09:00-10:00
Foyer
Open breakfast and registration
Registration is open throughout the conference
10:00-11:30
Room: Stolica
Conference opening
Opening lecture by Gerfried Stocker
11:30-12:00
Foyer
Coffee break
Facts/ True stories behind the true stories
Cultural institutions are developing digital tools which enable (and encourage) users to transform archival source material creatively in new contexts. Narrative museums, audiovisual creators and journalists are applying these tools in immersive and interactive projects and games, for instance. They wish to reach out to audiences and relate exciting narratives using storytelling techniques, but sometimes thrilling tales do not go hand in hand with archival truth. How can these newly created materials and projects be made both attractive and truthful? How does one strike a balance between the original implications of the sources and their recycled contexts, which lie in between fact and narration? Creators recount their own experiences in a variety of fields, ranging from games to interactive documentaries and VR.
12:00-12:15
Room: Stolica
12:15-12:30
Room: Stolica
12:45-13:00
Room: Stolica
13:00-14:00
Foyer
Lunch Break
14:00-15:00
Room: Mała Czarna
Discussion with "Facts / True stories behind the true stories" speakers
Alexey Furman, Svenja Klüh, Trine Laier, Holy Pangolin
moderator: Anna Desponds
Panel Discussion
15:00-16:30
Rotunda
1:1 meetings with experts - Thursday
Frank Cifaldi, Svenja Kluh, Alexey Furman, Taras Nazaruk, Krzysztof Pijarski, Pola Borkiewicz, Piotr Matysiak, Jacek Nagłowski, Dana Dansereau, Keisuke Innami
14:00-15:15
Room: Stolica
Best of Poland part I
Best of Poland presentations series brings light to the most interesting Polish projects created and being developed in the recent years, in different fields of digital art and culture.
Presentation
15:15-15:30
Room: Stolica
15:00-15:30
Room: Mała Czarna
Metadata standard in KRONIKA project
Rafał Leśkiewicz PHD, The Ministry of Digital Affairs
Presentation
15:30-15:45
Foyer
Coffee Break
Memory / VR: material memories, digital traces
VR offers a much more personal experience than a regular collective film or theatre show. Each viewer sees their own story. How can the medium’s intimate potential be translated to represent individual memories? Can a VR experience go beyond subjectivity? How can VR be applied to do justice to a collective experience?
As its name implies, virtual reality also transports the viewer into another, non-material world. How do VR creators cope with our yearning for lost materiality? How are they attempting to incorporate physicality into their projects?
Some of the works presented in this session will be included in the VR Showcase to accompany the conference, which will be running at TR Warszawa theatre from September 26–28, 2019.
15:45-16:00
Room: Stolica
16:15-16:30
Room: Stolica
VR as an Archive of Theatrical Experience – the Case Study of G.E.N VR
Grzegorz Jarzyna
Presentation
16:45-17:00
Foyer
Coffee Break
17:00-18:00
Room: Mała Czarna
Discussion with "Memory / VR: Material Memories, Digital Traces" speakers
Clyde Henry Productions, Grzegorz Jarzyna, May Abdalla
moderator: Paweł Schreiber
Panel Discussion
17:00-18:30
Room: Stolica
Best of Poland part II
Best of Poland presentations series brings light to the most interesting Polish projects created and being developed in the recent years, in different fields of digital art and culture.
Presentation
18:30-19:00
Foyer
Coffee Break
free admission
20:00-21:00
Room: Stolica
WRO: from the Archives
a selection of video works from WRO Art Center archives
Mouse on Mars at Polish National Radio concert
15:00-16:30
Rotunda
1:1 meetings with experts - Thursday
Frank Cifaldi, Svenja Kluh, Alexey Furman, Taras Nazaruk, Krzysztof Pijarski, Pola Borkiewicz, Piotr Matysiak, Jacek Nagłowski, Dana Dansereau, Keisuke Innami
Surplus management
Data is the fundamental building block of digital culture, yet from a modern perspective we should say that it is – and always was – the substance of every culture. There is no doubt that the Internet is currently the fastest, most abundant source of immense cultural resources from all over the world and all ages past. Those resources are growing by the day, and we already feel a need to simplify the ways in which we access and work with them.
At the same time, digitally created works such as video games, applications, and web pages are much more vulnerable to the passage of time than we might think. Correctly preserved artworks in museums and books in libraries will survive for centuries, whereas the digital art of the last few decades may not only be forgotten, but lost irretrievably. Solutions to these problems lie in major international initiatives designed to establish standards for disseminating cultural heritage, and also in the work of artists, digital curators and archivists striving to preserve, interpret, reinterpret and creatively transform the available cultural resources.
10:00-10:15
Room: Stolica
10:15-10:30
Room: Stolica
10:45-11:00
Room: Stolica
11:00-12:00
Room: Mała Czarna
Discussion with "Surplus Management" speakers
Josh Hadro, Constant Dullaart, Frank Cifaldi
moderacja: Piotr Rydzek
Panel Discussion
11:00-12:00
Room: Stolica
Best of Poland part III
Best of Poland presentations series brings light to the most interesting Polish projects created and being developed in the recent years, in different fields of digital art and culture.
Presentation
12:00-13:30
Rotunda
1:1 meetings with experts - Friday
Philo van Kemenade, Przemysław Danowski, Paweł Janicki, Constant Dullart, May Abdalla, Kuba Matyka, Joseph Cutts, Lior Zalmanson, Piotr Kubiński
12:00-12:30
Foyer
Coffee Break
[unarchiving] on margins / Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
What can be the life of a film forlorn somewhere in a provincial village? A damaged tape discovered in an amateur club may become an important finding and an art object when it gets into the archive institution. Its destruction and oblivion do not mean the little value of the film. It implies, instead, the need for archives' attention to be drawn to the margins. Those are the materials in the focus of the Urban Media Archive of the Center for Urban History in Lviv.
12:30-12:45
Room: Stolica
Context of Creating and Constructing Archives
Bohdan Shumylovych, Center for Urban History
Presentation
12:45-13:00
Room: Stolica
[unarchiving]: As an Attempt to Overcome Challenges of Digital Archives
Oleksandr Makhanets, Center for Urban History
Presentation
13:00-13:15
Room: Stolica
Crossing the Boundaries of Media: A Case of the Digital Interview Collection
Natalia Otrishchenko, Center for Urban History
Presentation
13:30-14:30
Foyer
Lunch Break
14:30-15:30
Room: Mała Czarna
WRO: from the Archives
a selection of video works from WRO Art Center archives
Sources / Escape from the Archive
15:10-15:30
Room: Stolica
"The Curator" - a VR game on the history of Polish design and the human face of design
Jacek Nagłowski
Presentation
15:30-16:30
Room: Mała Czarna
Discussion with "Sources / Escape from the Archive" speakers
Dana Dansereau, Mariam Natroshvili, Jacek Nagłowski
Moderator: Jakub Zgierski
Panel Discussion
15:30-17:00
Room: Stolica
Best of Poland part IV
Best of Poland presentations series brings light to the most interesting Polish projects created and being developed in the recent years, in different fields of digital art and culture.
Presentation
17:00-17:30
Foyer
Coffee Break
17:30-18:30
Room: Stolica
Algorithms and Curators
Lukas Henning, Lior Zalmanson, Zofia Zembrzuska
moderator: Alek Tarkowski
Panel Discussion
12:00-13:30
Rotunda
1:1 meetings with experts - Friday
Philo van Kemenade, Przemysław Danowski, Paweł Janicki, Constant Dullart, May Abdalla, Kuba Matyka, Joseph Cutts, Lior Zalmanson, Piotr Kubiński