Wojciech Zamiara (born 1960 in Toruń) - Polish contemporary artist, interdisciplinary artist (creator of multimedia installations, performance and video art), educator. He studied at the State Higher School of Visual Arts in Gdańsk (current name of the university: Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk), he obtained his diploma at the Graphics Studio of prof. Cyprian Kościelniak in 1986. He has been working at the Gdańsk University since 1986, currently holding the post of second degree adjunct. He leads the studio Introduction to Intermedia at the Department of Specialization and Specialization at the Faculty of Sculpture.

 

Artur Tajber - born in 1953 in Stalinogród, Poland, which is what the city of Katowice was called in the years 1953-56. Intermedia and performance artist, writer and theorist, composer, art organiser, freelance curator, living in Krakow, Poland. He has exhibited his work since 1974. Involved in the performance art movement since the mid-1970s. In the late seventies he began organizational, curatorial and union activity as well as travelling abroad, mostly in France. In 1980 he returned to Poland and began his cooperation with the Regional Board of the NSZZ Solidarność – Małopolska (Solidarity – Lesser Poland Region). Member of the Company Committee (Komitet Zakładowy) of the Independent Self-Governing Trade Union of Artists and Designers “Solidarność” at the Regional Board of the ZPAP [Union of Polish Artists and Designers] in Krakow (the first one artistic board of Solidaność in the whole country). During martial law (after 13th of Dec. 1981) he was one of four founding members of the KONGER performance art formula (with Wladek Kazmierczak, Marian Figiel and Marcin Krzyzanowski) and became an assistant at the Department of Visual Arts of the Faculty of Industrial Design, Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (from 1982). Toward the end of the eighties he was involved in the reactivation of the ZPAP, founded and ran the gt gallery in Krakow; from 1989 he was a Vice-President of the Regional Board of the ZPAP and artistic manager of the Pryzmat Gallery. In the latter half of the 1990s he was elected president of the Fort Sztuki Association and continued his artistic and curatorial activity in Poland, Norway, Canada, Ireland, Great Britain and many other countries in Europe, Asia and both Americas, where he also presented his own work, mainly in performance art.

 

He is working in long-term thematic cycles, the most well known are: ORIENT-ACTION, OCCIDENT-ACTION, DESOL-ACTION, WALK’MAN, chair’man, TABLEABLE, S’TABLE, TIMEMIT…

 

He is also the co-author of a unique programme of education in intermedia (2001) and instigator of Intermedia Studio in Krakow. In the second half of 2007 he was appointed head of the Department of Intermedia formed at Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where he also runs Poland’s first Performance Art Studio (BA, MA, PhD). Since 2007 he has also lectured on performance art at the Jagiellonian University and has worked at the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology (PJWSTK). In 2012 he was the instigator of the Faculty of Intermedia and became its first Dean.