JOASIA KRYSA
Curator, Founding Director of
KURATOR and Reader in Art and Technology at the University of Plymouth, UK.
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EDUCATION
2008. PhD,
Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, UK.
1998. MA (UCL)
Fine Art Curating, Goldsmiths College, London UK.
1997. MA
Cultural Studies, University of Wroclaw, Poland.
1997. MA
Political Sciences, University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska (UMCS), Lublin, Poland.
AWARDS and PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
1997. British Chevening Scholarship (postgraduate research).
1998. Chevening Fellow, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK.
1998. British Alumni Society, Warsaw, Poland.
EXTERNAL ROLES
Scientific Committee, Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain, Art - Science in the European Union programme, 2009 - 2010.
Scientific Committee, International Congress on Web Studies at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, 2009 - 2010.
Leonardo Education Forum, Pacific Rim New Media Education Group Experts Forum, Singapore, 2008.
Culture Board Forum, Plymouth City Council, 2008.
Jury Member, ARCO International Art Fair, Madrid, 2007 - 2010.
Jury Member, Share Award, Torino, 2007.
Board of Directors, Visual Arts Consortium PVAC, Plymouth, 2006 - present.
Curatorial Board, Curatorial Network, Arts Council England South West, 2005 - present.
Academic Referee, MIT Press, 2005.
Board of Directors, Plymouth Arts Centre, 2003 - 2007.
Editorial Board, DATA browser series, New York, USA, since 2004.
Council of Management, Foundation WRO Media Center, Poland, 2004 - present.
CURATED EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS
2010. Art-Science-Technology in the European Union, exhibition, Ministry of Science and Innovation, Madrid.
2010.
After the Net, international touring exhibition: Observatori, Velancia (2008), Peninsula Arts, Plymouth, UK (2009), Tecnologico de Monterrey Toluca, Mexico (2010)
2008.
Anti-bodies, Infected, artists commissions, online.
2008.
GESPENST: self-replication of pathogen, 2008, exhibition of new work by Robert Lisek, Leto Gallery, Warsaw.
2008.
openKURATOR, online platform developed for
Observatori 2008, 9th Festival Internacional de Investigación Artística de Valencia.
2007.
Social Hacking, artists commissions: The IAA (US), Gameboyzz Orchestra Project (PL), Ludic Society (Austria/Switzerland); c6's (UK), Tetine (Brazil).
2006 - present.
Curatorial Network, programme of residencies, public seminars,international visits (with ArtProjects and Solutions, London and Arts Council England South West), UK.
2005 - present.
software_KURATOR, experimental online software system.
2005.
CURATING, IMMATERIALITY, SYSTEMS(CIS), conference, project launch, and a real time coding performance by
SLUB; in partnership with Tate Modern.
ORGANISED CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA AND PANELS
2009. Anti-Bodies: Beyond Body Ideal, seminar, University of Plymouth.
2008.
ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art)
Curating in/as Open System(s) panel, Singapore Management University, Singapore.
2007.
Social Hacking symposium, Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, UK.
2005. Tate Modern,
CURATING, IMMATERIALITY, SYSTEMS conference, London.
2003.
Artist as Engineer symposium, part of 'Interrupt' series, Arts Council England.
2003. WRO 03 Media Art Biennale,
Anti-globalica: Tensions in the New Global Disorder symposium, Wroclaw, Poland.
2002.
Hybrid Discourse series of talks and events, University of Plymouth, UK.
INVITED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS and PANELS
2009. Netherlands Media Art Institute,
Positions in Flux, Amsterdam.
2009. ARCO International Experts Forum, 'New Media Art Between Isolation and Integration' panel, Madrid.
2008. ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art), ‘Open Systems Curating’, panel and paper presentation, Singapore.
2008.
Computer Art Congress 2008, ‘Software Curating: Programming and Curating for Networks’, conference paper, Tecnologico de Monterrey, México.
2007. CONT3XT : Curating Media/Net/Art, panel 'The Politics of Online Curating', Vienna.
2007. WRO International Media Biennale, 'Curating - Archiving', symposium presentation, Wroclaw.
2007. ARCO International Experts Forum, 'The Economics of Culture / The Culture of Economics', panel presentation, Madrid.
2006. Piet Zwart Institute, 'Software Studies’ seminar, Rotterdam.
2005. Tate Britain,
Open Congress 'Software Kurating', London.
2005. Centro Cultural de Belém,
Atmosferas, ‘Online Portuguese Net Art 1997 - 2004’, Lisbon.
2005. Tate Modern, ‘Curating, Immateriality, Systems (CIS’), London.
2005. Spacex gallery, ‘Re.Computing 101B’, Exeter.
2003. Artist as Engineer, conference introduction, Arts Council England and University of Plymouth.
2003. WRO International Media Biennale, conference introduction, Wroclaw, Poland.
2002. Mediaterra 02: New Platforms, conference presentation ‘New Strategies for Networked Media', Athens.
2001. Culture 2000, Programme of the European Commission, presentation, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland.
EDITED BOOKS AND JOURNALS
2006. Krysa J., (ed.)
Curating Immateriality: The Work of the Curator in the Age of Network Systems, editor, DATA Browser vol. 3, New York: Autonomedia.
