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Katastematic Pleasures - Polish Pavilion @ 15th Gwangju Biennale (South Korea) curated by Paweł Janicki. NOTE: The above list is not exhaustive. Information about the next and missing works will be gradually added. |
Current works and projects Katastematic Pleasures - Polish Pavilion @ 15th Gwangju Biennale (South Korea)
Information Is Not an Abstract Concept
Metal Data Solid Culture / Funken Akademie
Microresidency #24 @ BDK (Biuro Dźwięku Katowice / Department of Sound Katowice)
Waiting for Cargo
The Prospect of an Ontic Leak
Electricity, Light and Money without Us
Kenophobia (Horror Vacui)
Summertime Stasis (Apocalypse Canceled II)
r30
Nemo (Nobody)
Ainu Asset
Aleastock 2
Tanganyika: Al-Khwārizmī, Burton, Assange
Manuscrit
Flux
Noumen
On the Silver globe v. 3.0 | WROcenter Group
RPN
Vibra v. 3.0
Tessell v. 2.0
Algorithmic Lines
MaxMSP and P5*JS
Silver Moon, Blue Planet, Blue Note
Post-Apocalypsis
!Grot! Project
Wodospad (Cascade)
Cellular Synthesis
Carolee Schneemann LIFE BOOK
Carolee Schneemann INTERACTIVE LIFE BOOK
Aleastock
LutoScratch
New Delhi Audiograph
ASET (Additive Sound Emission Technique)
EU_tracer
Oceanus
Mapping Chopin
The Map - an experimental tool for interactive narrations and storytelling
WordNet Instrument
DNA synth
Depth Map
Bitmap / One Small Step
Resophlection
T != T | SPACE - interactive director
Vinyl Video Delay
Interactive system for installation Pierogi by Justyna Misiuk
Na srebrnym globie for Zygmunt Rytka by WRO Art Center Team
Alternating. Direct. Shifting. AC / DC / IT
Frame Box
Concerto for TV Set and Diode for Voytek
Interactive Video Documentation Viewing Station
Revolving C-Trend Histogram for Woody Vasulka
RGB: Ray Gun Beam Virus for Paul Sharits
LIVE – Taped Video Staircase for Bruce Nauman
A Short History of Video Installations
MtnCtrld Self-portrait
Interactive playground
Bopi
Interactive Platform
Painting by Light
Textures (Faktury)
Sorcerer (Czarodziej)
Ping Melody
WEFseq
RemoteVJ
ArtKod: Processing
MaxMSP & PureData - beginner's guide
OSC interfaces
Projection mapping for Tomasz Domański's exhibition Middle Age.
Attention: Light! 2.0
Software part of the robotic installation for the Chopinpiano Apparitions/Disparitions by Robert Cahen
Garden Mechanique
Closed projects ActiveZones2OSC
JMyron2OSC
Solo exhibition at Gallery 2.0
20K Leagues Under the Sea
MoCap Study
Będziemy parli do naszych matek (We will push to our mothers)
Przyjemność bez Satysfakcji (Pleasure without satisfaction)
Performance on Demand
Invisible Stories
Invisible Story is a site specific, extensive, interactive installation created especially for WRO Art Center. It uses vintage and contemporary media technologies: a system of 8mm projectors (construction by Meopta from the 1970s), screening looped film sequences is steered by a matrix of ultrasound sensors that controls also the sound and light layers of the installation. Generator III
The Tangled Sky
Scanner
Mikroorchestra (akka Gameboyzz Orchestra Project)
Interactive Director of Rossum's Universal Robots
Ping Melody @ Sound Channel
City Songs
Ping Melody at Radio Copernicus
Mastah Lorez for Microscope Session DVD 2.0
The Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau (near Dresden, Germany) in Cooperation with DS-X.org is the organisator of a series of events entitled "Microscope Session". With the Festspielhaus Hellerau as its venue the "Mircroscope Session" experiments with forms of synaesthetic perception in audio-visual presentations. The result of four years work is now compiled on this dvd. Pole-Land / Angels of Stealth
Pole-Land directed by Rodney Place is an allegory of the human and urban body. A story of Warsaw individualised and played out as the juxtaposition of the symbolic and the personal. In the 45-minute solo work, the action on theatre side was pre-recorded and a dancer played out in symbolic time. In the club she controlled time as a self-edited film, through interactive triggers. Pole-Land was performed at La Ferme du Buisson (Paris) and CCA Zamek Ujazdowski (Warsaw) in September/October 2005, co-production: ARTE Temps d'Images Festival. |
Thirty-two national and institutional pavilions are participating in the 15th anniversary edition of the Gwangju Biennale. The Polish exhibition was created in cooperation with the WRO Art Center, and the following people were invited to participate in the project: Przemysław Jasielski, Alicja Klich, Madina Magomedova, IP Group (Dominika Kluszczyk, Bogumił Misala, Jakub Lech) and Maciej Markowski. The exhibition is curated by Paweł Janicki.
