KAROL RADZISZEWSKI
25.11.2009, 6 pm at 2.0 GALLERY
ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS IN WARSAW
KRAKOWSKIE PRZEDMIESCIE 5

Born 1980 in Bialystok (PL). Lives and works in Warsaw. Studied painting at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts (1999–2004). Author of paintings, murals, drawings, installations, actions, photographs and videos. Originator and co-founder of the Szu szu flying gallery (www.szuszu.art.pl). Author of exhibition Pedaly (Fags) – gay’s coming-out unprecedented in Polish art (2005). Founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of the DIK Fagazine – the first and the only artistic periodical from Central and Eastern Europe, concentrated on arts, homosexual- ity and masculinity (www.dikfagazine.com). Holder of a Ministry of Culture scholarship (2002, 2006). Main prize winner: Samsung Art Master (2006). Nominated to Deutsche Bank Foundation Award Views 2007.
www.karolradziszewski.com / karol@szuszu.pl

PAWEL JANICKI
03.11.2009, 6 pm at 2.0 GALLERY
KRAKOWSKIE PRZEDMIESCIE 5

Pawel Janicki (1974) is an independent media artist and producer working in the field of media art, microsound aesthetics and algorithmic composition, is a creator of audiovisual interactive systems, installations and performances. He creates and continuously develops software tools and interfaces. Special place in his activity takes developing software according to his own projects – and broadly – creating his own media either sabotaging already existing solutions.

Among his realizations there are time-line based and interactive soundtracks commissioned for radio, television, interactive media, visual works (like a fractal for dimensional animation and and a number of title sequences and motion graphics); interactive works that are uneasy to classify, consisting of improvised sound, live programming, communication protocols, hacking. Janicki's musical projects have been presented in several publications showing the achievements of European experimental and electro-acoustic music scene, in addition he has worked in cooperation with many artists, as well as the IT industry and educational institutions, including the media faculties of the leading Polish art schools, like the Intermedia Faculty of The Art Academy in Pozna?.

Janicki is associated with the WRO Art Center, where he currently directs the WRO Laboratory. His activities there are focused primarily on web applications, audio and sensory systems. Among the projects developed and realized at the WRO Laboratory under his direction, it is worth to mention the Interactive Playground exhibition, which was awarded by Poland's biggest daily paper Gazeta Wyborcza. He was also co-founder and longtime member of the well-known, collective Gameboyzz Orchestra Project exploring lo-fi aesthetic.

His musical net-performance Ping Melody was awarded by the Tokyo University Haramachida in 2004 the "netarts.org" Grand Prize, and gained a nomination for the Viper Festival in Basel. These and other projects by Pawe? Janicki were presented at many prestigious festivals and events devoted to contemporary art, including the Ars Electronica, the Transmediale, the Centre Pompidou and the International Media Art Biennale WRO in Wroc?aw.

The Society of Algorithm lists his net performances among the events crucial to the development of this genre of art.

15.06.09, 7.00 pm at Studio Gallery

During the subsequent meeting being a part of the series  Upgrade! Warsaw, we would like to invite you to the screening of a report film "Art, a Way of Life " made by the "Let's Do It" Group (Anna Cygańczyk, Aga Munk, Gośka Piotrowska).
"Art, a Way of Life" is a documentary picturing the condition of today's "Young Art" and its Creators.
In their film, the authors make us familiar with the artists, the ones who are successful as well as those who strive after  achieving such success with bigger or smaller determination. Is being an artist a difficult profession? Can you make ends meet living from art? Is achieving success just a question of talent and determination? Who are today's artists actually? The answers to these questions will let you form your own opinion on Contemporary. 
 Witold Lisicki

19.05.09, 8.00 pm at Studio Gallery

Roch Forowicz - InterceptionLinz

Actions in the „Interception” series refer to the city surveillance culture, i.e. permanent surveillance with the use of CCTV cameras, software and devices processing and storing information. The actions are deep-rooted in the idea of hacktivism, consisting in the interception and usage of technological solutions against the will of their creators.

This time the "Interception" project was implemented in Linz (European Capital of Culture 2009). Consequently to illegal actions, CCTV cameras along the main street, Landstrasse, as well as the central camera monitoring Hauptplatz, were damaged. The author left the „Panopticon” sign at the place of intervention.

16.01.09 : Hubert Napiórski : 8:30 pm, Studio Gallery

Thaw- Hubert Napiórski under this alias he focuses himself on prepared, electroacoustic, noise, drone, field recording music.
Active since 1996 - his Astipalea Records project founded on 25th of August 2002 :
http://www.astipalearecords.pl.tl.
He is active in publishing likewise artists, Hubert is also the solely distributor of Creative Sources Records from Portugal - www.creativesourcerec.com .
He is also active under two different aliases djfeaturing - abstract turntablism kitty_kit -
improvised electroacoustic instruments solo in his work he operates mainly with acoustic and analogue techniques, plays also acoustic laptops. Takes his interests into the field of photography, writing.

---Thanks for help to Krzysztof Gufrański---

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