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.
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( 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
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,
photography
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,
new media
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and the area of
cyberculture
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. He teaches
history
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and theory of film and television,
communication
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,
digital photography
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, new media and cyberculture. Professor Zawojski is a
guest lecturer
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at the
Academy of Fine Arts
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in
Kraków
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and at the
Jagiellonian University
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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
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 ...
. 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
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(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).
See also
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Analog photography
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Cinema of Poland
The history of cinema in Poland is almost as long as the history of cinematography, and it has universally recognized achievements, even though Polish films tend to be less commercially available than films from several other European nations.
Af ...
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Digital versus film photography
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Technology and computing Hardware
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**Digital camera, which captures and stores digital i ...
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History of cinema
The history of film chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film technologies that began in the late 19th century.
The advent of film as an artistic medium is not clearly defined. However, the commercial, public scree ...
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List of famous Poles
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Science
Physics
* Czesław Białobrzeski
* Andrzej Buras
* Georges Charpak, ...
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List of film festivals
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The world's oldest film festival is the Mostra internazionale d'arte cinematografica (''Venice Film Festival''), while the most prestigious film festivals in the world, known ...
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List of film formats
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List of film techniques
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Basic definitions of terms
; 180-degree rule
:A continuity editorial technique in which sequential shots of two or more actors within ...
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List of motion picture-related topics (Extensive alphabetical listing and glossary).
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List of photographic processes
A list of photographic processing techniques.
Color
*Agfacolor
** Ap-41 process (pre-1978 Agfa color slides; 1978-1983 was a transition period when Agfa slowly changed their color slide films from AP-41 to E6)
*Anthotype
*Autochrome Lumière, 190 ...
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List of video-related topics
The following is a list of video-related topics.
Numbers
* 3D
* 4:3
* 16:9
A-C
* Academy Awards
* Adobe Premiere—real time editin* Advanced Authoring Format AAF
* alpha channel
* Animation
* Audio commentary
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National Film School in Łódź
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New York Polish Film Festival
New York Polish Film Festival (abbreviated to NYPFF, Polish: ''Nowojorski Festiwal Filmów Polskich'') is a film festival held annually in New York City since 2005. Its mission is to present and promote Polish cinema in the United States, to ...
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Outline of film
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''Film'' refers to motion pictures as individual projects and to the field in general. The name came from the fact that photographic film (also called filmstock) ha ...
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Polish film school
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Seattle Polish Film Festival
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References
Cyberkultura: syntopia sztuki, nauki i technologii*
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Wiek ekranów : przestrzenie kultury widzenia
External links
Piotr Zawojski's website
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1963 births
Living people
Film theorists
Polish film historians