A large-scale project, carried out upon invitation from the Galeria A19 Marymont_metro_dla_sztuki (located inside the metro station Marymont/Warsaw/Poland). The title sentence is encoded in the form of a meander in 8 languages: Latin, Polish, Ukrainian, English, simplified Chinese, Arabic, Indonesian, Spanish. Pattern base - the so-called L-system named after Aristid Lindenmayer, a Hungarian biologist interested in, among others, mathematical modeling of biological phenomena - was modified with a four-letter code (the genetic code has the same number of characters). The meander is one of the oldest decorative motifs, present in art at least since the Neolithic period, and its mathematical incarnation, strangely enough, finds application in fields as distant as biology, AI and nanotechnology. Meander is therefore a material manifestation of the continuity of thought, a material and immaterial record of information, a hyperobject existing simultaneously in culture and civilization.
A course conducted by Paweł Janicki as part of FUNKEN Akademie. Contemporary culture strongly binds information with the technological medium through storage and distribution platforms. Information is thus mostly contained in an electronic context, which is by its nature always temporary and continually needs maintenance and renewal. Furthermore the technical infrastructure is often private property. Culture, however, cannot last and develop without information continuation. It needs the possibility of building new forms on existing information and the possibility of storing information for the future, without censorship, evaluation, tailoring to current conditions.
An artistic micro-residency at the Katowice Sound Office, interpassive installation prepared for the special multi-channel sound system.
AR/VR as an equivalent of architecture and film – an emblematic medium perceived as a manifestation of technological advancement. "Waiting for Cargo" is a VR installation by Paweł Janicki, a part of the "Point Nemo" solo show at the WRO Art Center (2020).
Core war. Evolution as a tool of liberation. "The Prospect of an Ontic Leak" is a generative installation by Paweł Janicki, a part of the "Point Nemo" solo show at the WRO Art Center (2020).
A study of the energy efficiency of currencies. "Electricity, Light and Money Without Us" is an interpassive installation by Paweł Janicki, a part of the "Point Nemo" solo show at the WRO Art Center (2020).
AI and the Nug-Soth alphabet as markers of the trauma of the awakening “I”. "Kenophobia (Horror Vacui)" is an interactive installation by Paweł Janicki, a part of the "Point Nemo" solo show at the WRO Art Center (2020).
Nearly philosophical and poetical dispute on the mutual expectations, evolution, and strained relations of humans, technology, and nature. "Summertime Stasis (Apocalypse Canceled II)" is a short film by Paweł Janicki, a part of the "Point Nemo" solo show at the WRO Art Center (2020).
Computational irreducibility of a self-constituting process. "r30" is a generative installation by Paweł Janicki, a part of the "Point Nemo" solo show at the WRO Art Center (2020).
Satellite monitoring of the anthill of dark enlightenment. "Nemo (Nobody)" is an installation by Paweł Janicki, a part of the "Point Nemo" solo show at the WRO Art Center (2020).
A collaboration between two artists engaging with sound from different positions: OKI, a master of tonkori, the traditional Ainu stringed instrument, and Janicki, working with software. Designed for a glass pyramid in Moerenuma Park, the work was based on Janicki's original Additive Sound Emission Technique applied to a composition by OKI.
