INFO
Interdisciplinary artist, creator and researcher, director and producer of interactive VR experiences. He works with audiovisual narration, immersive activities, artistic and scientific projects, video, interactive film, audiovisual narration, graphic design and visual narrative structures. He is currently interested in xReality, game engines, 3d and VR activities and the issue of embodiment. The scope of his research is broad, and his artistic strategy is based on exploring and expanding the boundaries of the medium he is currently working with. Creator of an interactive adaptation of James Joyce's last novel Finnegans Wake – www.firstwefeelthenwefall.com (collaboration with Dr. Katarzyna Bazarnik, Jagiellonia university), author of the visual grammar in the Symphony of the Ursus Factory, directed by Jasmin Wojcik (Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and Polish Film Institute award, best medium format at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2019). Founding member of the creative collective Inexsistens and Narration Systems Open Lab, guest lecturer at Speakers Avenue Training Institute, and co-founder of the Virtual Occurrences Horizons portal. Scholarship holder of the Młoda Polska (National Centre for Culture Poland), tutor in the Gaude Polonia program (National Centre for Culture Poland), winner of the Grand Prix of the Szajna Multimedia Festival, Winner PL Music Video Awards | Directorial Debut, winner of Kaleidoscopes Transformations Grant. Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, leads the 3d and Virtual Occurrences II studio at the Faculty of New Media.
contact: jakub.a.wroblewski@gmail.com
SHOWS
Beta tales, Sebulec, Isakov, Wróblewski, „Nie Powszechny spis artystów” part V curator: Kat Zavada, Gallery Salon Akademii, Warsaw, 2024 | 66 Warsaw Atumn, International Festival of Contemporary Music, Common Things, Warsaw, 2023 | 28th International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, 2023 | Post Presence Strategies, PostPxrn Film Festival, Warsaw, 2023 | Star Children – an exhibition in action, Swarm collective, Guliwer Theatre, Warsaw, 2023 | Imagine, Raumwelten VR hub, Raumwelten, 2022 | Inexsistens VR showcase (Bardo, Connexion & Lovestory), New Images Festival, Forum des Images, 7th edition: Digital creation and virtual worlds, Paris, 2022 | (Wy)obcownie z VR, Galeria Studio, Warsaw 2022 | Imagine Film Festival, Amsterdam, 2021 | Poster Play, STGU, Warsaw, 2021 | Liminal – the transitional state, Galeria Arsenal, Białystok, 2021 | Connexion VR, Killing Gut, 5th International Symposium of Sonic Art and Spatial Audio, Hamburg, 2021 | From Poland with Love, 01 Gallery, online, 2021 | 65 Warsaw Atumn, International Festival of Contemporary Music, Fake Opera, Wojciech Błażejczyk, Warsaw, 2023 | From 1 to 7, Stefan Węgłowski, Sacrum Profanum Festival – Ars Antiqua, Kraków, 2020 | Bardo VR, Dream Adoption Society, Zygmunt Hübner Theater, Warsaw, 2019 | Bardo: Embodiment, Salon of the Academy Gallery, Warsaw, 2019 | Joice in Art, Antwerp, 2018 | Gotong Royong. The things we do together, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, 2017 | Bardo: Implosion, Soho Factory, Warsaw, 2013 | Printmaking as a play of art, National Museum, Szczecin, 2015 | Bardo: Reflections, New Media Department gallery, Warsaw, 2013
LECTURES
AND PANELS
Art and Science – New practices of transformation of art forms and scientific achievements, NASK (National Research Institute), Warsaw, 2024 | VR Space closed or open, Patchlab Festival, Kraków, 2023 | VR in Poland, research, projects, perspectives, 4th Congress of Film and Media Studies, Narratives – Theories, Strategies, Contexts, SWPS University, Warsaw, 2023 | King matt the first: the process of making a movie with children, ICAF, Rotterdam, 2023 | Seminar-theoretical workshops accompanying the exhibition Liminal – a state of transition, Galeria Arsenal, Białystok, 2021 | STGU Association of Graphic Designers, Future of Design, Warsaw, 2021 | International Festival of Audiovisual Arts Tetramatyka, Livl, 2019 | The Art of James Joyce XXVI International James Joyce Symposium, Atwerp 2018 | Dynamic Systems, National Conference accompanying the Best Media Art Diploma Competition, ASP Wrocław 2018 | Contemporary models of education in immersive projects | Szczecin European Film Festival, FWFTWF In the Borders of Cinema section, Szczecin, 2017 | Digital Cultures, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Warsaw, 2017 | Creation as a research practice, PWSFTviT, Łódź 2017 | Anniversary Joyce XXV International James Joyce Symposium, Celebrating Finnegans Wake in the Digital Media, London 2016 | International Literary Festival Ha!wangarda, Kraków 2016 | Digital Humanities, winer Poster Slam competition, Kraków 2016 | Chitrakatha International Animation Festival, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabab, India 2015