Yesterday, at a great ceremony of Boussias Communications and Tourism Awards, we got the GOLD prize for Cultural tourism, under the category Specialty Travel!
It’s always an honor!!
Deadline for submissions: March 28, 2018
The 14th Athens Digital Arts Festival exploring the unknown future of the upcoming Technological Apocalypse through art, science and technology, under the theme SINGULARITY NOW.
The PhotoPhore’s selection will be focused on the related concept of TECH BREAK.
TECH BREAK: One day there will be a Tech Break. A breaking point with the life and society as we know today. A breaking point with the current technology.
The Tech Break is a singularity in the evolution process of human kind. It’s the point in which something different and unexpected happens and changes the order of things.
Will a superior artificial intelligence, that surpasses the man, be created? Will this intelligence be autonomous and developing without the man? Will we create a new organism that can control the universe?
Or, will the Tech Break be the moment when the Universe rejects the human technology, bringing us back to a new Stone Age?
Will it be a moment of sudden and unmanageable development, or the breaking point with an unsustainable way to be human?
Would we need to take a break after the Tech Break?
Through Art we can suggest a new scenario, beyond the one we live today.
New world, new ways of living, new relationships between men, and between men and the technology.
We ask artists to present us their visions on the Tech Break; to show us the unexpected futures that await us after the Tech Break, and the premonitions about the world that will follow the one we live today: technology development, science evolution, human relationships.
To take part in the selection, please send us by email the following materials:
– video works (as a link or file in MPEG, MP4 or AVI format; in case of video file, please use WeTransfer.com and don’t attach the file in the email)
– filled submission form: click here
– CV
Submissions need to be sent to info@thephotophore.com by March 28, 2018.
Submission does not guarantee acceptance. Selected artists will receive the confirmation by email by the end of April 2018.
The selection is open to international artists and video makers. The participation in the selection and festival, for confirmed works, is completely for FREE.
Athens Digital Arts Festival – ADAF is an International Festival which celebrates digital culture through an annual gathering bringing together a global community of artists and audiences. Athens Digital Arts Festival encourages, stimulates and promotes all aspects of digital creativity by hosting local as well as international artists and communities.
The PhotoPhore is a platform about contemporary art, photography and architecture. It curates high quality contents, dedicating its attention to projects characterized by a great visual impact and distinctive concepts. The PhotoPhore strongly believes in art and culture sharing and it’s always open to start a dialogue and built partnerships with art festivals, galleries and contests.
For more information and to submit your works for the call, send an e-mail to info@thephotophore.com
Call for Video Artists: Tech Break
Official selection for ADAF 2018
Deadline: March 28, 2018
the PhotoPhore
info@thephotophore.com
www.thephotophore.com
“By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.”
In our times, as the relation between technology, science and art is constantly strengthened, these three sectors shape the manifestations of human behavior and expression. Through the above mentioned triptych, art-technology-science, man manages not only to explain the physical world but also to redefine his potentials and create new, digital realities.
With the help of technology, art and artistic creation are used as the intermediaries of communication between inconceivable, complex scientific knowledge and humans. They promote research and innovation, especially to the young generation enhancing their interest in the exploration of new developments. Thus, the wider public comes in contact with science and technology, integrates them experientially and becomes more educated.
On the other hand, as the development of science and technology drastically changes all fields of life, making man a “powerful creator”, art and philosophy come to question and criticize the way this power is controlled and handled. The technologically advanced world is not a terrestrial paradise; on the contrary, it can pose several risks even for its own creator, man.
As a result, with the aim to explore both utopian and dystopian views on the future of art, technology and science, Multitrab Productions and the 14th Athens Digital Arts Festival invite you to a two-day event with screenings with free entrance. The program of the film tribute includes premieres of renown films, documentaries and video art.
On the 8th day man created machine. But he did not rest.
To see full program click here
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Τhe 8th Day | Human created Machine
Temple Athens, Iakhou 17, Gazi
Free Entrace
Thursday 1/2/2018, 19:00 – 23:30
Friday 2/2/2018 , 19:00 – 23:30
The tribute “Τhe 8th Day | Human created Machine” is implemented through the Operational Program “Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning” and is co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund) and Greek state. Its co-funded projects deal mostly with the improvement of education and employment in Greece. Its main targets relate to the development and promotion of human resources skills, actviies against unemployment, strengthen social cohesion and social inclusion of vulnerable social groups, improvement of the quality of education & lifelong learning, awareness on environmental education, linking education with the labor market. The film tribute has free admission and it’s accessible to disabled people.
