About
Edyta Mąsior was born in Jaworzno, Poland in 1977.
She is an artist and academic teacher, working at the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Poland.
As an artist she has developed her artistic practice within different fields of traditional as well as new media arts. While her early training consisted of traditional techniques in visual arts, this experience would eventually lead her towards an interest in new media arts, which has since developed into a creative practice in time-based media works. Her visual and sonic media artworks draws attention to communication and perception processes, as well as explores the intersection between art and technology by way of interactivity, predominantly with installation environments. Her research addresses media translocations in the definition of modern art transformations.
Her academic background includes completed studies in her native country, as well as abroad. Her Habilitation (dr hab. / post-doctoral degree) was awarded by the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland. She concluded her PhD in Intermedia at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. She obtained her MA in Digital Arts (Postgraduate Programme Studies) at the Athens School of Fine Arts. She attended Modern Greek Language courses at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She holds a Master of Arts degree at the Faculty of Arts at the Pedagogical University of Cracow, becoming the first student there to receive the Erasmus / Socrates scholarship to study at the University of Crete.
She has received fellowships from the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, the State Scholarship Foundation (IKY Greece), Erasmus / Socrates program, and Polish academic scholarships.
Her research and practice have been presented at conferences, in solo and group exhibition and as well as festivals both in her native country and abroad.
She is the author of the series: Impertinent Wandering (2002), Unsealed Dream (2009), Maria (2009), Balloon, Thread and Three People (2008-2010), “Like a Bird Alone On a Roof” (2006-2009), among others.
Artistic Activities
Exhibitions, Festivals and Live Performances
| 2024 |
Line, Spot, Dot, Grain: The Diversity of Polish Graphic Arts, G. Gounaropoulos Museum, Athens, Greece |
| 2023 |
Künstler:in und Stadt - Stadtwandeln, Leipzig, Germany Fourth International Print Biennale, Yerevan, Armenia Silent and Time, Cultural Centre, European University Cyprus, Cyprus |
| 2022 |
"Ephphatha”, That Is “Be Opened”. Folk Healing Rituals in Pomerania. Cracow Art Meetings 2022 Territories, Covidoki, Pałac Sztuki, Cracow, Poland |
| 2021 |
Bestiarium, Athens Printmaking Art Centre, ETCH INK art space, Athens, Greece |
| 2020 |
Herbarium, Athens Printmaking Art Centre, ETCH INK art space, Athens, Greece |
| 2019 |
GloSpat 719 / Homage to Bogusław Schaeffer, CCA Solvay, Cracow, Poland A Year of the Women of the Academy of Fine Arts, Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Poland 5th International Motion Festival, European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus |
| 2018 |
Young Academy, Nowa Huta Cultural Centre, Cracow, Poland |
| 2017 |
Hellada, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Athens, Greece Silicon Hill, Krzemionki, Cracow, Poland Three Golden Hairs, Litograf Studio, KFK, Cracow, Poland Villa Unknown, Villa Decius, Cracow, Poland 40 years of Muzyka Centrum, Villa Decius, Cracow, Poland 4th International Motion Festival, European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 29th International Festival of Krakow Composers, CCA Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow, Poland Imersja417, CCA Solvay, Cracow, Poland |
| 2016 |
