POLAND-U.S. ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE EXCHANGE PROGRAM

Janek Simon, Krakow, Poland @
Headlands, Sausalito, CA
Residency: June 2 – August 24, 2006

Janek Simon, Carpet Invaders

JANEK SIMON (b. 1977) works in video, programming, and computer animation. His works include interactive installations, internet projects, and experimental computer animations. Simon also produces live video performances and music visualization under the pseudonym VjJansi. He also collaborates with ha-art magazine. His work Carpet Invaders, which turns an ornate carpet into a space-invaders game, was shown in the group exhibition, Bang the Machine: Computer Gaming Art and Artifacts, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco in 2004, marking the young artist’s U.S. debut. The exhibition was one of the first to address the pervasive influence of our computer and video game culture on social communication and artistic production. His Departure / Take-off, was represented in Brooklyn EUphoria’s collage of European video art, curated by Alun Williams of Parker’s Box Gallery in Brooklyn, NY (2004).

Conceived and produced in partnership with the Artist-in-Residence Program of the Headlands Center for the Arts, this project has been generously supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Poland, and the Polish Cultural Institute, New York, and organized in cooperation with A-I-R at the Centre for Contemporary Art “Ujazdowski Castle”, Warsaw, Poland, as part of the POLAND-U.S. ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE EXCHANGE PROGRAM.

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