DIGITAL CULTURES 2018

The 2nd annual Digital Cultures conference #Hybrid Matter 24-25 September 2018 Iluzjon Cinema The Adam Mickiewicz Institute this year organised the second annual Digital Cultures conference. On 24-25 September 2018, the Iluzjon Cinema in Warsaw hosted 23 presentations and discussions, as well as meetings with international experts and artists. Before the conference, on 23 September, seven free workshops were held. Digital Cultures is a forum for presenting the most interesting Polish and international projects, as well as a fantastic place to make contacts with representatives of key institutions from Poland and abroad - from Poland’s neighbours, to the Eastern Partnership countries, Canada and the US. This is Poland’s first event so comprehensively dedicated to digital culture. The interdisciplinary programme encompasses a broad spectrum and the newest trends of this dynamically developing field: from computer games, podcasts and narrative museums, to interactive storytelling and digital archives. The first edition of the conference and its accompanying programme, organised by the Mickiewicz Institute in 2017, enjoyed great interest, drawing in more than 1,100 participants. After the first edition of the conference, whose mission was to show the broad range of developments related to digital culture and the most interesting Polish projects and artists working in this area, the second edition deepened the discussion about the most dynamically developing and changing parts of the field. The programme of this year’s edition was focused around the thematic blocks of digital archives, audio, computer games and interactive storytelling. There were plenty of critical reflection dedicated to the challenges that the development of artificial intelligence and the algorithmisation of culture bring with them. The main theme of the conference were digital hybrids, meaning artistic practices that are taking place at the intersection of several fields, often seemingly distant from each other. An outstanding group of experts has been invited to this year’s conference, from the US, Canada, Israel and Europe, including Central and Eastern Europe: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Georgia and Slovenia. They included the directors of leading festivals, museum directors, representatives of key technology-related institutions, artists and game creators, among others: Kristoffer Gansing (director of the Transmediale festival) and Ann Marie Lipinski (Harvard Nieman Journalism Lab), the composer and creator of interactive projects Philippe Lambert; Marie Foulston (curator of games at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London); the radio producer Eleanor McDowall (Radio Atlas) and the creator of concept art for games Viktor Antonov. In total, more than 30 international guests took part in Digital Cultures. The initiator and organiser of the conference is the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, operating under the Culture.pl brand. Main partners: Book2net, British Council, Institut Français Partners: Outriders, HTC, Aplauz, FINA, Iluzjon Cinema, National Digital Archives, Total Immersion Foundation, Platige Image, Theatre Institute Media partners: Dwutygodnik, Pixel More information at: www.digitalcultures.pl www.culture.pl

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