https://anjaborowicz.com anja borowicz :: artist website Mon, 08 Jan 2024 21:27:21 +0000 https://anjaborowicz.com en https://anjaborowicz.com/FRONT-Cortazar-Slitscan Sun, 12 Jun 2022 06:44:21 +0000 anja borowicz :: artist website https://anjaborowicz.com/FRONT-Cortazar-Slitscan ANJABOROWICZ Info ︎ ︎ ︎&nbsp; /// artist, collaborator, facilitator based in London Born in Gdańsk during the communist era, Anja trained as an engineer before turning to fine art and completing a PhD at the Royal College of Art — a trajectory that keeps her work moving between systems and sensation, processes and aesthetics. Working across clay, canvas, sound and immersive technologies, she stages encounters between bodies and materials, querying different ways of experiencing the world. FragileEncounters 2024 + WORKSHOPS colLABorative 2013 + GestureLabs 2019 + STUDIO experiments2014 + OBJECT-GESTURES multimodal transcriptions2018+ LATEST NEWS_ _ _ _ &gt;&gt;&gt; drawings ARCHIVE2014 - RESEARCH&nbsp; &nbsp; PROFILE https://anjaborowicz.com/info-bio Sun, 12 Jun 2022 09:11:07 +0000 anja borowicz :: artist website https://anjaborowicz.com/info-bio <img src="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/12/394480/5754783/anja_borowicz_profile-pic.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; cursor: pointer; border: 0px; width: 250px; height: 250px;" width="250" height="250" alt="Woman with child checking email">Artist, collaborator and researcher based in London. Born during the communist regime in Gdansk, I initially trained as an engineer before studying fine art. These shifting experiences have underscored her interests in performed materiality, embodied cognition and neurodiverse aesthetics. In my practice, I use multimodal approaches combining sculptural objects with drawing, instructional scores, soundscapes and digital technologies. My participatory installations and projects explore imaginary overlaps, empathetic states, and connections between different bodies and spaces, human and non-human, physical and digital. studio @ Barbican Arts Group Trust, London projects — collaborations — residencies ::&nbsp;Resonant Returns: Collaborative project with Imperial College London and Chiswick Stroke Club, exploring vibrotactile feedback for post-stroke rehabilitation, funded by N-Code network (2025-onward) Neurohorizons[Sensing Landscapes]: Project exploring sensory feedback and therapeutic spaces, Unreal concept in development at Birmingham Open Media (2024-onward) SMBQ Artist in Residence, project: A wearable vibrotactile device to aid post-stroke rehabilitation,&nbsp; University of Birmingham &amp; Imperial College London (2023-24) AuralDiversities: Field Trip to Bervie Brow Research Station, Cold War radar and listening station, Scotland (2023) Neuroaesthetics Conference: Universality of Aesthetic Experience, artist talk, University of Suceava, Romania (2023) The Listening Academy London, devised by Lucia Farinati in collaboration with Brandon LaBelle and Errant Sound as part of The Listening Biennial, Berlin (2021) Workshop, Giving Voice to Synthetic Sonics, with Amina Abbas-Nazari, RCASU (2021) Call and Response ||, research presentation, NAFAE, RCA, University of Greenwich (2021) Das Haus Lab #03 Fellow, creative labs and online community project (2020-21) INTERFERENCE, INTERRUPTION: Mentored by RESOLVE, The School of Broadcasting, Radio Art Catalyst (2020-21) Masterclass: Deepfakes - Synthetic Media And Synthesis with ThoughtWorks Arts and Baltan Laboratories, led by Ellen Pearlman (2020) Film collage contribution Circular for Entanglement: Just Gaming, RCA Visual Culture Lecture Series, Zoom/Royal College of Art (2020) Digital Workshop everyday sculptures sculpting