ARTWORKS Fellows

Jul 18

Bodies, Machines and Smart Synergies: a short text following the event of ARTWORKS on art and artificial intelligence

By Daphne Dragona When planning an event around artificial intelligence (AI), one hardly knows where to start. AI is already operating in the background of different activities of our connected lives [1]. Apps and platforms, devices and appliances, systems and infrastructures are empowered by machine learning. Data sets of information…

Artificial Intelligence

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Bodies, Machines and Smart Synergies: a short text following the event of ARTWORKS on art and…

Jul 1

Maria Tsagkari — Flying too Close to the Sun

By Stamatis Schizakis

Artworksfellows

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Maria Tsagkari — Flying too Close to the Sun

Jun 20

Thinking on practice

A conversation with Eirini Fountedaki and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou on curatorial practice By Eva Vaslamatzi Eva Vaslamatzi I wanted to have this discussion altogether because I think we share a lot in common in our curatorial practice, even though we deal with different topics and mediums. …

Artworksfellows

10 min read

May 27

“As a marketing expert, this is what I learned from artists and here is my advice to them”

An essay by Margarita Gourgourini Take any of the essays you wrote at elementary school before turning 10, and you will notice you used to do something you would never allow yourself today: always start your text by saying “I”, which is now practically forbidden. “I played with friends yesterday…

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“As a marketing expert, this is what I learned from artists and here is my advice to them”

May 19

Janis Rafailidou guides us to her non-anthropocentric universe

A conversation between visual artist Janis Rafa and Tassos Chatzieffraimidis Anyone who has been following the work and career of Janis Rafa, active in the fields of visual arts and moving image, will hardly be surprised to hear that she is the only Greek artist participating in the main exhibition…

Janisrafa

9 min read

Apr 6

All bodies have a performative potential

A conversation between dance artist Aria Boumpaki and curator Eva Vaslamatzi E.V. I would like to focus on projects that are entirely yours, that is, that start from your own idea and initiative, such as the Handle with care project that you recently presented at the Snehta space in Kypseli…

Performance

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All bodies have a performative potential

Feb 23

Chasing fake realities

An essay on Karolina Krasouli’s work by Eva Vaslamatzi Some years ago, in 2016, I came across Karolina Krasouli’s name on an artwork label at the Rennes Biennale in France. It was the first contact I had with her work, before I had met her: a series of folder-like forms…

Karolinakrasouli

5 min read

Jan 26

Stefania Strouza: Othering time through sculptural gestures

By Christian Oxenius “I step back from someone who is not yet there and, a millennium in advance, bowing to his spirit.” (Heinrich von Kleist — quoted by Martin Heidegger) In one of the most influential works of philosophy of the XX century, Being and Time, Martin Heidegger describes a…

Stefaniastrouza

6 min read

Dec 7, 2021

Fragments of a dialogue — Eva Vaslamatzi on curatorial research

By Christian Oxenius Dialogue one: when we talked about chance and intuition It is not often the case that we, as curators, get to reflect on each other’s practice through an open and public conversation. Even less so it happens with someone who, perhaps by mere chance, shares a deep interest (may I dare say love?) for the complex…

Curation

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Fragments of a dialogue — Eva Vaslamatzi on curatorial research

Nov 25, 2021

Speech Co-Shapes the New Social Sculpture of Patras

An essay by Georgia Manolopoulou about the interdisciplinary research project “TELL ME” by Yorgos Maraziotis What are those voices behind the isolated post-industrial buildings at the heart of the urban network of Patras? Which is that liberating creative speech that depicts the productive and lively activity? The architectural and industrial…

Tellme

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