This year, the second floor of the National Audiovisual Institute is taken up by an exhibition that ties into the topics discussed at the conference. The space will feature installations that require the observer’s active participation and involvement, allowing them to explore innovative ways of using media in the arts.
C.A.P.E. Brussels
CREW
The Brussels-based performance group CREW enables audiences to visit other worlds thanks to technology known as augmented reality. C.A.P.E., short for Computer Automatic Personal Environment, allows users to visit environments separated from their own by culture, distance, and time. This feat of teleportation is made possible thanks to special eyewear, headphones, and a computer worn on the user’s back.
28-29.10.2011
EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: REACTIVATION
During the Culture 2.0 conference, students of Warsaw’s University of Music will start classes with Paweł Cyrta and Dorota Błaszczak as part of the Interscholastic Multimedia Specialisation. The name EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: REACTIVATION is intended more as a postulate rather than a reflection of the significance of the events held at Level 2.0. We do not pretend to recreate the original phenomenon. The world-famous Polish Radio Experimental Studio, despite having produced such notable work as the series curated by Michał Libera (available in the NInA STORE), is hardly a household name in Poland. From today’s perspective, the significance of the Experimental Studio lies in its mission — a mission that IMS students will attempt to reactivate.
27-29.10.201
THE WORKSHOP OF AN EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC COMPOSER
Footage recorded in Polish Radio on 13 September 2011 while documenting the making of 15 stron świata (The 15 Corners of the Globe) about Eugeniusz Rudnik. The project was funded in part by the Polish Film Institute.
Director: Zuzanna Solakiewicz
Camera: Zvika Gregory Portnoy
Editing: Mateusz Romaszkan
Producer: Towarzystwo Inicjatyw Twórczych "ę"
Co-producer: Centrala
© Towarzystwo Inicjatyw Twórczych "ę", Centrala 2011
27–29.10.2011
RUDNIK’S MINIATURES
Producer: Piotr Synal
The stairwell leading up to Level 2.0 is filled with audio miniatures by Eugeniusz Rudnik, a legendary member of the Polish Radio Experimental Studio, which ran from 1957 to 2004. Rudnik is a sound engineer, composer, and winner of numerous awards for his collages and sound effects for radio shows, film, and theatre. All of his pieces are made by splicing together bits of tape with scissors and glue, a technique that foreshadowed today’s remix culture.
27–29.10.2011
NON-VIDEO GAME
panGenerator (Piotr Barszczewski, Krzysztof Cybulski, Krzysztof Goliński, Jakub Koźniewski), text: Michał Danielewicz
A non-video game consisting of an 8-bit Nintendo set and a thermal printer that premiered at the Reading Lab at the European Culture Congress in Wrocław. The plot of the first version was based on a novel by Łukasz Orbitowski, Only Max. This time, we dug deep into classic literature (and film) and came up with Jerzy Andrzejewski’s Ashes and Diamond. The player impersonates Maciek Chełmicki. He can die on the ash heap of history, or revolt… The length of the printout offers a tangible record of the decisions the player makes along the way. The game features numerous narrative branches that require several run-throughs to fully explore.
27–29.10.2011
biweekly.pl is an online magazine about Polish culture. Published by the National Audiovisual Institute since 2010. It is a born-digital medium, occasionally published on paper. It combines tradition with new thinking about content.
R22
Michał Buczyński-Pałka
The Reading Lab at the European Culture Congress (Wrocław, 8–11 September, 2011) featured a "book" by Michał Buczyński-Pałka. This interactive object presents an original text by the creator, recycled from a chapter of Only Max, a book specially written for the ECC by Łukasz Orbitowski. The reader’s task is to find new content by deleting bits of text using the LCD touchscreen.
Studio: Multimedia and Image Processing
Anna Klimczak, Ph.D., Marcin Wichrowski, M.Sc.
Faculty of New Media Art
Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology
27–29.10.2011
DODECAUDION
panGenerator (Piotr Barszczewski, Krzysztof Cybulski, Krzysztof Goliński, Jakub Koźniewski), manufacturer: HEDOCO
A spatial audiovisual controller. Dodecaudion — a flagship project by panGenerator, manufactured by HEDOCO — is an implementation of the group’s intermedia and interdisciplinary concepts and activities. The key idea behind the project was to create a new musical interface that would make a full range of expression available to performers of electronic music. Operated by moving one’s hands and body, the Dodecaudion offers an alternative to twiddling knobs and hiding behind a laptop screen. All of this is made possible thanks to open source platforms such as the Arduino and Processing. Dodecaudion will touch down at Level 2.0 on Saturday, 29 October, following the concert at the metal shop. To find out more about the inner workings of the instrument, visit Hyde Park on Thursday.
27 October: Dodecaudion @ Hyde Park
28 October, 20:00: Concert
29 October: Presentation at Level 2.0
Masterclass @ Medialab Lublin
Led by: Paweł Janicki
Visitors to the café will find a very curious kind of guest: applications created at the this year’s Masterclass Medialab workshop in Lublin, held in August. The common theme behind the projects was network scanning and data analysis. Participants transformed and visualized network traffic to make games, animations, and sound.
