Wolińska Maja

ac. prof. Maja Wolińska

Coordinator of the Erasmus+ programme for the Department of Media Art

Faculty of Graphics and Media Art

Department of Media Art

Time-based and Interactive Media Studio

mwo@asp.wroc.pl

maiawolinska.org

Subjects taught

Video

Time-based and Interactive Media - first and second level

Time-based and Interactive Media

Intermedia Graphics

In 1997 she graduated from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, majoring in Printmaking.

My area of artistic and didactic practice includes methods and narrative experiments used in contemporary Time-Based Media: video, sequential photography, sound, audiovisual and non-linear live action. I work with both "laboratory" forms, requiring precise studio work, and "external" forms; from site-specific installations to observational and para-documentary projects. Since 2010, together with Joan Leandre, I have been involved in "Commonheavens", an artistic duo focusing on off-road photography and film.

My works, presented during Polish and international artistic events, are also in the collections of Polish and foreign cultural institutions. My recent activities include collective multimedia live concerts and large-format projections created on the basis of image and sound generated in real time. At the same time I work on projects dedicated to memory, the process of obliterating and overwriting reality. In my studio work I observe and record microphenomena in microecosytems. I focus on the affirmation of imperceptible manifestations of biological life.

Awards and scholarships

2014 – Szczecin European Film Festival, first award in the Polish competition, Szczecin, Poland

Exhibitions

2021 – Invisible, group exhibition, College of Creative Arts Toi Rauwhārangi at Massey University, New Zealand

2020 – OVNI Finals D'Hivern, festival, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Random Check, Sacrum-Profanum Festival of Contemporary Music, online

2020 – Interleaved Space / Tramsmediale Vorspiel, multimedia performance, Vierte Welt, Berlin, Germany

2019 – The tenth anniversary of Art Brut Gallery / Community, ArtBrut Gallery, Wrocław

2019 – Invisible, group exhibition, Detroit Broadway Gallery, Detroit, USA

2019 – International Animation Day / Kinematropia, Entropia Gallery, Wrocław

2017 – EARTH RAYS OF THE SUN, Maja Wolińska & Joan Leandre, KINO Media Art Gallery, Lower Silesian Film Centre, Wrocław

Conferences

2018 – Claude Lévi-Strauss: structure and the untamed, Polish Academic Conference, Institute of

Cultural Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

2018 – Dynamic Systems, 3. Polish Academic Conference accompanying the Best Diploma Competition

in Media Art, chair of the panel of speakers, E. Geppert Academy of Art and Design, Wrocław

2016 – Concepts and practices of research, creation and didactics at media faculties of art academies,

Polish Conference, E. Geppert Academy of Art and Design, Wrocław

Publications

2020 – Medium in time. Narrative methods in examples of media art students' activities, article, monograph of the Media Art Department, Extended Image, published by Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, Wrocław

2016 – WAYS, TRAILS, TRACKS methods of constructing non-linear, interactive audiovisual narratives as exemplified by the activities of students of the Media Art Department [in:] Academic and Artistic Magazine of the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław Discourse no. 22/2016

2007 – Internet: The Universe as we know it, [in:] Academic and Artistic Magazine of the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław Discourse no. 6/2007

Links to video works:

2020 – Autumn Nova, video installation

2020 – Random Check, documentation of a performance, Maja Wolińska, Marcin Rupociński

2019 – The sky was a cloud, video / cgi engine

2017 – Strata / Substrata, video installation

2017 – Subtle Passage, video, created within the Commonheavens project, Maja Wolinska and Joan Leandre

2016 – Float Diamond, video

2015 – Walking the Dog, video installation

2014 – 2014 Echoes Course, video

2012-2013 – Low Poly Eden, video / cgi engine

2011 – The last golden afternoon, video