2002 - 2008. PhD Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, UK. 1997 - 1998. MA Fine Art Curating, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. 1991 - 1997. MA Cultural Studies University of Wroclaw, Poland. 1989 - 1997. MA Political Sciences, University of Maria Curie, Lublin, Poland.
Dr. Joasia Krysa is founding director of KURATOR/AST (Art and Social Technologies Research) and Associate Professor (Reader) in Art and Technology at the University of Plymouth, UK.
She is a co-editor of DATA browser book series (published by Autonomedia, New York), Member of the Council of Management for WRO Media Art Foundation (Wroclaw, Poland), and currently part of the curatorial team for Documenta 13 (2012, Kassel).
She regularly contributes to international juries such as ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid (2007-2010) and scientific advisory
boards including International
Scientific Committee of the 1st International
Congress on Web Studies at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico (2010) and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation Scientific Committee for Art - Science in the
European Union project (2009-2010).
Recent curatorial projects include touring exhibition After The Net (Spain, UK, Mexico, 2008 - 2010), and Silicon Dreams (for Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and LaAgencia, Madrid 2010).
Roles on external bodies 2011. European Cultural Foundation, Routes Princess Margriet Award, nominator. 2009 - pres. Documenta 13 (2012, Kassel), Curatorial Team. 2009 - 2010.
Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain, Scientific Committee for Art - Science - Technology in The EU programme, Chair. 2010. International Congress on Web Studies, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, Scientific Committee Member. 2008.Leonardo Education Forum, Pacific Rim New Media Education
Group Experts Forum Member, Singapore. 2008 - pres. Culture Board Forum, Member, Plymouth
City Council. 2007
- 2010.ARCO International Art Fair, Madrid, International Jury Member. 2007. Share Award, Torino, International Jury Member. 2006 - pres. Visual Arts Consortium PVAC, Plymouth, Board of Directors. 2005 - pres. Curatorial Network, Arts Council England
South West, Curatorial Board. 2005. MIT Press, Academic Referee. 2003 - 2007.Plymouth Arts Centre, Board of Directors. 2004 - pres. DATA browser series, New York, USA, Editorial Board. 2004 - pres. Council of Management, Foundation WRO Media Center, Poland.
Teaching interests
Currently teaching modules on Cultural Management and Production, Curating Digital Arts, Critical Theory, Art and Technology across the following programmes in the School of Art and Media, Faculty of Arts:
BA/BSc Digital Art & Technology (http://www.medialabarts.net/)
MA/MSc Digital Art & Technology (http://m.i-dat.org/)
MRes Utopian Studies
MRes Digital Art & Technology
PhD supervision
Module Leader (09/10):
iDAT 108 Introduction to New Media
iDAT 210 Strategies for Art and Technology 2
iDAT 304 Culture Industry
iDAT 501 Adaptive Play
Contributing to the following modules (09/10):
PRID 301 Dissertation (supervising final stage dissertation students)
MARE 500 Research Skills module for MRes/MPhil programmes across FoA
MRes Utopian Studies
MRes Digital Art and Technology
Other Teaching and Management responsibilities:
Stage Tutor
Admission Tutor
Placement Supervisor
Dissertation Supervisor (BA/BSc DAT)
Research interests
Current research interests include: • cultural management, leadership, curating; • curatorial practice for Internet, technological systems and networks • critical theory at the intersection of culture and technology • innovative and experimental curatorial software systems and online platforms (software curating, curating and social technologies)
Research esteem: • submision of high quality research outputs at the international level to Research Assessment Exercise UoA 63 (2001, 2008) • dveloping new research strands consistent with the Faculty and School agendas through KURATOR / Art and Social Technologies research group • developing research expertise and practice in an emerging field of curating, software and network cultures through KURATOR (research and curatorial platform since 2004)
Doctoral thesis (2008) 'Software Curating. The Politics of Curating in/as Open System(s)' supervised by Prof. Roy Ascott (The Planetary Collegium), Prof. Malcolm Miles (University of Plymouth), Dr. Christiane Paul (Whitney Museum of American Art, NY), examined by Dr. Matthew Fuller (Goldsmiths College), Prof. Beryl Graham (University of Sunderland), Prof. Eduardo Miranda (University of Plymouth).
UoP Research group membership
Art and Social Technologies AZTEC (Art, Science, Technology Research Consortium) Centre for Media, Art & Design Research (MADr)
Research degrees awarded to supervised students
MPhil, Second Supervisor, Lucas Bambozzi Da Silveira, Brazil, completion July 2006 (thesis title: Public Life and Pervasive Systems: a critical practice).
PhD, Director of Studies, Magdalena Tyzlik-Carver, registered 2009 (thesis title: Curating and Social Technologies: New Models of Online Curatorial Practice for the Commons).