Lightwaves 2016, Manchester, Salford Quays / MediaCityUK, United Kingdom Art Beats ΙΙΙ: The disease of art. The art of disease, The Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre, Athens, Greece Lab.30, 15th Augsburg Festival for Media Arts, Kulturhaus Abraxas, Augsburg, Germany Light Night Leeds 2016, Leeds City Museum, Leeds, United Kingdom Inspired by Architecture, Galleries of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, Poland 50th International Festival Days of Organ Music, Organ Underground / GrupLab, St. Martin Church, Cracow, Poland Graphics and Time, The Second Breath of Printmaking 1982-2002, Gallery Pryzmat, ZPAP OK, Cracow, Poland Closed Concert, CCA Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow, Poland 28th International Festival of Krakow Composers, Concert of the Electroacoustic Music Studio / Electronic Cocktail, Concert Hall, The Academy of Music, Cracow, Poland Athens Science Festival 2016, Technopolis City of Athens, Greece AudioKineza, CCA Solvay, Cracow, Poland 3rd Syn Festival 2016, Project-M, Teviot Row House, Debating Hall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
| 2015 |
Art Festival 3.NHFest, NCK, Cracow, Poland Researchers’ Night 2015, Foundation of the Hellenic World, Athens, Greece Researchers’ Night 2015, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece Concert 4:33, CCA Solvay, Cracow, Poland Plejrek11 with Tony Miłosz, Electroacustic Music Studio of the Academy of Music, Cracow, Poland Thessaloniki Science Festival 2015, TIF-Helexpo, Thessaloniki, Greece Midday Concert, CCA Solvay, Cracow, Poland What Is Contemporary Art?, TPU, Uniejów, Poland Open. Sketches of the Artists from the Circle of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Poland Concert Elektro_Novy, CCA Solvay, Cracow, Poland My Silent Balloons II, Sztuczny Sklep, Cracow, Poland Invisible Playground, Promotion Gallery AFA, Cracow, Poland |
| 2014 |
Rematerialising Culture, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Athens, Greece Audio Art Festival 2014, Cracow, Poland Fabrica Utopia, Festival Miden screenings, Andros, Greece An Urban Film Map / Festival Miden, The ArtWall, Athens, Greece August Nisha, CCA Solvay, Cracow, Poland July Nisha, CCA Solvay, Cracow, Poland Video Art Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece June Nisha, CCA Solvay, Cracow, Poland 48th International Festival Days of Organ Music, Fotrus Narrae Marek Chołoniewski / GrupLab, St. Martin Church, Cracow, Poland 8th Audiovisual Arts Festival, Video Art screenings from Festival Miden 2013, Asclipios patio, Corfu, Greece Orchestra ElektroNova 2014, CCA Solvay, Cracow, Poland NISHA, CCA Solvay, Cracow, Poland |
| 2013 |
Postdata: Esperanza Recuerda, I Exposición Internacional de Arte Postal, Facultad de Bellas Artes de Granada, Granada, Spain Mécanismes pour une entente, Bakelit Multi Art Centre, Budapest, Hungary Mécanismes pour une entente / Mechanizmy porozumiewania, MOS Cracow, Poland Mécanismes pour une entente, Tabačka KulturFabrik, Košice, Slovakia Mécanismes pour une entente, Polarium, Bordeaux, France Mécanismes pour une entente, Gare de Sain-Jean, Bordeaux, France Graduates 2001-2013, Gallery Zejście, Cracow, Poland Seventy Two and 21037, Gallery Dom Norymberski, Cracow, Poland Paradox Fabric 2013 / Art Research on Context, European Art Biennale, Centro Cultural CajaGRANADA Memoria de Andalucia, Granada, Spain Video Art Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece Orchestra for Disable Instruments_100 years of The Art of Noise by Luigi Russolo, CCA Solvay, Cracow, Poland Allaloa Adam Walaciński_100 years of The Art of Noise by Luigi Russolo, CCA Solvay, Cracow, Poland Dodging Bullets Keir Neuringer, MOS, Cracow, Poland intonarumor vibraiting_100 years of The Art of Noise by Luigi Russolo, CCA Solvay, Cracow, Poland Vibrator Ensamble_100 years of The Art of Noise by Luigi Russolo, CCA Solvay, Cracow, Poland Video Art screenings from Festival Miden 2012, Calliope Artspace and Chios Photography Club, Chios, Greece |
| 2012 |