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The opening is on January 19, and the show will run until February 16, 2018.
“Back to the POSTFUTURE” presents a selection of the video artworks initially included in the 13th edition of the Athens international festival of digital art, ADAF.
Elisabeth von Samsonow, Laboratory of the Exo / Endo Corpus, 2017. Still image courtesy of the artist
In the first part of the exhibition, the artists selected by ADAF curators Elli-Anna Peristeraki and Eirini Olympiou, ‘transcend’ the digital culture and exchange opinions under the theme #PostFuture.
The elusive transition of digital culture is shaping a future ‘beyond digital‘, where the physical and the digital are merging. In the late 90’s Negroponte stated that “the digital revolution is over“. Almost two decades later and having accepted that the digital culture has been stabilized into our everydayness, we are moving forward to a more abstract creation. The necessity of innovation and excess of limits has been a primary goal imposed by the ever-evolving technological fetish.
Pamela Stefanopoulou, The Voices of Silence, 2015. Still image courtesy of the artist
In the second part of the show, a selection of the originally-programmed films presented by The PhotoPhore, explores the theme #PostReality, investigating the infinite possibilities that reality offers to overcome itself. Technology, dystopia, utopia, parallel universes, dreams.
Alex Karantanas, Singularity, 2016/17. Still image courtesy of the artist
APOTROPIA | Italy | The Kiss (2016)
Marta Di Francesco | Italy | Isthar (2014)
Alex Karantanas | Greece | Singularity (2016/17)
Pamela Stefanopoulou | Greece | The Voices of Silence (2015)
XCEED | Hong Kong | RadianceScape (2014-15)
Alessandro Amaducci | Italy | Post Rebis (2016)
Nick Flaherty | USA | Angelus_Novus (2016)
Elisabeth von Samsonow | Austria | Laboratory of the Exo / Endo Corpus (2017)
Alejandro Thornton | Argentina | I can see me (2013)
Alessandro Amaducci, Post Rebis, 2016. Still image courtesy of the artist
Curated by ADAF – Athens Digital Art Festival & The PhotoPhore
19.01.2018 – 16.02.2018Image 1: Alex Karantanas, Singularity, 2016/17. Still image courtesy of the artist. Graphics by The PhotoPhoreDiscover: zueccaprojects.org/project/back-to-the-postfuture
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Nowadays, as we experience a new reality where the physical and the digital intertwine, a new whole world emerges in which art, science and technology become one. Thus, the main objective of the exhibition is to explore the new art form that is shaped by the developments in biotechnology.
Revolutionary discoveries, which result from scientific research in areas such as architecture and art, open up new roads forcing us to imagine a more “lively” future in every field around us. Consequently, art is changing, it is “becoming alive” and a new art form is emerging, BioArt.
Athens Digital Arts Festival in cooperation with the Department of Biological Applications and Technology and the Department of Fine Arts and Art Sciences of the University of Ioannina present a video art compilation and video installations, introducing us to this new demanding but also fascinating art genre, BioArt.
Events:
1) Presentation of the exhibition at the new building of the Department of Biological Applications and Technology at the University of Ioannina on Wednesday 13 December at 17:00.
Greetings from the director of the Athens Digital Arts Festival and the rest of the hosts of the exhibition.
2) Inauguration of the exhibition at the Municipal Gallery on Thursday 14 December at 18:00.
Greetings from the hosts of the exhibition and from the Municipality of Ioannina.
Duration of the exhibition at the Municipal Gallery:
Thursday, 14 December, 18:00-21:00 (opening)
Friday, 15 December, 08:00-21:00
Sunday, 17 December, 10:00-13:00 & 18:00-21:00
Monday, 18 December, 08:00-15:00
Cooperating Institutions:
Department of Biological Applications and Technology of the School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina
Department of Fine Arts and Arts Sciences of the School of Fine Arts, University of Ioannina
Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF)
Sponsor: Municipality Of Ioannina
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Submissions: http://2018.adaf.gr/
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TALES FROM THE EVENT HORIZON
#ADAF2018 proudly calls all artists to submit their proposals under the theme of the 14th Athens Digital Arts Festival, #SingularityNow, until 30/11/2017. Will you tell us your tales from this event horizon…?
