The second student workshop of a 5-country Erasmus Plus Cooperation partnership EU-funded 3-year educational project will be arranged in Vilnius, Lithuania, by Vilnius Academy of Arts during 18-24 September 2022. The workshop theme will be Mythology: Spirituality.
The theme is connected to the living heritage of paganism in Lithuania and contemporary practices of neopaganism as subcultures for the young generation or religion for the older generation.

Students will create in small groups a spread (two large pages), for a single artist book. The pages can be seen as a metaphorical “stage”, including different augmented reality elements, e.g., animations, videos, and sounds. The workshop results will be on display as a pop-up exhibition in the House of Histories at the Lithuanian National Museum  on Saturday 24 September from 13:00 to 18:00.
In addition, the student groups will present their concepts and creative design processes from 13:00 to 15:00.
Location: House of Historries Lithuanian National Museum T. Kosciuškos g. 3, Vilnius, 1st floor
You all are very welcome to attend the event!

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DIMY-MYDI

Digital Mythologies - Mythological Digitalities is a 5-country Erasmus Plus Cooperation partnership EU-funded 3-year educational project coordinated by the School of Arts, Design and Architecture of Aalto University in Finland.

The partner universities are Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland, Vilnius Academy of Arts,Vilnius, Lithuania, the IADT, Dun Laoghaire Institute Of Art Design + Technology in Dublin, Ireland, Icelandic University of the Arts in Reykjavik and Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium

During the 3-year project time, one student workshop will be arranged in each partner country, Poland, Lithuania, Ireland, Finland and Belgium. The workshops will study myths, their historical and current position in the social and political creation of meanings in the context of technological explosion. Each workshop will use local mythologies as a starting point (mythological creatures or objects, gods etc.), and will contain lectures on historical and current incarnations of mythology in local cultural production and artefacts.

Project coordinators: Tarja Nieminen and Hanna Karkku (Aalto University)