27–29.10.2011
WHAT’S THE YOUTH OF TODAY LIKE?
Kinga Gawronek, Nikodem Janicki, Karolina Jung, Karolina Mikulska, Łukasz Nejman, Urszula Pelc, Katarzyna Piątkowska, Michał Sapieha, Olga Tykwińska, Joanna Taracha, Karol Węgrzynowski, Agata Wierzbowska
This interactive installation, created with Enriched Reality, was inspired by Marcel Łoziński’s film Workshop Exercises. The students offer their own answers to a question posed in the movie: "What’s the youth of today like?".
Studio: Multimedia and Image Processing
Anna Klimczak, Ph.D., Marcin Wichrowski, M.Sc.
Faculty of New Media Art
Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology
27–29.10.2011
14. Biennale WRO 2011 Alternative Now Media Art Biennale
WRO Art Center
A selection of pieces featured at Wrocław’s 14th WRO 2011 Alternative Now Biennale. Held by the WRO Art Center, this competitive review of technology-driven art is Central Europe’s leading and oldest festival devoted to new media art.
27–29.10.2011
THE WALL – INTERNET RECYCLING
Huncwot. Łukasz Knasiecki, Arek Romański
A project created as part of the website for the European Culture Congress (http://culturecongress.eu/wall), held in Wrocław in September as the central point of the National Cultural Programme of Poland’s EU Presidency.
The Wall is an application that allows users to create collages of images found on other websites. It’s also a way to link to those sites and build new meanings, a means of self-presentation and expression, and simply a way to share links to your favourite online content.
27–29.10.2011
KIDSMART
IBM
KidSmarts are computer terminals specially designed for children aged 3–7. Each set features a computer with a colourful, kid-proof case and special educational software that meets the curriculum requirements for early years education in the subjects of basic math, English, and logic.
27–29.10.2011
HYDE PARK
Hyde Park is a space provided for attendees of Culture 2.0: Media-Aware who would like to share their projects, exchange ideas, and network with other attendees. Featured guests include Agnieszka Wlazeł of the Impact Foundation, Barbara Okoń-Makowska of the University of Music and Polish Radio, Eugeniusz Rudnik, Anna Rochowska of TR, Jakub Koźniewski of panGenerator, Anna Koczarska, and Piotr Skiba of the University of Warsaw. What about you?
27.10.2011, 11:00–17:00
VHS TAPE COLLECTION DRIVE
Tomasz Dubiel, Maciej Diduszko
A collection drive for 90s VHS tapes. The purpose of the drive is to digitise personal video archives. Bring your old VHS tapes and they‘ll be returned to you along with a digital copy. Selected pieces of video footage will be edited into a documentary film. It will examine evolving of reality’s perception during the period of transformation.
27–29.10.2011
PROGRAM CHILLOUT CINEMA
27 October
• The Black Series, Little Town, 10'
• Władysław Ślesicki, Before the Leaves Fall, 28'
• Twożywo, Too Dark, 2'06"
• Daniel Szczechura, First, Second, Third, 7'41"
• Krzysztof Kieślowski, From the City of Łódź, 17'
• Marcel Łoziński, Matriculation, 17'
• Videonotacje: Episode 4
• Theatre: Różewicz, The Card Index, 89'
• Marek Piwowski, Fire, Fire, at Last Something’s Going On, 13'
• The Anthology of Polish Experimental Animation, The Eye and The Ear, dir. Franciszek and Stefan Themerson, 10'58"
• Wojciech Wiszniewski, A Story of a Man Who Filled 552% of the Quota, 25'
• E. Rudnik, Lesson, featuring typographic illustrations by students of Ewa Satalecka, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology (Faculty of New Media Art, Studio of Kinetic Typography), about 20'
28 October
• Krzysztof Kieślowski, I Was a Soldier, 16'
• Anthology of Polish Animated Film, The Son, dir. Ryszard Czekała, 9'42"
• Videonotacje: Episode 6
• The Black Series, _Warsaw '56_, 7'
• Anthology of Polish Animated Film, Cages, dir. Mirosław Kijowicz, 7'27"
• Andrzej Munk, The Men of the Blue Cross, 56'
• Twożywo, Signal of Control, 3'11"
• Anthology of Polish Children’s Animation, The Pocket-Knife, dir. Leszek Lorek, 8'15"
• Jacek Bławut, Skalski’s Circus, 21'
• Theatre: The Card-Index Scattered. Rehearsals, 76'
• E. Rudnik, Lesson, featuring typographic illustrations by students of Ewa Satalecka, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology (Faculty of New Media Art, Studio of Kinetic Typography), about 20'
29 October
• Anthology of Polish Children’s Animation, In the Time of King Krakus, dir. Zenon Wasilewski, 14'23"
• Anthology of Polish Children’s Animation, Circus, dir. Włodzimierz Haupe, 15'
• Anthology of Polish Children’s Animation, Cat and Mouse, dir. Władysław Nehrebecki, 8'31"
• Anthology of Polish Children’s Animation, Bulandra and the Devil, dir. Jerzy Zitzman, Lechosław Marszałek, 8'25"
