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Not media archaeology or archiving, but already a constructed perspective that highlights voices in media art that, from the outset, have redefined the image, experience, and use of technology.

Neural networks and celestial bodies, still life and a living plant, the authentic self and GPT-2, tension between the desire to create and the need for control – welcome to Capital Dream, exploring what was once considered an ultra-contemporary approach in media art. This is one of the ways to view the selection of works from twelve editions, including the most recent, of the Best Media Art Graduation Projects Competition, organized by WRO Art Center in collaboration with all public art academies in Poland.

Between core questioning and peripheral exploration, the group show offers insight into the diversity of artistic methods, practices, and research strategies, and their changes over recent years, abounding in significant shifts in the socio-technological context.

What once emerged as an original artistic voice – confronting the historically defined field of media art, bypassing conventions, challenging exhausted paradigms, or proposing new and unexploited approaches – is now being reassessed from the perspective of digital regression. At the same time, it allows for at least a partial recognition of this condition, or demonstrates how it might be resisted.

B-612, 2014 / Natalia Balska
In Your Skin, 2025 / Jagoda Golińska
Vacant Spaces, 2016 + Still Life, 2019 / Krystian Grzywacz
Perception of Spheres, 2017 / Piotr Madej
Hands turned into fingertips, fingertips spiraled into the chaos, 2024 / Xtreme Girl: Lena Peplińska, Laura Radzewicz + szkoda (Kasia Piątkowska)

Curators: Dominika Kluszczyk, Klio Krajewska
Coordinator: Mariia Serhiienko
Producer: Nari Kutlubasis
Technicians: Bernard Balcerzak, Zbigniew Halabura, Henrique Lázaro
Graphic designer & Scenographer: Kinga Gralak
Organizer: WRO Art Center

Partners: Ars Electronica, The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, The Strzemiński Academy of Art in Łódź, Magdalena Abakanowicz University of Arts in Poznań, Academy of Art in Szczecin, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw

Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland from the Culture Promotion Fund – a state-targeted fund.