Days of Bioethics, Student Bioethics Workshop Bioethics and Mass Media, Mali Lošinj, Croatia, 2018.

Reports, Reviews and Presentations

• “Simpozij i ljetna škola o integrativnoj bioetici u Tutzingu”, Filozofska istraživanja, 43 (2023), 4, pp. 878–881. Co-author: Hrvoje Jurić.
• “Humane Philosophy Project Study Week: ‘Minds, Persons, and Cosmos’”, Filozofska istraživanja, 43 (2023), 3, pp. 881–884. Co-authors: Matija Bedić, Adelisa Ćatić, Filipa Dragin and Sebastijan Jakolić.
• “Elmana Cerić, Haris Cerić: Strip kao medij filozofske poruke. Stripozofski pristup nastavi filozofije”, Filozofska istraživanja, 43 (2023), 3, pp. 679–682.
• “Godišnji simpozij Hrvatskog filozofskog društva ‘Bibliozofija: knjiga u filozofiji i filozofija knjige’”, Filozofska istraživanja, 43 (2023), 2, pp. 435–440. Co-authors: Filipa Dragin, Dora Peradenić-Čveljo and Ivan Mihačić.
• Presentation of Hrvoje Jurić’s Pandemija kao simptom, Presentation of Recent Bioethics Publications, 19th Lošinj Days of Bioethics, Veli Lošinj, Croatia, 2021.
• “Interdisciplinarna radionica ‘American Studies Today – Paths, Paradigms, Strategies’”, Filozofska istraživanja, 40 (2020), 4, p. 855.
• “Godišnji simpozij Hrvatskog filozofskog društva ‘Filozofija, obrazovanje i škola’”, Filozofska istraživanja, 40 (2020), 4, pp. 864–868. Co-authors: Štefanija Kožić and Jakov Erdeljac.
• “18. Lošinjski dani bioetike”, Filozofska istraživanja, 39 (2019), 4, pp. 966–972. Co-authors: Jan Defrančeski and Jakov Erdeljac.
• “Ljetna škola ‘Philosophy and Technology’”, Čemu, 15 (2019), 1, pp. 408–409.
• Research Projects
• Compassion in Public Life: Ethical and Political Perspectives, Croatian Science Foundation research project, 2026. Principal Investigator: Ivana Zagorac.
• The Subject in the Classroom: A Philosophical and Pedagogical Analysis of the Possibility of the Critical Subject, research project, 2026. Project Leader: Ivana Zagorac.
• Philosophical Analysis of Emotions: Shame, institutional research project of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, 2024. Project Leader: Ivana Zagorac.
• Reason Is but the Slave of the Passions: Philosophical Analysis of Emotions, institutional research project of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, 2022. Project Leader: Ivana Zagorac.
• Digitisation, Bibliographic Processing and Research of Texts from the Zadar–Šibenik Region Written in Glagolitic, Bosančica and Latin Scripts up to the End of the 19th Century (Pisana Baština), Department of Information Sciences, University of Zadar, and Vestigia Manuscript Research Centre, University of Graz.
• Interactive Empathy: Citizenship and Storytelling in Video Games, Goethe-Institut Kroatien and Institut français de Croatie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpxAVLabmyc
• Professional Development and Training
• New Generation Research Exchange 2024 Summer School, Trogir, Croatia, 2024.
• Science, Faith and Superstition Workshop, Belgrade, Serbia, 2024.
• Humane Philosophy Project Study Week: Naturalism and the Religious Worldview, Trogir, Croatia, 2022.
• Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) Summer School with Graham Harman, Kayserkaya Mountain Houses, Şirince Village, Selçuk, İzmir, Türkiye, 2022.
• Strengthening the Core Teaching Competencies of University Teachers (OSMISLI), within the project Improving the Teaching Competencies of Employees of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb and Partner Institutions, 2021.
• Philosophical Bases of Interdisciplinary Research and the Encounter of European Societies, Institute of Philosophy, University of Graz, Austria, 2021.
• Summer School 2021 – The Concept of ‘Health’ and Its Implications for Public Health Issues, Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing, Germany, 2021.
• BAIF Investment Readiness Programme, Osijek, Croatia, 2021.
• American Studies Today: Paths, Paradigms, Strategies Workshop, Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 2019.
• Humane Philosophy Society Study Week: Truth and Beauty – Transcendentals in the Twenty-First Century, Trogir, Croatia, 2019.
• Online 24/7 – Influence of the Internet on Young People, international Erasmus+ workshop, Zagreb, Croatia, 2019.
• Philosophy and Technology Summer School, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia, 2019.
• Interactive Empathy: Citizenship and Storytelling in Video Games, video game storytelling workshop, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 2019.
• Art and Morality, Student Bioethics Workshop, 18th Lošinj Days of Bioethics, Mali Lošinj, Croatia, 2019.
• Cinematic Poetics of Video Games, workshop, Trešnjevka Cultural Centre, Zagreb, Croatia, 2018.
• Tragedy and the Essence of Theatre, Matica hrvatska School of Philosophy, Grožnjan, Croatia, 2016.
• Philosophy and Music, Summer School of the Academy of Dramatic Art and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Grožnjan, Croatia, 2015.

