Wrocław Computer Exchanges. Conversation with Olga Drenda
The next meeting in the Progress series will be a talk about Wrocław’s electronic and computer exchanges of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.
Maciej Bujko, together with guest Olga Drenda, will talk about the political transformation from the perspective of electronic exchanges, where the Polish computer games scene was born and piracy flourished, fuelling development and satisfying the hunger for knowledge. Information transfer and freedom of knowledge will be important themes of the meeting.
Accessibility information:
An audio induction loop and a Polish sign language (PJM) interpreter will be available at the meeting. If you need assistance getting to the event please email or call us: 888 369 039; wroclawglowny@bwa.wroc.pl
If you need an English/Polish or Ukrainian/PJM interpreter, please email us at least four days in advance at: sekretariat@bwa.wroc.pl
About the moderators:
OLGA DRENDA – writer, essayist, translator. Graduate of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the Jagiellonian University. Author of the books Duchologia polska, Wyroby (for which she received a nomination to the Polityka Passports and Gdynia Literary Award) and Słowo humoru. Creator of the Facebook page Duchologia. Regular columnist for “Tygodnik Powszechny”. Since 2024 creative director of the Conrad Festival.
pic. Kaja Róg
MACIEJ BUJKO – curator and manager of culture. Director of BWA Wrocław Galleries of Contemporary Art. Doctor of Art, graduate of the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź and the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava. Founder of the TIFF Collective Foundation and originator of the TIFF Festival, which he co-founded as programme director. He took part in the creation and operation of the Wrocław 70/20 Symposium Working Group.
pic. Michał Łuczak
The event is part of the public programme Progress and Seasons. In the Progress series, we reflect on innovation and dynamics of change together with our audience and invited guests. Over the course of eight meetings, we consider whether the benefits of development are an equal sign between progress and a better quality of life.
The next meeting of the Progress and Seasons series will take place on 14 December. Please join us for a wrap-up meeting of the programme. More information coming soon.
The public programme Progress and Seasons was subsidised by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage’s 2024 programme.
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