Student Computer Art Society Server

Projects: (In)Visible Faces

Application form

Presentation Form

International youth workshop

"(In)Visible Faces"

Introduction

Aim

Main subtopics

Target groups and participants

Methods, forms of work and main events in the project

Sponsors

Introduction

back to top

Aim

1. The project will give the young people an opportunity to exchange ideas about different dimensions of Balkan identity and to express their personal point of view about that phenomena;

2. The project activities will try to explore the relations between the emigration in South-Eastern Europe and immigration processes in Western Europe and the identity finding problem for young people in this situation;

3. The project will present experience how to use modern media and communications to facilitate the identity expression and self-labeling in the space of modern media, for example, in Internet;

4. the project will train young people from minorities organisations (or organisations working with minorities) how to use modern media for identity presentation;

5. the project will also give the participants a chance to share positive experience in light of new media and technologies to encourage young people participation in the integration processes.

back to top

Main subtopics

- Problems with youth emigration in South-Eastern Europe and immigration deluge in Western Europe - escape of national identity or forced mobility;

- Role of modenr media for free self-exprecion and self-labeling;

- Virtual identity (Global Networks give possibilities for unlimited and unconventional self-expresion) and appearence of "Unisex culture" in nowadays life(the slight borders between male and female lifestyle leads to melting into universal "uni"-culture);

- Appereance of "Unisex culture" in nowadays life (the slight borders between male and female lifestyle leads to melting into universal "uni"-culture);

- Identity searching in a context of fast changing and unstable situation in South-Eastern Europe, which have as a result the birth of "negative and resistance culture".

back to top

Target group and participants

2. Media experts and students with interests in the field of modern media and information technologies;

3. young people from ethnic, religious and social minorities who would like to use new media and communications for preserving their identity;

back to top

Methods, forms of work and main events in the project

The main training and information exchange methods will be: Lectures, discussions, workshops, interactive exhibition , confrontation games, simulations. Some of them:

(In)Visible Faces - workshop:

- "The phenomena Balkan identity - fiction or reality" - lecture and discussion;

- Interactive theatre "Balkan faces - prejudice and stereotypes" - the aim of the theatre is to simulate a situation , which the participants could overcome the negative images and distorted visions of about Balkans;

- Freedom of self-expression - on-line discussion about possible ways for sharing experience using the new media and informatio technologies for "free speech" of personal opinion;

- On-line simulation game "Virtual identity" - the participation will be able to choose some different identity; at the end will share impressions of being some one else;

- "Unisex" - discission on the different dimensions of unisex culture;

- "Youht emigration/immigration - escape of identity or forced mobility" - work in small groups; sharing of ideas and experience about the problem with the transformation of identity during the emigration/immigration processes;

(In)Visible Faces - exhibition of personal unconventional web sites (the aim of the exhibition is to show the different ways of expressing our ouw personality);

Social programme - there will be a number of events, aming to present Balkan culture - visits of ethnographical museums, art galleries, the Old city of plovdiv, taverns and pubs;

Publishing poster and catalogue with presentations of the participants in the workshop "(In)Visible Faces";

Preparing WWW version of the catalogue.

back to top

Sponsors

back to top

back to top