Starting the activities of WRO Art Center with an exhibition addressed to children is a significant idea for gathering new audiences than those already familiar with the new art. ‘Interactive Playground’ inaugurating the ‘Media Kindergarten’ series is an exhibition of interactive media installations addressed to the youngest, aiming at developing media literacy and promoting art education among them. During the first two weeks the exhibition drew over 1200 visitors and is to be presented within different venues in Poland and abroad afterwards.

A part of the Interactive Playground exhibition by Patrycja Mastej, Dominika Sobolewska and Pawel Janicki (2008). Photo: Marcelina Halaś

Several events are planned for 2008, such as solo exhibitions of works by the artists previously featured during past editions of the WRO Biennale: Igor Krenz and Piotr Wyrzykowski, individual exhibitions of Nam June Paik, Miroslaw Balka, as well as the series of lectures ‘Art is Power’ inaugurated by a presentation by Józef Robakowski have been published by WRO in 2007), together with the preparation of publications: ‘WRO Reader’ and ‘Hidden Decade’.

A part of the Interactive Playground exhibition by Patrycja Mastej, Dominika Sobolewska and Pawel Janicki (2008). Photo: Marcelina Halaś

A Media Reading Room facility enables access to a collection of Polish and international media art. The collection covers a cross-section of media art from the 1970s to the present day, including video art, recordings and documentation of audiovisual performances, art action projects, multimedia objects, interactive installations and net projects. Developed since 1989, among about 4000 elements it includes an exhaustive collection of Polish video art created between 1970-2007. The database is systematically digitalized, restored and made accessible by means of the system of archiving and presentation of media art works.

WRO Art Center, Media Reading Room. Photo: Zbigniew Kupisz

The residential program for artists and curators developing in the domain of media art and audiovisuality in a broad sense of this term is co-ordinated as a part of WRO’s program activities. In the framework of the cultural co-operation and artistic exchange between Alsace and Lower Silesia regions in 2008 WRO is hosting three residential artists from France, whose works are carried out under the curatorial, workshop and production patronage of WRO.

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