Michał Krawczak, PhD, associate professor, co-founder of Humanities Art and Technology Research Center at AMU (artandsciencestudies.com). He was giving lectures and workshops i. a. at Folkwang Universität der Künste, DE (2015), Harvard University, Boston (2015), Emerson College, Boston (2015). In 2015 he was also on research stay in Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in Zurich, Switzerland. Author, designer and curator of art and science projects, such as Transnature is Here (2013), Post-Apocalypsis (2015), Anaesthesia (2016). He was awarded Golden Medal for sound design for collective interactive installation Post-Apocalypsis (2015) at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Czech Republic.
Contact: michal.krawczak@amu.edu.pl
Fields of research:
- media art
- postdigital studies
- technological natures
Selected publication
– The Icon. Essays on the Art of Marina Abramović, AMU Press 2020. (only in Polish)
– Post-Technological Experiences. Art-Science-Culture, ed. M. Krawczak, AMU Press 2019.
– The Spectrality of Nuclear Catastrophe: The Case of Chernobyl, [co-author A. Jelewska], Politics of Machines: Art and After, ‘Electronic Visualisation & the Arts’ EVA 2018, eWic British Computer Society 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVAC18.30
– Transforming the Whole World into a Laboratory. Cultural and Artistic Practices in the Post-technological Times, in: Post-technological Experiences. Art-Science-Culture, ed. M. Krawczak, ISBN 978-83-232-3511-8, ISSN 1895-376X, AMU Press 2019, pp. 96-108.
– Video Remediations: From Transmission Medium to Data Landscape. Three Phases of Video Remediations, [co-author A. Jelewska], in: Remediation: Crossing Disursive Boundaries. Central European Perspective, ed. B. Suwara, M. Pisarski, ISSN 2195-1845, ISBN 978-3-631-79504-0, Peter Lang – Veda, Berlin 2019, pp. 113-127
– Experimental Practices: Humanities and Arts in the Process of Modeling Knowledge for Data-Based Society, [co-author A. Jelewska], in: Humanities and Higher Education: Synergies between Science, Technology and Humanities. Higher Education in the World 7 Report, Global University Network for Innovation, ISBN: 978-84-09-14675-8, Barcelona 2019, pp. 347-349
– The difficult relations between art, science and technology in Poland. [co-author A. Jelewska] [in] Art and Technology in Poland. From Cybercommunism to the Culture of Makers, ed. Agnieszka Jelewska, AMU 2014.
– Media democratisation: Creative programming and the culture of makers, [in] Art and Technology in Poland. From Cybercommunism to the Culture of Makers, ed. A. Jelewska, AMU, 2014.
– Symbiotic tangles, [co-author A. Jelewska], [in] Art and Technology in Poland. From Cybercommunism to the Culture of Makers, ed. A. Jelewska, AMU 2014, p. 239-245.
– Designing interaction: software and performing arts, “Didaskalia” 112/2012. (only in Polish)
– Ecosystem of Post-Apocalypsis, [in:] Post-Apocalypsis, ed. A. Kubas, Theatre Institute Warsaw, 2015.
– Transnature Is Here, curatorial text [w:] Oh Man, oh Machine, Malta Festival, Poznan 2013 [co-author A. Jelewska]
Grants:
– Research grant: Mediated environments. New humanities practices in transdisciplinary research; funded by National Program for Humanities (2016-2021) Humanities, Art and Technology Research Center, main investigator
– Research grant: Art as laboratory of new society. Cultural consequences of post-technological turn; grant from National Science Centre, (2015-2020), Humanities, Art and Technology Research Center, main investigator
– Research grant: Algorithms of new democratization. Polish art in digital era; grant form National Science Centre, (2011-2014), Humanities, Art and Technology Research Center, main investigator
– Art and research grant: Anaesthesia. Transopera project, [with Daed Baitz collective], Placowka program, Theatre Institute Warsaw, (2015-2016).
Selected curatorial and artistic experiences:
– Solastalgia (experimental transopera), 2021 (libretto, interaction design)
– Arthropocene, 2017 (sound and video design)
– Anaesthesia, 2016 (dramaturgy and interaction design)
– I have an Other-ache, 2015 (sound and video design)
– Post-Apocalypsis, 2015 (experience design)
– We, the Children from Project Earth, 2014 (dramaturgy and interaction design)
– Transnature is Here, 2013 (curator)
Leading international labs and workshop:
– Hyperobjects. Technological laboratory (Movements Factory, Poznan, Poland 2017)
– Designing transopera (Theatre Institute, Warsaw, Poland 2016)
– Affective Communication (Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen, Germany 2015)
– Emotional Urban Weather (Theater Institute, Warsaw, Poland 2014)
