Krzysztof Wodiczko
Krzysztof Wodiczko (1943) is an artist renowned for his large-scale slide and video projections on architectural facades and monuments.
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War, conflict, trauma, memory, and communication in the public sphere are some of the major themes of an oeuvre that spans four decades. His practice, known as Interrogative Design, combines art and technology as a critical design practice in order to highlight marginal social communities and add legitimacy to cultural issues that are often given little design attention.
He has realized more than 80 public projections in Australia, Austria, Canada, England, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States.
He lives and works in New York City and teaches in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he is currently professor in residence of art, design, and the public domain for the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). Wodiczko was formerly director of the Interrogative Design Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he was a professor in the Visual Arts Program since 1991. He also teaches as Visiting Professor in the Psychology Department at the Warsaw School of Social Psychology.
Publications
- "Public Projection", Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 7:1-2 (Spring 1983), p 187-193.
- Critical Vehicles: Writings, Projects, Interviews, MIT Press, 1999, 227 pp.
Interviews
- Douglas Crimp, Rosalyn Deutsche, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, "A Conversation with Krzysztof Wodiczko", October 38, Autumn 1986, pp 23-51.
- "Krzysztof Wodiczko interviewed by Malcolm Dickson", Variant 6, 1989, p 17.
- Marc James Léger, "Aesthetic Responsibility: A Conversation with Krzysztof Wodiczko on the Transformative Avant-Garde", Third Text 28:2, 2014, pp 123-136.
- Marc James Léger, "Homeless Projection: Place des arts: An Interview with Krzysztof Wodiczko", Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 2:3, 2015.
Literature
- Marc James Léger, "Xenology and Identity: Krzysztof Wodiczko's Immigrant Instruments", 2011.