everyday, commissioned by Waltham Forest Council as part of Virtual Culture Programme (2020) 2019 Facilitator“BODYWORKS” or “WORK IN THE HEAD”,&nbsp;OPENLAB project by A de la Fe, Chisenhale Dance Space, London (2019) Co-host and text selector for Sauna Reading Group #6, project by Barry Sykes, The Finnish Church, London (2019) Collaborative study Disrupting Object-Gesture with a neuroscientist dr&nbsp;Adela Desowska (2019) Collaborative project d/UMP :: diagrammatic mode of thinking, writing and talking in artistic processes, with artist /researcher Annabelle Craven-Jones (2018) Sound contribution kneading malleables for lololol.net, online manuscript of Taoist-informed experimental practices for mind and body cultivation in contemporary times, presented @Bangkok Biennial (2018) Workshop contribution to Open Choreography Residency: Tate N Lyle with Fionn Duffy, Siobhan Davis Studios, London (2018) Interview for Episode #4 Resilient Home,&nbsp;Shift + Signal podcast series exploring deeper adaptations to contemporary social, economic and environmental crises, produced by Dr Alex Lockwood (2018) Voice performance for Theatre of Reading and Speaking, RCA Research Exhibition, Asylum, London (2017) Artist in Residence at The Quadrant Romford, commissioned by Romford Contemporary Arts Programme (2015) thebARTershop, public exchange &amp; maker space, Hoe Street Central, commissioned by Waltham Forest Council, London (2014) Artist in Residence for regeneration project 38 Hoe Street, commissioned by Waltham Forest Council, London (2013) Presentation for Materials at the Centre, Institute of Making, UCL, London (2013) Presentation Maintaining Art, or Invisible Labour? for Slade Performance Day, UCL, London (2013) Artist in Residence with Trelex Artist Residency, Switzerland (2012) No Working Title, Collaborative project for Learning Department, Tate Modern, London (2011) exhibitions ::ENCODED REALITIES, Centrala / Digbeth First Friday, Birmingham (2024) ARTE 2023, Project Space, Blackhorse Lane Studios, London (2023) RCA2022 Autumn Show, group show, The Hangar, Royal College of Art, London (2022) Technology in the 21st Century, online exhibition with ArtBanquet, featuring GestureLabs (2021) RCA Research Biennale 2021 online project exposition (2021) TRIPLE HARVEST:: extracted:crashed:smelted, sound commission for Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Northampton (2020) 2084, RCA Research Exhibition, Dyson Gallery, London (2020) GestureLab 3:: BodyWorks Reimagined, installation commissioned by Artillery, CRATE, London (2019) GestureLab 1:: Mirroring and Enacting, commissioned for E17 Art Trail, One Hoe Street, London (2019) There's something lurking in the shadows that might be interesting, Dyson Gallery, London (2019) FLIGHT MODE, RCA Research Exhibition, Assembly Point, London (2018) d/UMP&nbsp;: diagrammatic mode of thinking in art processes, with Annabelle Craven-Jones, Spike Island TestSpace, Bristol (2018) Solution 66, selected + curated by the icing room for Art Licks Weekend 2017, London (2017) SPLIT (land) SCAPES, installation with Vanessa Maurice-Williams, Gallery LockIn, Brighton (2017) Daybreak, RCA Research Exhibition, Safehouses, Peckham, London (2017) FALSEWORKS + INTERMEDIARIES, Solo Exhibition, ArtWorks Project Space, London (2015)&nbsp; Why Would I Lie, RCA Research Biennial, Dyson Gallery, London (2015)&nbsp; Socially Engineered Machine, Control Room, Redcliffe Bridge, supported by Bristol City Council (2014)&nbsp; TIAF London 2014, The Rag Factory, London (2014)&nbsp; Aesthetica Art Prize, Exhibition, York St Mary’s, York (2014)&nbsp; Unknown Quantity, The Looking Glass Art Space, Bristol (2013)&nbsp; Slade MA/MFA Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London (2013) City Methodologies 2013, Exhibit &amp; Event, UrbanLab, London (2013)&nbsp; Subject to Change, Deconstruction Project, Kursaal Space, Southend on Sea (2012) These Words I Seek Are Not My Own, Motorcade/FlashParade, BV Studios, Bristol (2012) recognitions :: Award,&nbsp;London Creative Network/SPACE, professional development programme (2022-23) Shortlist,&nbsp;Here+There Residency, £25k award, Bristol + Bath Creative R+D (2022) Grant, Arts Council Emergency Response Fund for Individuals (2020) Shortlist, Jerwood Visual Arts Artist Bursary (2017+2019) Grant, The Yorkshire Ladies’ Council of Education Award (2016) Grant, The Eaton Fund Grant (2016) Longlisted, Aesthetica Art Prize, Aesthetica Magazine (2014) Grant, AHRC Research Preparation Masters Studentship UCL (2011-13) Award, Kenneth Armitage Young Sculptor Prize (2011) publications :: ‘The Practice of Neuroaesthetics’, in Neuroaesthetics: A Methods-Based Introduction, Balinisteanu, Tudor, and Kerry Priest, eds. (PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2023)‘Care-less Desire’, in CARE(LESS). A SUPPLEMENT TO ON CARE, Sharon Kivland &amp; Gemma Blackshaw eds. (MA BIBLIOTHEQUE, 2021) ‘Instructions for Unworking’ in Woven Scores, Alisa Oleva ed. (online zine, 2021) PROVA: 4, RCA Arts &amp; Humanities Research Journal (London: Royal College of Art, 2018) Why Would I Lie? Haslam Susannah &amp; Peter Le Couteur eds. (London: ArtQuarters Press, RCA, 2015 &nbsp;Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology 2014: 100 Contemporary Artists (York: Aesthetica Publishing, 20214) Slade Graduate Research 2013 (London: Slade Press, UCL, 2013) Subject to Change, Zbigniew Kotkiewicz, D. Hunter and A. Kucharko eds., Exhibition Catalogue&nbsp; (London: Deconstruction Project, 2012) education :: PhD Fine Art (Practice-based), Thesis: Sculpting with object-gestures: An everyday working gesture as an artistic proposition and a space to reimagine material resonances. Supervised by: Prof Mel Jordan, Dr. Joanne Tatham, Royal College of Art, London (2022) MA Fine Art (Sculpture), Slade School of Fine Arts, UCL, London (2013) BA (Hons) Fine Art, Bath Spa University (2011) BEng (European) Engineering (Production &amp; Ergonomics), Politechnika Gdanska, Poland &amp; University of Exeter, UK (1998) Studium Pedagogiczne (Certificate in Education), Politechnika Gdanska, Poland (1999) lecturing ::&nbsp; Royal College of Art (2018-2022): Artist talks and seminars for MA students on Pre-sessional Course English for Academic Purposes&nbsp;Liverpool Hope University (2021): BA Fine Art and Creative Arts, artist talk and tutorials (online)&nbsp;UCA Farnham (2020): Artist talk, studio crits and tutorials for BA Fine Art&nbsp;Royal College of Art (2018-2019): Co-leading cross-school crits&nbsp;Bath Spa University (2013 &amp; 2018): Artist talk and studio tutorials, BA Fine Art&nbsp;Camberwell College of Art,&nbsp;UAL (2015 &amp; 2016): Teaching placements, artist talk and seminar, studio crits and tutorials for BA Sculpture workshop commisions:: Resonant Clay: exploring vibrotactile recovery for post-stroke movement (2024): Clay workshop testing rehabilitation device for post-stroke movement with Imperial College researchers &amp; stroke ambassadors at Rosetta LifeGiving Voice to Synthetic Sonics, workshop with Amina Abbas-Nazari, RCASU (2021)everyday sculptures &lt;&gt; sculpting everyday, digital workshop for Virtual Culture Programme, commissioned by Waltham Forest Council (2020)Sculpture Studio Day for secondary school students, commissioned by ReachOut RCA (2016)Drawn From Live for A-level students, commissioned by ReachOut RCA (2014)Big Draw at 38 Hoe Street, commissioned by Waltham Forest Council (2013)Cosmetic, making