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17TH MEDIA ART BIENNALE WRO 2017 DRAFT SYSTEMS
Edward A. Shanken Perhaps contemporary forms of systems thinking can serve as the common ground that enables committed thinkers and doers from diverse backgrounds and perspectives to integrate their ideas and methods in synergetic forms of cultural practice that spark new forms of creativity and innovation (...) and perhaps more insidious and profound shifts in the conception and construction of knowledge and society. From: Introduction/Systems Thinking/Systems Art Courtesy of the author
Donella Meadows We exaggerated our own ability to change the world. We did so not with any intent to deceive others, but in the expression of our own expectations and hopes. Systems thinking for us was more than subtle, complicated mindplay. It was going to Make Systems Work. From: Dancing with Systems, her last unfinished book, 2001 Courtesy of the Donella Meadows Institute
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ARTISTS César Escudero Andaluz (ES) 24 Anxious to Make (US) 174 Art-cluster R+N+D (UA) 34 Elena Artemenko (RU) 66, 143 Isabelle Arvers (FR) 143, 150, 250 The Bad Vibes Club (UK) 110 137, 186 Martin Bricelj Baraga (SI) 212, 228 Sammy Baloji (CD) 176 Natalia Balska (PL) 68, 259, 267 Liat Berdugo (US) 174 Florian Bielefeldt (DE) 171
Rebecca Birch (UK) 110, 137 Ada Birecka (PL) 69 Christin Bolewski (DE) 177 Om Bori (HU) 143,155 Michaël Borras (FR) 49 Johanna Bruckner (AT) 62, 63, 167, 168 Tymek Bryndal (PL) 54 Bull.Miletic (NO/US) 70 Clément Carat (FR) 173 Ioan Ovidiu Cernei (RO) 96 Carla Chan (HK) 35, 98 Emma Charles (UK) 25 Chris Cheung (HK) 187 Jiwon Choi (KR) 182 Cheng-Hsu Chung (TW) 55 Patryk Chyliński (PL) 72, 227, 259, 266 Sarah Cockings (UK) 157 Jarosław Czarnecki (PL) 72, 227, 259, 266 Monika Czyżyk (PL) 163
Radosław Deruba (PL) 72, 227, 259, 266 Warley Desali (BR) 71 Marcin Dymiter (PL) 189 evala (JP) 134 Exchange of the Rat (JP) 153 Field Broadcast (UK) 110, 137 Elvin Flamingo (PL) 72, 227, 259, 266 Harriet Fleuriot (UK) 157 Susanna Flock (AT) 161 The Fortunists (DE) 171 Siegfried A. Fruhauf (AT) 152 Naotaka Fujii (JP) 134 Magdalena Gembala (PL) 36 Andy Graydon (US) 73 GRINDER-MAN (JP) 134 Andreas Gruner (DE) 171 Krystian Grzywacz (PL) 56, 143, 230, 250 h0nh1m (HK) 187 Tomasz Hanoff (PL) 75
Constantin Hartenstein (DE) 162 Bjørn Erik Haugen (NO) 37 Beate Hecher (AT) 149 Antje Heyn (DE) 204 Isamu Hirabayashi (JP) 76 Norimichi Hirakawa (JP) 120–229, 135, 258–259 Shugo Hirao (JP) 29 Infer (PL) 72, 227, 259, 266 Makiko Izu (JP) 134 Paweł Janicki (PL) 90, 199, 259, 264 Przemysław Jasielski (PL) 27 Vladan Joler (RS) 90, 137 Mathias Jud (CH) 91, 137 Sawako Kabuki (JP) 165 Dominik Keggenhoff (DE) 74 Florian Kindlinger (AT) 175 Markus Keim (IT) 149 Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau (UK) 110, 137, 186 Małgorzata Klajn (PL) 191
