COLOR, LIGHT, MOTION EPISODE 24: RYSZARD W. KLUSZCZYNSKI

Ryszard W. Kluszczynski is professor of media, cultural, and art studies, Chair of the Department of New Media and Digital Culture, University of Lodz, Poland. Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. He investigates the issues of new media arts and cyberculture, contemporary art theory and practices, avant-gardes and transdisciplinary cultural transformations, and recent interactions between art, science, technology and politics.
Artistic Director of Art + Science Meeting Program in the Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk (2011-). Curator of numerous exhibitions within the Program. Co-curator of travelling international exhibition United States of Europe (2011-2013). Curator of the Second International Biennale of Contemporary Art “Mediations”, Poznan 2010. Chief Curator of Film, Video and Multimedia Arts in the Centre for Contemporary Art – Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw (1990-2001).

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Selected recent book publications:
Tsaibernetics: Transgenerational Cybernetic Art (2023);
Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Ecology. Victoria Vesna and Art in the World of Anthropocene (2020);
Beyond Borders: Processed Body – Expanded Brain – Distributed Agency (2019);
Augmenting the World. Masaki Fujihata and Hybrid Space-Time Art (2017);
Human Traits. Patrick Tresset and the Art of Creative Machines (2016);
Guy Ben-Ary: Nervoplastica. Bio-robotic Art and its Cultural Contexts (2015);

Selected recent articles and chapters:
Embodiment – Immersion – Interaction. The Art of Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau as a Living System. In Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau: The Artwork as a Living System 1992-2022. Eds. Karin Ohlenschläger, Peter Weibel, and Alfred Weidinger. The MIT Press 2023.
The History of Institutional SciArt Initiatives: An Overview of Global Tendencies. In Studiotopia. Eds. Kurt De Boodt, Emma Dumartheray, Alexia Mangelinckx, Ramona Van Gansbeke, Erich Weiss. Bozar – Centre for Fine Arts and Gluon, Brussels 2022.
The Work of Art as a Collection. Violence, Death and Loss in the Art of Luz María Sánchez. “Art Inquiry” 2021, vol. XXIII.
Praise of Darkness. Some extracts from reflections on the forms of the light presence in contemporary artistic practices. In Light as a Creative Tool. Ed. Robert Sochacki, ASP Gdańsk 2021.
Sculpting Time: The Art of Collective Memory. In Shifting Interfaces. An Anthology of Presence, Empathy, and Agency in 21st Century Media Arts. Ed. Hava Aldouby, Leuven University Press, 2020.
Visual Revolutions: From Electronic to Living Imagery, “Art Inquiry” 2020, vol. XXII.
From the Collection of Personal Memories to Collective Memory. Notes on the Archiving Trend in New Media Art. “Time of Culture” 2019, No. 2.
On the Languages of Media and Postmedia Art. In Media Education as a Challenge. Ed. Slawomir Ratajski. Academy of Fine Art and UNESCO Committee in Poland, Warsaw 2019.