Creating Democracy: A Dialogue with KrzysztofWodiczko

Abstract

Krzysztof Wodiczko was born in Warsaw, Poland, and studied industrial design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. His work involves the investigation of strategies of communication in the public sphere. His projects have been exhibited at the Bienal de São Paulo (1965, 1967, 1985), Documenta (1977, 1987), the Venice Biennale (1986,2000), and the Whitney Biennial (2000). In 1998, he was awarded the Hiroshima Peace Prize. He is head of the Interrogative Design Group and director of ACT, the center for Art, Culture, and Technology, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.