Krzysztof Wodiczko – The Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series
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The Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series
Cultural Prosthetics: Projections and Instrumentations
Krzysztof Wodiczko (born 1943 in Warsaw, Poland) lives and works in New York City, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Warsaw, Poland. He is renowned for his large-scale projections on architectural facades and monuments. He has realized more than 90 projections in 20 countries.
Wodiczko, a former director of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, is MIT Professor of Art Design and the Public Domain, Emeritus Professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and Visiting Professor of Media Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Since the 1980s, his projections and specifically designed performative instruments engage marginalized city residents in developing and disseminating their public voice and expression. Wodiczko has had major retrospective exhibitions at Walker Art Center, Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, DOX Art Center, Prague, Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, F.A.C.T. Liverpool, M.M.C.A. in Seoul, and many other museums and art cneters. His work has also been exhibited at Documenta (twice), Venice Biennale (Canadian and Polish pavilions), Whitney Biennial, Liverpool Biennale, and other biennales, art festivals and international exhibitions.
Wodiczko received the 4th Hiroshima Art Prize “for his contribution as an international artist to the world peace.” His works are in the public collections of the Hirschhorn Museum, New York MoMA, Centre Pompidou, National Museum of Poland, Macba, Barcelona, Walker Art Cneter, and many other museums and private collections. He received a Ph.D. from Warsaw’s Academy of Fine Arts. He is an author of Critical Vehicles, City of Refuge: Sept. 11, The Abolition of War, The Transformative Avant-Garde, and other books by Black Dog Press (London), including a comprehensive monograph, Krzysztof Wodiczko. His work is also being presented as part of the PBS television series “Art in the Twenty-First Century,” and “Art 21 Extended Play”. A film, Krzysztof Wodiczko: Art of Un-War, directed by Maria Niro, was released in 2022.
Jonsara Ruth
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Reimaging Design through Material Health
Jonsara is a designer, artist, educator, and futurist. She is co-founder of Healthy Materials Lab (HML) at Parsons School of Design and founded Salty Labs, a climate-positive, sustainable design studio. She is also Founding Director of the MFA Interior Design program at Parsons, where she is an Associate Professor.
At HML, Jonsara co-leads a dedicated team of researchers focused on how human health and longevity are affected by materials that surround us. She is a pioneer in the field of Material Health, driving widespread adoption in the architecture and design industry. With over a decade of experience in leading design and manufacturing teams, Jonsara leverages her deep industry knowledge and commitment to democratic design. She is frequently invited to speak about Material Health with mainstream media, professionals and higher education.
Jonsara has received multiple awards, including a nomination for the 2025 Cooper Hewitt Visionary Design Award, RISD’s Art & Design Educator Award in 2023, and the 2022 Women in Architecture Innovation Award from Architectural Record with Alison Mears. Together, they co-edited the publication “Material Health: Design Frontiers,” released in 2023. Jonsara holds a Master of Architecture from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Industrial Design from Rhode Island School of Design.