Creative practice & artistic projects CURATED EXHIBITIONS 2010.Silicon Dreams. Art-Science-Technology in the
European Union, exhibition, Ministry of Science and
Innovation, Madrid; Tabakalera, San Sebastian February - March 2010. 2010. After the Net (3.0),
international touring exhibition,Tecnologico de Monterrey Toluca, Mexico. First commissioned for Observatori 2008, 9th Festival Internacional de Investigación Artística de Valencia, Centro del Carme,
Valencia, Spain. 2009. After the Net (2.0)
international touring exhibition, Peninsula Arts, University of Plymouth, UK. 2008. After the Net (1.0),
international touring exhibition, Centro del Carme, Valencia. http://www.kurator.org/afterthenet 2008. Anti-bodies: Infected, artists
commissions, online, http://www.kurator.org 2008. 'WIDMO /das GESPENST/ SPECTRE: self-replication of pathogen', Leto Gallery, Warsaw, November 2008; an exhibition of new work by
Robert Lisek, curated by Joasia Krysa and Geoff Cox. http://lisek.art.pl/gespenst.html; Text by Joasia Krysa & Geoff Cox http://lisek.art.pl/LisekbyKrysaCox.pdf 2007. Social Hacking, international
artists commissions: The IAA (USA),Gameboyzz
Orchestra Project (Poland), Ludic Society (Austria/Switzerland); c6's (UK),
Tetine (Brazil). Funded by Arts Council South West and Plymouth City Council,
UK, http://www.kurator.org/wiki/main/read/Hack+Commissions/
2006- ongoing. Curatorial Network,
programme of residencies, public seminars,international
visits and online portal. In collaboration with ArtProjects and Solutions,
London and Arts Council England South West, UK, http://www.curatorial.net/ 2005- ongoing. software_KURATOR,
experimental online software system, http://software.kurator.org/v1/ 2005. Curating, Immateriality, Systems (CIS), programme of events comprising international
conference, project launch, and a real time coding performance by SLUB; in
conjunction with the opening of the Open Systems, organised in partnership with
Tate Modern. http://www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents/archive/CuratingImmaterialitySystems/
TELEVISION PRODUCTION
Programmes Directed and / or Produced for
Polish State Television (1995-1998)
1998. DOCUMENTA X, series of documentaries,
co-director, commissioned and broadcasted by
the Polish State Television, Channel 2. 1997. Documentary: Portrait of the
Artist: Thamas Waliczky, co-director, commissioned
and broadcasted by the Polish State Television, Channel 2. 1997. Digital Art, documentary, assistant
director, WRO Centre for Media Art, commissioned
and broadcasted by the Polish State Television, Channel 2. 1996. Golden Nica and a Selfish Gene: Ars
Electronica, documentary, assistant director, WRO
Centre for Media Art), commissioned and broadcasted by the Polish State
Television, Channel 2. 1995.Composers'
Night: WRO 95 Biennale, documentary, assistant director, WRO Center for
Media Art,commissioned and
broadcasted by the Polish State
Television, Channel 2.
Publications PUBLISHED PAPERS 2011. Krysa J., Curatorial Alternative to What? From Alternative Forms to Everyday Technologies, WRO 2011 Reader, WRO Center, Wroclaw, May 2011. 2011. Krysa J., Some Questions on Curating as Public Interface, peer-reviewed conference proceedings, Public Interfaces, Vol. 1, No.1, 2011. 2010. Krysa J.,All Things Together. Cross-Disciplinarities between Art, Science and Technology, chapter in Silicon Dreams, exhibition catalogue, commissioned by the Spanish Ministry of Science and
Innovation, Madrid. 2010. Krysa J., Curating After the Net, conference
proceedings, 1st Congress on Web Studies, Monterrey Technologico in Toluca, Mexico, Europia Publishing, Paris. 2009. Krysa J., The rise and fall / boom and bust / profit and debt of ‘new media art, conference proceedings, The 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art ISEA 2009, Dublin, ISBN 978-1-905902-05-7. 2008. Krysa J., Software Curating:
programming and curating for networks, conference
proceedings, Computer Art Congress, Mexico City, Europia Productions,
Paris. http://europia.org/CAC2/#publication/ 2008. Krysa J., Distributed Curating and
Immateriality', chapter in Christiane Paul (ed.), Curating
New Media, Berkeley: University California Press. 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, published by ISEA 2008 Pte Ltd, Singapore. 2008. Krysa J., Sedek. Kod Zrodlowy,
chapter in Kultura Popularna, transl. to Polish, vol
4/22, Warsaw. 2008. Krysa J., Sedek. Source Code,
chapter in Matthew Fuller (ed.), Software Studies,
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11476/ 2008.