Submit now: http://2018.adaf.gr/
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The selected works are curated by Ilias Chatzichristodoulou, Art Director of ADAF, in the frame of the partnership in the international AVnode network.
Patchlab Digital Art Festival 2017 from Patchlab Festival on Vimeo.
- Video Art:
- Alecio De Marchi (IT), WWA Weee droponics Duration: 04:42 min.
- Apotropia (IT), The Kiss duration: Duration 01:19 min.
- Chris Cheung (HK), Radiance Scape, Duration: 01:52 min.
- Elena Knox (AU), Pathetic Fallacy, Duration 04:41 min.
- Fred L ‘Epee (SW), Athanasia, Duration 05:33 min.
- Huseyin Mert Erverdi (TR), Variations on a Theme, Duration 01:18 min.
- Lorenzo Oggiano (IT), Quasi- Objects Cinematic Environment #2, Duration: 03:41 min.
- Max Hatler (DE), Shapeshifter, Duration: 00:30 min.
- Tessa Ojala (FI), Intolerance, Duration: 02:39 min.
- Alex Karantanas (GR), Singularity, Duration 07:13 min.
- Animation:
- Frederic Hainaut (FR), MANU LOUIS “Tchouang Tseu (was at the kermesse of M. Ha)” Duration 04:08 min.
- Jose Maria Savaria (AR), Tiem Pos Modernos, Duration 01:36 min.
- Lucie Thocaven (FR), So Close, Duration 07:12 min.
- Melissa Idri (FR), Les Courgettes De La Resistance, Duration 06:17min.
- Dimitris Armenakis (GR), Absorded, Duration 08:27 min.
- Dina Velikovsaya (RU), Kukuschka, Duration 08:45 min.
- Jon Boutin (FR), (A) Vous Regardez Un Film, Duration 03:38 min.
- Mercedes Marro (CL), Camino de Agua para un Pez, Duration 07:59 min.
- Nata Meltukh (USA), Fears, Duration 02:08 min.
See the Full Program of Patchlab:
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Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) successfully completed its 13th edition that took place from 18 to 21 of May at a venue of very interesting architectural perspective, at 23 Mitropoleos Street, by courtesy of “NBG PANGAEA REIC” in support of ADAF.
More than 250 artists from 22 countries submitted their view regarding the theme of the Festival, #PostFuture. For four days, #ADAF2017 invited the audience to imagine the future, offering a unique experience. This year’s edition explored the ways that technological advancements influence art and the everyday life, under the constant question, if the future is already here then what has to follow? In this framework, the Festival presented interactive installations, web art, digital image, video art and animation screenings, presentations of international festivals and audiovisual performances. Moreover, the audience had the chance to engage with the international artistic scene at the Artsits Corner and the rooftop of the Festival, as well as to familiarize with digital culture and its representatives through talks.
Click here to see the festival in photos
*/ Participation: 1834 artists’ submissions / 250 artists / 23 countries
*/ Public attendance: more than 17.000 people
*/ 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival | 18 – 21 May 2017
Main Venue
Mitropoleos 23, Historic Center of Athens
Parallel Actions
Athens International Airport, “Eleftherios Venizelos”
Syndagma Square
Monastiraki Square
Kolokotroni 61
Under the theme of #SingularityNow, #ADAF2018 aims to explore the future of art, technology, and culture.
Submissions: http://2018.adaf.gr
Deadline: 30.11.2017
Watch the video:
Concept – Creative Direction: Tina Touli
Design team: Yunxin Stella Wang, Jakob Ritt, Tina Touli
Production: Multitrab Productions | Athens Digital Arts Festival
Video: Spyridon Maltezos Music: Space Blanket
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#ADAF2018 proudly calls all artists to submit their proposals under the theme of the 14th Athens Digital Arts Festival, #SingularityNow, until 30/11/2017.
Will you tell us your tale from this event horizon…?
Submit now: http://2018.adaf.gr/
Although the fact that #ADAF2017 has been finished and we already head to the Open Call for artists for #ADAF2018, the last edition of the Festival keeps on contributing to the artistic and cultural happenings of Greece.
ADAF in collaboration with the Greek Market Research Company, Focus Bari, conducted a research on ADAF2017’s visitors with rather interesting results regarding their profile and interests. At the same time, on the initiative of Focus Bari, the results were compared with the average Greek attitude towards Technology & Culture, data derived from FocusonTechLife Web (B16).