Aleksander Komarov (BY) 38, 250 Marta Krześlak (PL) 170 Peter Kutin (AT) 175 Anton Lapov (UA) 34 Alexandre Larose (CA) 39, 229 Byungju Lee (KR) 40 Diana Lelonek (PL) 77, 229 Ka-lun Leung (HK/PL) 41, 183 Carolin Liebl (DE) 28 Maxim Losev (UA) 34 Zen Lu (CN) 190 Maciej Markowski (PL) 114–115, 118, 259, 265 Emily Martinez (US) 175 Emily McFarland (IE) 181 Martina Menegon (IT) 57 Sam Mercer (UK) 110, 137, 186 Joana Moll (ES) 111, 112, 137 Lydia Moyer (US) 178 Yuri Muraoka (JP) 160
Martín Nadal (ES) 24 Christian Nicolay (CA) 172, 250 Primož Novak (SI) 78, 229, 250 Nika Oblak (SI) 78, 229, 250 Uladzimir Pazniak (BY/PL) 42 Shabtai Pinchevsky (IL) 82 Patrycja Plich (PL) 79 Dani Ploeger (NL/UK) 80 Sascha Pohflepp (DE) 159 Víctor Hugo Portillo (SV) 158 Wiktor Przybył (PL) 191 Shuai Cheng Pu (TW) 58, 250 Remu IWAI (HK) 169 Diego Ramirez (MX) 59, 250 Mirosław Rogala (PL/US) 43 ronnie s (NL) 164 room 1224 & associates (HK) 169 Niall Quinn (UK) 98 Hiroya Sakurai (JP) 82
Simon Schäfer (DE) 192 Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler (DE) 28 Alan Segal (AR) 97 Jana Shostak (BY/PL) 44, 250 Signal to Noise (UK) 98 Rob Smith (UK) 110, 137 Stanza (UK) 138–143, 256–257, 259 Aleksandra Stodulska (PL) 105 Kamen Stoyanov (BG) 83 Katharina Swoboda (AT) 45, 250 Zamir Suleymanov (AZ) 113 Systaime (FR) 49 Katarzyna Szymielewicz (PL) 90, 99, 137 Takuma Takahashi (JP) 29 Talk to Jiwon (KR) 182 Hitoshi Taguchi (JP) 134 Keiichi Tanaami (JP) 148 Aislinn Thomas (CA) 46 Suzanne Treister (UK) 130–131, 136
Paul Turano (US) 179, 143 Charlie Tweed (UK) 143, 153 Maxim Tyminko (BY) 38, 250 Andrey Ustinov (RU/DE) 216–217 Jasmin Vardi (IL) 47 Christoph Wachter (CH) 91, 137 Thomas Wagensommerer (AT) 193 Beny Wagner (DE) 180 Oliver Wilshen (UK) 98 Xavery Deskur Wolski (PL) 188 XCEED (HK) 48, 187 Shota Yamauchi (JP) 60, 61, 250 Hui Ye (CN) 100–101, 104 Jacek Zachodny (PL) 151, 250 John Zorn (US) 114–115, 118 Yelena Zhelezov (US) 143, 154 Adam Żądło (PL) 84
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EXHIBITIONS
THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OS (SYSTEMS’ OBJECTS)
Visibility and materiality and devices that serve a systems. Physical, mecha structures controlled by s in which they are embed but susceptible to microg
y of systems: objects as the hardware for anical and electronic signals from the systems dded. Impressively huge, glitches.
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BitterCoin César Escudero Andaluz (ES) + Martín Nadal (ES)
White Mountain Emma Charles (UK)
RPN Paweł Janicki (PL)
Paper Clock Przemyslaw Jasielski (PL)
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Amplified Entity Carolin Liebl (DE) + Nikolas Schmid–Pfähler (DE)
A Digital Music Box Ensemble Takuma Takahashi (JP) + Shugo Hirao (JP)
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RENOMA DEPARTMENT STORE OS (SYSTEMIC OPERATIONS)
Hauntology of the vast s retailer; transactions on v An exploration of economi and consumer.