Editorial Boards

• Filozofska istraživanja – Member of the Young Editors’ Circle since 2022.
• Čemu: časopis studenata filozofije – Editorial Board Member, 16 (2020), 1.
• Čemu: časopis studenata filozofije – Editorial Board Member, 15 (2019), 1.

Organising Committees

• Jaspers’ Philosophising, scientific conference, Zagreb, Croatia, 2025.
• The Concept of the Future in Philosophy, Science and Society, 33rd Days of Frane Petrić, Cres, Croatia, 2025.
• Bioethical Arboretum Symposium, 2025.
• Bioethical Arboretum Symposium, 2024.
• Minds, Persons, and Cosmos, The Humane Philosophy Project, Trogir, Croatia, 2023.
• Philosophy of Games, International Symposium of the Association of Philosophy Students, Zagreb, Croatia, 2021.
• Bioethics, Upbringing and Education, 16th Student Bioethics Workshop, 19th Lošinj Days of Bioethics, Mali Lošinj, Croatia, 2021.

Memberships in Professional Associations

• 2020–present – Croatian Philosophical Society.
• 2020–present – Matica hrvatska.
• 2019–present – Croatian Bioethics Society.

Panels and Debates

• Alternative Philosophising and Philosophical Fiction, panel with Luka Perušić and Stefano Gualeni, Belgrade, Serbia, 2024.
• Student Debate, World Bioethics Day, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 2019.
• Bioethical Tuesday: Internet, Video Games and Youth (Erasmus+), panel with Sabina Stepić, Igor Salopek and Evrim Ayalp, Scientific Centre of Excellence for Integrative Bioethics, Zagreb, Croatia, 2019.
• Games in Art or Art in Games?, Art in Games Festival, panel with Hrvoje Ryznar and Dejan Radić, RiHub, Rijeka, Croatia, 2019.