The impact of ADAF2017 is proven by research findings, as 93% of visitors said they were excited and 96% would recommend it to friends.
ADAF always aims at being at the center of developments by detecting the trends of society and culture. The survey by Focus Bari highlights the main trends of the Greek public, opening up new roads in the cultural industry.
In addition, on the occasion of the above survey, we also present you the recent “Study for the Mapping of the Cultural – Creative Industry in Greece” by the Ministry of Culture and Sport, which was drafted by the Institute of Regional Development of Panteion University, in which we had the honor to contribute.
Read the “Study for the Mapping of the Cultural – Creative Industry in Greece” below:
Focus Bari Short Profile
Focus Bari is a leading market research agency, boasting a 29-year successful operation in the Greek market, a wealth of experience in the areas of Media, Advertising, Technology and Telecoms, and enjoying international reputation in its specializations. Focus Bari offers tailor-made solutions that help its customers grow through growth of their own Customers’ Experiences. Adopting a 360-human-centric approach, Focus Bari deploys its know-how and expertise in human behaviour, insights and behavioral economics in combination with adequate tools and models, to support business customers in maximizing their results.
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Athens Digital Arts Festival is delighted to inform you that is selected as one of the 26 EFFE Laureates by the EFFE International Jury. The Laureates are chosen from amongst the 715 Label recipients by EFFE – Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe for their exemplary work and commitment to festivals’ role in the arts and societies. The EFFE Award Ceremony will take place on 18 September during the Arts Festivals Salon in Brussels, hosted by the Centre of Fine Arts – BOZAR.
Being the only Greek Laureate, Athens Digital Arts Festival is rather honored and proud to represent the local cultural scene to the European Festivals Association (EFA). Such recognition is always important for ADAF as it strengthens our efforts for innovative initiatives and development while enabling us to promote Greek culture internationally.
EFFE is a result of many years of intense collaboration with the European Commission and European Parliament. EFFE started as an organization by the European Festivals Association (EFA) in order to focus more single-mindedly on Europe’s diversity and creativity. As a result, we are really proud to be part of this creative community and to share knowledge and experiences with international experts.
We would like to thank everyone who has supported us through all these years and, especially, the audience that always encourages our passion for cutting edge actions.
From our side, we are pledged to have an exceptional presence and strong social engagement at the EFFE Award ceremony, celebrating the diverse festivals’ community all over Europe.
The 26 EFFE Laureates (in alphabetical order) are:
- 12 Points, Ireland
- Africtions – captured by Dance, Germany
- Altofest International Contemporary Live Arts, Italy
- ASALTO Zaragoza, Spain
- Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece
- Bábkarská Bystrica TOUR – Double impulse, Slovakia
- Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival, Cyprus
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe, UK
- Edinburgh International Festival, UK
- European Film Festival Palic, Serbia
- Festival of Five Churches, Hungary
- Festival of Wonder, Denmark
- FMM Sines – Festival Músicas do Mundo, Portugal
- Gdansk Shakespeare Festival, Poland
- Gender Bender, Italy
- GOGOLFEST – International Annual Multidisciplinary International Festival of Contemporary Art, Ukraine
- International Theatre Festival – Varna Summer, Bulgaria
- Les Eurockéennes de Belfort, France
- Mittelfest, Italy
- Ravenna festival, Italy
- Tallinn Architecture Biennale, Estonia
- Tbilisi International Festival of Theatre, Georgia
- TANEC PRAHA – The International Festival of Contemporary Dance and Movement Theatre, Czech Republic
- Theaterfestival Boulevard ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
- Utrecht Early Music Festival, Netherlands
- Walk&Talk Azores, Portugal
It was over a decade ago when Nicholas Negroponte, academic and computer scientist (founder and Chairman Emeritus of MIT Media Lab), declared that “the digital revolution is over” and when Kim Cascone, an American composer of electronic music, ushered in the word post-digital in his book “The Aesthetics of Failure: “Post-digital” Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music in 2000”. The 21st century welcomed so many other academics, artists and theorists who elaborated on the post-digitalism issue, one of the most recent being Mel Alexenberg, artist and educator, who published his book in 2011 “The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age” offering insight into new art forms emerging from a postdigital age to address what he calls “the humanization of digital technologies”. In 2012, artist Theo-Mass Lexileictous publicly revealed, for the very first time, his preoccupation with #postdigitalism in an interview with Dazed Digital before writing his #postdigitalismmanifesto, launched at the P3Studio Gallery in Las Vegas. The exhibition #POSTDIGITALISM in May 2012 at Morfi Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus represented the artist’s official declaration of #postdigitalism concept and vision.