space of a bankrupt values and meanings. ic, aesthetic, metaphysical
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East-Ukrainian Complex Art-cluster R+N+D – Anton Lapov (UA) + Maxim Losev (UA)
When a Circle Meets the Sky Carla Chan (HK)
Event Horizon Magdalena Gembala (PL)
Forest of Fallen Trees Bjørn Erik Haugen (NO)
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The Afterglow and the Speed of Time Aleksander Komarov (BY) + Maxim Tyminko (BY)
brouillard #19 Alexandre Larose (CA)
Fountain Byungju Lee (KR)
A Normal Norms Ka-lun Leung (HK/PL)
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The Pace Uladzimir Pazniak (BY/PL)
Gardens of Negotiation Mirosław Rogala (PL/US)
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I Love You! Jana Shostak (PL/BY)
Penguin Pool Katharina Swoboda (AT)
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Dup-boug-a-dad Aislinn Thomas (CA)
Mothercode Jasmin Vardi (IL)
48 | 49 Collar AG XCEED (HK)
Renoma display window
Attract Money Systaime – Michaël Borras (FR)
BASEMENTS OF THE FORMER BALLESTREM PALACE FEEL LIKE SELF
Self-portraits supplanted b images in which we copy communicated and social-m in the digital self(re)prese imitation, dehumanization
by selfies; technological ourselves. Personalized, -media identities dissolved entation. Resemblance, n.
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I Am 23 Years Old Tymek Bryndal (PL)
about Growing Cheng–Hsu Chung (TW)
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Vacant Spaces Krystian Grzywacz (PL)
Virtual Narcissism Martina Menegon (IT)
The Friend on the Rocking Chair – Visual Oblation Shuai Cheng Pu (TW)
Postcard eXotica Diego Ramirez (MX)
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Achilles and the Tortoise Shota Yamauchi (JP)
Tidal Wave Shota Yamauchi (JP)
Rebel Bodies II Johanna Bruckner (AT)
Total Algorithms of Partiality Johanna Bruckner (AT)
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BASEMENTS OF THE WHITE STORK SYNAGOGUE SUCH A LANDSCAPE
New horizons of visuality, with the aid of vision-enh landscapes deformed int Machinery used and engu technologies overgrown b of co-participation of natu a non-human perspective
, landscapes discovered hancing devices, and to technical systems. ulfed by the landscape; by nature. Representations ure and technology from e.
The Beta Obelisk Natalia Balska (PL)
The Forest: A Resistant Set with the Ability of Self-Renewal Ada Birecka (PL)
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Perspective Maps of KabelvĂĽg Bull.Miletic (NO/US)
Class of the Day Warley Desali (BR)
We — The Common Body Elvin Flamingo (PL) + Infer – Radosław Deruba (PL) + Patryk Chyliński (PL)
Clean Room Light Trap Andy Graydon (US)
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Includes: Wooden Fence Dominik Keggenhoff (DE)
The Trap Tomasz Hanoff (PL)
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Heaven Isamu Hirabayashi (JP)
Center for the Living Things Diana Lelonek (PL)
order Mover B Nika Oblak & PrimoĹž Novak (SI)
Update Error Patrycja Plich (PL)
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Assault Dani Ploeger (NL/GB)
Gas, Stun, Smoke Shabtai Pinchevsky (IL)
The Stream VI Hiroya Sakurai (JP)
New Istambul Dream Kamen Stoyanov (BG)
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IHAU Adam Żądło (PL)
BARBARA INFOPOINT A FACTORY
Invisible processes within networks – black boxes o algorithms. Specious freed decision-making and pers of original self-expression -made clues and off-the-r
n the largest global of non-transparent dom of choice, individual sonalization. An illusion n. A factory of readyrack answers.
Facebook Algorithmic Factory Katarzyna Szymielewicz (PL) + V ladan Joler (RS) + Paweł Janicki (PL)
BLACKLIST Christoph Wachter (CH) + Mathias Jud (CH)
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THE ENTROPIA GALLERY REVAMP
Forgotten functions re-pro and renewals of procedur pioneering and plebeian Re-embracing abandone
rogrammed. Restorations res and appliances. Folk, ethnodigitality. ed solutions.
Embroidered Data Ioan Ovidiu Cernei (RO)
Fontalan 01 Alan Segal (AR)
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REMAP: Roland Electro-Mechanical Audio Plotter Signal to Noise – Niall Quinn (UK) + O liver Wilshen (UK)
ATELIER WRO UNCONDITIONED REFLEXES
Visual and aural phenom defective senses and res aberrations. Subtle sens experiences and supraco by biological factors.
mena generated by sulting from sensory sations, tentative onscious states produced
104 | 105 Tinnitus Studies Hui Ye (CN)
Lazy Eye Aleksandra Stodulska (PL)
FENIKS DEPARTMENT STORE CAVE SPOT
A modest relic of the times provided Internet access fo cafĂŠ as a tautological site a direct gloss on the conce
s when small businesses or the public. An Internet of Internet art and ept of “digital aesthetics�.
