September 26, 2012

Paweł Janicki (PL)

Paweł Janicki (born 1974) creates interactive audiovisual environments, installations and performances, often utilizing motion detection systems, and focussing mainly on microsound esthetics and algorithmic compostion. Janicki, who majored in cultural studies at the University of Wrocław, has been working with the WRO Art Center since the late 1990s as a curator and head of R&D. In 2004 his internet musical performance Ping Melody was awarded the netarts.org grand prize by the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts in Tokyo. Janicki is a co-founder and longtime member of the Gameboyzz Orchestra Project, a collective exploring “lo-fi” esthetics, using computer gaming consoles to create audiovisual compositions that have been presented at the WRO Media Art Biennale (Wrocław), the Transmediale festival (Berlin), Ars Electronica (Linz) and Exit festival (Paris). His interactive audiovisual installation Mapping Chopin was in 2010 presented at the Warsaw Autumn Contemporary Music Festival and the Dilston Grove Gallery in London. In 2011 his installation Oceanus was included in the Moving Stories exhibition presented in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Poland. Paweł Janicki lives and works in Wrocław.