Robert B. Lisek
Encyclopedia
Robert B. Lisek is a Polish
artist
and mathematician
who focuses on systems
and processes
, draws upon conceptual art
, radical art strategies, hacktivism
, bioart
, software art
and artificial intelligence
his work defies categorization.
. His work is focused on systems and processes (computer, biological and social), disrupting the language of these systems, including rules, commands, errors and by using worms and computer viruses. In the project Das GESPENST he explores the relationship between bio-molecular technology, code and issues arising from network technologies. With reference to the emerging practice of bioart
, the artist represents the self-replicating
behavior of new original bacteria in order to draw out its wider bio-political significance in an imagined scenario of bioterrorism attack of Warsaw
. Lisek is currently researching problems of security, privacy and identity in networked societies. He build NEST - Citizens Intelligent Agency, advanced software for searching hidden patterns and links between people, groups, events, objects and places.
Lisek is also a scientist focused on the computational complexity theory
, graph theory
and order theory
who cooperates with the Department of Logic of Wroclaw University. He studied at the Fine Art Academy in Wroclaw from 1990 to 1997 and at Department of Logic of Wroclaw University [from 1992 to 2000] and at the PWSTiTV film school in Lodz
.
Lisek is a founder of Fundamental Research Lab, and a founder and leader of ACCESS group and art symposium.
Poles
thumb|right|180px|The state flag of [[Poland]] as used by Polish government and diplomatic authoritiesThe Polish people, or Poles , are a nation indigenous to Poland. They are united by the Polish language, which belongs to the historical Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages of Central Europe...
artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
who focuses on systems
Systems theory
Systems theory is the transdisciplinary study of systems in general, with the goal of elucidating principles that can be applied to all types of systems at all nesting levels in all fields of research...
and processes
Process theory
Process theory is a commonly used form of scientific research study in which events or occurrences are said to be the result of certain input states leading to a certain outcome state, following a set process....
, draws upon conceptual art
Conceptual art
Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions...
, radical art strategies, hacktivism
Hacktivism
Hacktivism is the use of computers and computer networks as a means of protest to promote political ends. The term was first coined in 1994 by a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective named Omega...
, bioart
BioArt
BioArt is an art practice where humans work with live tissues, bacteria, living organisms, and life processes. Using scientific processes such as biotechnology the artworks are produced in laboratories, galleries, or artists' studios...
, software art
Software art
Software art refers to works of art where the creation of software, or concepts from software, play an important role; for example software applications which were created by artists and which were intended as artworks. As an artistic discipline software art has attained growing attention since the...
and artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
his work defies categorization.
Works
Lisek is a pioneer of art based on AI and bioinformaticsBioinformatics
Bioinformatics is the application of computer science and information technology to the field of biology and medicine. Bioinformatics deals with algorithms, databases and information systems, web technologies, artificial intelligence and soft computing, information and computation theory, software...
. His work is focused on systems and processes (computer, biological and social), disrupting the language of these systems, including rules, commands, errors and by using worms and computer viruses. In the project Das GESPENST he explores the relationship between bio-molecular technology, code and issues arising from network technologies. With reference to the emerging practice of bioart
BioArt
BioArt is an art practice where humans work with live tissues, bacteria, living organisms, and life processes. Using scientific processes such as biotechnology the artworks are produced in laboratories, galleries, or artists' studios...
, the artist represents the self-replicating
DNA replication
DNA replication is a biological process that occurs in all living organisms and copies their DNA; it is the basis for biological inheritance. The process starts with one double-stranded DNA molecule and produces two identical copies of the molecule...
behavior of new original bacteria in order to draw out its wider bio-political significance in an imagined scenario of bioterrorism attack of Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
. Lisek is currently researching problems of security, privacy and identity in networked societies. He build NEST - Citizens Intelligent Agency, advanced software for searching hidden patterns and links between people, groups, events, objects and places.
Lisek is also a scientist focused on the computational complexity theory
Computational complexity theory
Computational complexity theory is a branch of the theory of computation in theoretical computer science and mathematics that focuses on classifying computational problems according to their inherent difficulty, and relating those classes to each other...
, graph theory
Graph theory
In mathematics and computer science, graph theory is the study of graphs, mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects from a certain collection. A "graph" in this context refers to a collection of vertices or 'nodes' and a collection of edges that connect pairs of...
and order theory
Order theory
Order theory is a branch of mathematics which investigates our intuitive notion of order using binary relations. It provides a formal framework for describing statements such as "this is less than that" or "this precedes that". This article introduces the field and gives some basic definitions...
who cooperates with the Department of Logic of Wroclaw University. He studied at the Fine Art Academy in Wroclaw from 1990 to 1997 and at Department of Logic of Wroclaw University [from 1992 to 2000] and at the PWSTiTV film school in Lodz
Lódz
Łódź is the third-largest city in Poland. Located in the central part of the country, it had a population of 742,387 in December 2009. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is approximately south-west of Warsaw...
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Lisek is a founder of Fundamental Research Lab, and a founder and leader of ACCESS group and art symposium.
Exhibitions
Lisek exhibits, lectures, and conducts workshops worldwide. His projects include among others:- NEST - FILE Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo
- NEST - ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid
- FLOAT – Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY
- FLOAT – Harvestworks Digital Media Art Center, NY
- SPECTRUM - Leto Gallery, Warsaw
- WWAI - SIGGRAPH 2005, Los Angeles
- Falsecodes - Red Gate Gallery & Planetary Collegium, Beijing
- GENGINE - Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw
- FLEXTEXT - CiberArt Bilbao
- FLEXTEXT - Medi@terra - Byzantine Museum, Athens
- FXT – ACA Japan Media Festival, Tokyo
- STACK – ISEA 02, Nagoya
- SSSPEAR – 17th Meridian, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw
External links
- http://turbulence.org/blog/2008/11/10/gespenst-widmo-spectre-warsaw/
- http://www.recyklingidei.pl/vitcheva_wypadek_laboratorium
- http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1186796.1186804
- http://music.columbia.edu/organism/?s=robert+lisek
- http://knowledgetoday.org/wiki/index.php/ICCS07/72
- http://article.wn.com/view/2010/06/17/E_coli_testing_broadens_as_regulators_look_for_less_common_b/
- http://fundamental.art.pl/
- http://www.myspace.com/robertlisek
- http://lisek.art.pl/gespenst.html
- http://fundamental.art.pl/gengine.html
- http://www.myspace.com/sunus666
- http://fundamental.art.pl/ACCESSEPIDEMIC.html