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📍 𝐀𝐭𝐞́: 𝟑𝟎 𝐝𝐞 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐡𝐨

Como parte de um projeto polaco-português dedicado às novas formas de networking, esta exposição reúne trabalhos de artistas visuais, poetas e utilizadores amadores de ambos os países, confrontando vários fenómenos da Internet que acabam por ser usados para fins criativos. Para além de prestar homenagem a anteriores iniciativas deste género (não excluindo a exposição p2p de 2015 de Piotr Marecki e Álvaro Seiça), o POR-POL NET tem como objetivo apresentar os trabalhos mais recentes e provocar uma reflexão sobre as alterações geracionais e tecnológicas, assim como os processos por detrás do surgimento das chamadas culturas digitais vernaculares e os novos conceitos em curadoria, teoria literária e artivismo.Dividido em 13 espaços espalhados pelo território da Polónia e Portugal - bem como uma sala digital interativa na Galeria Kliki i Obroty de Piotr Kopik (www.klikiiobroty.eu) -, o projeto envolve mais de 30 artistas e académicos, e coloca em diálogo as audiências dos dois lados opostos do continente europeu. Nesse sentido, ele próprio torna-se numa rede viva e suscetível, dependente, em partes iguais, de meios digitais e analógicos. Com muitas obras e eventos a explorar conceitos como hibridismo, recombinação, multilineidade e parasitismo, a iniciativa destaca também as diferentes formas em como o envolvimento com todos os tipos de tecnologias realça e modifica as nossas conexões.

𝐒𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐭𝐨: www.porpol.net

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📍 𝐔𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥: 𝟑𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞

As a part of a Polish-Portuguese project dedicated to new forms of networking, the exhibition brings together works of visual artists, poets, and amateur users of both countries, confronting various strategies in which the elements of internet culture are now used for creative purposes. While paying legacy to a wide range of older initiatives of this kind (not excluding the 2015 p2p exhibition curated by Piotr Marecki and Alvaro Seiça), it aims at introducing the visitors to the most recent examples and, through that, provoke a reflection on the generational and technological shifts, the processes behind the emergence of the so-called vernacular digital cultures, and the new concepts in curatorship, literary theory, and artivism.Divided into several spaces spread around Poland and Portugal - as well as an interactive, digital room in Piotr Kopik’s Kliki i Obroty Gallery (www.klikiiobroty.eu) - the project engages over 30 artists and academics, while also putting in dialogue audiences from the two opposite sides of the continent. In this sense, it is also the initiative itself that becomes a living, susceptible network, in equal parts dependent on digital and analogue media. With many works and accompanying events picking up on the notions of hybridity, recombination, multilinearity and parasitism, it also highlights different forms in which the engagement with various technologies enhances and modifies the ways in which we connect with one another.At Saco Azul, we search for different forms of literary narrative located in and around the Web. Literariness is understood here not only from the perspective of pure play with words, but also with images. The cyberliterary work “Desvio”, which is the result of cooperation between the Portuguese collective wr3ad1ng d1g1t5 (Marques, Gago, Santa Cruz) and two Polish poets: Agnieszka Bykowska and Tomasz Dalasiński, delves into the concept of alterity, examining it through the unique lens of transnational perspectives. Technology and poetry are supposed to be a connecting element here, facilitating the understanding of the mechanism of shaping one's own perception.
In opposition to their work is "The Chatter" by Piotr Kopik - a one-man chatbot with which every attempt to establish a dialogue ends with a non-returnable monologue of each side.
Magdalena Anjos and Hetamoé, on the other hand, operate primarily in the purely visual sphere. Their works, extremely expressive and multi-threaded in their narratives, bring to mind children's babbling and games in creating their own iconographic sphere, based on what is spotted in everyday life - today dominated by pop culture and the entire cyberfolklore that falls within its area.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭: www.porpol.net