From A to Z in loop
Special Screenings- Thu 19.May @ 16:00 - 6/15/16 17:00
- Fri 20.May @ 14:00 - 6/15/16 15:00
- Sat 21.May @ 16:00 - 6/15/16 17:00
- Sun 22.May @ 12:00 - 6/15/16 13:00
For the second year, three important institutions that are integrally involved in the digital media sector, namely the Athens Digital Arts Festival as the organizer of the Festival, the Video Workshops and the Master Of “Arts In Video, Audiovisual Media And Motion Graphics Production” of the Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts of the Technological Educational Institute of Athens as well as the Photography Workshop Team of the School of Visual and Applied Arts of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki will be collaborating within the framework of the “Digital Pop Exhibition”, presenting the video art project entitled “A to Z in loop” with selected works from the students of the schools.
In the book, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)”, Warhol himself states:
– I asked (Damian) how she could speak of “new art”. “How can you know if it’s new or not? New art ceases to be new as soon as it has already happened”
The historical Pop Art of the 50’s and 60’s had turned the material production and the aesthetics of a pop and massive culture and the terms of the world of advertising and the media, the functions and symbols of consumerist materialism into its main object and thus managed to create an innovative movement which would combine the “new” in art with the “modern” in lifestyle: a very serious intervention in the present with further more complicated consequences that one would have ever imagined or intended.
The participants in this exhibition belong to the new generations of creators who come to the forefront, released from the dilemmas concerning analogical versus digital media and with extended means of communication, work, entertainment and information. They bring along a new way of life, framed by the digital pop(ular) culture, with a different communication and behavior manual, which calls upon constant readaptations in the fastest pace.
Within this fluid “being”, they venture to dynamically articulate their own art discourse with works that often make satire, exaggerate, face the everyday life with humor or just comment on it, using different means and techniques (digital, collage, glitching, intense coloring, repetitions etc). In any case, they do uncover interesting aspects of our daily lives, through their own personal view.
Myrto Vounatsou & Stelios Dexis
Supervising Professors:
T.E.I of Athens – Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts Supervising Professors: Dr. Vlassas Gregoris ( Director of the MA Programme, Professor of Photography), Dr. Kontogeorgis Aristidis (Assistant Professor of Photography), Vounatsou Mirsini (Contributor / MFA in Digital Arts), Liberakis Tasos (Contributor, D.E.A Information et Communication), Simeon Pavlos (Contributor, Photographer, Cameraman)
A.U.TH- School of Visual and Applied Arts of the Faculty of Fine Arts Supervising Professors: Katsagelos Giorgos (Professor of Photography), Dexis Stelios (Assistant Professor / MFA in Digital Arts)
Συμμετέχοντες:
Pinelopi Akritidou (GR) | School of Visual and Applied Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Efi Voulgari (GR) | School of Visual and Applied Arts,Faculty of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Theano Gkatsou, Eleftheria Chalari (GR) | The Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts (TEI of Athens)
Kostas Gourtzis (GR) | School of Visual and Applied Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Maria Dimitropoulou (GR) | School of Visual and Applied Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Melina Eirini Kasapaki (GR) | The Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts (TEI of Athens)
Konstadinos Κrikelis – Zamie (GR) | The Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts (TEI of Athens)
Igor Longinidis (GR) | The Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts (TEI of Athens)
Karina Logotheti (GR) | The Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts (TEI of Athens)
Dimitris Maroudas (GR) | School of Visual and Applied Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Fotis Milionis | The Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts (TEI of Athens)
Eleni Barba (GR) | School of Visual and Applied Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Alexandra Nakou (GR) | School of Visual and Applied Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Dimitra Papageorgiou (GR) | The Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts (TEI of Athens)
Marios Papadopoulos (GR) | The Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts (TEI of Athens)
Dimitris Patrikios, Anastasia Mouzakiti (GR) | The Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts (TEI of Athens)
Fotis Providas (GR) | The Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts (TEI of Athens)
George Samiotis (GR) | The Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts (TEI of Athens)
Fani Toumpoulidou (GR) | The Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts (TEI of Athens)
Dimitra Triantafyllou (GR) | MA in Photography & Audiovisual Arts (TEI of Athens)
Maria Tsiroukidou (GR) | School of Visual and Applied Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
John Chatzistavris (GR) | The Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts (TEI of Athens)
John Chatzidis, Arianit Spaho, Giannis Kritsotakis, Antigoni Eftixiadi (GR) | School of Visual and Applied Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Anisa Xhomaqi (AL) | The Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts (TEI of Athens)
Tereza Zverinova | The Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts (TEI of Athens)