Józef Robakowski– born in 1939 in Poznań. A creator of films, photographic series, video tapes, installations, drawings, objects, conceptual projects, initiator artistic actions, editor and theoretical critic. He graduated from University in Toruń (Department of Fine Arts) and Film, Television and Theatre State Academy in Łódź (Camera Department). He was an academy lecturer (1970-81). He lives in Łódź. Co-founder of the Avant-garde group “Zero-61” operating in Toruń (1961-69) and groups “Oko”, STKF “Pętla”, “Krąg”. Co-organiser of Film Form Workshop and Television Creative Group Station “Ł” in Łódź, which undertook experimental work in connecting film picture and sound, permanently entering the Polish arena of conceptual art of the 70s. Since 1971, he has been running a private gallery – Galeria Wymiany (Exchange Gallery) which collects films, videotapes, documentation and it is a contact office for the international artistic movement INFERMENTAL.
