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Krzysztof Wodiczko (born April 16, 1943) is a Polish artist known for his large-scale slide and video projections on architectural facades and monuments. He has realized more than 80 such public projections in Australia, Austria, Canada, England, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, and the United ...
Wodiczko, who had begun his career as an industrial designer, spent hours consulting with homeless people who collected bottles and cans for a living, asking about their needs and seeking...
Krzysztof Wodiczko’s work is being presented as a part of internationally distributed PBS television series Art 21 and in a DVD, as a part of the book publication Art in the Twenty-First Century .
Like Wodiczko’s other monumental projections, The Homeless Projection 2 revealed what official monuments try to deny. Organized as part of the First Night New-Year festival, it was viewed by over 200,000 people.
Wodiczko, The Homeless Vehicle, 1988-1989 (5th Avenue, New York City, 1988). Krzysztof Wodiczko (1943) is an artist renowned for his large-scale slide and video projections on architectural facades and monuments. He is Professor in Residence of Art, Design and the Public Domain at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
The Homeless Projection Soldiers and Sailors Civil War Memorial, Boston, 1986-1987
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This essay discusses two projections by Polish-born artist Krzysztof Wodiczko carried out in Union Square in the city of New York. The Homeless Projection: A Proposal for Union Square (1986) and Abraham Lincoln: War Veteran Projection (2012) address major ailments of modern society: homelessness and the psychological effects of war.
