Digital Cultures Conference 24-25.09.2018 / Warsaw

Edition 2018

AfterLife Design

Zura Jishkariani aka Dilla

APPARATUM

panGenerator

Curating Video Games

Marie Foulston

Digital heritage

Sándor Biszak, Eyal Miller, Riin Olonen, Sonia Wronkowska, Piotr Rydzek

11-11: Memories Retold – painting the Great War

Yoan Fanise

Composing for online interactive art

Philippe Lambert

Sound as a tool of immersion

Cathy FitzGerald, Krzysztof Cybulski, Arkadiusz Reikowski, Bartek Chaciński

Financing and distribution of digital projects

Jakub Górnicki, Jacek Nagłowski, Jakub Wójcik, Julia Płachecka

A game, anatomy and old prints: the case study of Homo Machina

Mark Lustigman

Hybridizer

Łukasz Kozak

Imagined Cities

Viktor Antonov

Inkulinati: Clash of Medieval Rabbits

Wojciech Janas, Dorota Halicka

Humans vs Machines

Kim Albrecht, Alek Tarkowski

Building a digital national library

Aslak Sira Myhre

Face Recognition in the Archives

Zuzana Bukovčiková

Project Upiór

Łukasz Kozak

Reality-based games

Florent Maurin

Motion and body in digital culture

Michaël Samyn & Auriea Harvey, Florent Maurin, Iza Szostak

Galatea, Versu, Character Engine: three generations of in-game characters

Emily Short

Storytelling in the Dark / City Soundscapes

Cathy FitzGerald, John Beauchamp, Lea Berriault

VR: translating non-fiction stories into immersive experiences

Anetta Jones

In Search of Lost Style

Claudia Molinari

Keynotes

Ann Marie Lipiński, Kristoffer Gansing, Patrycja Wanat

From the VR archives

Dorota Błaszczak

Understanding Ourselves and AI through Art

Sarah Newman

This year’s Digital Cultures conference will take a closer look at a broad range of issues related to the subject: digitisation and access to digital collections; computer game design; challenges faced by modern cultural institutions; new languages of interactive storytelling and the creation of immersive works of art; as well as podcasts and audio works. The 2018 conference is a celebration of hybridity: It grew out of the conviction that the most interesting stories are created at the interface of seemingly distant fields.

Who’s it for? Employees of cultural institutions, creators, and everyone else who’s interested in the most fascinating digital projects from Poland and around the world!

About the Conference

2 DAYS OF CONFERENCE SESSIONS

30+ SPEAKERS

14 PRESENTATIONS

8 WORKSHOPS

9 DISCUSSIONS

Speakers

Kristoffer Gansing

Transmediale Festival

Kristoffer Gansing has been the artistic director of the transmediale festival since 2012. As a curator and researcher he is interested in the intersections of media, art, and activism. He is co-founder of the festival The Art of the Overhead (2005) and from 2007-2010 was an editorial board member of the artist-run channel tv-tv in Copenhagen.

Philippe Lambert

Composer

Born in Montreal, Lambert is an experimental vocalist, electronic music composer, and interactive art creator. His recordings have been published on Alien8 Recordings, Robosapien Records and Los Discos Enfantasmes. He has co-created three award-winning interactive works for the National Film Board of Canada: BLA BLA (2011), A Journal of Insomnia (2013) and Way to Go (2015).

Marie Foulston

Victoria & Albert Museum

Marie Foulston is a playful curator and producer with a love of the mischievous and the unexpected. She currently works as Curator of Videogames at the V&A and is co-founder of the UK-based independent videogame collective Wild Rumpus where she has worked alongside partners including MoPOP, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Game Developers Conference.

Viktor Antonov

Darewise

Artist and designer of digital spaces, he made his mark in the history of computer games with a project that connects the landscape of eastern Europe with futuristic elements of City 17 from Half-Life 2 (2004). In 2012, Antonov created another space that has won a place in the memory of gamers: the city Dunwall from the game Dishonored, suspended between 19th century realism, alternative visions of technological development and disturbing magic.

The Kissinger Twins

Multimedia artists

Katarzyna Kifert and Dawid Marcinkowski create an award winning duo focused on digital, visuals and storytelling. The Kissinger Twins create award-winning projects by mixing the latest in digital technologies with classic film and photography. These projects have been widely recognised by prestigious festivals and awards shows, including the Webby Awards, SXSW, Luerzer's Archive.

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