clay pastels + talk for Materials at the Centre, Institute of Making, UCL, London (2013)Drawing On+Off-Paper and Painting Methods &amp; Materials, Slade Summer School (2013) other professional experience :: Volunteer Mentor with Arts Emergency (2025)&nbsp;Freelance Pastoral Tutor (2022-2024): Centre for Young Musicians, Guildhall School of Music&nbsp;Purchasing Projects Manager / Buyer (1998-2008): The Consortium for Purchasing &amp; Distribution, Trowbridge, UK Project Assistant (1997-98), Deutsche Post AG, Marketing Letter Division, Bonn, Germany Environmental Project Internship (1996), Kambas Factory, Ortved, Denmark https://anjaborowicz.com/LANDING Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:26:20 +0000 anja borowicz :: artist website https://anjaborowicz.com/LANDING https://anjaborowicz.com/NEWS-title Tue, 22 Mar 2022 14:51:18 +0000 anja borowicz :: artist website https://anjaborowicz.com/NEWS-title /// LATEST NEWS https://anjaborowicz.com/Neuroaestetics-Book Mon, 08 Jan 2024 21:27:21 +0000 anja borowicz :: artist website https://anjaborowicz.com/Neuroaestetics-Book <img width="2598" height="1850" width_o="2598" height_o="1850" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa8689a5665f738197c69f452dc736921bbba9d14a843249cc1ac4aa471c710c/978-3-031-42322-2_PM_exception_dummy_HC_T1_Soler-Isaac.jpg" data-mid="201130161" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa8689a5665f738197c69f452dc736921bbba9d14a843249cc1ac4aa471c710c/978-3-031-42322-2_PM_exception_dummy_HC_T1_Soler-Isaac.jpg" /> The book I contributed to Neuroaesthetics: A Methods-Based Introduction is now available online for free and will soon be available in print! It is aimed at both scientists and humanists at the beginning of their careers interested in this new discipline.It was a pleasure to co-write Unit 6 Overview: The Practice of Neuroaesthetics with Oana Teodora Papuc. I discuss the collaborative nature of problem-based learning in art-science projects, the opportunity for co-constructing knowledge and challenges such as varying ethical concerns.&nbsp;#neuroaesthetics #pbl#collaborativelearning #artscience #artresearch #palgrave #springernature https://anjaborowicz.com/SMBQ-AiR Mon, 08 Jan 2024 15:49:13 +0000 anja borowicz :: artist website https://anjaborowicz.com/SMBQ-AiR <img width="2048" height="1366" width_o="2048" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab8595989befc2b1a6eeff09c7694cbd8bda0e9009e1a7a246340033f6a2ea89/Photographer-Hayley-Salter-SMQB-Research-Groups-Sept-2023-1639834-2-2048x1366.jpg" data-mid="201098264" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab8595989befc2b1a6eeff09c7694cbd8bda0e9009e1a7a246340033f6a2ea89/Photographer-Hayley-Salter-SMQB-Research-Groups-Sept-2023-1639834-2-2048x1366.jpg" /> Excited to be a 23/24 Artist in Residence with the Centre for Systems Modelling and Quantitative Biomedicine!! @smqb_uob @NCODE working with a research team, developing a wearable vibrotactile solution for stroke patients. The first month of learning about post-stroke conditions and vibrational aspects flew by! #sciart #artcollaboration #SMQB #SMQBair #artistinresidence #transdiciplinary #vibrations #movement #strokerecovery #gesture #mirrorneurons #neuroaesthetics https://anjaborowicz.com/BervieBrow Fri, 02 Jun 2023 12:06:35 +0000 anja borowicz :: artist website https://anjaborowicz.com/BervieBrow <img width="1800" height="1800" width_o="1800" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35e7393b690ec57a0f8342f972634513785c7abea2b91e93267ea989f8ac5908/IMG_0264.JPG" data-mid="180788213" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/35e7393b690ec57a0f8342f972634513785c7abea2b91e93267ea989f8ac5908/IMG_0264.JPG" /> AuralDiversities: