Born in 1943 in Poland, Wodiczko lives and works in New York and Cambridge, MA, where he has been professor at MIT since 1991. Wodiczko is best known for his large-scale slide and video projections, which amplify political issues locally to their place of installation. Rather than use a screen or gallery wall as backdrop, Wodiczko projects these pieces onto public edifices and monuments, making explicit on their very surfaces the communal contexts and myths or ideologies that they represent. Utilizing his background in industrial design, Wodiczko has also produced specialized technologies for marginal members of society; e.g. a cart with functions tailored to the needs of the homeless. Wodiczko has written extensively on public and private art.