"Archetypture of Time" by Andrzej Głowacki - Book Review

CYBEREmpathy ISSUE 6/2013 The Code Grażyna Pietruszewska – Kobiela, “Archetypture of Time”by Andrzej Głowacki - Review

Grażyna Pietruszewska - Kobiela

"Archetypture of Time" by Andrzej Głowacki – Review Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

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Abstract: After released in 2009 "Archetypture of Word", the auto-fiction book hybrid, Andrzej Glowacki created "Archetypture of Time". "Archetypture of Time" differs from "Archetypture of Word" in the form of writing.

"Archetypture of Time" is recorded / written with the QR codes, what made it a new receiving proposal. "The readers" of this extraordinary work must know the modern technologies and be familiar with the techno culture, requiring an active perception.

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GRAŻYNA PIETRUSZEWSKAKOBIELA Senior Research & Teaching Fellow at Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa conducting research in the Department of Literature Theory and Centre of Comparative Studies of Culture. Former journalist connected for many years with the University, also as rector (2 terms), and dean (2 terms).

Author of works bout 20th century Polish literature and numerous articles about art and literature in 20th and 21st century, researcher of phenomena in new media, chief editor and co-editor of interdisciplinary books devoted to motives in Polish and German literature and children’s world.

CYBEREmpathy ISSUE 6/2013 The Code Grażyna Pietruszewska – Kobiela, “Archetypture of Time”by Andrzej Głowacki - Review

Archetypture of Time by Andrzej Głowacki – Review After released in 2009 Archetypture of Word, the auto-fiction book hybrid, Andrzej Glowacki createdArchetypture of Time. Between these artistic works there is a relationship indicated not only by repeating the initial part of the title, but also by creation based on the cited archi(typical) codes. Further, there is a common strategy resulting from the activation of processuality, suggesting that, in a sense the statement is not over, which makes the recipient meet with the work of work in progress, not capable of being reduced to one ordered version and formula. The openness of the process of creation and the need for actions that ensure the adherence of the text are emphasized by the invitation to co-participation / co-creation of Archetypture of Time, spoken by the author - he induces the readers to engage into the intellectual-technical game, the effect of which will be the “personalized text" and the book, as a result of creative activity of people from the different cultures. This significant agreement based on the equalization of the author and the reader is a common strategy, entered in the forms www.CyberEmpathy.com

CYBEREmpathy ISSUE 6/2013 The Code Grażyna Pietruszewska – Kobiela, “Archetypture of Time”by Andrzej Głowacki - Review associated with the new media, referring to the artistic practices based on the remixes, sampling, recycling, art cycling, that blur the boundaries of authorship and loose the track of matrix. The incentive to create the personalized texts, to refer to the activities initiated during the workshops of the holistic design, carried out in Krakow Art Bunker, shows the relationship of the spontaneity-workshops activity of a performative character, opening new areas of the literary culture, animating the modern forms of literary life that create the specific relationship between the artist and the readers-co-authors of the work.

Archetypture of Time differs from Archetypture of Word in the form of writing. In an earlier book, there were the traditional forms of writing which the author has been linking to the structure of the ongoing sentence, occurring alongside the passages built by the strings of digits, and these arrangements were accompanied by the surreal images. The heavenly element collided here with the geometricized organization of the text in a little-known form of the particular prose. The composition of the book urged to the simultaneous perception, based on the simultaneous viewing and reading and mental linking / bonding of the different pages and parts, which, of course, was a big challenge for the recipient.Archetypture of Time is recorded / written with the QR codes, what made it a new receiving proposal. "The readers" of this extraordinary work must know the modern technologies and be familiar with the techno culture, requiring an active perception. The book is addressed to the cyber entity, which, in accordance to the posthumanistic reflection, a modern man becomes, using the different gears to improve the functioning of the body and modifying the senses. The "naked" human eye is helpless against the shown record, it will allow reading the work only as a layout, and the encrypted content will remain unavailable. At the same time getting to the content is not too complicated, to understand it enough to use the right mobile device, such as a Smartphone, tablet.... Introducing the metaphor "the death of the eye", formed on the basis of the phenomenon classified as "the death of the author", A. Glowacki showed the elements typical for the virtual aesthetics, which gives awareness that the human vision is replaced by the non-human vision. The paradigm of a new vision appears from the displacement of the human sense of sight by machine / mechanical / digital vision, by the "visual prosthetics."

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CYBEREmpathy ISSUE 6/2013 The Code Grażyna Pietruszewska – Kobiela, “Archetypture of Time”by Andrzej Głowacki - Review

Creating a book based on the QR codes showes that the literature and art come into the space of the everyday life and bind with the contemporary communication strategies. The codes, explored by the artist, which take the form of two-dimensional graphic squares are everywhere - we can find them on the envelopes of the different companies providing the delivery, we shall meet them on the invoices and bills, we shall meet them reviewing the various information and advertising materials, we’ll see them in the supermarkets and in the Internet we shall find the code generators... The things, that have been available for the artist, become available for everybody. Just like the squares of the QR codes, the squares as the geometric figure are available form, which has its place not only in mathematics, but in the everyday life and art. It can be concluded that it is a form accessible to everybody, because everybody can effortlessly draw a square... The commonness / ordinariness / availability of the material makes it clear that the use of the squares to "write" the book numbering almost 100 pages is the surprising idea, where some mystery is "encoded"... The author entices by the easiness of writing, the accessibility of the creation technics, by the omnipresence of the material and the way of reading, but he leaves to the recipient difficult, erudite, and sophisticated aesthetically work. The dense texture of the book Archetypture of Time, the multiplicity of the cultural contexts, rich symbolism, the auto creational holds and the auto thematics... result in a fact that facing the book requires the intellectual detective activities, which allow deciphering the hidden clues. This type of reception is directed into the work with many circles of meanings. But it is also possible to remain on www.CyberEmpathy.com

