Counteracting Digital Exclusion Talk with Zbigniew Sobczuk Talks When technological advancements begin to dominate us, reducing us to mere consumers, our only defense is to engage in cultural activities that respond to our imagination, intelligence, and spiritual needs
THE ABC OF NEW CULTURE:W as in Westernisation BY Mirek Filiciak / Alek Tarkowski Media The members of the Toruń underground obviously didn’t identify with hacker culture, but one would be hard pressed to find a better example of the creative use of technology in anti-systemic activity
CULTURE 2.0 – Media-Aware BY John Biweekly Media Today, one can hardly imagine an educational process ignoring the possibilities that arise from new media
NOTES FROM UNDER THE TABLE: A Long Time Ago in the Future: Björk’s Biophilia BY James Hopkin Music Can technology really take us closer to nature, and if so, how? Because during the performance, nothing took me closer to nature or to the cosmos than the human voice, whether Björk’s or those of the magnificent choir
THE ABC OF NEW CULTURE:O as in Zero BY Mirek Filiciak / Alek Tarkowski Media While existing institutions of culture or the media that transmit it may disappear, culture itself is here to stay
THE ABC OF NEW CULTURE:M as in Machinima BY Mirek Filiciak / Alek Tarkowski Media Art, like a particularly vigorous strain of bacteria, can now blossom in nearly every environment. Machinima is made precisely because it CAN be made – and because there are people willing to do so
NOT IN ENGLISH YET: Digitalne dotknięcie (The Digital Touch) BY Aleksandra Hirszfeld Literature ‘Digitalne dotknięcie’ was inspired by an exchange of experiences and ideas regarding actions involving the use of binary code at digital_ia.09 festival
From Typewriters to Decision-Makers BY Aleksandra Przegalińska Media How could a machine possibly assist in making the decision to pollute a pond with toxic waste, or to fire an employee with a bad performance record?
Youth, Media, and Culture BY Mirosław Filiciak Media We need to treat the cultural activities of young people as a ‘bellwether of change’, as Barbara Fatyga once put it. Let’s start a serious debate on the changes underway in culture and the vision that should be followed by institutions that need to reinvent themselves