• Anthology of Polish Children’s Animation, Dumpling, dir. Lucjan Dembiński, 9'44"
• Anthology of Polish Children’s Animation, A Little Western, dir. Witold Giersz, 5'25"
• Krystyna Gryczełowska, Our Friends from Łódź, 16'
• Anthology of Polish Animated Film, Stairs, dir. Stefan Schabenbeck, 7'24"
• The Black Series, Where the Devil Says Goodnight, 11'
• Videonotacje: Episode 5
• The Anthology of Polish Experimental Animation, Once Upon a Time, dir. Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica, 8'56"
• Władysław Ślesicki, Before the Leaves Fall, 28'
• Action Animation. The Most Recent Films, A Gentleman’s Romance, dir. Tomasz Kozak, 2000, 9'54"
• Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz, _Generation '89_, 60'
• E. Rudnik, Lesson, featuring typographic illustrations by students of Ewa Satalecka, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology (Faculty of New Media Art, Studio of Kinetic Typography), about 20'
PROGRAM CHILLOUT RADIO
27 October
• Paweł Mykietyn, Speechless song, 71'33"
• Witold Lutosławski, Chain 1, performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain (1983, 11'), Nowa Łaźnia Theatre in Kraków
• Zapiski ze współczesności. Guest: Prof. Łukasz Turski
• Krzysztof Penderecki, String Quartet No. 1 (1960, 7'), performed by musikFabrik, Kraków Museum of Urban Engineering
• Kazimierz Serocki, Phantasmagoria (1971, 12'), performed by Ensemble Recherche, Kraków Museum of Urban Engineering
• Portrety X Muzy: Olgierd Łukaszewicz
28 October
• Stanisław Radwan, A Lost Thing Looks for a Lost Name, 68'13"
• H.M. Górecki, Kleines Requiem für Eine Polka, Op. 66, performed by Asko|Schönberg (1993, 25'), Kraków Museum of Urban Engineering
• Zapiski ze współczesności. Guest: Elżbieta Dzikowska
• Paweł Mykietyn, 3 for 13 (1994, 13'), performed by Ensemble Modern, Nowa Łaźnia Theatre in Kraków
• Portrety X Muzy: Olgierd Łukaszewicz
• Świat Młodych: Max Cegielski
29 October
• Paweł Mykietyn, St. Mark Passion, 92'10"
• Paweł Szymański, Appendix (1983, 14'), performed by London Sinfonietta, Nowa Łaźnia Theatre in Kraków
• Zapiski ze współczesności. Guest: Wojciech Pszoniak
• Agata Zubel, Cascando (2007, 14'), performed by Klangforum Wien, Nowa Łaźnia Theatre in Kraków
• Portrety X muzy: Olgierd Łukaszewicz
• Świat Młodych: Jaś Kapela
• Portrety X muzy: Janusz Gajos
CAFÉ
A café run by the staff of Warsaw’s own Szczotki i Pędzle.
NInA STORE
NInA, formerly known as the Polish Audiovisual Publishers, publishes outstanding and somewhat forgotten Polish animated films and documentaries, as well as the work of contemporary Polish composers and playwrights, on DVD, CD, and Blu-ray. To accompany the Experimental Studio: Reactivation project, NInA will be selling albums featuring Polish Radio Experimental Studio albums.
27–29.10.2011
SOUND POSTCARDS
Rui Silva, Mat Schulz
During the 60s and 70s in Poland, at a time when vinyl records were hard to come by, sound postcards became extremely popular. This exhibition, shown originally at UNSOUND Festival, not only reveals the forgotten artistic merit of these cards, each with a design or photograph, but allows the public to listen to their songs transferred into mp3 format, drawing attention to the way sound recording technology has changed over time.
27–29.10.2011
THE MASS BIO0RNAMENT
Dotka: Barbara Dzierań, Urszula Kowal, Justyna Zubrycka
Interactive bioinstallation whose tissue is formed by contact with the user. Visitors affect its shape directly via touch interface. Touching the panel activates a pulsating motion of nourishment in transparent tubes, which will be delivered to the glass containers with algae. Protista development is visible through the increase in volume and color change, depending on the frequency of ongoing interaction with people.
This work is a manifestation of Siegfried Kracauer's theory "das Ornament der Masse" (the mass ornament). He analyses the most superficial human actions, as an unconscious emanation of the epoch. These activities – forms detached from their meanings, that he called the mass ornament, shape the culture. (Kracauer, 1927)
The installation shown originally at Mindware. Technologies of Dialogue in Lublin, October 1-7, 2011. The Workshops of Culture is the producer and organizer of the project.
27–29.10.2011
"VISUAL RESEARCH IN PRACTICE. ANTHOLOGY" - BOOK PROMOTION
Promotion of the book "Visual research in practice. Antology".
Published by: Bęc Zmiana Foundation in cooperation with the National Audiovisual Institute and Institute of Sociology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Moderator: Adam Mazur
Participants: Maciej Frąckowiak, Krzysztof Olechnicki, Rafał Drozdowski, Tomasz Rakowski
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