5th International Drawing Competition, Museum of Architecture, Wrocław, Poland RE-culture 1, 1st International Visual Art Exhibition and Educational Workshops, Art in Progress, Agora Argiri, Patras, Greece “Like a Bird Alone On a Roof”, WBP Cracow, Poland Space, ODA Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland Video Art Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece |
| 2010 |
2nd International Biennale of Graphic Digital Arts, Museum of City of Gdynia, Gdynia, Poland |
| 2009 |
In the Area of Memory, MBP Chrzanów, Poland Container, Kilindromili Sarandopoulou, Piraeus, Greece |
| 2008 |
4th Video Art Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece |
| 2001 |
Drawings from Workshop of Professor Piotr Jargusz, Galeria na Pięterku, Cracow, Poland |
| 2000 |
Youth Cracow 2000, NCK Cracow, Poland |
| 1993 |
Paintings Exhibition, Culture House, Byczyna, Poland |
Participatory Projects
Art, Technology and Innovation
| 2024 |
Innovation, Tech & Culture, Summer School, Athens, Greece. Explors Digital Culture, Business, and Innovation in the era of Artificial Intelligence. The program organized by Onassis ONX, the global new media & digital culture program of Onassis Foundation, and ACE (Athens Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation) of the Athens University of Economics and Business, and in partnership with the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering – University of the Aegean. |
| 2019-20 |
The Year of the Women of AFA Cracow / Rok Kobiet z ASP, cooperation: Edyta Mąsior, Agnieszka Marecka, Iwona Demko |
| 2013-ongoing |
GrupLab, Activity of the Studio for Elektroacoustic Music (SME) of the Academy of Music in Cracow as initiative of Marek Chołoniewski and others; scientific collective group exploring newest and alternative technologies in art applications; GrupLab performed series of concerts 100 years of The Art of Noise by Luigi Russolo (2013), Nisha (2014), concerts (2015), AudioKineza (2016) and performs concerts as well as weekly improvised music sessions Plejrek 1-32 (2015), Plejrek 33-65 (2016), Plejrek 66-... (2017); a DVD has been realized; |
| 2013 |
Paradox Fabric / Art Research on Context, European Art Biennial, Granada, Spain; Mécanismes pour une entente, Five months of workshops in Cracow, preceded by two months of collective travelling by train via Romania-Hungary-Slovakia-Poland, with stops made along the Silesia-Cracoviana-Karpathy designed train lines; |
| 2011 |
Christian Boltanski Les Archives du Coeur (nr 422) |
| 2007 |
In-Between, Artistic research on multicultural virtual neighborhoods on the Web, ASFA, Athens, Greece, coordination: Manthos Santorineos 1st Animart 07, Monodendri, Greece |
| 2000 |
Out-door painting training, Wysowa Zdrój, Poland |
| [...] |
theatrical performances |
Scholarships and Grants
Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, Poland, Rector’s Award (group), 2022
Erasmus + Teaching Mobility for Academic Staff, Grant, 2019
Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, Poland, Rector’s Award (II), 2017
Leeds City Council, Commission, 2016
High Achievement Scholarship, AFA Cracow, Poland, Scholarship, 2013-2014
Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Polish Culture Around the World, Grant, 2013, 2014
High Achievement Scholarship, AFA Cracow, Poland, Scholarship, 2011-2012
The Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, Greece, Fellowship, 2007-2008
The State Scholarships Foundation (IKY Greece), Fellowship, 2004-2006
Erasmus / Socrates program, Grant of EU, 2001
High Achievement Scholarship, PU Cracow, Poland, Scholarship, 1999-2000
Professional Experience
Academic Teacher, Minjiang University, International Digital Economy College, Fuzhou, China, 2024-ongoing
(joint program between Minjiang University and European University Cyprus)
Academic Teacher, AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Humanities, Cracow, 2022-ongoing
Academic Teacher, Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of Graphic Arts, Cracow, Poland, 2020-ongoing
