Biography
MIROSLAW ROGALA
2100 South Marshall Blvd, Chicago, IL 60623
Ph.D. Interactive Arts. 2000 CAiiA/ STAR Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts, University of Wales, Newport, Wales
MFA: Video, 1983. School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
MFA: Painting, 1979. Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, and
Szkola Muzyczna/ Music School, Krakow, Poland.
Internationally-recognized interactive media artist.
Collections and exhibitions in 44 countries including the Lyon Biennale, Zentrum Fur Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) Karlsruhe Germany, Sao Paulo Biennale, Brasil, The Brooklyn Museum, Anthology Film Archives, The Alternative Museum, Exit Art, New York, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Centres for Contemporary Art, Warsaw and Krakow, Poland.
Grants and awards include NEA Fellowships, AFI/American Film Institute Los Angeles and others.
Research and lectures globally in the area of Interactive Public Art and artist/ viewer-user -- (v)user -- participant relationships. His works are known for large-scale complexity, realized as collaborative efforts with innovative artists and software/hardware developers worldwide including interactive media and performance works.
Critical reviews of Miroslaw Rogala interactive artwork as illustrative of new trends in technology-based media arts are included in printed works and book publications including: Frank Popper: "Virtual Art: New Media Artists", MIT Press; Robert Russett: "Hyperanimation: Digital Images and Virtual Worlds", John Libbey and Company, London, England; Slavko Kacunko: "Closed Circuit Installations", Logos Verlag Berlin, Germany (with DVD); “Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age by Margot Lovejoy, Rutledge Press, London, England, “New Media Aesthetic” by Mark B. N. Hansen, MIT Press, London, England; Mary Warner Marie: "Photography: A Cultural History", Routledge; Miroslaw Rogala: “Gestures of Freedom. Works 1975-2000”: Edited by Ryszard W. Kluszczynski. Exhibition Catalogue. Essays by Roy Ascott, Sean Cubitt, Elaine King, Miroslaw Rogala and Lynne Warren. Warsaw, Poland: Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw.
