Bio + CV

BIO

Aleksandra Pieńkosz (b. 1992 in Biała Podlaska, Poland) is an intermedia artist and poet, graphic and editorial designer, and an academic teacher of book design. She is also an experienced organiser of cultural events. 
Aleksandra coined the term interface poetry to describe her artistic method. Her practice is focused on finding human touch (both figuratively and literally) within new media and digital technologies, utilizing found digital objects, text, and experimentally employed social media as her primary mediums. She romanticises technology, examines the remediation of human relationships, and plays with the idea of anthropomorphising the algorithm. Her works have been exhibited and published in Poland, Germany, Italy, Croatia, Australia, and the United States.
Aleksandra is the founder of Glitch Art Is Dead, a series of events launched in 2015 that established a platform to bring the Glitch Artists Collective—a social media based group of creators—to a broader audience, offering both theoretical context and appreciation. As part of this initiative, she co-organized three international exhibitions in Poland and the United States and edited a conceptual, bilingual art book on glitch art (available on Academia).

SOCIALS
My instagram account, especially in the years 2016–2018, has been a tactically used medium for experimentation with interface, algorithm and new forms of self-expression, and right now functions as my main a platform to connect.
https://www.instagram.com/ale.png/

CV
Education
2021–2024
— Master's Degree in Intermedia Art at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Art in Kraków
2011–2016
— Master's and Bachelor's Degree in Editorial Studies at Jagiellonian University in Kraków

Exhibitions
2024
— Dotknij, aby dodać do relacji, Karmelicka 16, Kraków, Poland (individual show)
— Dotknij, aby dodać do relacji, Galeria Podlaska, Biała Podlaska, Poland (individual show)
2023
— Arkadia, National Museum, Warsaw, Poland (collaborative work, group show)
— Teren Zawodów, Transtopia, Kraków, Poland (group show)
2022
— Rytuały wody, KMWTW, Kraków, Poland (group show)
— Duch Abstrakcji spotyka Ducha Zabawy, Klinika Zabawek Kraków, Poland (group show)
2021
— Fu:bar expo, Zagreb, Croatia (group show)
2020
— New Digital Collage curated by Fabio Paris and Linda Rocco (group show)
Online at: http://www.newdigitalcollage.art/gallery/page/8/
— Portopiccolo Digital Summer Art, Trieste, Italy (group show)
— Fu:bar expo, Zagreb, Croatia (group show)
2017
— Dadaclub.online. The Exhibition, Brescia, Italy (group show)
— Fu:bar expo, Zagreb, Croatia (group show)
2016
— The artist is online, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany (group show)
— Animafest, Zagreb, Croatia (collaborative work, group show)
— Fu:bar expo, Zagreb, Croatia (group show)
2015
— Cegła NA KONKRET – concrete poetry exhibition, Wrocław, Poland (group show)
2012
— Re[d]akcja techniczna, Biała Podlaska, Poland (individual show)

Lectures and workshops
2024
– Cybersisterhood in art, Museum of Art Herstory, Kraków, Poland (lecture + interface poetry workshop)
2023
– Poezja, a i tak AI [Poetry and AI] – lecture, Museum of Art Herstory, Kraków, Poland
2022
– guest lectures on interface poetry method, Southwest Minnesota State University, Marschall, USA
2015
– DIE, JPG: DIY – workshop about glitch art methods, Kraków, Poland
2014
– lecture about cyberliterature and workshop on digital poetry (John Cayley’s method) during Podlaskie Spotkania Literackie literary festival, Biała Podlaska, Poland
2012
– workshop on liberature / found poetry Coś z Nietzschego, Biała Podlaska, Poland

Exhibitions (as an organizer) / art projects / events
2022
– co-organization of the third Glitch art is dead exhibition & glitch art festival. KK Berge Art Gallery, Granite Falls, Minnesota, USA (art direction, curatorship, graphic identity, panel discussions)
2018
– Iseljenie/Eksmisja exhibition and anthropology event about refugees in Belgrade. Kraków, Poland (curatorship, graphic identity)
2017
– co-organization of the second Glitch art is dead exhibition & glitch art festival. Gamut Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (art direction, curatorship, graphic identity)
2016
(IX 2015–XII 2016) Rozdzielczość Chleba publishing house (fixed term): Glitch art is dead (book concept, coordination, layout, typesetting, illustrations, writings)
2015
– organization of Glitch art is dead, first official Glitch Artists Collective international exhibition, Kraków, Poland
2014
– co-organization of group exhibition Brzydcy, Kraków, Poland (concept, visual identity, press)
2013
– volunteer work in Trükimuuseum (Tartu Printing Museum) in Tartu, Estonia (bookbinding, linocut)
2012–2015
– Korporacja Ha!art – editorial board member: co-organisation of Ha!wangarda: Festival of Experimental Literature; management of hypertext poetry book projects;
2007–2010
— Podlaskie Spotkania Literackie literary festival (co-organization, readings)
 
Publications
2022
– Agnieszka Piksa: Na planecie (poetry)
– Są pniaki, krzaki i ptaki (poetry, interface poetry)
– Feminatywy w Akademii. Słowniczek (dictionary entry)
2021
– „Szajn” magazine, (poetry, interface poetry) https://szajnmag.pl/przysposobienie-obronne-poezja-aleksandry/
2018
— Magazyn Kiksy, ASP Warszawa (interview)
2017
— Digital book aesthetics (series of articles), online (PL) at http://czytajpl.pl/author/aleksandra-pienkosz/
— „Notes na 6 tygodni” magazine (interface poetry) https://nn6t.pl/2017/10/01/aleksandra-pienkosz-interfacepoetry/
2016
— Pieńkosz A., Płucienniczak P. (eds.) Glitch art is dead, Kraków 2016 (concept, edition, design, illustrations, article, introduction) online at http://rozdzielchleb.pl/glitch-art-is-dead/
— Poezja interfejsu, PROwincja magazine, 2016 (interface poetry) online at http://prowincja.art.pl/poezja-interfejsu-aleksandra-pienkosz/
— Green, Collage Collective Co, Australia (collage)
2015
— „Cegła” magazine 31/2015 (concrete poetry)
2010
– Pieńkosz A., Jestem tylko kruchym demonem, Biała Podlaska 2010 (poetry book)
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