An interpassive computational system endlessly looking for convergence and significant patterns in exchange rate data and transactions in global cryptocurrency trading markets.
A susceptive interpassive object - a synthesis of several threads: the story leading to the recent arrest of Julian Assange of some elements of the life of Richard Francis Burton (freethinker, orientalist, linguist and swordsman, the first European who reached Lake Tanganyika, translator of "Arab Nights" into languages European and the author of the original poetic text "The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî" [written of course under the pseudonym Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî]); and the scientific achievements of Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (a Persian mathematician from whose name the word "algorithm" comes from).
MANUSCRIT is a new interactive installation in the public space designed specially for the screen-covered facade of the EP7 centre in Paris. The work is an audiovisual composition that the audience can control using mobile devices. The tilte "Manuscrit" refers to the fragment of the “Manuscript found in Saragossa” – a frame-tale novel written in French at the turn of 18th and 19th century by Polish author Count Jan Potocki (1761-1815).
Flux by Pawel Janicki is an interactive installation exploring the social na private response to the problem of resource depletion.
The interpassive installation Noumen is an unusual musical work, a diffuse sound environment. In philosophy, a “noumen” (or "noumenon") is a thing in itself, a phenomenon that can be known by reason, but exists outside reason and unfolds beyond our agency._307px.jpg)
TeToKi! [Technology to the Kids!] by Pawel Janicki (in cooperation with Magdalena Kreis).
Commenced in 2012, "On the Silver Globe" is a series of installations exploring 20th-century representations of civilisation, human ambitions to conquer space and the history of cinema and television as a material and cultural phenomenon.
An interactive installation explores the artistic potential of the reverse Polish notation for creating generative and interactive musical and visual compositions.
A geodesic dome-shaped interactive object which uses bone conduction to sonify real-time data flow transmissions and brings an unusual experience of sound.
The installation refers to the architecture of the monumental Buckminster Fuller’s dome built for Expo 67 in Montreal. Fuller perceived Earth as a homeostat traversing the cosmos and made the chances of survival and existence of humanity subject to its state of internal balance ...
The "Algorithmic Lines" is an artistic software to create visual and time patterns, based on set of rules developed by Wacław Szpakowski - a pioneer of abstractionism and pre-conditional arts. At the beginning of the twentieth century Szpakowski, developed impressive, highly intellectual artistic method, located between art and science.
MaxMSP and P5*JS is a simple solution for interfacing "patches" created in MaxMSP/Jitter and "sketches" written in P5*js.
Silver Moon, Blue Planet, Blue Note is a performance based on live video and data feeds from International Space Station (ISS) and other satellite sources. Captured data are processed in real time into an audio-visual environment. The performance was presented at the opening of the exhibition "On the Silver Globe": Media Installations from the International Collection of the WRO Biennale at Kunsthal Aarhus.
The Post-Apocalypsis is an installation projects a precise contemporary vision of the networked and global world. Viewers enter directly into a condensed space of real-time weather-data streams, including those from places of energy-related threats and disasters on Earth (Chernobyl, Los Alamos, Fukushima). The constantly updated data is processed artistically through sonification – in this way, the installation is filled with a changing audiosphere, active towards human presences.
"The Unbroken Prince" can be considered as one of the most distinctive choreographic works by Jerzy Grotowski, even, if we can discuss the authorship of the "score motor" of the work (Grotowski? Cieslak? Choreography collective?).
Wodospad (Cascade) is a projection installation curated by the WRO Art Center, in cooperation with TVP Wrocław, oryginally created for the WRO Art Center opening ceremony.
Cellular Synthesis is an author's technique of musical composition based on a specially designed cellular automaton.
An interactive system created for one of the installations for the "Carolee Schneemann LIFE BOOK" exhibition at WRO Art Center (29.10.2013-17.02.2014, Wroclaw/Poland).
An interactive system created for one of the installations for the "Carolee Schneemann LIFE BOOK" exhibition at WRO Art Center (29.10.2013-17.02.2014, Wroclaw/Poland).
