Invisible poem about the emotional landscape of Hong Kong losing its autonomy, emerging from painted-over graffiti.
Supernatural nature – school of mechanical fish levitating in space.
A series of works woven from electrical wires. Cables that can transmit audio signals make these weavings also sound pieces.
Antennas for hearing the surrounding electromagnetic waves.
A journey through the side path of the reality of war, through the fate of many beings on whom war has left its devastating mark.
Everything vibrates, pulsates, trembles – the building, the street, the entire planet; including us. Can we feel and convey our interdependence through this vibratory space?
A pioneering work in developing an interactive environment for collaboration, merging painting with spatial sound, generative composition, and interaction.
A sonic dialogue and a shared search for identity, inspired by the story of pastoral bells – objects that carry the memory of the herd, of getting lost, and of returning.
The tensions and conflicts that arise between the performer’s body, space, and the installation’s mechanics reflect the contradictions and controversies of contemporary social phenomena and how they shape the individual. Performance on May 15 and 16 at 8:00 PM, exhibition until June 15
Low frequencies, inaudible to the human ear, set a black screen into a subtle, pulsating motion.
Footage from South China’s plastic plant factories, an exploration of the conventional boundaries between nature and its imitation.
May 21, 9:00 PM in the National Music Forum – the Polish premiere of a piece for organ controlled by computer and electroacoustic processing, performed together with a video layer created live by Mira Boczniowicz with her installation “…SOMETHING…”. This is a ticketed event.
May 21, 9:00 PM in the National Music Forum – using this installation/video instrument, the artist will create the visual layer of a concert – the Polish premiere of “L’être contre le vent”, performed together with composer Matthias Krüger and organist Tobias Tobit Hagedorn. This is a ticketed event.
A transformation of one of the first computer-generated poems, from 1967, into a sound composition.
Coal with an imprint of fern from the Carboniferous period, projection, sound composition by Katarzyna Podpora.
A VR instrument that allows for a spatial, full-body experience of abstraction.
A collection of edible soils from around the world inviting you to verify your preconceptions about what can be eaten.
Speculation on the flavors of the future, exploration of compost as a source of nutrients for soil and people.
An attempt to relocate the Serwis Gallery Studio to a different space, posing a question about the essence of a place.
How much does the placement of a laptop camera or the delay in signal transmission affect the sense of proximity?
Poetry extracted from a sequence of GIFs, forest camera images, astronomical, and microscopic images – datasets used to teach artificial intelligence about nature.
Wearable analog devices for expanding sonic experiences.
Audio essay on how electricity, field, media in space shape the audiosphere. + May 15, 1:00 PM, WRO Art Center –> National Forum of Music – sound walk
An image classifier trying to name everything it sees.
Haptisizer = haptic + synthesizer. For creating your own sounds in a collective experience.
A Large Language Model trained on the literature of Jorge Luis Borges – a labyrinth encoded in words.
The installation reflects the distributed nature of the internet, referring to a mythological Greek sea god who could foretell the future.
A crystal world as a metaphor for equilibrium – suspended between movement and stillness, between life and death.
From the artist: “At a certain point, the habit began to verge on obsession – I carried the scanner everywhere – almost every surface seemed to me a carrier of expression.”
A sensitive dialogue between (in)organic matter and technology defines the event-space of the audiovisual concert.
An immersive musical experiment where sound perception, neural response, and harmonic resonance converge to create a unique, listener-shaped experience – revealing the world understood through vibration, fluctuation, and harmony.
A concert in which Józef Robakowski’s films and video works become a musical score.
A surreal audio-visual performance based on two folkloric legends from Sheffield and Kyoto. A mash-up of sinister folk-horror and fantastical mythical imagery.
May 14, 10:30 PM, House Tęczowa – concert The artist conceives sound as a medium to be sculpted in real-time and improvises from analog sources, like a modular system and a drum machine.
An immersive space of sound and vibration, merging art, science, and touch – creating an inclusive musical experience accessible not only through hearing, but through other senses as well.
Three works for accordion composed in the last decade by artists who actively explore the intersection of instrumental music and sound media.
Magdalena Abakanowicz University of Arts in Poznan A video essay on how automation and simplification of communication are making reality increasingly complex, radicalized, and full of disruption.
Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk A uniquely crafted computer and a custom algorithm that searches the viewer’s face for emotions and, on their basis, suggests a different video each time – a unique set of footage from the artist’s life.
The Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts Łódź Authentic narratives and mechanisms from the incel community reveal a complex world of frustration and loneliness in an immersive fusion of a virtual game and a physical installation.
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw Traces of Poland’s transformation observed in the urban landscape and everyday surroundings. A tale about the present, concealing familiar, time-frozen scenes and past dreams.
Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw About invisible forces that shape our actions, in a form that blurs the boundaries between physical and digital reality.
Academy of Art in Szczecin A critical response to the power of bureaucracy that reduces humans to data. The synthesizer transforms into sound statistics of people’s suffering resulting from capitalist mechanisms.
Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow A dreamlike night-time journey in a VR experience, where a car wreck becomes a capsule and illuminated gas stations blur the sense of what is real.
The Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Katowice A narrative from the world of addicts and codependents. Presented as an immersive audio drama with visuals a tale about loneliness and the search for a way out.
Five interconnected art series revolve around the theme of the contemporary labor system and society, built on the compulsion of productivity.
An audiovisual performance blurs the boundaries between concert, club set, and performance, creating an atmosphere that allows any kind of sensibility to be freely experienced without strictly imposed rules.
An evolving project of an interactive archive of works from the WRO collection. Use the knobs to navigate on your own to footage from cameras tracking the history of new media art.
An autonomous entity with its own temperament.