This is the sixth edition of the Best Media Arts Graduation Projects Competition, organized by the WRO Art Center together with the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław.
The review of best bachelor’s and master’s theses takes place at eight state art academies in Poland: in Gdańsk, Katowice, Cracow, Łódź, Poznań, Szczecin, Warsaw and Wrocław.
The selection committees consist of two experts from the WRO team, two representatives of the artistic community from a given city and one representative of the art academy. Best BA and MA graduation projects chosen by them will be presented during the competition exhibition at WRO and online, out of which the international jury will choose one that’ll receive the award.
The award is funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland. In this exceptional year, exceptionally, no single Audience Award will be granted. As the visitors will not be able to cast their votes on the selected work, the amount of the prize will be divided among all participants. For the first time, editors of Contemporary Lynx will award one artist by publishing their portfolio in the magazine.
The project of competition, developed since 2015, creates a platform for cooperation and exchange of experiences between academies on various models of education in the field of art using different media. The event emphasizes the importance of media art as a teaching field within contemporary art, it is also focused on the promotion of students and graduates.
As in previous years, the exhibition will be accompanied by a conference organized by the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław.