ELIA Biennale 2024 - Arts Plural

Artists and designers possess a particular form of intelligence. Although considered powerful in certain circles, artistic intelligence is frequently ill-defined or misread. However, as a system of capacities for perception, insight, sensing, creating, and decision-making, it has been driving human evolution beyond boundaries for centuries. But how do we define artistic intelligence and its possibilities in a contemporary context?      

ELIA Biennale 2024 Arts Plural at NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan asks how artist-practitioners, designers, students and teachers can be recognized as agents of change, innovation and evolution. How can art education serve society in a more pluralistic way? What structures are necessary for artistic intelligence to play a role in solving our planet's problems?

Teachers and students of the Department of New Media Arts are also participating in the ELIA Biennial 2024 Arts Plural. 

Dr. Anna Klimczak and Tomasz Miśkiewicz from the WSNM Multimedia Studio present the interactive installation Panopticon - Come Closer concerning surveillance and continuous monitoring, shown at PJATK Kyubu in 2023 and realised with WSNM students Helena Jabłonowska, Karolina Bloch, Jakub Chrobot, Zuzanna Gocławska, Benedikt Pfisterer, Sefa Sagir, Veranika Strakh, Natalia Ślusarska, Julia Witkowska and Kuba Zakrzewski.

Students from the MA Graphic Design and Multimedia Art programme, Julia Lewicka and Kamila Różanska, lead a workshop for conference participants, where they will present the potential of using art, particularly zines, for local activism. Looking through the lens of poems by silenced poets, participants will create zines, which will then be digitised and reach a wider audience online. The aim of this session is to highlight different forms of protest and foster awareness that art is a tool for making a social impact. 

Anna Eichler is a member of the ELIA Council, and PJAIT is the only Polish institution of higher art education in it. ELIA is a globally affiliated European organization of about 280 institutions of higher art education. All PJAIT teachers and students can attend ELIA conferences and submit their artistic achievements to them by responding to an open call. The main events are: ELIA Biennial, ELIA Academy - on teaching, learning and practicing art, ETHO - on technology in art, and Leadership Symposium - on the future of higher art education.