The conference is taking place at the Polish-Japanese Institute of IT,

ul. Koszykowa 86, Warsaw

REGISTRATION REQUIRED

 

May 31st

 

09:30 – 10:00

opening

 

10:00 – 10:45

Jan Kubasiewicz: Sound—Image—Text—Motion. An Overview of Audiovisual Explorations

This presentation examines a concept of complementary relationships of sound, image, text and motion as the languages of expression and communication. Historical in method, it discusses the work of selected  artists, designers, inventors and innovators in the context of dynamic media communication practice and its pedagogy.

 

10:45 – 11:30

Werner Lemberg: A survey of the history of musical notation / Legibility issues of text in vocal scores

A survey of the history of musical notation: This lecture shows the various ideas musicians, calligraphers, and typesetters had to represent music, starting with the ancient Greek and Chinese culture, covering the early prints of the Renaissance, and ending with today's computer typesetting.

 

Legibility issues of text in vocal scores: How fonts can influence the readability of vocal scores, especially of operas.   This talk discusses practical considerations collected over the years while working as a professional singers' coach at various theatres.

 

11:30 – 11:45

coffee break

 

11:45 – 12:30

Brody Neuenschwander: Text as art and e(M)otion

A talk about the roll of text in the art of the 20th and 21st centuries, beginning with the work of Duchamp and Picasso, continuing with Surrealism and Futurism and considering Pop, Conceptual and Post-Conceptual work.  The situation in non-Western cultures will also be considered, looking at calligraphy in Arabic/Islamic culture and also in China and Japan; and asking how these traditional arts are faring in the modern world.  I will also present my own work, including work for film and media.

 

12:30 – 13:15

students' films projection

 

13:15 – 14:15

lunch break

 

14:15 – 15:00

Filip Blažek: Ēűřøpęåñ Ðïàçŕĭțıċŝ

The Latin alphabet was adopted by the majority of European nations. In many languages, the basic repertoire of letters did not cover all the phonemes. Several solutions were invented to represent missing sounds – digraphs, accents and special letters. Nowadays, most of the European languages written with Latin alphabet benefit from using accented letters and digraphs, special letters are quite rare and apart from German ß and Icelandic þ and ð are not used anymore. With the exception of English, all European languages rely on accents to facilitate the understanding and pronunciation. The presentation will focus on the phenomenon of European diacritics: from the problems users face in electronic communication, to the challenges for type designers.

 

 

15:00 – 15:45

Jerzy Drozda Jr: Correction or grading? That is the question

In this seminar you will learn the difference between commonly misunderstood concepts of color correction and color grading. Above that you'll see how to apply the theory behind color manipulation in real productions and learn few pro tricks to kickstart your creative color manipulation process.

 

 

15:45 – 16:00

coffee break

 

16:00 – 16:45

Baris Atiker: Naming Type in Motion

The interaction of typography with motion pictures comes up with a definition problem due to the physical understanding in both formal and functional perspectives. The terms such as 'motion', 'dynamic', 'fluid', 'virtual', 'temporal'  are commonly used by the designers (and design theorists) basically to explain the nature of type in motion but still missing the best correspondance. This paper will try to evaluate the new design principles for better understanding the type in motion rather than exploring a 'one' word definition.

 

16:45 – 17:30

Adam Cooke: Design Eduction & the workshop model / Lo-fi touch technology prototypes in the field

This workshop brought together conductive technologies and open source technologies to deliver content in a public space via audio. The workshop actively encouraged play, experimentation and failure within the possibilities of a prebuilt system. Workshop students were made up from a range of disciplines, were at various stages of their education, and employed and utilised a diverse skillset. Gaps where left in the introduction to actively develop prototypes in context. This presentation aims to share the prototypes from the workshop whilst describing the techniques and methodology used.

 

 

 

 

 

June 1st

 

09:00 – 09:30

students' films projection

 

09:30 – 10:15

Jacek Rokosz: Art of the Title Sequences

“Projectionists — pull curtain before titles.”

Saul Bass

That was a note, stuck on the cans of film reels for Otto Preminger’s: The Man with the Golden Arm. It was in 1955 and director (Perminger) knew that Saul Bass had produced something new and interesting. Bass wanted his audience, who were normally spared the dull roll of credits, to see it. That cut-out change Everything!

Today title sequences is real art. Sometimes the title is better than movie.

The simple fact is: Forget the film, Watch the Titles!

 

10:15 – 11:00

Ausra Lisauskiene: Original sound of the letters

The art of writing, calligraphy and typography have always been and remain a very important part of the culture. Hand-lettering and type play different roles in Graphic Design, but hand-lettering at the same time can be a really good start for the typeface design. Further to its information-communication function the genre has always integrated its artistic-aesthetic function. The most interesting challenge for type designers is the fact that meanings, sounds incorporating letters and the scrip are not part of the script itself, but rather a legacy of civilization experience and cultural traditions.

The main question of  this article is about original sound of the letters. Have letters their original sound? It is possible to say “yes” at least at the Typographical project „Aerofont“.

The project presents a new typeface, which have not only digital forms but and three-dimensional shapes. These shapes remind music instruments and it is possible to get original sounds of letters…

 

11:00 – 11:45

Lucas Nijs: Audio/Type

Works of students within the topic Audio/Type will be shown. Some work will be from previous years, a lot of work from the proceeding workshop will be shown.

 

 

11:45 – 12:45

lunch break

 

 

12:45 – 13:30

Brian Lucid: Mapping the Structure(s) of Music: Visualizing Content and Context

Viewed as databases of content, musical compositions provide rich and varied opportunities for design students to study how to deconstruct, organize and visualize the complex relationships that make up an auditory experience.

 

13:30 – 14:15

Paweł Janicki: Text and sound as interfaces

Based on some of my projects - selected from realized over the past few years
- I would like to present some ways of functioning of text, sound and music in contexts most often avoided by the mainstream creators operating in these media. So I want to tell you about the text beyond the traditionally understood: typography and the literary, and about music in a different form than played live or recorded (and played back).

 

Since the way to the use of these atypical forms and contexts leads through interactive media, strongly associated with computer programming, important part of my presentation will be linked to the consequences of the use (or refrain from the use of) the opportunities offered by the ability to computer programming in the context of art.

 

14:15 – 15:00

Steve Pille: The "classic"– art education as a solid background for experimentations in motion media

Describing the unique background of a "classical" Art education in combination with a strong emphasis on projects and concepts in experimentation with motion media, interactive media, mapping etc...