Krzysztof Pijarski
Artist working mainly with photography, art historian, associate professor at the Film School in Łódź. Founder and co-Director of the Visual Narratives Laboratory, where he also heads the Interactive Narratives Studio, developing, among others, a toolset for creating digital publications for the contemporary web. Recipient of a Fulbright Junior Research Grant at Hohns Hopkins University (2009-2010), and grants, among others, from the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, and the Shpilman Institute of Photography. Interested in developing convincing visual forms of thinking, as an artist he focuses primarily on the aesthetic – that is, sensual – dimension of the epistemological, political, and ethical, creating visual archeologies of institutions and discourses, biographies of people and things.