Robert B. Lisek

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Robert B. Lisek PhD is an artist, mathematician and composer who focuses on systems, networks and processes (computational, biological, social). He is involved in a number of projects focused on media art, creative storytelling and interactive art. Drawing upon post-conceptual art, software art and meta-media, his work intentionally defies categorization. Lisek is a pioneer of art based on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Lisek is also a composer of contemporary music, author of many projects and scores on the intersection of spectral, stochastic, concret music, musica futurista and noise. Lisek is also a scientist who conducts research in the area of foundations of science (mathematics and computer science). His research interests are category theory and high-order algebra in relation to artificial general intelligence. Lisek is a founder of Fundamental Research Lab and ACCESS Art Symposium. He is the author of 300 exhibitions and presentations, among others: SIBYL - ZKM Karlsruhe; SIBYL II - IRCAM Center Pompidou; QUANTUM ENIGMA - Harvestworks Center New York and STEIM Amsterdam; TERROR ENGINES - WORM Center Rotterdam, Secure Insecurity - ISEA Istanbul; DEMONS - Venice Biennale (accompanying events); Manifesto vs. Manifesto - Ujazdowski Castel of Contemporary Art, Warsaw; NEST - ARCO Art Fair, Madrid; Float - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NYC; WWAI - Siggraph, Los Angeles.

Fields of expertise
Art: Fine Art, Media Art, Conceptual Art, Critical Art, Interactive Art, Immersive Arts, Storytelling, Creative Coding, Sound Art.
Music: Electronic Music, Probabilistic Music, Stochastic Music, Music Futurista, AI Music,  Noise.
Science: Theory of Ordered Sets, High-Order Algebra, Category Theory.

Education
PhD September 2015 in Fine Arts and Media Art, University of Arts in Poznan.
MFA June 2006 in Painting and Media Art, Academy of Fine Arts Wroclaw.
MPh October 2003 in Logic and Philosophy, Wroclaw University.
BA June 2005 in Mathematics, New York University.
BA October 1999 in Film and TV Directing, Film School in Lodz.

SELECTED PROJECTS

	SIBYL is AI that proposes new stories and generates  new compositions. S/he is trained by techniques of composing by Burroughs.	[SIBYL]
	The project examines systems of stimulation, perception, game and exchange between numerous brains.	[BB_VRmodulator]
	It is a real time system, which encompasses  movement of bodies, performative cycles of  transmission/reception.	[unrendered]
	Quantum Enigma' goal is to extend the notion of art by dealing with randomness. It reveals the process of radioactive decay.	[QEM]
	The work is a directed-energy 'weapon' that emits strong sound waves and laser lights rapidly propagated in a special gas.	[pEnginE]
	The project is a prototypical new program, which combines the activity of a computer virus and biological viruses.	[viral#C]
	NEST is a toolkit to explore data, track events, find patterns, and build risk profiles. It is Citizen's Intelligence Agency.	[ne5t]
	SPECTRUM explores the relationship between bio-molecular and network technologies. It is self-replicating bacteria in order to draw out its bio-politics.	[spectrum]
	GGGRU is a web worm that is spying and analyzing data sets. The project is a social experiment that deals with hidden data and systems.	[GGGRUworm]
	The project deals with the problem of intense processing of large data collections, whose interpretation is beyond human processing abilities.	[crash]
	Manifesto vs Manifesto ? performance, concert, lecture, publication of Crash [Manifesto] and Italian Transhumanist Manifesto.	[MvsM]
	The project deals with possible extensions of homo sapiens. Extensions through the use of radical transgressive methods.	[transhuman]
	The first part of project SUPRAMIND that aims to build a general-purpose intelligent system based on a visual inference engine.	[gengine]
	FACE is a portable knowledge environment that can be used as a distributed network for creating exchanging concepts.	[face]
	FLOAT is an experimental collective software space, the multi-user kit with ability of learning during the interaction.	[float]
	FleXtexT serves to create a flexible, dynamic and distributive textural space, by using attractors and a new kind of links based on the partially ordered sets.	[ftxt]
	The STACK is a collective, dynamical installation that allows small groups of participants to interact with virtual objects, and with each other.	[stack]
	The EL-CIPHER is a collection of cryptographic algorithms and protocols	[eLCipher]
	DeCognition is an artificial intelligence (AI) programs that recognize and compare electromagnetic waves produced by devices.	[DeCog]
	ACCESS #8 noise radio	[Anoise]
	hacking performance removal of gallery	[removal]

