The last before summer meeting from the series "Kultura 2.0" ("Culture 2.0") was of a conclusive nature - there were no films or live music, but a discussion about the varied ways of understanding culture, about different coexisting cultures, and about the methods of financing and supporting them. One of the points of departure was data from the Research Institute ARC Rynek i Opinia's report, from which it emerges that our country's ‘poorly' with culture. [...]

The following meeting of the "Kultura 2.0" series took place on Tuesday, at the printing house on Ogrodowa Street. Paweł Janicki was the evening's guest - an artist and media producer connected with the Art Centre WRO. Thanks to the meeting, we were given the opportunity of listening to and watching one of Poland's few artists, who are able to adeptly navigate between the worlds of technology and art. The evening began with Paweł's lecture on the idea of "live [...]

Last Friday in Wroclaw, Mirek and I lead the remix of a meeting about young Polish animation. It was the inauguration of the year of Polish animation, which is being coordinated by PWA. The meeting took place in the gallery Entropia. The gallery also houses Dziecięca Wytwórnia Filmowa (The Children's Film Studio), run by Alicja Jodko, where amazing animations are produced (unfortunately they can not be found online - maybe after the DVD with animations for children, PWA should [...]

A Culture 2.0 meeting featuring Paweł Janicki, an independent media artist, a curator and producer from the WRO Arts Centre in Wrocław is going to take place on March 11 at 7pm in Stara Drukarnia in 31/35 Ogrodowa Street in Warsaw. Free admission. The meeting will open with a lecture/presentation on ‘live coding', i.e. writing code ad hoc, which is a relatively new paradigm in programming and media art. Live coding can be incorporated into a performance, or used during [...]

The fifth in the Culture 2.0 series entitled "Pirates of the Internet. Cinema, Law and Culture" was devoted to the changes in today's cinematography, particularly as affected by the Internet. Special guests included: Jakub Duszyński, Artistic Director of Gutek Film, Dawid Marcinkowski, a director and creator of Sufferrosa, an internet interactive film, and Krzysztof Siewicz, a lawyer with the Grynhoff Woźny & Maliński law office and a legal coordinator of Creative Commons [...]

The third meeting in the Kultura 2.0 series entitled We, The media? was devoted to civil journalism and took place in an abandoned printing house in Ogrodowa St. near the previous location which was the basement of Chłodna 25 café bar. The new location provided ample room for all the participants as well as the six panellists: Oliwia Piotrowska (top civil journalist of 2007, working with the MM My City portal), Gosia and Szczym (members of the Indymedia team Poland), Edwin Bendyk [...]