LITERACIES - book and documentary

about:
This October another edition of Eastern Partnership Culture Congress together with art festival INTEGRATIONS-MEDIATIONS will be held in Lublin, Poland.
Among many topics and activities we would like to consider cultural manifestations of media technologies and discuss culture as communicational and mediated environment. Therefore we will create platform for critical thinking about and discussing different media imaginaries, old and new media literacies as well as cultural and political regimes of communications. Our questions are:
- how do we/cultures differ among each other using media and communicating?
- what are the origins, fundaments and limits of analogue and digital literacies?
- are we facing global media imaginary and how media culture influence the way we think?

call:
Using various types of form record/design/write/picture you ideas, impressions and critical comments on the topic. We invite scientist form various fields (cultural studies, sociology, art theory, media studies, anthropology), artists (designers, media artist, visual artist, musicians, directors), journalists and cultural activits.

forms:
For such a mash-up we expect you to deliver homemade videoclips, scientific articles and impressions, essays, case studies, sound clips, photo galleries. All together they will be shown to the congress and festival guests and after the event in number of forms (as a book, video documentary, infographics and more…) they are going to be published (open source) in english and other laguages

workshop:
during the event international team of designers, artist and theoreticians will work together on the “interfaces” for our ideas and commentaries: videoclip, book and wwwersion.

deadline:
we expect you to deliver ready to use file by the end of August 2013.

contact:
piotr.celinski@umcs.pl