Radek Przedpełski

Radek Przedpełski is an artist and art philosophy scholar lecturing at Trinity College Dublin. Radek’s PhD was on 1970s neo-avant-garde intermedia in the Polish People’s Republic, with a focus on Marek Konieczny (the topic of Radek’s upcoming monograph). Radek co-edited a volume on Deleuze, Guattari and the Art of Multiplicity published by Edinburgh University Press in 2020. Radek is a member of Substantial Motion Research Network founded by Laura U. Marks and Azadeh Emadi for cross-cultural investigation of media art, as well as a curator, together with Marks, of the annual Small File Media Festival hosted by the School for the Creative Arts at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University (SFU). In 2022 Radek managed and co-organised a symposium “A Light Footprint in the Cosmos” on intercultural media philosophy and practice at SFU Goldcorp Centre for Arts, accompanied by performances, exhibitions, and screenings. Radek is interested in entanglements between the earth, the cosmos and artistic techniques. Radek’s practice in small-file video explores ecological systems and rituals of tuning in to the earth, with a view to create focal points (points-clefs) for connecting with the cosmos. Radek’s multi-channel video installation Mountain Soul-Assemblages was recently exhibited at the SCA’s Studio T exhibition space in Vancouver. Radek also researches Tatar cosmotechnics and in 2021 was invited by Toronto’s Mercer Union to interrogate representation of Tatars in Erdem Taşdelen’s A Minaret for General’s Wife. Radek is currently coediting—with Marks and scholar Farshid Kazemi—a special journal issue of Techniques on apotropaic powers and contemporary media.