PORTRET Z CZŁOWIEKIEM W TLE  [PORTRAIT WITH THE HUMAN] We are never alone. There are worming, lurking, there simply are in us and around us smaller and bigger beings. We have discovered  existance of many of them not so long ago and presence of many others has become so obvious that we stopped no longer pay attention to it. Have you ever wondered what is the history of the silent tree behind your window? How your green-lea- room-mate is feeling today? Don't you think that constantly busy with our own (human) history we have deprived ourselves of, also interesting and comple,x history of OTHERS? And at last are we able to notice and appreciate non-human individual, also unique and self determinated? The portrait with the human (in the background) is an attempt of focusing our sight and attention on the presensce of THE OTHERS. Masters of second plan, nameless, static, silent but still present in everyday life as much as humans. This piece is an attempt of puting the man aside so we can have a closer look at plants.     DAGMARA POCHYŁA  I've  graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, the Department of Art Education, specializing in the Intermedia Art in 2007. The master's thesis entitled The impact of new media on the structure of film narration, based on the Qatsi Trilogy, written under the guidance of Ph.D. Bernadetta Didkowska, has been directly related to the area of my artistic pursuits. My diploma work I’ve realised in Professor Wiesław Smużny’s studio. This interactive video installation entitled Being of projection / projection of being has been presented during the post-competition exhibition of the 4th edition of the Samsung Art Master at the CCA Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, during the post-competition exhibition of the Start Point at the Klenova Gallery in the Czech Republic, as well as during the exhibition of Diploma of the Year 2007 (in the form of documentation) in the WOZOWNIA Gallery in Toruń. I use mostly video, installation and performance media in my productions. In my early works I was focused on new technologies and new media, their influence on the forms of interpersonal communication and the intrinsic nature of these changes (Being of projection / projection of being, From the left to the right). The performance actions were touching the question of the relation between an individuality and intuitively perceived unity of the world, the interdependence of entities (Message, Who is your master). There are also topics of parallelism and duality within the individual, distortions of the space and time perception, and attempts of capturing the “in between” states (Not found yet, The queen is dead / long lives the queen). I’m currently moving within the mottos of post-humanism, I examine the nature-culture relationship, I trace human animalism (Sacral Plexus, Promise, Mandatorium), which is somewhat a development / deepening of previous interests.