Dr. hab. Piotr Zawojski (born 1963) is a Polish media expert. He is a tenured professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the

University of Silesia The University of Silesia in Katowice ( pl, Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, UŚ) is an autonomous state-run university in Silesia Province, Katowice, Poland. The university offers higher education and research facilities. It offers undergradu ...

( pl, Uniwersytet Śląski) in

Katowice Katowice ( , , ; szl, Katowicy; german: Kattowitz, yi, קאַטעוויץ, Kattevitz) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. It is the 11th most popul ...

, Poland.

Biography

Teaching career

Zawojski works in the fields of

film A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed ...

new media New media describes communication technologies that enable or enhance interaction between users as well as interaction between users and content. In the middle of the 1990s, the phrase "new media" became widely used as part of a sales pitch for ...

and the area of

cyberculture Internet culture is a culture based on the many way people have used computer networks and their use for communication, entertainment, business, and recreation. Some features of Internet culture include online communities, gaming, and social media ...

. He teaches

history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

and theory of film and television,

communication Communication (from la, communicare, meaning "to share" or "to be in relation with") is usually defined as the transmission of information. The term may also refer to the message communicated through such transmissions or the field of inquir ...

digital photography Digital photography uses cameras containing arrays of electronic photodetectors interfaced to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to produce images focused by a lens, as opposed to an exposure on photographic film. The digitized image is sto ...

, new media and cyberculture. Professor Zawojski is a

guest lecturer In academia, a visiting scholar, visiting researcher, visiting fellow, visiting lecturer, or visiting professor is a scholar from an institution who visits a host university to teach, lecture, or perform research on a topic for which the visitor ...

at the

Academy of Fine Arts The following is a list of notable art schools. Accredited non-profit art and design colleges * Adelaide Central School of Art * Alberta College of Art and Design * Art Academy of Cincinnati * Art Center College of Design * The Art Institute o ...

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...

and at the

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in ...

in Kraków, one of the oldest universities in the world. He also frequently offers courses at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Radio and Television Faculty at the

University of Silesia in Katowice The University of Silesia in Katowice ( pl, Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, UŚ) is an autonomous state-run university in Silesia Province, Katowice, Poland. The university offers higher education and research facilities. It offers undergrad ...

Educational programs

Zawojski has been heavily involved in youth and adult educational programs including Festiwal Filmów Kultowych (Cult Film Festival) in

. He has supported several film festivals in Central Europe, promoting independent filmmakers. He also serves as an artistic director of digital_ia, an annual digital art festival in Poland.

Publications

Zawojski is the author of Elektroniczane obrazoświaty. Między sztuką a technologią (Electronic Imageworlds. Between Art and Technology) (2000), Wielkie filmy przełomu wieków. Subiektywny przewodnik (Great Films at the Centuries Turn. A Subjective Guidebook) (2007) as well as Cyberkultura. Syntopia sztuki, nauki i technologii (Cyberculture. Syntopy of art, science and technology) (2010) and Sztuka obrazu i obrazowania w epoce nowych mediów (Art of Image and Imaging in the Era of New Media) (2012). He co-edited Wiek ekranów. Przestrzenie kultury widzenia/ A Century of Screen. Physical spaces associated with the Viewing Culture (2002), science editor and the introduction author of Für eine Philosophie der Fotografie (Towards a Philosophy of Photography) by

Vilém Flusser Vilém Flusser (May 12, 1920 – November 27, 1991) was a Brazilian Czech-born philosopher, writer and journalist. He lived for a long period in São Paulo (where he became a Brazilian citizen) and later in France, and his works are written ...

(2004), an editor of Digitalne dotknięcia. Teoria w praktyce/Praktyka w teorii (Digital Touch. A Theory in Practice/A Practice in Theory) (2010). Professor Zawojski has published numerous works for leading Central European professional and academic journals: Studia Filmoznawcze (Film Studies), Kwartalnik Filmowy (Film Quarterly) of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Sztuka i Filozofia (Art and Philosophy), Postscriptum, National Center for Culture quarterly Kultura Współczesna, Polish Academy of Sciences Annual Rocznik Historii Sztuki, Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, Format, Zeszyty Telewizyjne (Television Academy), Zeszyty Artystyczne, Art Inquiry. Additionally he has co-authored numerous academic papers. Zawojski is an expert in academic critique of modern film and of audio-visual culture, photography and cyberculture. He is a head editor for Opcje magazine and a frequent contributor to popular regional publications Ekran, Kino, artPapier, Świat Obrazu. He is also a member of the program board of magazine CyberEmpathy – Visual and Media Studies Academic Journal. Piotr Zawojski created and edited policy for television programming, viewing as well as monitoring analysis for the terrestrial national television carrier TVP. He was also regularly published in the Polish television industry publication.

Awards

Zawojski has received numerous local and national awards and has been invited to over 50 national and international conferences. He is a member of the International Association for Aesthetics and International Association of Art Critics (AICA).

References

Cyberkultura: syntopia sztuki, nauki i technologii
* ttps://books.google.com/books/about/Sztuka_obrazu_i_obrazowania_w_epoce_nowy.html?id=kzb7mAEACAAJ Sztuka obrazu i obrazowania w epoce nowych mediowbr>Wiek ekranów : przestrzenie kultury widzenia

External links

Piotr Zawojski's website
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