Why pictures? – art and research project
The Interactive Narratives and UX Studio at vnLab in collaboration with Krytyka Polityczna, Jasna 10, Krakow Photomonth and View: Theories and Practices of Visual Culture academic journal are launching a long-term artistic and research project entitled Why pictures?
Its initiators and curators, Witek Orski and Krzysztof Pijarski, together with contemporary theoreticians and practitioners, will look at the global republic of images, searching for the democratic and communal potential of photography.
We are interested in the reflection on the contemporary status and circulation of images, as well as – or perhaps above all – their agency, texture, and life. The whole project is divided into chapters – within each chapter we would like to initiate an artistic and intellectual exchange, which will consist of reactions to the opening conversation and to statements and gestures of predecessors and predecessors.
Subsequent chapters and episodes of the project will be published on a dedicated website.