Intermedia Photography and Camera-Based Actions Studio
Diploma Studio
The Studio is a space for creative experimentation and reflection, where art is treated as a cognitive-critical process and as a tool for self-awareness and communication. The educational program focuses on developing artistic consciousness through the practice of creatively using both classical and new media. The program emphasizes the development of skills in recording, processing, and interpreting images, as well as in transferring experiences from traditional forms of artistic expression into digital and virtual spaces. Special attention is given to intermedia, performative, and camera-based actions that expand the boundaries of traditional media.
The Studio’s methodology is rooted in intermediality, understood not only as a fusion of media in the sense proposed by Higgins, but also as a dynamic relationship between them. Students learn to use the synergistic interplay between image, movement, sound, and body as equivalent elements of artistic narration, perceiving contemporary media as a field of dialogue between the artist, technology, and the audience—a multisensory space in which artistic expression gains a social dimension.
An integral part of the program is also the practice of performative art. The Studio supports individual creative exploration and organizes workshops with artists seeking new forms of visuality and perception, treating art as a continuous dialogue between experience, emotion, and technology—where individual sensitivity becomes a cognitive and social value.
Subjects
- Intermedia Photography and Camera-Based Actions
- Theories and Practices of Media Art
- Applied Photography
- Theories of Photography
Admission
Portfolio review.
Reading list
- Higgins, D. Intermedia and Other Essays, Akademia Ruchu / Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, 1985.
- Kowalska, B. Art in Search of Media, Wiedza Powszechna, Warsaw, 1985.
- Debord, G. The Society of the Spectacle and Commentaries on the Society of the Spectacle, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warsaw, 2006.
- Belting, H. Anthropology of the Image: Sketches for a Science of the Image, Universitas, Kraków, 2007.
- Abramović, M. Artist’s Life Manifesto, CSW Znaki Czasu, Toruń, 2019.
- Flusser, V. Towards a Philosophy of Photography, Aletheia, Warsaw, 2015.
- Wawrzak, M. (ed.) The Collection of Fictions: On Mystification in Art, Nicolaus Copernicus University Press, Toruń, 2016.
- Skrzypczak, B. Cultural Change – The Culture of Change, Warsaw, 2003.
- Hopfinger, M. From Photography to Virtual Reality, Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 1997.
- Sontag, S. Regarding the Pain of Others, Karakter, 2010.
- Wójtowicz, E. Art in Post-Media Culture, Katedra Scientific Publishing, Gdańsk, 2016.
- Dziamski, G. Art After the End of Art. Art of the Early 21st Century, Arsenał Municipal Gallery, Poznań, 2009.
- Kluszczyński, R. Film, Video, Multimedia: The Art of the Moving Image in the Electronic Era, Warsaw, 1999.
