Darya Hniadzko

CULTURAL PREFERENCES Contemporary art//6 visual culture//14 graffity//21 leisure//27 education//33 modern features//37

Throughout the years, peoples’ perception of culture has been changing cotinuously due to the development of technologies, ground-breaking innovations, globalization’s prosseses and many other important factors which have influenced modern society in different ways. From my point of view, it is very complicated to find the exact definition for such a vast and hardly definable term as “culture”. Scientifically culture is ‘the full range of learned human behavior patterns’. On the other hand, by the majority it is understood as ‘an appreciation of good literature, music, art, historical heritage’. The latter term is the key concept of this project.

People have always had a huge variety of cultural preferences and there are still a lot of argues about which cultures are more acceptable: traditional or modern which, in some ways, are alike. Any culture is a system of learned and shared meanings: people learn and share things over the course of generations and that is how a culture forms. Traditional and modern culture function similar because both are the ways of thinking and forming ideas about the world. Modern culture is a more mutable system that tends to change more often and create its own environment.

Contemporary art Contemporary art reflects prosseses in today’s culture and society offering progressive audience a rich resource with the help of which one can consider current ideas and rethink the familiar. The work of contemporary artists is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that challenges traditional boundaries and defies easy definition. Diverse and eclectic, contemporary art is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform organizing principle, ideology, or -ism.

In a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world, contemporary artists give voice to the various and changing cultural landscape of identity, values, and beliefs.

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LABYRINTUS The architectural-sculptural structure, where all the images of Dainius Liškevičius personal exhibition are locted.

CAC, 2014-2w015

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LABYRINTUS The exhibition presents a complex project that integrates the genres of personal collection and retrospective.

CAC, 2015

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visual culture Visual Culture as an academic subject is a field of study that generally includes some combination of cultural studies, art history, critical theory, philosophy, and anthropology; which explore its subject by focusing on aspects of culture that rely on visual images.

Photography is engaged in many fields of research but its more direct uses for art, recreational purposes, and mass communication.

Conceptual photography is a type of photography that illustrates an idea. There is no such a genre as «artistic photography» but photography can be a part of visual culture.

The field’s versatility stems from the range of objects contained under the term “visual culture,” which aggregates “visual events in which information, meaning or pleasure is sought by the consumer in an interface with visual technology.

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graffity The core of culture consists of traditional ideas and especially attached values; culture systems may, on the one hand, be considered as products of action, on the other, as conditioning influences upon further action.

So, is the term ‘‘culture’’ means huge art galleries, with a big number of masterpieces and or can it be a personal little exposition? The fact is that an art exhibition is traditionally the space where art objects meet an audience. Therefore, artists have a possibility to show their works almost everywhere. Graffitists are artists too and the walls they utse are like canvas for painters.

There is no big surprise, that graffiti is an integral part of modern pop-culture.

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is leisure a culture?

It goes without saying that “culture” is a confusing word, this year or any other The problem is that this term is more than the mixture of its definitions, beliefs and attitudes about something that people in a particular group share.

“Culture” may be pulling itself apart from the inside but it represents, in its way, a wish. The wish that a group of people might discover, together. It is vital to note, that culture is a way of life which might express itself with a diversity of people’s hobbies and activities.

In other words, culture is communication, communication is culture.

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education In some dictionaries, the synonim of culture is education - the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing critical thinking, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.

The library of Vilnius academy of art dates back to the times of Vilnius University Departments. It is equipped fine, decorative, folk art, architecture, art history and theory publications, encyclopedias, dictionaries, reference books and other reference documents.

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modern features There have always been a big gap between cultural heritage and modernity. Does it mean that working and studying only in a spacious old library with different types of books can be more useful then coming into modern one with all technological conveniences?

Open and adaptive space for studies and research, for work and communication – that is the main purpose of modern library. Moreover, it provides all services and facilities for studying young people.

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DARYA HNIADZKO Vilnius, 2015