| CHICAGO ARTIST MIROSLAW ROGALA FEATURED IN CURRENT MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBIT AND AN ITVP CYBERART INTERVIEW ON NATIONAL TELEVISION IN POLAND 9/3/2006 - CHICAGO ARTIST MIROSLAW ROGALA FEATURED IN CURRENT MUSEUM OF
CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBIT AND AN ITVP CYBERART INTERVIEW ON NATIONAL
TELEVISION IN POLAND
Miroslaw Rogala, a native of Poland and internationally acclaimed
Interactive Media Artist with exhibitions in over 42 countries to
date, is featured in the selected artists exhibiting from the
permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in
Chicago in the current MCA exhibit, Drawn into the World: Drawings
from the MCA Collection, through October 15. The Rogala artwork on
exhibit is entitled, Trees Are Leaving#2 (Fire) and was acquired for
the permanent collection in 1993. The work consists of chalk on paper
and features a videotape displayed on a pioneering LCD monitor. The
title of this work refers to section eight of Miroslaw Rogala's
video-theater work Nature Is Leaving Us, presented in 1989 at the
Goodman Theatre. Another prominent Polish artist and sculptor,
Magdalena Abakanowicz, is also represented.
"A dominant theme in the artist's work is the construction of a type
of universal
communication, and his art generally combines Video, sound, music,
poetry, performance, dance, and other media in large, collaborative
presentations", cites Lynne Warren, MCA Curator, in the exhibit
descriptive. She quotes Rogala's interpretation: The artist has
written, "In the Video, falling tree dissolve to blocks of wood, Which
dissolve to wooden figure models, implying the progress of continuous
consumption. Is being in harmony with wood more modern than being in
harmony with a tree? The life essence (soul) of a human or an animal
is respected and mourned when it is lost. Who cries for a tree?"
Miroslaw Rogala and his artistic gestures and achievements will be the focus of
an hour-long interview and demonstration to be aired on the television
network, ITVP.
The Projekt iTVP: "MEDIOKRACJA program, Meet the Artist: Miroslaw
Rogala, will be televised in Poland on Wednesday, September 13, 2006,
at 11:00 p.m. (3:00 p.m. CDT Chicago time) on the Polish national
network, and subsequently featured on the network's national and
international distribution. The one hour documentary is webcast from
the artist's Chicago studio, and is highlighted by a videocast
interview with Profs. Ryszard Kluszczynski and Andrzej Strumillo in
the Warsaw, Poland network studio, and Miroslaw Rogala in the Rogala
Studio, Chicago, Illinois. The program is produced and directed by
Pawel Kaminski.
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The Chicago-based artist is recognized for his complex large-scale
installation/performances involving audience participation, electronic
media, multidiscipline collaborations, and original music and dance
compositions. He has also researched and written extensively in the
areas of Interactive Public Art.
Miroslaw Rogala has the distinction of being one of the first
interactive media artists to be awarded a Ph. D. and is currently
serving as Director of the Digital Arts Program of the Knowledge
Systems Institute located in the Chicago area. He recently lectured at
the Sabanci and Yeditepe Universities in Turkey and at the Cleveland
Institute of Art.
The artist premiered his most recent work, Towers and Bridges:
Brooklyn Bridge, a collaboration in virtual photography and the
pschologram technique with art(n), this summer in the ScopesHampton
Art Fair at a New York location. His latest
series of artwork, Transformed City & Transformed Landscape, was
viewed earlier this year with the Polish American Chamber of Commerce
and Polish American Trade Fair.
The artwork of Miroslaw Rogala has been reviewed extensively and is
included in the forthcoming book publications: HyperAnimation: Digital
Images and Virtual Worlds by Robert Russett, John Libbey and Company,
London, England; Virtual Art: New Media Artists by Frank Popper, MIT
Press; and recently published The New Media Aesthetic by Mark B. N.
Hansen, MIT Press; and Closed Circuit by Slavko Kacunko, Logos Verlag
Berlin, Germany (with DVD).
We believe the acknowledgment given to this artist as a
Polish-American will bring
attention and notoriety for the entire Polish community here and abroad. You are
cordially invited to sponsor an event highlighting this experience and
we would welcome joint recognition.
Please contact the artist directly at the Rogala Studio/Outerpretation
to explore
opportunities for mutual support and for further information.
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Creativity, Transformativity, and Interactivity can be shared, but
only when the viewers-users, (v)users learn both artwork interface
mechanisms and the principles of democratic responsibility for their
actions.
Miroslaw Rogala, Artist Statement, 2024
Miroslaw Rogala, Ph.D.
329 West 18th Street Suite 900
Chicago, IL 60616
http://www.rogala.org
rogala@rogala.org
312.243.2952 or
312.666.0771
fax: 312.666.0772
skype: miroslawrogala
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