Corpus Callosum or Unwritten Thoughts on Art

BIOGRAPHY

Maciej Zdanowicz was born in Poland, 1982. He is a visual artist and art theorist who works in graphics and new media. His interests focus on intermedia and transmedia activities, on the border between visual and auditory forms of sensations. He seeks the immersive dimension of art, creating solutions in sound and dynamic suggestiveness. He works as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Art, the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, where he runs the studio of intermedia. Zdanowicz is currently serving as a Vice Dean for Educational and International Affairs. He is the author of several individual exhibitions, curatorial projects, critical texts, and scientific articles in the field of the history of modern and contemporary art. Actively works to promote and develop culture and art, including coordinating efforts of the city of Kielce for the title of European Capital of Culture 2029, Program Board of the National Museum in Kielce (appointed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage). Zdanowicz received awards and honors (Artistic Scholarship of Lodz City Mayor in 2017, honorable mention in the I National Exhibition of Student Drawing in Torun in 2008, the prize of the City Art Gallery in Lodz at the 23rd Wladyslaw Strzeminski Competition- Fine Arts). He is a member of several artistic and scientific international organizations, among them: SGC International (where he serves as a member of the board), editorial board "Visual Studies" journal (at the Faculty of Fine Arts of St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria), the ATINER Athens Institute for Education & Research (Arts, Humanities and Education Division - Arts and Culture Unit), The Polish Section of The International Association of Art Critics (AICA), International Print Triennial Society, Polish Society of Electroacoustic Music PSeME. 02 to 2007, he studied at the Faculty of Graphic and Painting, the Wladyslaw Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. He graduated with honors from the prof. Boguslaw Balicki's Studio of Poster Design and prof. Romana Halat's Studio of Painting and Drawing. From 2007 to 2016, he worked as a Teacher Assistant in the Studio of Image run by professor Aleksandra Gieraga at the Faculty of Visual Arts of his Alma Mater. From 2009-to 2015, he studied History of Art (doctoral studies) at the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. From 2012 was a doctoral student at the Institute of Fine Arts, the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, wherein 2015 received a doctoral degree in Fine Arts.