prof. AMU dr. hab. Jacek Zydorowicz
Prof. Jacek Zydorowicz. Since 2003, he has been working at the Institute of Cultural Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. His scientific interests include visual culture, and in particular the relations between art and such contemporary discourses as technology, resistance cultures, and terrorism. He is the founder and curator of the UAM Academic Gallery. Author of the books Artystyczny wirus. Polska sztuka krytyczna wobec przemian kultury po 1989 roku (Artistic virus. Polish Critical Art facing Cultural Transformations after 1989 [Warsaw 2005], Kultura wizualna w dobie terroryzmu (Visual Culture in the Age of Terrorism) [Poznań 2018], co-editor of the book Sztuka współczesna i jej filozoficzne komentarze (Contemporary Art and Its Philosophical Commentaries) [Poznań 2004, ed.: T. Kostyrko, G. Dziamski, J. Zydorowicz], co-editor of the volume O wstręcie i wstydzie (On Disgust and Shame), Studia Kulturoznawcze no. 1(2)/2012 (ed.: J. Zydorowicz, S. Szykowna). He has also published in Art Inquiry. Recherches sur les arts, Kultura Współczesna, Czas Kultury and Przegląd Religioznawczy.
Hobbies: photographer, filmmaker, collector of musical instruments, vintage cameras and measuring devices; bassist (former musician and animator of the Ostrów-Odolanów hc/punk scene).
Contact: jacek.zydorowicz@amu.edu.pl