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Interruptions The Bad Vibes Club & Field Broadcast – Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau (GB) + Sam Mercer (GB) + Rebecca Birch (GB) + Rob Smith (GB)
DEFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOREST Joana Moll (ES)
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CO2GLE Joana Moll (ES)
Feniks display window
Mountains!Mountains! Zamir Suleymanov (AZ)
THE NATIONAL FORUM OF MUSIC
A sound composition entra An impossible translation and an attempt to deceive diluted in the vacuum. An music and video art coupl of music and instrumental
apped in parameters. of physical properties e the senses. Authorship n encounter of chamber led with an exploration l theater.
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Mute Music – Installation on John Zorn’s “Dark River” from the “Redbird” album Maciej Markowski (PL) + John Zorn (US) Special event under the program of the Musica Electronica Nova festival
WRO ART CENTER NORIMICHI HIRAKAWA (JP) KNOWNS, UNKNOWNS AND THE (IR)REVERSIBLE
Order of appearance of the featured photos on the following pages the irreversible [4-dimensional version] unknowns datum [sun] S3 knowns
The work is an irrevers whose end we will nev A series of experiment space that approaches the human perceptible beauty.
sible phenomenon ver see. ts in a multidimensional s the boundary between and imperceptible
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Fictional scientific represe of banking numerologies Psychoactive algorithms A captivating surrogate r of visualized inevitable r
entations; diagrams s; an exegesis of capital. and transformations. reality and the realness ramifications.
The Mirror Grinder-Man – Hitoshi Taguchi (JP) + Makiko Izu (JP) + Naotaka Fujii (JP) + evala (JP)
the irreversible Norimichi Hirakawa (JP)
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HFT The Gardener Suzanne Treister (GB)
Works moved from other locations:
Interruptions The Bad Vibes Club & Field Broadcast – – Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau (GB) + Sam Mercer (GB) + Rebecca Birch (GB) + Rob Smith (GB) CO2GLE and DEFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOREST Joana Moll (ES) Facebook Algorithmic Factory Katarzyna Szymielewicz (PL) + Vladan Joler (RU) + Paweł Janicki (PL) BLACKLIST Christoph Wachter (CH) + Mathias Jud (CH)
WRO ART CENTER MEGA-LO-POLIS
Total urban landscape; and supervision. The ci alienated data, a provi behaviors, and a habita
a technotopia of flow ity as a territory of ing ground of statistical at of monitored privacy.
142 | 143 The Nemesis Machine: from Metropolis to Megalopolis to Ecumenopolis Stanza (GB) The presentation of Stanza’s installation was accompanied by the set of video works of the following artists chosen from other WRO 2017 program sections and locations: Elena Artemenko (RU) Isabelle Arvers (FR) Om Bori (HU) Krystian Grzywacz (PL) Remu IWAI (HK) @ room 1224 & associates (HK) Paul Turano (US) Charlie Tweed (GB) Yelena Zhelezov (US/BY)
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VIDEO PROGRAMS
SUCH A LANDSCAPE TRT: 1:03:54 The Laughing Spider Keiichi Tanaami (JP), 7:24
Mediterranean Sea Beate Hecher (AT) + M arkus Keim (IT), 9:00
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Heroic Makers vs Heroic Land Isabelle Arvers (FR), 10:56
Go Back to Europe Jacek Zachodny (PL), 7:20
Vintage Print Siegfried A. Fruhauf (AT), 12:30
Oporavak Charlie Tweed (UK), 4:40
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Oceanfront Manhunt Yelena Zhelezov ( US), 4:39
redundancy Om Bori (HU), 2:56
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My Ummah, Dawn Has Appeared [feat. Hatsune Miku] Exchange of the Rat (JP), 4:29
FEEL LIKE SELF TRT: 1:06:42
Plasma Vista Harriet Fleuriot (UK) + Sarah Cockings (UK), 7:31
ROBOCOP VÃctor Hugo Portillo (SV), 6:44
Recursion Sascha Pohflepp (DE), 2:00
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Schizophrenia Yuri Muraoka (JP), 10:00
