Who is Krzysztof Wodiczko and what does he do?

Krzysztof Wodiczko is a former Director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and the head of Interrogative Design Group at MIT and since 2010 is a Professor and a coordinator of Art, Design and the Public Domain, a postgraduate (MDes) concentration at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

When did Krzysztof Wodiczko win the Hiroshima Art Prize?

Wodiczko received the 1999 Hiroshima Art Prize for his contribution as an artist to world peace, and the 2004 College Art Association Award for Distinguished Body of Work.

Where did Bohdan Wodiczko live as a child?

Wodiczko, son of Polish orchestra conductor Bohdan Wodiczko, was born in 1943 during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and grew up in post-war, Soviet-occupied Poland. In 1967 while still a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, he began collaborating with director Jozef Patkowski and the Experimental Studio on sound performances.

When did Stanley Wodiczko move to New York City?

In 1983, Wodiczko established residency in New York City teaching at the New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury. The following year, he received Canadian citizenship and in 1986 resident-alien status in the United States. He began teaching at MIT in 1991, maintaining his residence in New York City while working in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Why did Krzysztof Wodiczko choose the Farragut location?

Similarly, each filmed participant’s home country has suffered the devastation of civil war which prompted Wodiczko to choose the Farragut location for this project to compare how select individuals are lionized in wartime and others are overlooked.

Where was Krzysztof Wodiczko’s veterans flame projected?

In Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Veterans’ Flame, the image of a candle fl ame moves with the recorded voices of veterans sharing accounts of war and its aftermath in Iraq and Afghanistan. Organized by New York City with support of Creative Time organization. The projection was on the clock tower of a former imperial castle, now the Zamek Culture Center.