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The Adam Mickiewicz Institute announces the fourth edition of Digital Cultures, an acclaimed platform that brings together digital art creators and world renowned curators. This year’s theme, Imagined Futures, opens up to a wider audience by venturing, together with the participants, into new territory – an online festival. While its focus lies on the pertinent questions about what lies ahead, the event will also bring back former visions of the future, dismissed as intriguing yet far-fetched fantasies a decade or even a few months ago.

Between October 17th and 25th, through the festival’s website participants can join a range of interactive events. From panel discussions, a film programme, artist spotlights, and the Best of Poland Forum to workshops, individual consultations, a contemplative audio programme, and shared authoring of the “Imagined Futures Manifesto” – Digital Cultures offers a new approach to online engagement, valuing interaction over presentation. It enables the public to participate, influence, and work together, enhancing the community atmosphere and creating a unique sense of belonging, even more crucial in these challenging times.

The curators have invited renowned experts and artists to join them for talks. Brett Gaylor, director of The Internet of Everything, Julia Kaganskiy, the founding director of NEW INC Ingrid LaFleur, Afrofuturist, Charlotte Webb, the founder of the Feminist Internet collective, Anab Jain of Superflux, Tim Maughan, author of Infinite Detail, The Guardian’s sci-fi book of the year, and Anagram among others: Through active participation, the audience: curators, creators, artists, and enthusiasts will be able to share expectations towards the future, gaining direction while we navigate through the virtual space in ways we never had before.

The organizers present a selection of 17 Polish projects, artists, artistic collectives and institutions within the Best of Poland Forum. Projects will be presented in the form of approximately 10 minute-long presentations grouped into 4 sessions. Each session ends with a live Q&A session giving the festival’s audience an opportunity to ask questions to the artists. Projects have been selected by the DC curatorial team based on applications sent to us within an open-call.

The 4 Best of Poland sessions are planned for:

October 19^th 4:30 p.m. CEST //  Games
October 21^st 4:30 p.m. CEST //  Archives and Collections
October 23^rd 6:00 p.m. CEST // Digital Storytelling
October 24^th 2:00 p.m. CEST // Physicality

Info: digitalcultures.pl/en

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