"Aleastock" is an interactive, sound-oriented work driven by (captured in real time) companies trading on the stock exchange (NASDAQ). Ca. 2700 companies most important for the global economy was selected as data sources for the installation.
Aleatoric interactive installation "LutoScratch" - premiered during Media Art Biennale WRO 2013 - is a new work exploring the relations between visual arts and sound. The installation is inspired by and pays the homage to the ouvre of Witold Lutoslawski.
A short film about the present...
The New Delhi Audiograph is an interactive installation in which he uses field recordings made in Delhi along with a database of the Hindi language. The installation was created during the Auditions Sound Residency programme at KHŌJ International Artists’ Association (New Delhi, India).
The project - under intensive development directed by the author - located on the border between technology and art. ASET is a technique of multichannel spatial sound emission based on Fourier's analysis and additive synthesis.
EU_tracer is a media work that transforms Internet traffic into a variety of audiovisual forms. Data from assorted institutions of the European Union - chiefly the Parliament and European Commission - are changed into elaborate visual and musical structures and become the building blocks for a work of art.
Oceanus is an installation allowing interactive narration based on a variational scenario and an authoring software tool created by the artist. The idea of the work, on the levels of structure and story, refers to the concept of navigating the sea. Notions such as marking out courses and sea sailing are transposed into the media environment and provide the metaphors that drive the installation. They enable travel across the universe of Oceanus and provide a natural co-existence between the linear narration, associated with sequential events, and interactive narration, related to the modifiable structures, altered by choices and generative processes.
Paweł Janicki’s installation Mapping Chopin creates an immersive interactive environment that allows viewers/listeners to experience the music in an intuitive and unstructured way. Specially designed software combined with a motion-detection system generates variations on digitalized scores of Chopin’s pieces based on the behavior of the audience/participants.
The Map is a system of creation and playback of interactive narrations - a prototype application came into existence as a result of the author's many years of experience in creating interactive projects exploring three major paradigms in the current media: timeline, modularity and code.
Large-scale interactive installation using language structures as base for the musical and visual composition.
An interactive installation based on custom software for processing DNA data into audiovisual composition.
An interactive installation inspired by Buckminster Fuller and playing with geometry and time.
Bitmap is an audio track - a contribution to compilation One Small Step published by WEFrec to celebrate 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing.
Resophlection is an experimental electronic ensamble - trio (Paweł Janicki, Jarek Grzesica, Roch Forowicz) working with digital music, robotic systems and visualisations based on surveillance equipment. Resophlection's performances are rather surprising - even for members of the team - and combining techniques of musical and performance improvisation.
Interactive director of T != T | SPACE exhibition by Małgorzata Kazimierczak.
Kisses is an interactive installation by Kasia Kifert, Dawid Marcinkowski and Paweł Janicki.
This installation allows viewers to manipulate images of themselves by scratching a vinyl record and via commands sent via the internet. The DJ-like handling of the record and the internet controls for selecting among three buffer modes for the images allow viewers to process their images from a few seconds earlier.
Interactive system - a wrapper between smartphones and other mobile devices - and vintage CRT television screen.
This installation uses excerpts from Georges Méliès’s 1902 film Le Voyage dans la Lune and Zygmunt Rytka’s 1969 photographs. Paweł Janicki created special, custom image processing software and communication strategy for the installation.
Interactive director of Alternating. Direct. Shifting. AC / DC / IT exhibition at 
Frame Box allows the viewers to experiment with delayed images. On one screen we see our own image in real time. On the other we watch the results of our own manipulations of time and space in the same image. The installation is an approach to using time as a visual quality. It alludes to the work of artists like Támas Waliczky and Joahim Sauter, who were interested in showing the shape of time as a third dimension in electronic images.
