In December 2015-March 2016 curatorial selections of Zachęta National Gallery of Art walk-through video documentation of exhibitions are being broadcast on TV Channel «Odessa» in Ukraine within project «TV has attacked us all our lives, now we fight back. Now we make our own TV/Nam June Paik». In addition to video documentation the translated text summaries of temporary shows staged by Zachęta National Gallery of Art are supposed to facilitate access to art education for local Odessa region community. Particular attention was paid to outstanding teamwork details as it’s important to remember the importance of teamwork. These broadcast selections capture 1991-2010-s time trends or radical trends in exposition and representation of art in Zachęta National Gallery of Art in the Republic of Poland. It is necessary to mention that history of exhibitions is going through extensive interest of professional community and it is established as a subject of academic research. This work would not have been possible without the advice and support of Marta Miś from Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Iryna Kovalchuk and Anna Stelmaszczyk from Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Culture.pl.
Cultural Data Sets of Zachęta National Gallery of Art walk-through video documentation of exhibitions were analyzed automatically with computers with ImageJ and ImagePlot software developed by Software Studies Initiative. Measuring visual features were explored through a methodology using Cultural Analytics. 2D visual representations that uses Cartesian coordinates to display two sets of numerical values describing data reveal interesting patterns and perceptual aspects of visual differences. This work investigates the tendency of new imaging systems in future Earth.
“Cultural Analytics a new paradigm for the study, teaching and public presentation of cultural artifacts, dynamics, and flows.” - Cultural Analytics: Visualing Cultural Patterns in the Era of “More Media” by Lev Manovich Published in DOMUS (Milan), Spring 2009. “Being able to examine a set of images along a singular visual dimension is a powerful mechanism of defamiliarization – a device for seeing what we could have not noticed previously. Now we can use software to defamaliarize our perceptions of visual and media cultures.” - How to Compare One Million Images? by Dr. Lev Manovich, Dr. Jeremy Douglass, Tara Zepel, 2011. Software Studies Initiative research was made possible by the generous support provided by California Institute for Telecommunication and Information (Calit2), Center for Research in Computing and the Arts at UCSD (CRCA), and Chancellor Office of University of California, San Diego (UCSD). The development of ImagePlot software was funded by NEH 2010‐2011 Digital Startup level II grant “Interactive Visualization of Image Collections for Humanities Research.”