CYBEREmpathy ISSUE 6/2013 The Code Grażyna Pietruszewska – Kobiela, “Archetypture of Time”by Andrzej Głowacki - Review the surface and not to notice the intricate internal links, complicating the reading, and then the book will be seen as an interesting formal proposition, in which the author posted the random thoughts and digressions.

If the fractal structure is noticed in the book of Glowacki, it would be possible to conclude that its attractors are the squares of white and black interior creating the specific climate, co-creating the graphic design, animating the important inter-textual references, symbolizing numerous coded puzzles. At the very beginning the author recalls The black square on a white background of Kazimir Malevich, the image releasing the painting of objectivity, showing the existence of the non-objective sensations. The Suprematism, initiated by Malevich, was heading towards the establishment of a new way of presenting feelings - free off imagining the object. Referring to this avant-garde concept of the interwar period, Archetypture of Time author confesses that he rejects the traditional linear text and literature, as evidenced by the book based on a pure geometric form. This assumption explains the dominance of the "encrypted" squares. The relationship with the artistic concept of Malevich is visible too much on the level of the archetypal references.

The author of The black square on a white background has noted in his writings and fundamental speeches that the suprematic square and forms derived from it can be compared to the primitive drawings and strokes made by the prehistoric man. These associations also uses part of the illustration of Archetypture of Time mentioned under The Mythology Pictures, realizing that the postmodern influences are the result of the freely movement throughout the culture, which makes possible to combine the ancient ideas with the cybernetic art.

The contexts associated with the squares and with the secrets hidden in them, creating another layer of the book, are branched and extended. A few squares colored inside bring to mind the images of Piet Monodrian...

The inscribed in a square self-portraits of Glowacki have also the symbolic importance inviting to "read" the author, his ideas, inspirations, intentions ... In this case the mobile equipment, the cyber gadgets will be unhelpful, not many can "read" the author... To read the author requires the extensive knowledge, erudition, insight ...

Archetypture of Time is the work referring to the metaphor of chaos, based on the hypertext references, fractal and nonlinear systems, bringing the narrative discourse. The poetics of this work appears from the fragmentation, randomness of reading, because the reader can www.CyberEmpathy.com

CYBEREmpathy ISSUE 6/2013 The Code Grażyna Pietruszewska – Kobiela, “Archetypture of Time”by Andrzej Głowacki - Review choose himself the order to decipher the codes that indicate the address providing the text. The chaos-logic type of reading is also linked to the labyrinth composition written to the book, formed by the squares and their interiors, completed with the stylized records of the dates introducing the intymistic character of the work resembling the monument, the artists’ notes.

The new intellectual game of Glowacki is a version of the postmodern art book shaped by the digital solutions that do not remove in the absolute way the "old media", but still modify it so to the point that the traditional perception is insufficient. The twilight of the Gutenberg galaxy and the analog recording does not mean in this case the final separation with the book.

Archetypture of Time – the cybernetic hybrid – is the original receiving proposal designed for the modern person, who feels the sentimental attachment to the old media and makes use of the modern technologies.

The book has a traditional cover, but the title is "hidden" in the square, the first "quadropack of the squares" is providing the following fragment of the text: "You know you bring the reader astray directing his attention to the opposite direction to the side of the winding lines and lettering art coils and the eye has not the point to focus on because everything flows ", being a self-commenter that indicates a combination of the tradition and an experiment. The nod to the old form are also handwritten notes and sketches placed in the book, which take part in a dialogue of human with non-human and resemble the silva form. A typical hero does not appear here, the author plays this role himself, subjected by the numerous creative treatments, accompanied by the various elements in the main role - for example, the myth, the prima matter, pre-time - we learn about them from the 134 link, in which is said: "the work of time arises from the chaos of sowing, the essence before the existence the paradigm of gestures and movement the game of touch communication such are the sources of the initial inspiration as the preparation for the revelation of the three-dimensional world."

Reading of Archetypture of Time is invigorating, stimulating, inducing the readers to create their own terms, to name the phenomena, which they meet with. You can, for example, think about whether, taking to account the magnetic property of attractors, accurate would be the introduction of the term "the square composition?" that could be considered as an echo of the classic casket system... Whether every www.CyberEmpathy.com

CYBEREmpathy ISSUE 6/2013 The Code Grażyna Pietruszewska – Kobiela, “Archetypture of Time”by Andrzej Głowacki - Review square could be seen as a casket containing some information, surprise ... Tempting is also to examine the usefulness of the term "the casket composition"... In this case, each square will be treated like a casket hiding what is nominal and subconscious, and the squares bearing the dates will symbolize the memory deposit...

Archetypture of Time in the superficial perception is an artistic curio.

However, the discovery of polyphony of this book will provoke returning to it many times and each time one will found the new meanings.

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