This installation includes Wojciech Bruszewski’s famous 1973 film YYAA. A photodiode connected to a speaker has been installed in the monitor; the diode “reads” the pixels comprising the image on the screen, which are the source of the sound emitted by the speaker. In YYAA, Bruszewski’s screaming of open and closed vowel sounds controls the shifting lighting of the film set. This installation practically reverses that relationship, replacing the original audio with the sound of black and white pixels. The piece is reminiscent of Bruszewkski’s 1979 installation TV Chicken [Telewizyjna kura].
An innovative presentation of audiovisual archives: Documentation of 28 assorted video installations by artists from all over the world has been selected from WRO’s collection and made accessible in this interactive format that allows viewers to use gestures to select what they want to watch.
Paweł Janicki created special programming for this installation to imitate an analog device that Vasulka used extensively: the Scan Processor, made in 1973. In the current installation, the image from a video camera is transmitted to a computer, processed and then presented on the monitor.
The title of this installation refers to both Paul Sharits’s Ray Gun Virus (1966) and the method of creating a video image with a three-lamp RGB projector, in which each lamp corresponds to one of the three additive colors: red, green and blue, which comprise visible light. The installation, which uses original programming and mapping designed by Paweł Janicki, responds to movement and sound (for example clapping or tapping), which activate further layers of manipulation of the image.
Specially for this installation, Paweł Janicki designed and programmed an original digital set-up imitating the functioning of the analog devices used in the 1970s to delay video signal circuits.
Interactive director of A Short History of Video Installations exhibition at 
The main idea of this performance is de- and reconstruction of well-knowned, classical self-portrait concept as a form based on contemporary e-media. Of course a self-portrait is common mostly for fine arts, but in this realization visual and sound components are existing as equal.
A collaborative work made together with Dominika Sobolewska and Patrycja Mastej. A set of interactive objects and installations focused on basic visual, sound and interaction related qualities. The project is a part of the Kindergarden of Media cycle hosted and curated by 
Interactive installation Bopi is a collaborative project created together by Paweł Janicki, Dominika Sobolewska and Patrycja Mastej as a part of the Interactive Playground project at WRO Art Center.
Installation Interactive Platform is a collaborative project created together by Paweł Janicki, and Dominika Sobolewska as a part of the Interactive Playground project at WRO Art Center.
Interactive installation Painting by Light is a collaborative project created together by Paweł Janicki, Dominika Sobolewska and Patrycja Mastej as a part of the Interactive Playground project at WRO Art Center.
Installation Textures (Faktury) is a collaborative project created together by Paweł Janicki, and Dominika Sobolewska as a part of the Interactive Playground project at WRO Art Center.
Software for interactive installation by Zbigniew Kupisz.
Installation Sorcerer (Czarodziej) is a collaborative project created as a part of the Interactive Playground project at WRO Art Center.
Ping Melody is a music-net-performance. Temporary and unique state of all actions of Internet users has an influence on form of music composition. Musician (instrumentalist or singer) is playing on acoustic instrument/singing and sounds coming from instrument/voice are shared in packets of data information (granulated), then transmitted to selected Internet locations (as "ping" unix command). The project is hosted and curated by 
Step sequencer with probability written in MaxMSP (and, due of this fact, may be easy modified by enybody working in Max environment). WEFseq is useful especially as a semi-generative tool for automatic creating variations of a preprogrammed rhythmic patterns. The tool was created during workshops at 
RemoteVJ is a simple, OSC and MIDI controlled, video player with several special features useful for creating interactive applications, installations and performances, prototyping, educational workshops, etc.
ArtKod: Processing (in cooperation with 
A guide to MaxMSP and PureData for beginners. The book covers the basic data structures, and concepts, and the similarities and differences between the environments.
OSC interfaces is a set of simple, abstract interfaces, useful as a visual and interactive base for audiovisual instruments and free experimentations with audio and visual media in context of interactivity and non-linear presentation.
Some of the works being shown in frames of the Middle Age exhibition at the 
Attention: Light! 2.0 by Józef Robakowski in collaboration with Wiesław Michalak and Paweł Janicki - audiovisual installation for Disklavier & multiscreen projecton.
