Miroslaw Rogala

Mirosław Rogala (born 1954, in Poland) is a Polish- American media artist and interactive artist. Miroslaw Rogala works in a broad range of generative media of an experimental and transformative nature. Primarily his work has involved analogue and digital art, interactive installations consisting of multi-layered, multi-channeled video displays that invite viewers to transform the space themselves.

He considers the closing gap between nature and urban life through the advent of new technologies, and finds a harmony in which the two interact and evolve into a cohesive new system that reflects our changing world.

His work has been exhibited/ in collections at the world-wide institutions: the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) at Karlsruhe, Germany; Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil; Lyon Biennale, France; The Brooklyn Museum; Anthology Film Archives; The Alternative Museum; Exit Art, New York, the Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland, and the Goodman Theatre, Chicago.

Ph.D. in Philosophy, Interactive Arts. 2000 CAiiA/ STAR Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts, University of Wales, Newport, Wales under the direction of Prof. Roy Ascott
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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.

The World Premiere of "Gardens of Negotiation"; Media Opera - The Overture/ Multimedia Interactive- Non Interactive Installation at WRO'2017, Media Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland, May - June 2017.
The artist was honored by his native Poland with solo/ retrospective exhibitions : Miroslaw Rogala: Gestures of Freedom: Works 1975-2000, in Warsaw, Krakow, during 2000-2001 and “The Breath of an Image: at the Plock Art Center, Plock in 2013.
Writing in the catalogue for the show, art critic Elaine King called Rogala “a techno-poet
of time, place and self.”
The comprehensive future solo exhibition: "Assembridge: Freedom to Assemble" will be at the “Elektrownia”/ Contemporary Art Center, Radom, Poland - in negotiations.

Critical reviews of Miroslaw Rogala interactive artwork as illustrative of new trends in technology-based media arts are in printed works and book publications (2000-2015) including:
Miroslaw Rogala: Oddech Obrazu/ The Breath of an Image: Exhibition Catalogue. Essays
by Michal Brzezinski, Krzysztof Buczkowski, George Lellis, Lucyna Mielczarek, Ryszard Kluszczynski, Dave Richards, Miroslaw Rogala, Andrzej Strumillo, Alina Wasilewska and Lynne Warren. Plock, Poland: Centre for Contemporary Art. Includes an Artist Stat...