Academic Teacher, Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of Intermedia, Cracow, Poland, 2013-2020
Academic Teacher, Pedagogical University, Faculty of Arts, Cracow, Poland, 2012-2013
Academic Teacher, Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of Sculpture, Cracow, Poland, 2011-2012
Further Teaching Experience
Teacher, Digital Media courses, ZSPK Cracow, Poland, 2010-2012
Teacher, Art and Technology courses, ZSME Trzebinia, Poland, 2003-2004
Teacher, Art courses, Gymnasium, Płaza, Poland, 2003
Teacher, Art courses, Primary School, Płaza, Poland, 2003
Speaking
Lectures and Panels
| 2019 | Speaker: 5th International Motion Festival Cyprus, European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus |
| 2017 |
Panel: Silicon Hill. Media Art, Gallery of Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, Poland Speaker: 4th International Motion Festival Cyprus, European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus |
| 2016 |
Speaker: Embodied Methodologies, 4th Annual Practice-based Research Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, United Kingdom Speaker, Panel: The Image of the City, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece |
| 2015 |
Organisational Committee, Coordination of the Conference: Multimedia Communication. Dispositive of Polysensory Artefacts. Multimedia Discourse. Faculty of Intermedia, AFA Cracow, Poland |
| 2014 | Speaker: The Niche Conference. The Discrete Charm of Technology, The Academy of Music, Cracow, Poland |
| 2013 |
Speaker: The Resonance Conference, The Academy of Music, Cracow, Poland |
Workshops
| 2015 |
Workshop: How an Interactive Installation is Created?, Children's University, Cracow, Poland Workshop, collaboration: Space As an Experimental Place, CCA Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow, Poland |
| 2012 |
Workshop: My Place in Town, Town as My Place, ZSPK Cracow, Poland |
Curatorial Activities
| 2017 |
Curatorial: exhibition of student works eKsiążka [eBook] of Media Operations, Studio of Media Interactions, Gallery of One Book, AFA Library, Cracow, Poland; DVD ISBN 978-83-65570-50-5 |
| 2016 |
Artistic Supervision: publication of workshop student script An Interactive Book, The 15th International Creative Anxiety Workshops Vincent’s Pocket, ISBN 978-83-941246-7-0 |
| 2015 |
Artistic Supervision: publication of workshop student script Whisper, The 14th International Creative Anxiety Workshops Vincent’s Pocket at the Biennial Poznan, 4-7 May 2015, ISBN 978-83-941246-3-2 |
| 2013 | Curatorial: exhibition of student works And What After Interpretation?, WBP Cracow, Poland |
| 2012 | Curatorial, collaboration: exhibition of student works Space As an Experimental Place, CCA Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow, Poland |
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Publications
| 2020 |
Edyta Mąsior, Concerning the Role and Significance of Chance. The Balloon in Art | O roli i znaczeniu przypadku. Balon w sztuce, text (PL) inAW Journal - Multidisciplinary Academic Magazine, ISSN 2719-7816, No. 1, 2020 |
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Edyta Mąsior, Concerning the Role and Significance of Chance. The Balloon in Art | O roli i znaczeniu przypadku. Balon w sztuce, videoarticle in polish sign language (PL) Medialica. Multimedia Studies in the Humanities, ISSN 2544-4204, No. 7, 2020 |
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| 2013 |
Edyta Mąsior, A Visual Palimpsest About a Balloon. The video My Silent Balloons. A Balloon, Thread and Three People From the Balloons Series, text (PL) Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis, Studia de Arte at Education VIII, ISSN 2081-3325, p. 119-122 |
Articles
| 2019 | Edyta Mąsior, All the Strings of Tradition | Wszystkie struny tradycji, text (PL) Wiadomości ASP, Issue 88, 2019, ISSN 1505-0661, p. 44-49 |