The exhibition CHOPINPIANO Hommage à Chopin features works by Robert Cahen – a renowned French artist who studied with Pierre Schaeffer, began his career as a composer of musique concrète, and went on to create many classics of video art and media art. This exhibition takes an innovative approach to intertwined topics: Chopin’s music, perceptions of his work, and revolutionary uses of prepared pianos by avant-garde artists in the second half of the 20th century, whose experiments contributed significantly to the development of contemporary music and art.
OSC interfaces is a set of simple, abstract interfaces, useful as a visual and interactive base for audiovisual instruments and free experimentations with audio and visual media in context of interactivity and non-linear presentation.
Camera based, movement detection system with OSC and MIDI output. ActiveZones2OSC is multiplatform (OSX, Windows) and was created as a simple tool for prototyping interactive structures.
Camera based, motion tracking system (build on top of the JMyron library for Processing) with OSC output. JMyron2OSC is multiplatform (OSX, Windows) and was created as a simple but pro-quality tool for prototyping interactive structures.
Most of my inspiration and interests revolve around music, programming and communication networks. It's fairly typical triad of media art 90s. I do not think I made the slave of the decade - the above observation is a simple statement of the existence of coincidence, but certainly I was growing up - as an artist - in that period.
An interactive, narrative installation joining cinema and interactive media, a part of the solo exhibition at Gallery 2.0 (Warsaw/Poland). As narrative structure, the work is inspired by classic proto-SF novel 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) by Jules Verne 
An interactive, motion controlled installation, a part of the solo exhibition at Gallery 2.0 (Warsaw/Poland)
A cooperative (by Konrad Góra, Paweł Janicki and Lubomir Adam Grzelak) project commissioned by Industrialart and being a part of the project Bankotwory held in the event RYTUAŁ RECESJA-RETORSJE-BANG (RITUAL RECESSION-RETORSION-BANG) in 2010.
"Pleasure without satisfaction" (2009) - an exhibition of works by students of the Intermedia Faculty of the Art University of Poznań (Poland). Artists: Mikołaj Syguda, Alicja Sowiar, Łukasz Sosiński, Virgins Deluxe Editio, Maria Toboła, Sylwia Czubała. Exhibition curated by Paweł Janicki.
A collaborative work made together with Anna Plotnica. PoD is a net-performance joining interaction and streaming media. The project is hosted and curated by 
An interactive enironment for large-scale multimedia installation by Tibor Szemzo
A collaborative work made together with Lech Twardowski. Generator III as an installation is combined with mega-sized painting objects and technique of sound and graphic interactive medias. Installation is made up of painting object in form of a podium and central field with screen; three hanging painting objects and interactive music and screening system with infrared-sensors, which are controlling sounds composition and projection of images. The project is hosted and curated by 
An expermental, generative computer animation based on fractal theory and 4-dimensional space description. The final form of The Tangled Sky is a result of long-term computational process shared between many computers (a special "computer virus" was create by the author of the work to distribute the computing job).
A collaborative work made together with Bartosz "Kostia" Jakubicki. Skaner is an interactive installation exploring relations between phisically and virtually existing architecture.
A well-knowned collective exploring lo-fi and cheap-tune aesthetics. After five years of working in the team (almost from the start), I decided that it was time for new projects and challenges. So good luck boyzz and grlzz...
R.U.R. by Karel Capek is a classic of science-fiction literature and has nothing lost of its formative influence. The media-opera based on Capek's novel is trying to bring the spirit of the story to contemporary form of on-stage performance.
[R][R][F]200x—>XP global networking project: presentation of sound-basis works created by selected artists from 40 countries around the globe.
The City Songs is an unusual CD series documenting contemporary and experimental electronic music Polish scene.
Radio Copernicus is a project developed and realized i.a. in Poland and Germany. It's a radio broadcast devoted especialy for artists and art projects exploring possibilities hidden in this old by still interesting medium.
Videoclip/visualisation for a track by the Gameboyzz Orchestra Project.
Interaction design for the Pole-Land project.
A small interactive application for a project by 
A series of experiments related to simulated ecosystems, biology, evolution, generative animation and software.