scylla and charybda 1 (2024) Painting by Andrzej Maląg

Studies at the Faculty of Electronics of the Gdańsk University of Technology completed in 1974, and then, in the following years, a doctorate (1983) and habilitation (2004) at the Institute of Electron Technology (ITE) in Warsaw in the field of semiconductor optoelectronics. Professional interests in the design, construction and technology of semiconductor lasers pursued at ITE and then as a researcher, then head of the Department of Optoelectronics at the Institute of Electronic Materials Technology (ITME).

Author and co-author of over 100 publications and patents in national and international publishing houses. End of scientific activity since 2019.

The place of birth - Szczecin - the port, the wide waters of the Oder, the proximity of the sea had a great influence on the artistic imagination.

Why Fine Arts?

Until the 90s, Szczecin was a large, efficiently operating seaport and a center of the shipbuilding industry. I grew up in this City. The interests in painting and architecture that I received from somewhere (?) became a bit sidelined after starting my studies at the Technical School, as it was a Mechanical and Energy School, with a newly opened RTV specialization. However, the atmosphere of the port city, the shipyard, the proximity and exoticism of the sea maintained and directed these interests towards naval science and ship architecture.

In the Youth Palace (later the Youth Culture Centre) in Szczecin, in the Art Studio, it was possible to continue developing them, and at the same time acquire a ion for history and fascination with ancient culture.

One of the features of the microclimate of Western Pomerania is (was) frequent rain in the summer. Walking in the rain at night and looking through glasses at the street lights illuminating the leaves of trees, you can immediately notice characteristic stripe structures initiated by raindrops on the glasses. These very diverse interference figures are created despite the near-zero coherence length of the street lamps, because the difference in optical paths is also near-zero. At that time, walking in the rain, I did not understand it that way, but the visual effect remained in my memory for a long time. And also the thought that it would have to be developed someday. But how?

The interference photo-graphics:

Light, and especially its wave nature, is here the direct medium for creating graphic compositions. A coherent light beam transmitting through previously designed objects (openings or masks) is diffracted at their edges and then parts of the diffracted beam interfere creating interference patterns on a screen, e.g. at a surface of CCD matrix. Interference images recorded in this way serve as the basis for further numerical processing.

The inspiration for the composition is sometimes reading about optics, quantum mechanics, cosmology, but there are also compositions committed 'without inspiration'.

• Nationality: POLAND
• Date of birth : 1950
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Polish Artists