Krysa J., Curating After the Net, catalogue introduction, Observatori catalogue, Valencia. 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). 2007.Krysa J., Shingleton. D., Kurator Version Beta 1.0, chapter in CONT3XT.NET
(eds.) circulating contexts: Curating Media/Net/Art, Vienna:
Herstellung und Verlag, http://cont3xt.net/curating/book.php 2004.Krysa J., Curating
Immateriality, introduction to DATA Browser vol. 3, New York: Autonomedia. http://www.data-browser.net/03/ 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. http://www.data-browser.net/02/ 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. http://www.data-browser.net/01/ 2003. Krysa J., Cox. G., Artist 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., 2003, 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 fromthe
Global Digital Resistance, Joanne Richardson (ed.), New York:Autonomedia.http://www.artmargins.com/content/interview/cukt.htm/ 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. http://www.artmargins.com/content/feature/krysa.html/ 1998. Krysa J., Dzuverovic-Russell. L., New
Media: Watching the Novelty Wear Off,
chapter in WRO Media Biennale catalogue, Poland.
EDITED BOOKS AND JOURNALS
2006.Krysa J., (ed.) Curating Immateriality: The Work of the Curator in the Age of Network Systems, DATA Browser
seriesvol. 3, New York: Autonomedia,
ISBN: 1-57027-173-93, http://www.data-browser.net/03 2005.Krysa J., Cox. G., (eds.) Engineering Culture: On The Author as (Digital) Producer, DATA Browser series vol. 2, New York: Autonomedia, ISBN: 157027-170-4,
http://www.data-browser.net/02 2005.Krysa J., Cox. G., (eds.), Just Browsing, Special Issue of DATA
Browser for Magazyn
Sztuki journal vol. 32-33/05, Poland. 2002.Krysa J., (ed.) EJHAE
The European Journal of Higher Arts Education, Economies of Knowledge', issue 2, referred academic journal, Amsterdam,http://www.eliaartschools.org/publications/archive#EJHAE2/ 2003.Krysa J., Cox. G., Lewin.
A., (eds.), Economising Culture: On the (Digital) Culture Industry, DATA Browser series vol. 1, New York:
Autonomedia, ISBN 1-57027-168-2.http://www.data-browser.net/02 1998. Krysa J., (ed.), Magazyn Sztuki,
journal vol. 2/98, ISSN 1231 6709, Poland.
Reports & invited lectures 2011. Keynote lecture for 5th National Symposium of the Brazilian Association of Cyberculture Researchers (ABCiber 2011), Florianópolis, Brazil. http://www.simposio2011.abciber.org/ 2011. Rencontres Internationales, presentation with Ubermorgen.com, Centre Pompidou, Paris. 2011. 14 Media Art Biennale WRO 2011: Alternative Now, 'Curatorial Alternative to
What? From Alternative Forms to Everyday Technologies' presentation, Wroclaw,
Poland.
2008. Computer Art Congress 2008, ‘Software Curating: Programming and Curating
for Networks’, conference paper. The Paragraphe Lab, University of Paris VIII
(France), the Monterrey Technologico, México.
2003.
Artist as Engineer, conference introduction, Arts Council England and
University of Plymouth. 2003. WRO International Media Art
Biennale,
conference introduction, Wroclaw, Poland, http://wro03.wrocenter.pl/symposium-en.html
2001.
Culture 2000, Programme of the European Commission, presentation, Galeria
Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland.
Conferences organised
selected:
2009. Anti-Bodies: Beyond Body Ideal, seminar, University of Plymouth. 2008.ISEA International Symposium on Electronic Art, ‘Curating in/as Open System(s)’, Singapore Management University, Singapore. 2007. Social Hacking symposium, Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, Arts Council England South West. http://www.kurator.org/wiki/main/read/Hack+Commissions. 2005. CURATING, IMMATERIALITY, SYSTEMS, Tate Modern, London. http://channel.tate.org.uk/media/36838626001#media:/media/36838626001/26632171001&context:/channel/most-popular 2003. Artist as Engineer symposium, chaired by Armin Medosch) as part of 'Interrupt' series of symposia organised by Arts Council England, hosted by i-DAT (UK), with support from Arts Council England. 2002. Anti-globalica: tensions in the new global disorder , WRO 03 International Media Biennale, Woclaw, Poland. http://wro03.wrocenter.pl/symposium-en.html/ 2001. Hybrid Discourse, conference series in partnership with Dartington School of Arts, http://www.kurator.org/wiki/main/read/Hybrid+Discourse/
Other academic activities • undertaking role in Equality and Diversity Scheme, representing currently Faculty of Arts and previously Faculty of Technology in Gender Equality Scheme Subcommittee • engaging in course marketing and recruitment through UoP Open Days activities as well as initiating innovative strategies such as organising students-led presentations, open workshops and exhibitions of students' work regionally and internationally in high profile media venues and centers
Links KURATOR http://www.kurator.org DATA browser http://www.data-browser.net
The rise and fall / boom and bust / profit and debt of ‘new media art, conference proceedings,