European Centre for Art, Culture and Science

Tuesday February 7 2012 / Arts & Philosophy

The Métamatic Artists’ Lectures Series #3: Aleksandra Hirszfeld

Doors open at 19:30 hrs. 

The Métamatic Research Initiative's mission is to stimulate research into ideas stemming from the work and philosophy of the French-Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (1925-1991). Specifically, the research initiative focuses on Tinguely's exploration of the relationship between the artist, the art work and the viewer as expressed in his Métamatic sculptures.

Work by Aleksandra Hirszfeld

Eight artists have been awarded a commission to realize their individual project inspired on the legacy of Tinguely. In the fall of 2011 and the spring of 2012, these participants of the Métamatic Research Initiative will talk about their work in general and  the commission specifically.

This edition features artist Aleksandra Hirszfeld (Poland).

Aleksandra Hirszfeld Artist, art critic, eternal student. Both practically and theoretically, she mainly explores the space of the new media, tracing veiled, underlying structures that govern the way images are constructed and made to work, as well as mechanisms that impact and trigger micro-activities in the socio-cultural tissue. She likes to contaminate and experiment with different media. She had several exhibitions, inter alia in Warsaw, Łódź, Milano and Berlin. Recently she finished writing a Ph.D. thesis at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, devoted to the matter of repetition in audiovisual art. She also studies photography at the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź.

The next lectures:
March 6, 2012: Olaf Breuning (USA)
April 3, 2012: João Simões (Portugal)
May 1, 2012: Pors & Rao (India)
June 5, 2012: John Bock (Germany)
June 19, 2012: Jon Kessler (USA)

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