On 6-7 December 2024, the National Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference ‘Who is the Artist? The faces of artistic identity in the contemporary world'.  Below are some photos from the event.

The idea for the theme area stems from the need to take steps toward trying to resolve the identity dilemmas of the young artist. The alarming phenomenon observed today of increasing fear of social exposure, identity confusion and an unstable sense of the meaning of being an artist is a cause for in-depth scientific reflection.
The project includes speeches by representatives of academia, the art community, business and workshops aimed at young artists.

The thematic range of speeches by active participants included:

• Identity as a multifaceted issue.
• Faces of the artist in the light of scientific research.
• The development of artistic identity in the experience of representatives of different areas of art (music, visual arts, acting, dance and others).
• The sense of meaning of being an artist in scientific reflection.
• Formation of artistic identity among young people.
• Art therapy and artistic identity in communities of people with disabilities.
• The conference program will include papers, presentations and workshops. We want to look at the topic of artistic identity from different perspectives: pupil, student, teacher, artist-professional and entrepreneur with an artistic soul.

The conference programme included papers, presentations and workshops. We wanted to look at the topic of artistic identity from different perspectives: that of the pupil, the student, the teacher, the artist-professional and the entrepreneur with an artistic soul.

During the conference, the interactive audiovisual installation Immersion by Random Check Media Ensemble (RCME) was presented, which is a tiny fragment of the much larger multimedia project Matching Components, which premiered as part of the 67th Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music.

Immersion is a kind of audiovisual instrument controlled by precise hand gestures. More about RCME and other projects: https://randomcheck.asp.wroc.pl

The authors of the project are:

Artistic concept - Marcin Rupociński

Media Programming: Maciej Michaluk, Bartosz Radzikowski, Marcin Rupociński

The conference is also accompanied by an exhibition of the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław.

Please send any questions concerning the conference to: kimjestartysta@amkl.edu.pl.

The conference was organized as part of the project “Quo vadis, musica? - between mission and duty in the context of the third millennium” co-financed by funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Fund for the Promotion of Culture.

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