<p> I was born in Wodzislaw Slaski (South of Poland) in October 1978. </p> <p> I studied Fine Art Photography (BA) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Institute of Multimedia Communication. I completed the course in September 2005. </p> <p> My studies included training in classical, commercial and advertising, documental, computer, and inter-media photography, also in digital video editing, animation, in addition to that I completed a 3 years courses in general arts, drawing, painting, graphic arts, and sculpturing when in the secondary school. </p> <p> In 2006 I became a part time student at the University of East London- Fine Arts course (MA). </p> <p> I tend to do time-based work or work in 4-dimensions as some call it. I’m working with moving images and time-based photography and the viewer’s perception of it. In my work I’m showing a reality, but then I’m changing familiar images and familiar moments, into a new and different reality. This is when reality becomes mine. I have a very personal relationship with time and I feel that working in time by some means re-establishes my relationship with life cycles. Rhythm and repetition in my work is very important it recreates pace/tempo/rhythm of being and its ups and downs. I am inspired by time cycles- day /night, beginning and the end, youth and ageing, birth and death I am also inspired by the city landscape (&quot;I want you all….&quot;, single screen video, 2007). </p> <p> In my work I try gradually catch the attention of the viewer, often with a use of rhythm and repetition I create a hypnotic effect, and I try to take some control over the experience of engagement and participation. Most of my work tends to be short. To present my work I use single and multi-display installations, sound very often becomes a part of my work. I am trying to loose the linear sense of narrative; in some of my videos I use random loop sequencing to achieve this. In &quot;Loop&quot; time becomes &quot;an object that can be partitioned into small, repeatable and manageable units...time as a phenomenon that can be caught in a loop by constant repetition of the same action.&quot; (Klaus Biesenbach). </p> <p> It is important to me to engage the observer as I think my work demands the spectator’s dynamic and imaginative participation, I try to engage with the surroundings and the space my work is shown in. Very often the surrounding and the viewer become a part of my video/work. I prefer when nothing is deliberately spelt out or obviously signaled. Concept is equally important to me as the aesthetic concerns, &quot;In Egypt...&quot; (split screen video, 2006) treats about the choice of receiving news/information which was taken away from us by the development of new medias. It's about things which 'don't' take place if there is no information on news/web about them... The archive footage used for this video was recorded during the &quot;Hungarian revolution&quot; Fifty years after the 1956 anti-Soviet revolution in Hungary; demonstrators took to the streets once again. As well as concentrating on the visual form of my work I ask myself what it is I want to get for myself from the new piece. I am trying to find answers solutions, explanations... By mixing moving images, still photographs, and sound, I create a picture that commands the viewer's attention and delivers a message. </p> <p> To visit my website please go to www.nolann.com </p>