New Visual Narratives in Łódź is now over!

3 days filled with debates on technology, film, art and changes in contemporary culture landscape, a VR exhibition and film screenings. Thank you for being with us!

New Visual Narratives – the slogan that guided the first edition of the conference, and around which we are focusing our contemporary thinking again today, refers to completely different associations and meanings than just a few years ago. The idea of how stories can be told using immersive media and the language of film and visual arts has been subjected to many tests and has had to be revised. Every artistic expression that goes beyond the existing means of expression and questions the limits of the medium is born in a constant process of trial and revision – a process that starts again and again. The laboratory we established in 2019 was a testing ground for dozens of artists and producers from around the world. It has also been the site of many discussions, discoveries, surprises and failures, without which no creative process would be complete. However, we were not working in a laboratory environment isolated from our surroundings. Reality is changing in front of our eyes and both the creative process itself and the themes taken up in the works by artists resonate with it.

We want to capture these moments and discuss them with an international group of artists and theorists interested in the interface between film and digital media.

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Take part in the New Visual Narratives conference, July 1–3, 2022

Three days of intense debates, meetings, and discussions among an international group of creators, artists, producers, researchers, and enthusiasts of technology and film art. The New Visual Narratives conference is an event that will summarize and open a new chapter in the activities of the vnLab and Łódź Film School.

REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE

New Visual Narratives
1–3 lipca 2022
Szkoła Filmowa w Łodzi + online

Program and registration: konferencja.vnlab.org

The conference is free of charge.

New visual narratives are changing the landscape of today’s media. While the 20th century was the century of film, the present day is being defined before our very eyes. We will talk about what is currently most interesting in the field of audiovisual arts, present the results of vnLab’s research, and showcase our productions.

The event program is filled with presentations on topics that we deal with on a daily basis at vnLab Studios – VR, interactive narratives, immersive media, film essays, audience and perception research, 3D animation, and stereoscopy.

Among the invited guests are:

Ariel Avissar – film essayist, lecturer at Tel Aviv University, editor-in-chief of [in]Transition, the Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies.

Gary Hall – media philosopher working at the intersection of digital culture, politics, art, and technology, professor at Coventry University in the UK.

Hartmut Koenitz – from HKU University of Arts Utrecht, researching the use of interactive narratives.

Lena Thiele – creative director specializing in interactive music production, creator of the award-winning NetWars.

Joanna Żylińska – cultural studies scholar, literary scholar, artist, and lecturer at King’s College London.

SEE THE FULL EVENT PROGRAM

Organizers: Łódź Film School, Visual Narratives Laboratory (vnLab)