Fetish Finger Susanna Flock (AT), 6:16
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Spiral Dynamics Constantin Hartenstein ( DE), 13:00
BOdyssey: Prologue Monika CzyĹźyk (PL), 17:33
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reading ibsen in the picture gallery VIII loud and clear ronnie s (NL), 0:38
Summer’s Puke is Winter’s Delight Sawako Kabuki (JP), 3:00
NO BODY TRT: 43:28
Soft Power Elena Artemenko (RU), 10:04
Rebel Bodies Johanna Bruckner (AT), 19:13
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Superego Battlefield Johanna Bruckner (AT), 10:21
X Exit – Useless Machine Remu IWAI (HK) @ room 1224 & associates (HK), 3:50
CONTRACT FOR THE FUTURE TRT: 58:23
Collected Works Marta Krześlak (PL), 6:41
Lost Drones The Fortunists (DE), 25:00
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The Day Job Christian Nicolay (CA), 6:56
Fusi Time ClĂŠment Carat (FR), 5:41
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WWWORK Anxious to Make – Emily Martinez (US) + Liat Berdugo (US), 14:05
NATURAL BUDGET TRT: 55:33
Desert Bloom Peter Kutin (AT) + Florian Kindlinger (AT), 12:14
Pungulume Sammy Baloji (CD), 28:49
Shizen?Natural Christin Bolewski (DE), 7:16
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The Forcing (no. 2) Lydia Moyer (US), 7:14
COMPUTE THE CAMOUFLAGE
TRT: 1:04:20
137 Bullets Paul Turano (US), 9:30
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We’re All Here Beny Wagner (DE), 11:40
Zabriskie Point Reversed Emily McFarland (IE), 5:44
Parallel (Idology) Talk to Jiwon – Jiwon Choi (KR), 29:50
Fall Up, Float Down Ka–lun Leung (HK/PL), 7:36
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PERFORMANCES
Interruptions The Bad Vibes Club – Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau (DB) + Sam Mercer (GB)
RadianceScape Live! h0nh1m – Chris Cheung / XCEED (HK)
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Olga Demo Xavery Deskur Wolski (PL)
Soundscape Set Marcin Dymiter (PL)
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The Boundaries Zen Lu (CN)
“In Memoriam” Annelie De Man Wiktor Przybył (PL) + Małgorzata Klajn (PL)
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Der Warst Simon Schäfer (DE)
Let’s Not Play Thomas Wagensommerer (AT)
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DEBATES
DRAFT ME A SYSTEM talk: Edwin Bendyk and Piotr Krajewski drawings: Lena Czerniawska and Michał Szota
NETWORKS OF CULTURE
Members: Jan Argasiński, Wiesław Bartkowski, Piotr Celiński, Mirek Filiciak, Paweł Janicki, Aleksandra Janus, Dominika Kluszczyk, Łukasz Kowalski, Elvira Eevr Djaltchinova-Malets, Ola Kil-Matlak, Anna Mazgal, Grzegorz Stunża, Michał Szota, Anna Szylar, Katarzyna Szymielewicz, Alek Tarkowski, Grzegorz Zajączkowsk
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LITTLE WRO
Little WRO is an arts-and for children and their fam nied the WRO Media Art now. Third in the series, L within the Draft Systems by Magdalena Kreis, who family, long-time friends to collaborate on the pro
d education programme milies that has accompaBiennale for a few years Little WRO organised Biennale was curated o invited the Kraszewski of the WRO Art Center, oject.
204 | 205 Sunday MatinĂŠe special screening Curator: Antje Heyn (DE)
Trial & Error Antje Heyn (DE) 5:27
A PERMANENT OPEN-AIR EXHIBITION AND PERFORMATIVE INTERVENTIONS IN THE PUBLIC SPACES OF WROCLAW
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WRO STREETS AND FORESTS
An eco-monument. A mo of the sky and software analogue inventions, res
onument to the blueness in tribute to historical search and perceptions.
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Cyanometer – Monument to the Blueness of the Sky Martin Bricelj Baraga (SI)
A makeshift amphithea of urban green. A lumin the screen and an incess generator filling the spa fuel leaving the night pi of the street and nature screening unforgettably
ater amidst a wasteland nous halo enveloping sant noise of the power ace. The exhaustion of itch-dark, the sounds e resonant, and the y captivating.
