http://www.migaa.eu

Migrating Art Academies is a 2 year project led by European School of Visual Arts, Poitiers/Angouleme (EESI, FR) with Academy of Media Arts, Cologne (KHM, DE) and Vilnius Academy of Arts (VDA, LT). The project was supported by European Commission Culture Program 2007. The unprecedented technological and political changes of the last decade have created a rupture between traditional educational practices and a new polymorphic reality hybridized by the free flow of labor and information. Migrating Art Academies is an attempt to juxtapose the digital, non-haptic, anonymous, collective, and virtual on one hand; unique, corporeal, and individual on the other. The project concentrates on social and interpersonal communication and encounters between differing cultural habits. “The breach between locations are the breaches between the individuals”, the maître à penser of this project, Vilém Flusser, stated in his writings on migration and nomadism.