Andrzej Głowacki is a Polish

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and

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. He is

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of Academy Of Fine Art in

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(where he directs The Third Studio of Interior Design), head of Chair of Commercial Art, Computer Graphics and New Media in University of Information, Technology and Management in

Rzeszów Rzeszów ( , ) is the largest city in southeastern Poland. It is located on both sides of the Wisłok River in the heartland of the Sandomierz Basin. Rzeszów is the capital of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship and the county seat, seat of Rzeszów C ...

, Poland, and a co-author of the nascent Center of Digital Arts and Techniques also in UITM, Rzeszów.

Scientific career

He graduated from Faculty of Interior Design In Academy of Fine Art in Kraków, Poland. His

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from 1985 showed groundbreaking approach to

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of designing process treated as a creative act or even a

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rather than simple realization of an idea. Emotional aspect of creating and self-awareness of designer are equally important in this theory based on

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and

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. Though the theory was innovative it occurred to be too controversial for its times in Poland. It became a valuable source for curriculum, implemented and developed in The Third Studio of Interior Design since 1994. He was Dean of Faculty of Interior Design from 1990 to 1993. As the first dean after 1989 he began process of reformation in Academy. He focuses on teaching and designing tangible and virtual realities, real spaces and cyberspaces.

Knowledge transfer

He was editor-in-chief of CyberEmpathy: Magazine of Visual Communication and New Media in Art Science Humanities Design and Technology (2011 - 2016), published by Marika Wato. The journal continued the transhumanistic research direction described for the first time in the book "From Empathy to Cyberspace" written by Andrzej Głowacki and published in 2009. Andrzej Głowacki was responsible for fourteen editions of the journal as an editor-in-chief: *Issue 1 / 2011 (1) Sketches from Virtual Reality *Issue 2 / 2011 (2) The Gilliam’s Atlas *Issue 1 / 2012 (3) Cyber Fields Forever *Issue 2 / 2012 (2) Cyber Sky *Issue 1 / 2013 (3) Soluble Fish *Issue 2 / 2013 (4) Contemporary Art in Public Space *Issue 3 / 2013 (5) Architecture for Human, Humanism for Architecture *Issue 4 / 2013 (6) The Code *Issue 5 / 2013 (7) Visual Strategies *Issue 1 / 2014 (8) Augmented Reality *Issue 2 /2014 (9) Cyber Art *Issue 1 / 2015 (10) Hyper Visions *Issue 2 /2015 (11) The Eco-existentialism Theories *Issue 1 / 2016 (11) The Archetypes of Cyber Space

Design

He was one of the most popular Polish designers in the 1990s. He set up legendary, surrealistic Gallery Jo Design, which was located in Doubting Thomas's Corner in Kraków from 1992 to 1996. Popular Polish and foreign artists: actors, writers, journalists were its frequent guests. Projects from the 1990s represent optimistic design, full of stylistic courage and fun crafts with form. Objects are unconventional and quite unrealistic but they do not lose their functionality. Furniture, lamps and glass projects are the most characteristic. Their finessed shapes and both funny and philosophic names had many admirers in Europe.

Inspirations

Theoretical physics is his great passion and influences his artistic activities. He often compares it with mystical knowledge of old cultures. According to the needs of the future he teaches transhumanistic ideas and designing for cyberspace.

Exhibitions

Exhibitions of drawing, painting, graphics, collage in Poland, Germany, Netherlands and France, ex: *Nijmeegs Museum – Commanderie van Sint Jan from 29/06 to 11/08 1985 *Museum Oud Rijnsburg - from 22/10/1989 to 16/3/1990 - Kunst uit Oost- Europa (Kunst uit Polen - review in local press)

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The Third Studio of Interior DesignChair of Commercial Art, Computer Graphics and New Media - Projects Gallery
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