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Film Noir Andrey Ustinov (RU/DE)
The WRO Biennale festiva arts and audiovisual per and local artists and the program of Nights of Mu
al club: enthusiasm of rformances of the invited BYOB event within the useums.
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UFF feat. WRO festival club
WRO and Food Think Tank gather people at a custom special dishes in the conte
k outdoor concept events med tables filled with ext of current events.
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Tamka Island breakfast with the participants of the Biennale Food Think Tank collective (PL)
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AWARDS The WRO 2017 DRAFT SYSTEMS Award at the disposal of the artistic director Elvin Flamingo (PL) + Infer – Radosław Deruba (PL) + Patryk Chyliński (PL) We – The Common Body, 2016
The Statement: 1. Get the beat. 2. Listen to the wisdom of the system. 3. Expose your mental models to the open air. 4. Stay humble. Stay a learner. 5. Honor and protect information. 6. Locate responsibility in the system. 7. Make feedback policies for feedback systems. 8. Pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable. 9. Go for the good of the whole. 10. Expand time horizons. 11. Expand thought horizons. 12. Expand the boundary of caring. 13. Celebrate complexity. 14. Hold fast to the goal of goodness. (Donella H. Meadows, “Dancing with Systems”, 2001)
The Critics and Editors of Art Magazines Award jury: Véronique Godé, Agnieszka Gratza, Alessandro Ludovico, Adam Mazur coordinator of the jury works: Klio Krajewska Martin Bricelj Baraga (SI) Cyanometer: Monument to the blueness of the sky, 2016
Jury statement: By creating an elegant interface, “Cyanometer” addresses pressing ecological issues, such as air pollution in an aesthetically appealing form with sci-fi overtones. This dynamic, ever-changing sculpture simultaneously looks forward and back. Inspired by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure’s instrument by that name devised in the 18th century to quantify the blue sky’s colour intensity, the work successfully deploys 21st century technology to display archive and share frequently recorded data in a solar powered monolith. Its interactive qualities combined with the use of a polished mirror exterior that draws the viewer in suggest a new way of making art public.
Honorary mentions Diana Lelonek (PL) Center for the Living Things, 2016
Jury statement: Diana Lelonek’s work has the potential to create discussions around themes relevant not only for the contemporary art, but also general public. They engage the viewer emotionally, intellectually and politically. In the work “Center for the Living Things”, ecology is connected with aesthetics, plastic merges with lichens, the present with the future.
Alexandre Larose (CA) brouillard #19, 2015
Jury statement: Alexandre Larose’s “brouillard #19” is a deeply |evocative and dreamy portrayal of a mystical landscape. Shot in camera and processed by hand, this densely layered experimental work illustrates the vitality of the analogue medium. The hypnotic, slow-paced journey along a continuously unfolding path results in a meditative viewing experience.
Nika Oblak & Primož Novak (SI) Border Mover, 2015
Jury statemen: For its seemingly humouristic dada gesture which by means of an embeded art form – a performance in a box – expresses a clear concept and universally shared feeling of being trapped into a physical and psychological system.
The Third Competition for Best Media Arts Graduation Projects Award jury: Anna Klimczak, Marielle Nitoslawska, Julika Rudelius sekretarz konkursu: Małgorzata Sikorska Krystian Grzywacz (PL) Vacant Spaces, 2016 supervisor: prof. Grzegorz Klaman course: Intermedia Studies major: Sculpture Studio of Transdisciplinary Activities Faculty of Sculpture and Intermedia Academy of Fine Arts, Gdansk
Jury statement: Departing from much utilized techniques in 3D scanning and body tracking, Krystian Grzywacz takes us on a philosophical stroll with latent moments of emotional tension. „Vacant spaces” departs as a reflection on technology and its current development to ultimately veer into a subtle and eternal tale about human nature and relationships, crafting a clever narrative that leaves us somewhere between wet humans, hollow scanned forms and hieroglyphic signs.
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WRO RÉSUMÉ
WRO ART CENTER WRO RÉSUMÉ PART 1: DRAFT YOURSELF A SYSTEM
Ongoing reorganization of exhibitions as the reso The documentation of the individual themes and se a material for the audien radio-magnetic waves (R to critique/explore/devis
of reality. Recordings ources of art mediation. e Biennale events, elected artworks as nce. Interaction via RFID) enables the visitors se their own system.
