person

1952 –

Poland

Critic and curator. Currently he has been a professor of media and cultural studies, Lodz University, Poland, Chair of Department of Media and Audiovisual Culture (1993- ). He is also a professor at Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. He studied Literature, Aesthetics, Theater and Film at the University of Lodz. He got his M.A. degree in 1976. He pursued postgraduate studies in French (1982/84) and English (1985/87) and he took doctorate in 1987. He was a Media Art curator of Centre for Contemporary Art (Ujazdovski Castle, Warsaw) (1990/2001). He published and edited about 10 books on the theory and history of avant-garde, especially film, video and multimedia, and more than 100 articles on media art and experimental artistic culture. He founded Polish Video Art Data Bank (now: Media Nomad), a private, non-profit organization for media culture (1988). (2011)