For Theo-Mass Lexileictous, #postdigitalism primarily refers to the exploration of new avenues dealing with the extraction of the digital into the physical, the result of which aims to create hybrid artworks. Coined in 2012, #postdigitalism is a term necessarily preceded by a hash mark (#) in order to be identified as part of this decade’s language formation and highlight the emergence of a hybrid language evident in our everyday communication, present in all types of media.
A creative exploration into art and language, the #postdigitalism notion according to Theo- Mass Lexileictous consists of:
#POSTDIGITAL ARTWORKS: #hybridartworks and #postdigitalistobjects
#POSTDIGITAL LANGUAGE: #postdigitalistautomaticwriting and #hybridlanguage
The #postdigitalism chapter in Theo-Mass Lexileictous’ work is not just another episode, but an autonomous, in-depth and mature investigation into the issues surrounding contemporary art and culture. Paradoxical as it may seem, Theo-Mass Lexileictous’ latest research assumes that #postdigitalism is related to Surrealism, the 1940’s post-war European artistic movement.
Observing the way we use language in social media networks, #postdigitalistautomaticwriting was coined by Theo-Mass Lexileictous to refer to the surrealist automatic writing. The way in which people communicate today – the use of hashtags, random words, fragmented phrases and sentences – is what initially prompted Theo-Mass Lexileictous to look at the Surrealists’ practice of automatic writing. Their objective was to express themselves in writing without filtering their thoughts, but rather to achieve an automatic response to writing, which they thought could be associated with their unconscious. However, automatism in Theo-Mass’s #postdigitalistautomaticwriting concept addresses the ways through which users can automatically enter themed image archives by following the word preceded by the hash mark (#). The concept of #postdigitalistautomaticwriting, according to the artist, is assumed solely in the form of printed text. The same principle applies to all #postdigitalist art and language practices since #postdigital is understood as whatever is extracted from the digital world into the physical.
The definition of #hybridlanguage involves all the aforementioned, only in this case the word or phrase preceded by the hash mark (#) is used within consistent sentences. An example would be the sentence, “The #postdigitalism issue will be released in early December”. In #postdigitalistautomaticwriting, this would be“#postdigitalism @theomass #newspaper #theomasstimes #lexileictous #selfie #december #issue6”.
#postdigitalistobjects are created following the same rationale in an attempt to explore the same concept and philosophy. Practically explained, #postdigitalistobjects are three dimensional artworks/sculptures. A good example would be a 3D object created on 3D software and consequently materialized with a 3D printer. Objects that bear #postdigitalistautomaticwriting, #hybridlanguage or any type of digital language conventions are also included in the range of #postdigitalistobjects since the information they carry renders them #postdigital. For example, a magazine that bears the inscription #thesexissue; within the context of #postdigitalism, it is no longer just a magazine, it is a #postdigitalistobject.
His 2D artworks aim to explore and question the outcome that results from the cross between the abstractness of the digital world and the substantiality of physical existence. What occurs in their intersection causes the artist’s fixation on the notion of hybridity. Commonly defined as the composition of heterogeneous elements, the meaning of hybrid is put forward to denote exactly that: the merging of two distinct realities and the effect they provoke when juxtaposed. For example, Theo-Mass Lexileictous’ latest painting displays a white-grey checkered pattern in order to represent what we perceive/understand as a transparent background in the digital language, on which a caption in black reads #thisisnotatransparentbackground. A pure hybrid as he describes it, the #thisisnotatransparentbackground painting is, according to Theo-Mass Lexileictous, the best example of his #postdigitalist 2D artworks’ theory. Referencing Magritte’s iconic painting “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”, #thisisnotatransparentbackground is created to challenge the viewer’s perception by posing the following question: how do we perceive the outcome that results from the intersection between these two worlds?
Within the discourse of Postdigitalism throughout the last decade, one notices the emergence of several linguistic variations of the same word. The Post-digital for Cascone became postdigital for Alexenberg and #postdigitalism for Theo-Mass Lexileictous. What ties them all together though, is the fact that the terms post-digital, postdigital, and #postdigitalism refer specifically to artistic practices and most importantly bear questions, thus fulfilling the primary purpose of art. What is Postdigitalism in art? Which artworks belong under the umbrella of Postdigitalism? When did the postdigitalism notion begin? Theo-Mass Lexileictous ventures on a journey of creative research in an attempt to explore his definition of #postdigitalism and the yet unknown potentials of uniting the digital world with physical existence with the objective that these outcomes will ultimately configure new avenues for the future of art.