Media Appearances and Interviews

• Moj izbor, Croatian Radio, hosted by Ivica Prtenjača, 2024.
• Vijenac, “Videoigre su deseta umjetnost i nisu krive za krizu književnosti”, interview by Matija Štahan, 2024. https://www.matica.hr/vijenac/785/videoigre-su-deseta-umjetnost-i-nisu-krive-za-krizu-knjizevnosti-36145/
• A1 Gameon Podcast, “Umjetnost i filozofija u gamingu”, hosted by Luka Žučko, 2024.
• Theatralia, Croatian Radio, “55. PIF”, by Katarina Kolega and Igor Ružić, 2022. https://radio.hrt.hr/slusaonica/theatralia
• Gamehub, “Matija Vigato – AFK Show”, hosted by Nina Brnetić, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vXnBk2bB1w
• Kozmos i etos, Croatian Radio, “Narativ i videoigre”, by Marito Mihovil Letica, 2022. https://radio.hrt.hr/treci-program/kultura/narativ-i-videoigre-6159819
• Glas Slavonije, “Svijet je globalna igraonica: Matija Vigato o videoigrama kao umjetničkoj formi”, by Darko Jerković, 2021. https://www.glas-slavonije.hr/480580/11/Najvece-su-predrasude-da-su-videoigre-za-djecu-i-da-su-gubitak-vremena
• Netokracija, “Njihov posao je da pišu – video igre. Jan, Matija i Siniša otkrili su nam kako to izgleda”, 2021. https://www.netokracija.com/pisanje-za-videoigre-182049
• Algebra.hr, “Our Student Matija Vigato Won ‘Generation Google Scholarship for Women in Gaming 2021’”, 2021. https://www.algebra.hr/visoko-uciliste/en/our-student-matija-vigato-won-generation-google-scholarship-for-women-in-gaming-2021/
• Kozmopolis, “Autonomija lutkarske predstave i videoigre u odnosu na literarni predložak”, Croatian Radio 3, 26 April 2021. Co-author: Teodora Vigato. https://radio.hrt.hr/treci-program/ep/kozmopolis-autonomija-lutkarske-predstave-i-videoigre-u-odnosu-na-literarni-predlozak/378924/
• Reboot Online Games Week, interview conducted by Siniša Bahun, 2020. https://youtu.be/7CfOYEdnh38?t=26381
• Dobar dan, Hrvatska, HRT 1, with guests Ante Bagarić and Ines Burčul, hosted by Leon Čuljak and Dubravka Žiljak, 17 September 2019.
• Srednja.hr, interview by Duje Kovačević, 2019. https://www.srednja.hr/faks/matija-nagradivana-mlada-filozofkinja-developerica-videoigre-nisu-zabava-vec-tvrdi-umjetnost/
• Slobodna Dalmacija, interview with Matija Vigato by Matea Gugić, 2019. https://zadarski.slobodnadalmacija.hr/zadar/zadar-plus/zelja-mi-je-doktorirati-filozofiju-i-zaposliti-se-u-nekom-studiju-za-razvoj-videoigara-613143

Public Lectures andd Workshops

• “Philosophical Essay Writing Workshop for Secondary School Students”, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 2024.
• “Scriptwriting for Video Games”, PISMO Business Incubator powered by A1, Novska, Croatia, 2023.
• “Fundamental Principles of Game Design”, Sandbox Game Dev Workshops, Križevci, Croatia, 2022.
• “Are Video Games Art?”, SFeraKon, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQGT3eFFOv0
• “Are Video Games Art?”, Art in Games Festival, RiHub, Rijeka, Croatia, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GLfwWaH6i8
• “Contemporary Forms of Play”, Rikon Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia, 2019.
• “Empathy and Video Games”, Roo Bar, Zagreb, Croatia, 2019.
• “The Distinctive Features of Board Games from the Perspective of the Philosophy of Games”, presentation of the game Arcadia Tenebra, Crni Mačak, Zagreb, Croatia, 2019.

Awards

• 2021 – Generation Google Scholarship (Europe, Middle East and Africa): for Women in Gaming. https://buildyourfuture.withgoogle.com/scholarships/google-scholarship-recipients/
• 2019 – University of Zagreb Rector’s Award for the 2018/2019 academic year, awarded for the individual scientific and artistic work “Jesu li videoigre umjetnost?”, supervised by Assistant Professor Ivana Zagorac.
• 2019 – Franjo Marković Award, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, awarded to a group of students from the Association of Philosophy Students.

Other Activities

• Crowdfunding campaign for the video game The Shore, developed and carried out by a team of Applied Computer Engineering students from Algebra University College. https://www.ulule.com/the-shore-game/?flavour=full
• Exhibition of the game Empathy Path, Digital Rendez-Vous, Institut français de Croatie, Zagreb, Croatia, November 2019.
• “Jesu li videoigre – u svijetu i u Hrvatskoj – umjetnost”, Netokracija, 2019. https://www.netokracija.com/jesu-li-videoigre-umjetnost-159524
• “Guerrilla Girls pomažu muzejima koji podržavaju #MeToo pokret”, Libela, 2018. https://www.libela.org/sa-stavom/9894-guerrilla-girls-pomazu-muzejima-koji-podrzavaju-metoo-pokret/