Mateusz Janik
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Bio:
Mateusz Janik (b. 1997, Kraków) is a visual artist working at the intersection of digital culture and material trace. A graduate of the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts in PoznaÅ„, where he currently teaches, he is a member of the Art & Science Node collective in Berlin. His works have been shown in PoznaÅ„, Warsaw, Bratislava, and Berlin.
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Artist statement:
Janik’s practice explores the poetics of identity in the post-digital condition. Using hybrid strategies—appropriation, interface aesthetics, and recontextualized imagery—he stages visual disruptions that challenge notions of presence, authorship, and authenticity. His works often blur sincerity and irony, functioning as speculative portraits of algorithmically shaped selves.
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​country: Poland
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txtspchasdf (from META– project)
Remix culture is built on reproduction and transformation.The nostalgic spiral rotates like a whirligig composed of an immense array of cultural texts. It spins and consolidates, and at its core, wecan’t distinguish the new from the old. theM., a digital entity created for the project, behaves similarly. Through it, I recorded an album mostly consisting of content appropriated from the internet. I use these materials to construct an audiovisual landscape seamlessly blending new content with that which contemporary culture is based on. I pose the question of how much of our identities are comprised of unique qualities and how much is based on others and what has been. We are mostly made of water, and what about our digital personas?
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