On 22 and 23 July, the event “Spread The Future” took place at Athens International Airport – “Eleftherios Venizelos”. The audience visiting Greece participated in an exciting experience and came in contact with digital culture by engaging actively in a multimedia and futuristic event.
Specifically, the visitors of Greece had the opportunity to travel to the PostFuture, while interacting with the artworks of the exhibition offered by the Athens Digital Arts Festival | #PostFutureJourney. Moreover, on Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd of July, from 10:00 – 12:00 a.m., the audience was able to experience at the exhibition space, live, augmented reality AR+ thought the interactive installation “Reality Book” (work of 45 artists). For this experience, the public could shuffle through a book which becomes alive by the use of tablets and smart phones specially provided for the purposes of the event.
Simultaneously, the event was broadcasted live through the Athens News Agency – Macedonian Press Agency (ANA-MPA) while the organisers were talking to the public recording its experience. Visitors from all over the world that were passing by the airport travelled to the future and share their impressions live with the audience!
With the support:
Greek National Tourism Organization
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Athens Digital Arts Festival goes on a summer tour which will take the audience on a trip to #PostFuture. After successfully completing its 13th edition at the historic center of Athens (18-21 May / Mitropoleos 23) and awarded in Event Awards 2017 by Boussias Communications with the GOLD prize, category Best in Marketing & Communication and SILVER for the category Thematical Events, ADAF expands its activities, offering to all residents and visitors of Greek Region a unique futuristic experience.
ADAF On Tour 2017 | #PostFuture offers to the public of diverse Greek regions the opportunity to get in touch with the most dynamic forms of contemporary art and culture, thus promoting the digital culture through a free, integrated program.
The journey ADAF On Tour 2017 | #PostFuture begins in July, presenting its programme firstly in various locations of Attica Region and the Argosaronic Islands featuring the interactive augmented reality installation (AR+) “Prosthetic Reality Book” and a compilation of selected video art screenings under the theme of #PostFuture. During this month the program will travel to Aegina, Lavrio, Elefsina, Rafina and Poros.
Furthermore, ADAF establishes another great collaboration with Saronic Ferries Consortium and presents the programme of the tour’s artistic screenings, providing the travellers with free access to digital culture. In addition, in collaboration with the International Airport of Athens “Eleftherios Venizelos”, the Festival will present to the travelers the multimedia exhibition PostFuture Journey, until the 23th of July.
The tour continues in August making its first stop in Cephalonia and the renowned music festival, Saristra Festival. Here, ADAF will present #PostEarth, a series of screenings selected video art under the homonym theme, the interactive augmented reality installation “Prosthetic Reality Book” as well as the video installation “The Tide” by Vincent Masson. Finally, our last stop is the island of Tinos, on 18 and 19 August. Emanating from a very strong collaboration with “Kostas Tsoclis Museum” the Festival will have the honor to conduct kids’workshops and screenings (ADAF Kids) and present the interactive augmented reality installation “Prosthetic Reality Book”, inspired by the vision and work of the great Greek artist Kostas Tsoclis.
The stops of ADAF On Tour 2017 | #PostFuture will be as follows:
- July 8, 2017 | AEGINA | Ethnological Museum of Aegina | In cooperation with the Municipality of Aegina Island and the Social Enterprise of the Municipality of Aegina Island
- July 9, 2017 | LAVRIO | Heroes Square of Lavrio | In cooperation with the Municipality of Lavreotiki and Social Enterprise of the Municipality of the Municipality of Lavreotiki
- July 14, 2017 | ELEFSINA | Heroes Square | In cooperation with the Municipality of Eleusina and Eleusis 2021 European Capital of Culture
- July 15, 2017 | RAFINA | Central Square | In cooperation with the Municipality of Rafina-Pikermi and the Municipal Society of Sport and Culture of the Municipality of Rafina-Pikermi
- July 16, 2017 | POROS | Sea Pier / Former Agricultural Bank | In cooperation with the Municipality of Poros
- August 4-5-6, 2017 | CEPHALONIA | SARISTRA FESTIVAL | Palia Vlachata Samis
- August 18-19, 2017 | TINOS | “Municipal Foundation Kostas Tsoclis Museum”
- July – August – September 2017 | SARONIC FERRIES CONSORTIUM
Stay tuned because #PostFuture is still here!