| 2016 | Edyta Mąsior, My Silent Balloons II, text (PL) Wiadomości ASP, Issue 75, 2016, ISSN 1505-0661, p. 112-113 |
| 2013 | Edyta Mąsior, Judit Kurtág, meta-Plaveč, infra-Plaveč, text (PL, ENG) catalogue Mechanizmy porozumiewania, p. 26-27 |
Poems
| 1994 | Swojskie strofy, poems, participation, published by KSM Jaworzno-Byczyna |
Catalogues
| 2022 |
Folk Healing Rituals in Pomerania, catalogue ISBN 978-83-66410-33-6 Cracow Art Meetings 2022 Territories, catalogue ISBN 978-83-66078-59-8 |
| 2018 | Young Academy, catalogue ISBN 978-83-66054-28-8 |
| 2016 |
Art Beats ΙΙΙ: The disease of art. The art of disease, catalogue Inspired by Architecture, catalogue ISBN 978-83-64448-43-0 Graphics and Time, catalogue ISBN 978-83-89647-58-0 |
| 2015 | Open. Sketches of the Artists from the Circle of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, catalogue ISBN 978-83-64448-41-6 |
| 2014 | Rematerialising Culture, catalogue |
| 2013 |
Art research on context: The P-Fabric Project, catalogue ISBN 978-0-9897361-1-4 Mechanizmy porozumiewania, catalogue |
| 2012 | 5th International Drawing Competition, catalogue ISBN 978-83-60520-833 |
| 2010 | 2nd International Biennale of Graphic Digital Arts, catalogue |
| 2000 | Drawings From the Studio of Piotr Jargusz, catalogue |
Releases
Videography
| 2018 | Edyta Mąsior, When You Walked In (2016) 6:45, DVD by Audiomat |
| Edyta Mąsior, Laiki (2009), DVD by Audiomat | |
| 2015 | Edyta Mąsior, Bubbles, You See Now? (2013) 8:19, DVD by Audiomat |
Data DVD
| 2018 | Edyta Mąsior, Laiki #1-#6, DVD by Audiomat |
Reprints of Art Works
| 2017 |
Edyta Mąsior, series Parallax Error (photos), Hi-Fi and Music, text (PL) «Parallax Error» an interview with Leszek Hefi Wiśniowski, Music magazine ISSN 1234-2173, Issue 230, No. 6, June 2017 |
| 2015 |
Edyta Mąsior, series Laiki #1 (cover), Nowa Dekada Krakowska, cultural magazine, Issue 6 (22) 2015, ISSN 2299-4742 Edyta Mąsior, series Bubbles (photos), Glissando #27, New music magazine ISSN 1733-4098 |
Reviews and Interviews (examples)
| 2020 | The Year of the Women of AFA Cracow, Talk with dr hab. Edyta Mąsior, Radio Kraków, March 10, 2020 |
| 2017 | Τέχνης Παλμοί εις μνήμην, text (GR) by Lida Mpouzali, ΑΩ Magazine, Issue 75, January 2017 |
| 2016 |
Τέχνης Παλμοί ΙΙΙ, text (GR) ΑΩ Magazine, Issue 74, November 2016 SHINE Interview: 3 Emerging Artists, 3 New Commissions, text (ENG) by quaysculture, October 25, 2016 Εντύτα Μώνσιορ, text (GR) ΑΩ Magazine / Issue 73, October 2016 |
| 2015 |
Τι είδα στη βραδιά του Ερευνητή, text (GR) by Eas Artemakis, Protagon, September 13, 2015 The Image of the City [Η εικόνα της πόλης], text (GR) by Io Paschou, ΑΩ Magazine / Issue 68, June, 2015 Όταν η επιστήμη εμπνέει τον καλλιτέχνη!, tv (GR), ANAmpa, 2015 |
| 2013 |
The P-Fabric 2013, tv (ES), Tesis channel, 2013 El idioma universal del arte, text (ES) by Lucia Bazaga, Ideals, September 14, 2013 P-Fabric Art Research', un laboratorio de creación de artistas llegados de toda Europa, text (ES) R. Castro, GranadaHoy, September 14, 2013 Disorientations, Interview with Edyta Mąsior and Judit Kurtág, text (ENG) by Valérie de Saint-Do, Deadline #5, 2013, p. 12-15 On the Rails Again, text (FR) by Valérie de Saint-Do, MicroCassandre, August 14, 2013 |
| 2009 |
Fall In Love With the History of Ancestors | Zakochana w historii przodków, text (PL) by Dariusz Baran, Przełom, Issue 37 (905), September 16, 2009 Me, From the Journey | Ja z podróży, text (PL) by Olga Nowicka in material of exhibition In the Area of Memory The Container of Art, text (GR) by Aris Malandrakis, “9”, Issue 456, Elefterotypia, May 23, 2009, p. 4 Art In Container, text (GR) by Giannis Koukoulas, To Pontiki, Issue 1553, May 28, 2009, p. 10/38 Container, text (GR) Athens Voice, June 4-10, 2009, p. 85 |
| 1999 |
Wrote and Drew, text (PL) Gazeta Wyborcza, Issue 295 (2942), ISNN 1232-1591, December 18-19,1999 |
Reviewer
Medialica. Multimedia Studia in the Humanities, ISSN 2544-5204
Member
The Alexander Onassis Alumni Association
