Open City  /  Otwarte Miasto

Festival    of art    in public    spaces

Lublin 2010    Kurator: Krzysztof Żwirblis

/ Jarosław Lipszyc

Born in 1975.

Poet, journalist, publicist and free culture activist. He is a member of The Political Critique, president of Modern Poland Foundation. He is a creator of the not-published-anymore literary magazine Meble (Furniture), connected with the neolinguistic movement. He was one of the leading ideologists and representatives of this movement. Co-author of Neolinguistic Manifesto.

He published  three volumes of poetry: bólion w kostce (1997), poczytalnia (2000) and Mnemotechniki (2008). The last one is a collection of literary remixes from Wikipedia articles and is available on the GFDL, also on Wikisources. Besides that he published in literary magazines: Lampa, Ha!art and socio-political magazine Krytyka Polityczna (The Political Critique). He presented his poems with the accompaniment of the band Usta (Lips) formed especially for this event. This band performed in 2002-2006. He initiated “List otwarty przeciw wprowadzeniu patentów na oprogramowanie” (Open letter against bringing in software patents) (2005) and “List otwarty przeciwko DRM” (Open letter against DRM) (2006) – digital system of limiting access to cultural goods. In 2006 he became a member of Index 73 collective. In 2008 he was the initiator and co-organizer of the Alliance of Open Education (KOED), which unites organizations supporting the idea of developing and using open education resources. He is the chairman of the KOED Committee.