All the above activities are taking place admission free with the support of the Regional Operational Programme “Attiki” 2014-2020 and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
Event Awards are organized by Boussias Communications and aim to promote and support the best events of our country. Events that have attracted thousands of participants or gained great reputation and excellent reviews. The awarded events are leaders in their field, standing out in terms of design, creativity, innovation, efficiency and effectiveness.
ADAF 2016 was distinguished in the category EVENT OF THE YEAR and won the GOLD award for the Best in Marketing & Communication and SILVER for the category Thematical Events!
We would like to thank you for the honor and promise that we will always do our best!
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ADAF and GERMANOS joined forces and organized the “VR Creations Contest”, creating the first digital VR gallery with artworks made by the audience itself. During ADAF 2017, the visitors of the festival were able to go through the virtual reality experience and create their own three-dimensional works of art, painting “in the air” in a digital environment, with canvasthe space around them. Digital experts took on VR technology and helped the public explore the “meta-digital” reality. By participating in the “VR Creations Contest”, visitors enter a contest for Amazing technology gifts.
#ADAF2017 #PostFuture
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In the framework of its parallel actions and international partnerships, ADAF2017 collaborated with Mashup Film Festival and presented a rather interesting project/screening, on Saturday 3 of May, in Paris.
ADAF’s video art curator Eirini Olimpiou, selected “Found Fotage” films from ADAF’s 13 previous editions and together with Mashup Film Festival’s director, Julien Lahmi, they secretly mixed it with Mashup films.
Found Footage and Mashup Cinema both dealt with the notion of memory and were part of the family of “recycling” or “second hand” cinema. But they were quite different in form and opposite in a way : found footage used forgotten materials in order to offer them visibility whereas mashup used mainstream elements already very familiar to the public and messesd around with them.
The found footage included :
Panagiotis Tomaras (GR) Memory Tapes (2010) 11:20min colour sound
Stelios Oikonomidis (GR) Signalize (2015) 04:56min colour sound
Rick Niebe (IT) MANNEQUIN (2016) 09:00min colour sound
Albert Bayona (ES) Darrere la benzinera (2016) 03:19 colour sound
Harald Schleicher (DE) The hypnosia project Cinedreams (2013) 11:39min colour sound
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EFFE is a result of many years of intense collaboration with the European Commission and European Parliament. The European Festivals Association (EFA), an ever-expanding umbrella group for festivals in Europe and beyond, thought it was time to focus more single-mindedly on Europe’s diversity and creativity.
The first of EFFE’s initiatives is a quality label. This label is given to festivals with an artistic commitment, involvement in their local communities and a European and global outlook. As a result, we are really proud to be part of this creative community and to share knowledge and experiences with the international experts.
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The digital culture, as an integral part of our everydayness, is constantly changing in an effort to satisfy the humans “perpetual eagerness” to exceed every technological limit. This continuously shifting form of digital culture shapes a future “beyond digital”, a futuristic convergence of the ‘real’ and ‘digital’ boundaries.
Our planet, while being a place connecting the ever-changing reality of people and redefining with its own subjective way notions like time and space, is our starting point for this year’s journey to the post-future.
Through this path, citizens of the world encounter this new exciting but still rather elusive “post-digital” reality, where the digital merges with the analogue and the physical.
#PostFuture Journey selection list:
1. Patxi Araujo (ES) Tera Nullius 09:58
2. Chris Cheung (HK) RadianceScape 02:00
3. Rebecca Najdowski (US) Give them Distance 03:04
4. Dénes Ruzsa & Fruzsina Spitzer (HU) S.C.A.N. – Searching Alternative Nature 07:00
5. Alexander Pettai (RU) Apophonie 05:36
6. Marta Di Francesco (IT) The Waves 02:45
7. Max Hattler (DE) Shapeshifter 00:30
8. Alex Karantanas (GR) Singularity 07:13
9. Duncan Poulton (GB) Pygmalion 07:00
10. Fred L’Epee (SW) Athanasia 05:33
11. Marcantonio Lunardi (IT) The Cage 05:46
12. Pamela Stefanopoulou (GR) The Voices of Silence 01:52
13. Thomas Valianatos (GR) Fractusmachine_Kosmos 03:34
14. Maria Tsiroukidou (GR) Minecrafted Waste Land 05:33
Curator: Nikki Georgiou
Video Art Curator: Eirini Olympiou
Curatorial Assistants: Marianthi Mavroudi – Eleana Damaskinou
ADAF director, Ilias Chatzichristodoulou, presented the compilation at Splice Festival, on 27 of May 2017.