2005. Krysa J., Cox. G., (eds.)
Engineering Culture: On the Author as (Digital) Producer, DATA Browser vol. 2, New York: Autonomedia.
2005. Krysa J., Cox. G., (eds.)
Just Browsing, Special Volume of DATA Browser for Magazyn Sztuki journal, vol. 32-33/05, Poland.
2005. Krysa J., (ed.)
EJHAE The European Journal of Higher Arts Education, 'Economies of Knowledge', issue 2, referred academic journal, Amsterdam.
2004. Krysa J., Cox. G., (eds.)
Economising Culture: On the (Digital) Culture Industry, DATA Browser vol. 1, New York: Autonomedia.
1998. Krysa J., (ed.)
Magazyn Sztuki, journal issue 2/98, Poland.
PUBLISHED CHAPTERS
2008. Krysa J.,'Distributed Curating and Immateriality', chapter in Christiane Paul (ed.),
New Media in the White Cube and Beyond, Berkeley: University California Press.
2008. Krysa J., Sedek. G., 'Source Code', chapter in Matthew Fuller (ed.),
Software Studies, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
2008. Krysa J., Sedek. Kod Zrodlowy, chapter in Kultura Popularna, transl. to Polish, vol 4/22, Warsaw.
2008. Krysa J.,'Experiments in (Social) Software Curating: reprogramming curatorial practice for networks', chapter in
Vague Terrain: Digital Art / Culture / Technology journal, issue 11, CONT3XT.NET (ed.).
2008. Krysa J., 'Curating in/as Open System(s): social technologies and emergent forms of curating',
ISEA 2008, 14th International Symposium on Electronic Art, conference proceedings, Singapore.
2008. Krysa J., Curating After the Net, catalogue introduction, Observatori catalogue, Valencia.
2008. Krysa J., ‘Software Curating: programming and curating for networks’, conference proceedings,
Computer Art Congress, Mexico City, published by Europia Productions, Paris.
2007. Krysa J., Shingleton. D.,'Kurator Version Beta 1.0', chapter in CONT3XT.NET (eds.)
circulating contexts: Curating Media/Net/Art, Vienna, Norderstedt: Books on Demand Gmbh.
2006. Krysa J.,
Curating Immateriality, introduction to DATA Browser vol. 3, New York: Autonomedia.
2005. Krysa J., Cox. G., 'System Error: Economies of Cultural Production in the Network Society', chapter in Malcolm Miles (ed.),
New Practices / New Pedagogies, London: Routledge.
2005. Krysa J., Cox. G.,
Engineering Culture, introduction to DATA Browser vol. 2, New York: Autonomedia.
2004. Krysa J., Cox. G., Ward. A.,'Anagrams of Orderly Disorder (for the new global order)', chapter in Sarai Reader 04: Crisis/Media (
), published by Sarai - CSDS and the Waag Society.
2004. Krysa J., Cox. G., Lewin. A., Economising Culture, introduction to DATA Browser vol 1, New York: Autonomedia.
2003. Krysa J., Cox. G., 'Art as Engineering: Techno-Art Collectives and Social Change', chapter in Ryszard W. Kluszczynski (ed.), Art Inquiry, vol. V Cyberarts / Cybercultures / Cybersocieties, Lodz Science Society, Poland.
2003. Krysa J., Cox. G., 'Immaterial Curating: the Generation and Corruption of the Digital Object', chapter in Lukasz Ronduda (ed.), Zeszyty Artystyczne, Poznan University, Poland, no 11, issue XII.
2001. Krysa J., C.U.K.T: techno-transgressions, interview, first published in ART MARGINS, USA, January 2001; reprinted in Balkon # 12, ed. Tim Nadasan, Fall 2002, Romania; also reprinted in Anarchitexts: Voices from the Global Digital Resistance, Joanne Richardson (ed.), New York: Autonomedia (2005).
2001. Krysa J., Poles Apart. The Irreconcilable Process of Ageing, chapter first published in MAKE, no.86, December 1999, ISSN 1365-8190, pp 16-19; reprinted in ART MARGINS, January 2001. Excerpts included in 'Creativity of the Machine: Flesh and Bits', exhibition catalogue, Poland.
1999. Krysa J., Dzuverovic-Russell. L., 'New Media: Watching the Novelty Wear Off', chapter in WRO Media Art Biennale catalogue, Poland.
TELEVISION DOCUMENTARIES (PRODUCED AND/OR DIRECTED)
1998. DOCUMENTA X, series of five art documentaries, co-director, commissioned by Polish State Television (TVP).
1997. Thamas Waliczky, art documentary, co-director, commissioned by the Polish State Television (TVP).
1997. Digital Art Night - WRO 97 Biennale, art documentary, assistant director, WRO Media Art Centre, Polish State Television.
1996. Golden Nica and a Selfish Gene: Ars Electronica 96, art documentary, assistant director, WRO Media Art Centre, commissioned by the Polish State Television (TVP).
1995. Composers' Night: WRO 95 Biennale, art documentary, assistant director WRO Media Art Centre), commissioned by the Polish State Television (TVP).
