Mon Feb-15, 2016.

Professor Zbigniew Oksiuta will lecture at Michigan State University’s Department of Art, Art History, and Design as part of the Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series. The following day, Oksiuta will also lead a workshop “in which participants will create dynamic, biological membranes.”

Zbigniew Oksiuta is an architect and artist experimenting with the possibility of designing biological structures. He studied at The Faculty of Architecture, The Warsaw University of Technology. Oksiuta concentrates on reducing his research of space to the very necessary minimum: to the physiological existence based primarily upon the verifiable physical and chemical parameters putting aside historical, social, urbanistic and aesthetic factors. His projects such as ‘Spatium Gelatum’ and ‘Breeding Space’ and ‘Space Garden’ examine new soft technologies and biological materials which enable the development of new kind of living habitat in the biosphere and in space.

His work has been shown at venues worldwide including the Venice Biennial 2004; the ArchiLab d’Orleans 2004; Ars Electronica Linz 2007, Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth, Australia 2007; Center for Contemporary Art Warsaw 2007; FACT Foundation for Arts and Creative Technology Liverpool 2008; Biannual for Electronic and Unstable Art, Stavanger, Norway 2008, Casino Luxembourg 2009, Casino Luxembourg 2009, Kapelica Gellery, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2010, Science Gallery, Dublin 2011.

He has lectured and presented his ideas at a number of universities, art and scientific institutions including: RWTH Technical University Aachen; National Gallery Warsaw; German Space Agency; Slade School of Art London; University of Westminster London; Architectural Association London; Pratt Institute New York; Faculty of Architecture Landscape and Design UofT Toronto; Southern California Institute of Architecture Los Angeles; Columbia University New York; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; FACT Foundation for Arts and Creative Technology Liverpool; School of Art at Illinois State University, Normal; Marshall McLuhan Institute, Toronto; University of Bochum Germany; Rogaland School of Art Stavanger, Norway; Royal College of Art and AA Architectural Association, London; Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, USA

In addition to his research, Professor Oksiuta has taught numerous vertical option studios at Rensselaer as well as in the second-year housing studio. He recently led the study abroad program in Rome (Fall 2015) and currently teaches in the Integrated Design Schematic studio along with Professors Lonn Combs (coordinator) and Ted Ngai

Zbigniew Oksiuta, photo: Albert Zawada / Agencja Gazeta

Website: www.oksiuta.de

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