What are the changes to the functions of film/photography and the methods of their use?

How to use visual tools consciously, with criticism and reflection?

How to use images in socio-cultural projects?

Do you use visual media in your educational/animation activities (film, cinema, photography, Internet)? Do you influence the way other people use them? Do you want to share your experience supplemented by theoretic thought? We would like to invite you to take part in the Visual Seminar.

The Visual Seminar is a unique opportunity to meet people who work with pictures, the methods of looking and with the widely understood contemporary culture. It will join practitioners (animators/educators, creators) with theoreticians (anthropologists and sociologists) who work with visual culture.

The meeting will be a platform for exchange of experience, thought and questions as well as a first step to creating a unique book – “Visionaries. Scenarios for the Future”. The concept and content of this on-line book will be created by the participants of the Seminar.

The project is based on partnership – we invite people willing to participate in the creation of the project from early September to the end of November.

The Seminar will take part form the 27th to the 30th September 2012 in Oczyszczalnia (Regowo, near Warsaw).

On-line activities focused on making the book and writing its content will last until the end of November 2012.

We offer:

• Participation in the 3-day intensive, private (around 15 participants) Seminar (with guests and moderators, accommodation, full board, work space – we do not cover travel costs);
• Meetings with practitioners operating in a similar field;
• Meetings with theoreticians and experts from Poland and abroad;
• The possibility to create an innovative book aimed at a wide audience.

CONTACT

Agnieszka Pajączkowska / aga.pajaczkowska@e.org.pl/ tel: +48 506 09 09 15

The Visual Seminar is organised within the Polska.doc program realised by the Doc Next Network thanks to the support of the European Cultural Foundation.

The Visual Seminar is organized with the financial support of the Polish Film Institute.