22. April 2020
Polish-Japanese Academy
of IT
20–24.04.2020
The cross-cultural workshops in arts and design, at PJAIT NEMA, provides a unique academic
opportunity for students to learn from the professionals representing the European Union, Japan and the USA. The topics of
2020 edition include visual identification, editorial illustration, design, fine arts, graphic novels and all kinds of sequential
art.
The opening lecture, titled Design
Including Information Support Features for the Children with Hearing Disability, will be delivered by professor Fusako Kusunoki
of the Tama Art University (Tokyo). The second keynote speaker is professor Warren Lehrer of the School of Visual Arts (New
York) who will present the lecture titled: COVID 19! THERE GOES MY CAREER—Not: Writing and Designing in the Face of Hard Times.
The
Cross-Cultural Workshop Week is designed to promote positive interactions between professors and students that will facilitate
future, students’ intercultural relations that occur in their daily lives and most likely, in their future careers. We also
wish to integrate fine arts with design, IT technologies and liberal arts. This approach is a trademark of the New Media Arts
Department of PolishJapanese Academy of IT. The human experience is an increasingly globalized phenomenon in which people
are continually being influenced by transnational, cross-cultural, multi-cultural and multi-ethnic interactions, including
the exchange of visual symbols, representing different pictorial traditions. We do believe that the integration of global
education is essential for students to develop the skills, knowledge, and dispositions needed for responsible participation
in a democratic society and a twenty-first-century global community.
Facing the global pandemic, we have decided
to perform all the lectures and workshops online. Curators: dr Jakub Karpoluk & dr Jan Piechota