RESEARCH FIELDS

Art: Fine Art, Media Art, Conceptual Art, Critical Art, Interactive Art, Immersive Arts, Storytelling, Creative Coding, Sound Art; Music: Electronic music, Contemporary music, Spectral music, Stochastic music, Concret music, Musica futurista, Noise;
Science: Theory of Ordered Sets, Category Theory, Algebra, Logic, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Foundations of Mathematics and Computer Science;

SELECTED RESEARCH PROJECTS

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Artificial Intelligence & randomness + QE ? MediaLab PRADO Madrid;
Quantum Enigma ? STEIM Center, Amsterdam;
ORACLE Gate ? Harvestworks Arts Center, New York;
Nuclear Random Generator ? Harvestworks Arts Center, New York;
SPECTRUM - LETO Gallery, Warsaw;
Electromagnetic and Radiation Spaces ? NK Berlin
Nuclear Random Engine ? Centro Centro Cibeles de Cultura, Madrid;
RANDOMNESS - Skolska24, Prague;
Electromagnetic and Radiation Spaces - Fundacion FIART, Madrid;
Terror Engines ? WORM Instituut voor Avantgardistische Recreatie, Rotterdam;
Capital - Wroclaw Contemporary Museum;
Transhuman - Entropy Gallery, Wroclaw
Falsecodes - Red Gate Gallery, Beijing;
Manifesto vs. Manifesto - Ujazdowski Castel of Contemporary Art, Warsaw;
House - BWA Awangarda Gallery, Wroclaw;
SEE - Entropy Gallery, Wroclaw

SELECTED INVITED PANELS, WORKSHOPS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Robert B. Lisek (2018). Meta-learning for Art and Games, Proceedings of Game Music, Sound Design And Virtual Reality Audio Conference Los Angeles.
Robert B. Lisek (2018). AIA: Artificial intelligence for art, Proceedings of Electronic Visualisation and the Arts EVA London.
Robert B. Lisek (2018). AIMA: Artificial intelligence for music and art, Proceedings of IRCAM FORUM, Center Pompidou Paris.
Robert B. Lisek (2017). Artificial Intelligence for Art. Digimag Journal #76. Smart Machines for Enhanced Arts.
Robert B. Lisek (2017). Mind Uploading. Proceedings of TECHNARTE Conference Bilbao.
Robert B. Lisek (2016). Mind Uploading Problem. Proceedings of RETUNE Conference Berlin.
Robert B. Lisek (2016). Deciphering Randomness, Proceedings of ChArt Conference Kings College London.
Robert B. Lisek (2015). Non-standard sound and image synthesis, Piksel Symposium, Bergen.
Robert B. Lisek (2014). Mind Uploading and Consiousness Redefined, Proceedings of Madatac Symposium Madrid.
Robert B. Lisek (2013). How does the brain work?, Proceedings of AMU Conference, Adam Mickiewicz Uni Press, Poznan.
Robert B. Lisek (2013). Mind Uploading, Proceedings of Mutamorphosis Conference, Pragha.
Robert B. Lisek (2012). Measures of Ordered Sets.Towards Combinatorial Computer Science, Proceedings of ISEA Conference.
Robert B. Lisek (2011). Secure Insecurity. Patterns of terror, Proceedings of ISEA Conference, 2011 Istanbul
Robert B. Lisek (2010). Combinatorial Computer Science and new architecture of AGI,. Tranhuman Anthology. Rita Baum 18, Wroclaw, 2010, pp. 61-63.
Robert B. Lisek (2007). Retracts And Fixed Points In Theory Of Ordered Sets. Towards Combinatorial Computer Science. Proccedings of VII-th International Conference on Complex Systems, Boston.
Robert B. Lisek (2006). Problems and research in flexible, distributed cognition. Proceedings of Complexity. Consciouness reframed Conference. Planetary Coloquim, p. 249- 255.
Robert B. Lisek (2006). Logic of viruses. MPXXI, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, pp. 45-54.
Robert B. Lisek (2006). Tactical media. Format, 2006, Wroclaw, pp. 52-59.
Robert B. Lisek (2005). WWAI. Towards a massively-parallel-wetware-oriented artificial intelligence distributed worldwide. Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Conference, Los Angeles, pp. 131-148.
Robert B. Lisek (2005). Distributed knowledge environment. Proccedings of CIBERART Conference, Bilbao.
Research monographs
Agnieszka Jelewska, Robert B. Lisek, Art and Technology in Poland, Adam Mickiewicz University Press,
Poznan 2014
Robert B. Lisek, Marcin Czerwinski,et all, Tranhuman Anthology, Rita Baum Press, Wroclaw 2010
Agnieszka Morawinska, Robert B. Lisek,et all, Polish Painting of the 21st Century, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw 2006

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SELECTED AWARDS

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