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

More about the project

The project's vimeo channel

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