WRO ART CENTER WRO RÉSUMÉ PART 2: FIXATIVE
A recap, distillation, su A filter of subjective pe of the imagination, aud documentations of artw lations, objects, videos sensoriness, personal audience’s imagination an extension of events
ummary and review. erspective. The fixative dio-visual recordings, works, selected instals, fragmentation and memory readers. The n and experiences as s.
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WRO 2017 EXPANDED
KOSZYKI HALL CAMOUFLAGE
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Isabelle Arvers (FR) Shuai Cheng Pu (TW) Krystian Grzywacz (PL) Christian Nicolay (CA) Nika Oblak & PrimoĹž Novak (SI) Diego Ramirez (MX/AU) Jana Shostak (BY/PL) Katharina Swoboda (AT) Aleksander Komarov (BY) + Maxim Tyminko (BY) Shota Yamauchi (JP) Jacek Zachodny (PL)
Organizers: WRO Center for Media Art Foundation & Griffin Art Space Foundation
Reality concealed in the n hidden in trifles, anxiety v disguised as the present a representations, the real downplayed by technol anaesthetized by a glitch
non-existent, gravity veiled by play, the future and framed in awkward as a game, ignorance logy, the system h.
DOM SŁOWA POLSKIEGO BEYOND THE SEVEN
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Organizers: Echo Investment & WRO Center for Media Art Foundation Partners: WRO Art Center / Griffin Art Space The exhibition was part of the Warsaw Gallery Weekend and the Digital Cultures conference organized by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
Natalia Balska (PL) Norimichi Hirakawa (JP) Elvin Flamingo + Infer (PL) Paweł Janicki (PL) Maciej Markowski (PL) Stanza (GB) WROcenter Group (PL)
Seven artworks whose anaerobic and extra-te offers a new insight int and molding global rep system emerging at the Gutenberg Galaxy.
e networked, neuronal, errestrial perspective to myths, forms, fears, presentations. A new e center of the fading
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WRO 2017 ON TOUR
Okiem Młodych Festival, Świdnica (PL) Underwater Wrocław Festival, Wrocław (PL) Contexts Festival of Ephemerial Art, Sokołowsko (PL) Center for Leisure and Creative Work Czerwony Dworek 8, Mysłakowice (PL) MUFF Festival, Marseille (FR) Municipal Art Centre, Gorzów Wielkopolski (PL)
BSMNT, Leipzig (DE) 34. Chaos Communication Congress, Leipzig (DE) Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Toruń (PL) Le Cube, Issy-les-Moulineaux (FR) Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto (JP) TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Szczecin (PL)
State Correctional Institution, Wołów (PL) Institute of European Culture, Adam Mickiewicz University, Gniezno (PL) Vox Electronica Festival for Electroacoustic Music, Lviv (UA) The 6th Dzielnica club & gallery, Łódź (PL) Labyrinth Gallery, Lublin (PL) Art Ii Biennial 2018: States of Matter, Ii (FI)
City Art Gallery of Kalisz, Kalisz (PL) Audioriver Festival 2018, PĹ‚ock (PL) Beyond Words International Multidisciplinary Event, Artspace, Tel Aviv (IL) Ongoing
director Violetta Kutlubasis-Krajewska artistic director – chief curator Piotr Krajewski chief producers Zbigniew Kupisz Dominika Kluszczyk Małgorzata Sikorska program team Krzysztof Dobrowolski Dagmara Domagała Paweł Janicki Dominika Kluszczyk Bartosz Konieczny Klio Krajewska Magdalena Kreis Barbara Kręgiel Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka Michał Michałczak Małgorzata Sikorska program cooperation Kamil Kawalec Sebastian Siepietowski Maurycy Wiliczkiewicz the Little WRO family curatorial team the Kraszewki family – Agnieszka and Jan, and their children: Basia (16), Krzyś (14), Grześ (12), Olga (9,5), Łucja (4) exhibition coordinators Zbigniew Kupisz (OS – Systems’ Objects) Małgorzata Sikorska (OS – Systemic Operations, Camouflage) Agnieszka Kubicka–Dzieduszycka (knowns, unknowns and the (ir)reversible, Diagram) Magdalena Kreis (Revamp, Cave Spot) Dagmara Domagała (Feel Like Self, Such a Landscape, video programs) Klio Krajewska (Such a Landscape, beyond the seven)
