Wojciech Bruszewski

Wojciech Bruszewski (born March 8, 1947 in Wroclaw ; † September 6, 2009 in Łódź ) was a Polish conceptual artist , video artist , photographer , director and multimedia artist .

life and work

Bruszewski was born in Poland in 1947 and lived and worked in Lódz for a long time. With Antoni Mikołajczyk and others he was a member of the photography group Zero-61 in Toruń .

Bruszewski studied film, photography and directing until 1975 (degree as director and cameraman) at the State University for Film, Television and Theater Łódź . Between 1970 and 1976 Bruszewski began making experimental films and was involved in setting up the Warsztat Formy Filmowej / Werkstatt der Filmform . Members are Paweł Kwiek , Józef Robakowski , Andrzej Różycki , Kazimierz Bendkowski , Ryszard Waśko and Zbigniew Rybczyński . Influenced by positivism and constructivism , the films are to be classified based on the term structural / materialist film coined by P. Adams Sitney .

With New Words (1972) Bruszewski invented a mechanical device made of various rotating papers with letters, with which one can combine 256 different, previously nonexistent words.

Yyaa von (1973) is a 5 minute film that examines human perception. Bruszewski filmed himself in a room where the lights are turned on and off. Not only the lighting, but also the pitch of the scream and the image section are changed so that a visual rhythm is created.

In 1973, in collaboration with Piotr Bernacki, Bruszewski recorded the first Polish magnetic tape Pictures Language . In 1974, Space transmission was created . Audiovisual works are Teaspoon from 1974 and Matchbox from 1975, in which he removes the usual synchronicity of image and sound levels. Wojciech Bruszewski is a pioneer of interactive installation . Sternmusik from 1979 lectures on sound art , performance and installation . In 1989, Bruszewski founded the first computer workshop in Poznan . Computer works include works such as Maszyna poetycka and Romantica from 1991 , Sonety from 1992, CHOPIN from 1994, Sonety from 1996, 9 prac from 1999 and Łódź na wszystkie pory roku from 2000.

Since 1999 Wojciech Bruszewski was director of the Multimedia Laboratory of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń . The various works of Wojciech Bruszewski cannot be divided into chronologically closed and consecutive work periods.

Wojciech Bruszewski produced the advertising film Łódź miasto kultury with Małgorzata Kamińska in 2007 . The film was awarded numerous prizes. The city of Łódź applied as a candidate for the European Capital of Culture 2016.

The Infinite Talk

The Infinite Talk (1988) by Wojciech Bruszewski, a production of the independent radio station “Radio Ruine der Künste Berlin” (initiated by Bruszewski and Wolf Kahlen ) is a permanent, generative radio installation.

“The Infinite Talk” was developed in 1988 for the Berlin Radio Ruine der Künste as the longest radio program in the world and was broadcast until 1993. During these five years a virtual man and a virtual woman had a conversation about infinity: Quotes from Plato , Schopenhauer , Gödel , Chuang Tzu , James , Russell and other famous philosophers selected at random by a computer program resulted in unexpected new thoughts in this dialogue. "

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After the radio broadcast ended, Bruszewski exhibited Philosophizing Machine and Monologue in the Eastern Gallery in Łódź in 1994 , which continued the idea.

Group exhibitions (selection)

• 1977 documenta 6 , Kassel
• 1987 documenta 8 , Kassel
• 1992 Leipzig Media Biennale 92

• 2008 EVR - e-flux video renatal Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian , Lisbon
• 2011 Live to Tape Berlin Hamburger Bahnhof , Berlin
• 2011 Ostalgia New Museum of Contemporary Art , New York City
• 2012 Various Stages - Conditional Stages, Test Run Kunsthaus Dresden , Dresden

Awards

• 1980 scholarship from the DAAD in Berlin

literature

• Ruin of the arts Berlin: Evgen Bavčar , Wojciech Bruszewski, Robert Filliou , Christian Hasucha , Rolf Julius , Timo Kahlen , Wolf Kahlen, Eric Snell, ... Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal, Die Kunsthalle, 1991 ISBN 978-3-92778-6-011

• Early Polish solo exhibition catalogs:
• Wojciech Bruszewski, transmisja = transmission. Galeria Pracownia SCSA Dziekanka, Warszawa, December 11, 1977. [Sozialistyczny Związek Studentów Polskich], Warszawa 1977. (Exhibition catalog, Polish).
• Wojciech Bruszewski, the video touch: installations & recordings 1976/1977. Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych Lódz, 1977. [Związek Polskich Artystów Plastyków], Lódz 1977. (exhibition catalog, Polish).
• Wojciech Bruszewski: Wejście, wyjście. Galeria gn Gdańsk, styczeń 1979. [Galeria gn], Gdańsk 1979. (exhibition catalog, Polish).

Web links

• Literature by and about Wojciech Bruszewski in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wojciech Bruszewski on kunstaspekte.de
• Materials by and about Wojciech Bruszewski in the documenta archive

Individual evidence

1. ^ Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 2: Photography, film and video; Kassel, page 282, 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
2. ↑ Grupa Zero 61 , accessed January 30, 2015 (Polish).
3. ↑ Essay, David Crowley Wojciech Bruszewski accessed on February 2, 2015 (English)
4. ↑ academia Ryszard W. Kluszczyński Spaces of generativity. Introduction to the art of Wojciech Bruszewski. accessed on February 2, 2015
5. ↑ Radio_Copernicus End of the broadcasts of the German-Polish artist radio at the turn of the year 2005/2006 radio as a listener ( memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on February 2, 2015
6. ↑ Wojciech Bruszewski , accessed on February 2, 2015 (English).
7. ↑ Leipzig Media Biennale 92: September 25 - October 4, 1992, Leipzig. [Organizer: Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig; University of Graphics and Book Art… Ed .: Benedikt Forster…]. Dogenhaus Gallery, Leipzig 1992.