A Dive into Mythology

Researchers of ancient Baltic culture and tradition have always wondered whether it is possible to recreate the spiritual life of the past, what it means, and to what extent this experience is relevant to people today. Most links connecting us to the ancient Baltic mythology today are spirituality and nature. We still have place names associated with caves and groves where thousand-year-old oaks grow; lakes, water springs and mounds are lined with stones reminiscent of their mythological origins...
The Graphic Design Department of Vilnius Academy of Arts, as part of the three-year EU-funded educational project “Digital Mythologies – Mythological Digitalities”, which is part of the five-country Erasmus Plus cooperation partnership, tried to look at this question differently: Activities in Poland, Finland, Ireland, Belgium and Lithuania allowed project participants – teachers and students – to get to know the mythologies of the different countries and try to find out how and in what form this knowledge and experience can be integrated into today's world, how it can become a resource for the creation of graphic design with virtual or augmented reality features.

The exhibition “A Dive into Mythology” presents works inspired by Baltic mythology, created by students of the Graphic Design Department of the VAA Vilnius Faculty in recent years: publications, video projections, type design examples and communication games. Special thanks go to IevaPachomova, a graduate of the Department of Ceramics. Her work in the exhibition added a third dimension to the graphic design works.
 

PARTICIPANTS
Audrius Deikus, Ieva Pachomova, Patricija Kell, Gintarė Razmaitė, Domantas
Pigulevičius, Ieva Repečkaitė, Laura Jagėlaitė, Amanda Motekaitytė, Neringa
Dailydžiuvienė, Patricija Kell, Akvilė Paulauskaitė, Skaistė Navickaitė, Laura
Bielskutė, Dovydas Adomaitis, Konstancija Kertenytė, Kornelija Žvinklytė, Ema
Andrijauskaitė, Lukas Čibiras, Linas Dingilevskis, Paulius Glėbus, Rokas Sventickas,
Eimantas Bitinas, Ema Andrijauskaitė, Augusta Kučynska.

CURATORS:
Prof. Aušra Lisauskienė, Assoc. prof. Marius Žalneravičius