Dominika Kluszczyk (A Factory, Mega-Lo-Polis, Cyanometer, beyond the seven) Paweł Janicki (A Factory) Maurycy Wiliczkiewicz (Unconditioned Reflexes, video programs) Kamil Kawalec (Film Noir, the UFF festiwal club, video programs) Basia Żlobińska (Revamp) Mariusz Maślanka (Unconditioned Reflexes, Cave Spot) infodesk Paulina Ostrowska Pamela Bogdanowicz graphic design Malwina Hajduk Michał Kielan Michał Loba (Little WRO) the WRO Biennale logo restyling lekko (Kuba Rudziński, Karolina Grzywnowicz) communication & PR Krzysztof Dobrowolski webmaster Michał Szota web content management Krzysztof Dobrowolski Magdalena Kreis Barbara Kręgiel interpreters Ewa Kanigowska-Gedroyć Paweł Granicki production team Michał Michałczak (head of the team) Filip Bazarnik Paweł Kreis Mariusz Maślanka Krzysztof Michałczak Agnieszka Michałowska Konrad Ofierzyński Przemek Sikorski
Wojciech Skiba Michał Słodkiewicz Filip Styczyński Piotr Syty Konrad Zwojszczyk Barbara Żłobińska preparation of screening materials Bartosz Konieczny screening technology and multimedia EIDOTECH Polska: Radek Pater – technical director Paweł Wolski – technical director Robert Ferens Tomasz Wojcik Tomasz Madej Roman Soroko IT service GOODPAINT – Jarosław Ćwirzeń large prints, branding Print and Fresc – Michał Maliszewski volunteers Marta Ciborowska Ivan Ekeli Sebastian Huczyński Izabela Kiełek Agnieszka Kotschy Narcyza Krajewska Katarzyna Kryszczuk Aneta Lewandowska Mateusz Miłoń Katarzyna Misiura Adam Pacholak Luiza Pachulska Agata Rutkowska Barbara Rześna Dominika Sitarz Wojciech Skibicki Justyna Stebnicka Aleksandra Trojanowska Iwona Wołodko Krzysztof Wowk Kamila Zakrzewska
coordinators of partner institutions Anna Czajka (The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław) Agata Czupryna (Renoma Department Store) Paulina Błauciak-Żak (Feniks Department Store) Tomasz Fila (Fundacja Bente Kahan / The White Stork Synagogue) Tomasz Hartman (Food Think Tank) Mariusz Jodko (The Entropia Gallery) Anna Oszustowicz (B&B Hotel) Katarzyna Popiel (Musica Electronica Nova) Jan Straus (The National Forum of Music) Tomasz Wódkiewicz, Okime Emiko (The UFF Club) Piotr Ziółek (The National Museum in Wroclaw) accounting Jan Dorawa Bożena Horodniczy editors of the WRO catalogue, printed guide and online publications Violetta Kutlubasis-Krajewska Krzysztof Dobrowolski Barbara Kręgiel Dagmara Domagała editors of the programs for the Polish Television Lidia Chojnacka Iwona Rosiak Andrzej Jóźwik Tadeusz Pelc Daniel Zioła radio broadcasts and podcasts Maciej Przestalski – Radio Wrocław Kultura Katarzyna Aszkiełowicz – The Academic LUZ Radio Agnieszka Słodownik, Anna Desponds – – Odbiornik/Dwutygodnik video documentation Bartosz Konieczny Artur „Szczupak” Szczepaniak Maria Prusakowska Claudia García Alan Casado Raúl Brasero Antoranz
editors of the catalogue Violetta Kutlubasis-Krajewska Piotr Krajewski Krzysztof Dobrowolski translation Patrycja Poniatowska Barbara Kręgiel Aleksandra Solińska Jerzy Chyb photos Natalia Kabanow Mirosław Emil Koch Zbigniew Kupisz Marcin Maziej Wojtek Chrubasik Igor Jurkiewicz Kazimierz Ździebło organizer WRO Center for Media Art Foundation WRO Art Center www.wrocenter.pl Co-funded by the Municipality of Wroclaw www.wroclaw.pl Co-funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland www.mkidn.gov.pl
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