„The Vidiots” exhibition summarized the annual works of the intermedia department of the multimedia communication faculty at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, and its curator was the academy’s professor, Marek Wasilewski.

The very name of the exhibition came from one of the cult films by Wim Wenders, Lisbon Story. In the text that accompanied the exhibition, Marek Wasilewski made the following reference to the film: “In one of the scenes (…) the main protagonist, a recording engineer who is gathering film materials, drives past a swarm of children. The children, who are the greatest support in his work, his faithful guides and only friends, follow his every move with a ubiquitous video camera. Pushed beyond his limits, he cannot find the words to explode with, and at the verge of a nervous breakdown comes up with a neologism: “Vidiots. You are vidiots!” – he shouts at the children but their answer is only laughter.”

Video cameras and various means of digital recording are today a trivial element of our everyday life. Filming and photography is an indispensable ritual of family life, tourism, sport and any other area. Imperceptibly we have become obsessed with recording images. For the time of the exhibition the students of the Academy turned into vidiots. They touched upon problems which do not constitute a set of hermetic formulas, but are rather a form of observation and participation in the reality surrounding us “here and now”. The presented projections and video installations were basically a dialogue between vidiots, between all people who live their lives sharing their time with a computer screen, a TV, camera and a mobile phone display.