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CULTURAL TRANSITIONS AND CREATIVITY IN THE MEDIA ERA

April 26th 2007, 10:00 AM –  1:00 PM / 2:00 - 6:00 PM

Aula Leopoldina, Main Building, Wrocław University

Digitization and the convergence of the media have brought about changes in creative processes and in ways of how to participate in arts and culture. The situation of creativity, new forms of expression and new niches for high culture are the main issues for discussion during this cultural conference organized in collaboration with Polish Audiovisual Publishers, as part of their ongoing conference series entitled Culture 2.0.

Conference Agenda

10:00 – 10:10 AM

Opening Remarks - Michał Merczyński, director of Polish Audiovisual Publishers

10:15 – 11:15 AM

Panel 1

Introduction. Piotr Krajewski, "Connective Intelligence" or "Digital Maoism"?

Does the technology of today give new dimensions to creativity and create new cultural values, or is the uncontrolled burgeoning of information diluting values altogether? To what extent does the DIY philosophy of mass consumer-creativity eliminate the need for authorities? Are artists expendable?

Derrick de Kerckhove, The Objective Imaginary

The history of our relationships to screens, comparing different configurations of social software, and an exploration of complex new types of shared cognition from text messaging to Second Life in the context of art and the intelligence of the screen.

Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:45 PM

Panel 2

Mass Consumerism and Mass Creativity

Moderator: Wojciech Orliński, Gazeta Wyborcza

Alexander Bard - Artists, Salespeople and Consumers in the New Pan-Democratic Environment;

Fisz: A Conversation with the Artist

The development of new media has changed the interrelationships among the concepts of mass/consumerism/creativity, if not their very meaning. Is there really so much promise in the new variables: the unhindered growth of active participation and the unconstrained intermingling of the roles of creator, producer and consumer? Intellectual value has been  shaken, rattled and remixed – where does it come from now, what economy does it serve, and can it be both free and protected?

Lunch Break

2:00 – 3:30 PM

Panel 3

In the New Cinema

Moderator: Grażyna Torbicka

Krzysztof Zanussi

Prof. Andrzej Gwóźdź

What are the features of the new cinema, what are the trends and where is it headed? Does the new cinema have its own character, and is it linked to the technology of creating and distributing films? How is the big screen affected by the predominance of electronic images and new phenomena such as home cinema, television on demand and Internet-based film resources? Do cinematic films and television films have their own unique natures? Is the showdown between the cinema and the new technologies – the supposed supplanting of the old by the new - significant from the creative standpoint?

3:45 –5:15 PM

Panel 4

Transitions in Creativity

Moderator: Marcin Giżycki

Dawid Marcinkowski - webeo and interactive films

Lech Majewski – multi-shape films

Does technology shape the current incarnations of creativity? Do tools inspire creative exploration? What new scenarios does digital technology allow artists to conceive? On what level is the bond with the viewer attained? Is interactivity still an intriguing new challenge, or has it become a mundane taste that has to be catered to?

Coffee Break

5:30 – 6:00 PM

Panel 5

Culture and the Media: A Presentation of the Culture 2.0 Report

Edwin Bendyk

Mirosław Filiciak

Alek Tarkowski

This report, prepared by journalists and researchers dealing with contemporary transitions in culture and media, presents the subjects and viewpoints discussed during the first Culture 2.0 conference, which took place in Warsaw in December 2006.