14th Media Art Biennale WRO 2011 "Alternative Now"

14th Media Art Biennale WRO 2011 Alternative Now

Opening and main events: 10-15.05.2011

Exhibitions through September 2011

The WRO Media Art Biennale is the leading international forum for new media art in Poland and Central Europe. Since its inception in 1989, WRO has been presenting art forms created using new media for artistic expression and communication, exploring current creative territories and building a critical perspective toward emerging issues in art and society.

Over the years, the WRO Biennales have raised a variety of questions about creative approaches to new technologies and the expanding technosphere of social media – about the creative crossover realms that arise where art and science, economics and social activism intersect. The theme of the 14th WRO Biennale, which starts on May 10th 2011, is ALTERNATIVE NOW, highlighting the roles of individual artistic stances and strategies that keep a deliberate distance from the institutionalized mechanisms and standardized expectations of the art world.

The WRO Biennale is organized by the WRO Art Center.

The WRO Biennale features a wide range of events and activities in a variety of formats and venues, presenting an overview of current media art, along with educational and archival programs.

Every WRO Biennale attracts approximately 1500 submissions from artists from over 60 countries, and close to 100 works are selected for presentation at each edition of the festival. WRO Biennale screenings are the world premiere for a significant number of the selected works, and the Polish premiere for the vast majority.

Alongside the selected submissions from artists around the world, every Biennale features projects initiated and developed by the WRO organizers, such as collaborations among musicians and visual artists, curatorial exhibitions and special presentations. WRO Biennale attendees can see

competition screenings, curatorial selections, retrospectives of celebrated artists’ works; video installations, sound installations, interactive installations, web projects and intermedial works; media art and curatorial projects created on WRO’s artistic residency program; performances and concerts in various venues and in urban space, interactive performances, multimedia audiovisual projects.

Symposia / Conferences

Every WRO Biennale is accompanied by a symposium or conference where leading names in art, philosophy, sociology and technology give presentations and discuss topics related to the main theme of that year’s festival.

The AudioVisual Sphere

A regular feature of the WRO Biennale, the AudioVisual Sphere is a series of late-night events in club settings. It encompasses a broad range of musical experimentation: real-time signal processing, improvisation, generative music, prepared instruments and innovative original software.

< WRO2011 Alternative Now – PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Adam Abel / Yuri Ancarani / Cecile Babiole / Lucas Bambozzi / Daniel Bisig + Tatsuo Unemi / Skip Blumberg / Piotr Bosacki / Candice Breitz / Pauline Brun / David Bowen / Anna Caban / Robert Cahen / Dorota Chilińska / Seoungho Cho / Cécile Colle}{Ralf Nuhn / Marzena Czaniecka / Megan Daalder / Sharon Daniel / Mariusz Dański / Antonin De Bemels / Anouk de Clercq / Jaś Domicz / Alfred Dong / Marco Donnarumma / Andrzej Dudek-Dürer / Niall Farrell / Francesca Fini / Tina Frank + Florian Hecker / Matthias Fritsch / Siegfried Fruhauf / Rainer Gamsjäger / Kuba Garścia / Wojciech Gilewicz / Kazuhiro Goshima / Mihai Grecu / gruppefisch / Yolande Harris / Ichiro Higashiizumi + The Moonbell Creative Team / Joanna Hoffmann / i inni / incite/ / Aleksander Janicki / Paweł Janicki / Karl Heinz Jeron / Pierre Jodlowski / Joanna John + Wojciech Benicewicz + Jan Przysłuski / Jakub Jasiukiewicz / Mariusz Jodko / Wolf Kahlen / Kahori Kamiya / Björn Kämmerer / Agnieszka Maria Kałwińska / Istvan Kantor / Jarosław Kapuściński / Kashanti / Zohar Kfir / Barbara Konopka / KOT / Igor Krenz / Ulf Kristiansen / Bryan Lauch + Petra Pokos / Lia / Andriy Linik / Dawid Marcinkowski / Masbedo / Patrycja Mastej + Marcin Augustynowicz / Sławomir Milewski / Justyna Misiuk / Monika Misztal / Aki Nakazawa / Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay + Aleesa Cohene / Damir Nikšić / Dominika Olszowy / Maria Ornaf / Joanna Pawlik / Serhij Petlyuk / Daniele Pezzi / Mateusz Pęk / Agnieszka Pokrywka / Nicolas Provost / Krists Pudzens / Wojciech Pustoła / Mateusz Sadowski / Marek Ranis + Jonathan Case / Johanna Reich / Enrique Radigales / Alessandro Rolandi / Butch Rovan / Julika Rudelius / Zbigniew Rybczyński + Dorota Zgłobicka / Hua Kuan Sai / Manuel Saiz / Oleksiy Say / Antoine Schmitt / Semiconductor / Aleksandra Ska / Robert Skrzyński / Dominika Sobolewska / STELARC / Maciej Stępiński / Yuichiro Tamura / Mariusz Tarkawian + Dariusz Kociński / Carolien Teunisse + Bram Snijders / TheGreenEyl / Georg Tiller / Maria Ewa Toboła / Peter Tscherkassky / Soft Turns / UBERMORGEN.COM / Fernando Velázquez / Martijn Veldhoen / Danny Warner / Marek Wasilewski / Przemek Węgrzyn / Richard Wilhelmer / Elwira Wojtunik + Popesz Csaba Láng / Noriko Yamaguchi / Yasuto Yura / Adam Witkowski + Mikołaj Trzaska / Hongxiang Zhou / Daniel Zimmermann / Alicja Żebrowska + Jacek Lichoń ////