Krzysztof Wodiczko

Krzysztof Wodiczko

  

  

 Krzysztof Wodiczko was a Polish artist known for his projection art. He was born on April 16, 1943 in Warsaw Poland and much of his artwork is centered around war, conflict, trauma, and other troubling ideas. His process is known as Interrogative Design and it combines artwork and technology to highlight issues that he has chosen to create art about. The ideas that he has shown in his artwork come from the issues he faced growing up, He was born during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and lived in Poland during Soviet control. Even in these conditions, he ended up studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1967, starting his career as an artist. Throughout his career he taught at many different schools starting as a teaching assistance and eventually started teaching at the Warsaw Polytechnic Institute until 1976 when he emigrated to Halifax, Canada to start a two-year artist-in-residence program at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He would continue climbing the social ladder of teaching at many schools until he settled at MIT in 1991, where he still currently works. My view's on Wodiczko's art are all positive, as I like the way he is able to not only blend art and technology together, but to also incorporate architecture and other surrounding objects for him to project his art onto, making those objects that much more interactive.