Field Trip to Bervie Brow Research Station, May 2023 Research weekend in the bunker, with a brilliant group of researchers exploring the place's acoustics; devised + led by Louise K Wilson, David Chapman, and Helen Frosi; hosted by Harry Willis Fleming _____ Bervie Brow Research Station is 28-acre research field site and creative habitat at a historic Cold War radar and listening station on the north-east coast of Scotland ___ @berviebrowresearchstation&nbsp;#embodiedresearch&nbsp;#soundart&nbsp; #multimodality #artresearch #auraldiversities #soundartists #multidisciplinary #functionalstructures https://anjaborowicz.com/Neuroaesthetics Fri, 02 Jun 2023 11:01:31 +0000 anja borowicz :: artist website https://anjaborowicz.com/Neuroaesthetics <img width="2965" height="3364" width_o="2965" height_o="3364" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f4fd5ae59a597bce786f0aec4bc3ce14b2a0cea701edd4c7cb9a4a77ce54b22/IMG_8870.jpeg" data-mid="180783514" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f4fd5ae59a597bce786f0aec4bc3ce14b2a0cea701edd4c7cb9a4a77ce54b22/IMG_8870.jpeg" /> I am presenting my research at the&nbsp;Neuroaesthetics Conference: Universality of Aesthetic Experience in Individual Contexts22-26 February 2023, Suceava, Romania _____ Anja Borowicz Richardson Sculpting with object-gestures: an everyday working gesture as an artistic proposition and a space to reimagine material resonances Presentation followed by a meditative listening session _____ #neuroaesthetics #objectgesture #embodiedresearch&nbsp;#conference&nbsp; #multimodality #rcaresearch #artresearch https://anjaborowicz.com/LCN-London Fri, 02 Jun 2023 11:45:37 +0000 anja borowicz :: artist website https://anjaborowicz.com/LCN-London <img width="4969" height="2725" width_o="4969" height_o="2725" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9992c7336506da1b292193c56a68ab2973b0ac189849b74c2fb5ea9f1990809c/Screenshot-2023-06-02-at-12.44.53.png" data-mid="180786810" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9992c7336506da1b292193c56a68ab2973b0ac189849b74c2fb5ea9f1990809c/Screenshot-2023-06-02-at-12.44.53.png" /> I am excited to be awarded a place at the flagship professional development programme London Creative Network @SPACE&nbsp; Oct 2022- Jan 2023 _____ #mentoring #networking #businessskills #training&nbsp;#artistdevelopment #award @space_studios_london @lcn_london https://anjaborowicz.com/RCSA2022 Wed, 05 Oct 2022 09:17:30 +0000 anja borowicz :: artist website https://anjaborowicz.com/RCSA2022 <img width="2291" height="2186" width_o="2291" height_o="2186" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/201ad28781f685247e4eaff16fc7d99847284323328aaa1a2dd1ed5fdc1aeb0c/Screenshot-2022-10-05-at-10.30.57.png" data-mid="154919962" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/201ad28781f685247e4eaff16fc7d99847284323328aaa1a2dd1ed5fdc1aeb0c/Screenshot-2022-10-05-at-10.30.57.png" /> I have my research work showing in the RCA2022 Autumn Graduation Show. School of Arts &amp; Humanities.____ RCA2022 returns with an intimate showcase of graduate work by Master’s and Research students, held within our newly opened Studio Building in Battersea designed by Herzog &amp; de Meuron.&nbsp;Experience the best emerging practices from the final 2022 cohort of the world’s leading university of art and design ____ 23 September – 28 September 202212pm – 6pmOpen to the public Alongside the physical show, I have my profile showcased on the digital platform 2022.rca.ac.uk#rca2022&nbsp;#sculpture&nbsp;#video&nbsp;#soun&nbsp;#performance&nbsp;#degree&nbsp;#rca&nbsp;#phd&nbsp;#research&nbsp;#rcaresearch&nbsp;#objectgesture&nbsp;#LondonExhibition #ArtandDesign @rca_soah_research @royalcollegeofa