Kinomural 2025 ODYSSEY: BETA VERSION – 21st-century mythology – between Homer and sci-fi.
The exhibition functioned as a single story divided into chapters, each offering a different form of narration and a different way of experiencing time.
The curatorial core of the exhibition consisted of two walls prepared by the Bartos brothers: AETHER OF CHAOS and HERO’S ECHO. The first led through a territory of forms, impulses, and pure perception, without a hero and without landmarks. The second evoked the figure of a wanderer and the echo of classical narrative. The next chapter of the edition was the selection RECREATIONAL DEATH curated by Peter Burr – a collection of works that treated the end as a transitional state and decay as a moment of transformation. The special guest of the festival was Yoshi Sodeoka, a pioneer of digital art, who presented two projects: SWARM – an analysis of collective movement as a data system, and GARLANDS, a review of abstract works from 2017-2023.
The chapters of the cinema mural Odyssey were created by works by artists such as: Thomas Vanz, Boris Labbé, O Future, Dirk Koy, Arnaud Laffond, CC Mulligan, Holly Herndon, Thomas Pons, Ted Wiggin, Sabrina Ratté, Amanda Bonaiuto, Alex Gamsu Jenkins, Newnome Beauton, Samuel Pietri.
During two warm September nights, over 20,000 viewers composed their own Odyssey, moving between the ports of a single story and testing its meaning at their own pace.
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Project assumptions:
The project “Program development for the main exhibition of the Kinomural new media art festival in 2025” – supported by a non-returnable grant from the development plan (KPO) under Investment A2.5.1: “Program to support the activities of entities in the cultural sector and creative industries to stimulate their development” – aims to develop the program of the main Kinomural exhibition. It will consist of four large-format walls of tenement houses in Wrocław’s Nadodrze district, where we will display dozens of video art works in the fall of 2025. Each wall will have its own curators. In 2025, we plan to collaborate with Yoshi Sodeoka, Peter Burr, Piotr and Bartek Bartos. For two days, thousands of international visitors will have the opportunity to admire huge projections of animations, artistic films, and specially developed site-specific visual projects. The exhibition will be accompanied by a discussion on the ecological aspects of digital art and a documentary film about the festival, available online as digital results of the Project.
Total cost of the Project (CKP) (gross): PLN 284,085.00
Amount of support (KW): PLN 200,000.00
