Concepts. International interdisciplinary exhibition

Concepts. 

An international, interdisciplinary exhibition.

Interpretation and reinterpretation of concepts

On January 14, 2025 at 2:00 p.m., we cordially invite you to the Medium Gallery (Main Hall, Building A) for the opening of the international research project Concepts / Concepts. This project explores the interpretation of concepts at the intersection of written language, visual language and artificial intelligence, focusing on individual relationships in understanding these concepts and their transformation into visual language. At the heart of the project is the question of whether conceptual representations can provide a common, universal area for understanding reality, or whether they remain mere subjective adaptations. Nearly 300 students from 22 universities from Japan, France, Iran, Turkey, Taiwan, Hungary, Ukraine, Poland and the US participated in the project over its one-year duration. 

Each participant was tasked with selecting a concept and providing an interpretation of it using his or her own description, a selection of closely related words, and a static and dynamic image (video). An interesting aspect of the project is the use of AI technology; participants provided descriptions for the selected concepts, based on which AI images were generated as comparative material with the author's creations. 

The exhibition presents a selection of static works (graphics), videos and images generated by artificial intelligence, thus revealing the diversity and complexity of the perception of concepts in a global context.

Project curator: Agnieszka Ziemiszewska, PhD, prof. PJAIT

Curators of the exhibition: Dr. Agnieszka Ziemiszewska, Prof. PJAIT, PhD students: Katarzyna Kowalczyk, Babak Safari. Cooperation in the implementation of the exhibition arrangement: Maria Odolczyk-Sawicka.

Professorial Staff:

• Dr. Agnieszka Ziemiszewska, prof. PJAIT, Poland
• Prof. Christopher Scott, USA, Graphic Design Department at Iowa State University
• Prof. Tomoko Miyagawa, MFA, Japan, Department of Design Gifu City Women's College
• Prof. Gael Le Guillerm, France, Graphic Design DNMADE Visual Languages, HEI Brequigny
• Prof. Oleg Veklenko, Ukraine, Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts
• Andrea Szabo, Assistant Professor, Hungary, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest
• Prof. Krzysztof Białowicz, Poland, Faculty of Fine Arts, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
• Prof. Sophia Ling-hung Shih, Taiwan, National Taiwan Normal University, former vice president of lco-D
• Prof. Ayse Derya Kahraman, Turkey, Graphic Design Department, Istanbul Universitesi Cerrahpaşa
• Adam Klasa, PhD, Poland, Graphic Design Department, Academy of Art, Szczecin
• Prof. Tifenn Gargam, France, Humanities and Creative Writing, DNMADE Visual Languages, HEI Brequigny, IUT - University of Rennes
• Prof. Didem Çatal, Turkey, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
• Babak Safari, MFA, Iran, Isfahan University Center
• Maja Starakiewicz, PhD, Poland, Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow
• Dr. Jaroslaw Bujny, Poland, UWM Olsztyn
• Rafał Masłyk, MSc, BEng, Poland (AI workshop), Reality and Immersive Systems Department, PJAIT

Participating Institutions:

• Academy of Art in Szczecin
• Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland
• Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Poland
• Baha'i Institute for Higher Education, Iran
• Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey
• City Center of Isfahan University, Iran
• Fazili Art School, Iran
• Gifu City Women's College, Japan
• HEI Bréquigny, Rennes, France
• Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Hungary
• Iowa State University, USA
• Islamic Azad University, Iran
• İstanbul Üniversitesi-Cerrahpaşa, Turkey
• Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts (KSADA), Ukraine
• Kherson National Technical University, Kherson (Department of IT and Design), Ukraine
• National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
• Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland
• Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Poland
• Sepehr university, Iran
• Shayestegan Art School, Iran
• Soore University, Iran
• UAx Mentoring Programme
• Elia, The Netherlands - European League of Institutes of the Arts 
• University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland

Concepts / Concepts
January 10-21, 2025
Gallery Medium, Building A
Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology
ul. Koszykowa 86, Warsaw, Poland

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