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Watch the documentation videos with Lumitrix
Watch the photo material:
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The digital culture, as an integral part of our everydayness, is constantly changing in an effort to satisfy the humans “perpetual eagerness” to exceed every technological limit. This continuously shifting form of digital culture shapes a future “beyond digital”, a futuristic convergence of the ‘real’ and ‘digital’ boundaries.
The Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos”, while being a place connecting the ever-changing reality of people-travellers and redefining with its own subjective way notions like time and space, is our starting point for this year’s journey to the post-future.
Through this path, travellers of the world encounter this new exciting but still rather elusive “post-digital” reality, where the digital merges with the analog and the physical.
#PostFuture Journey | 08.03.2017 – 23.07.2017 |
#ADAF2017 #PostFuture
]]>The mural #PostFuture is a realistic incarnation of the digital-physical contradiction. The horse, representation of the physical word. The lens, representation of the digital world. In #PostFuture these two representations create a whole new entity, a situation that derives its existence from the present state but points out the future state of the world.
REC is an interactive installation set in today’s cultural context where surveillance over the society is no exception, where face tracking and face recognition in order to collect powerful data is an integral part of digital tools we use every day. Apparently, today’s society is ready to embrace many forms of surveillance and data collecting believing that those which do not impose limits on the society can bring about more convenience. But unfortunately, we discover that our e-mails are read, we can be watched and listened by built-in cameras and microphones in our smartphones, TVs and computers and collected data are used to build economic power against personal privacy. Whether we like it or not, we engage in a daily interaction with real or virtual methods of gathering data about our lives. REC installation perfectly illustrates this modern system of dependence.
The viewer doesn’t really need to love art to become the focus of an artistic work. Likewise, the monitoring equipment does not necessarily need to be real to create an atmosphere of control. Sometimes a mere impression of its existence will do.
In the process of interacting with the installation the spectators’ approach usually evolves from just playing and having fun to the afterthought and moment when the question appears: is this data of me collected? And if so, what is it used for afterwards?
The installation is designed for city public spaces to enter it spontaneously, experience it and becoming part of it without time and amount of participants limitations.
You can pass by Kolokotroni 61 and enjoy the installation until 12/6.
BIOS
Nikos Tsounakas
Nikos Tsounakas is an up and coming artist that currently lives and works in Athens, Greece. Through his work, he tries to communicate the modern contradictions we face as creators and humans in general. These contradictions are physical and digital, natural and man-made, virtual and actual, animalistic and human. His inspiration comes from the observation of the human behavioral patterns in modern day society accompanied with the observation of the behavioral patterns of nature. He is creating works that derive from answering or asking vital questions for our fragile human existence.
Elektro Moon Vision (PL/HU)
Elwira Wojtunik and Popesz Csaba Láng are internationally recognised Polish-Hungarian duet of multimedia artists known as Elektro Moon Vision, working at the intersection of creative computing, design and light-art, creating interactive multimedia installations, stage projections design, 3D video mappings and scenography projections for theatre and opera. In their works, they use a variety of new media tools, often implementing their own codes, patches and mathematic algorithms. Their works were presented at significant international digital media art exhibitions and events around the world, including the Museums Quartier in Vienna, the New Media Art Biennale WRO 2011, 2015 in Wroclaw, Akarenga Soko Gallery in Yokohama, Japan, TADAEX in Tehran, in Iran, PdCon in NYC. In Krakow, where they live, their live visuals could be seen at the Unsound Festival in 2016. Re-Kreacja, an interactive mapping installation, is included in the collection of Contemporary Art Gallery Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland. The experimental video NZ/X won the 1st prize and was published in the frame of the Chopin Year competition by Warsaw Electronic Festival and the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. They are scholarship holders of the Artist-in-Residence program at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna (2010). Since 2012, they are curators of the International Digital Art Festival Patchlab in Krakow. They are members of AV node network – an international network of artists and professionals organising festivals and/or working in the fields of audiovisual live performances.
Founders of Share: Krakow, unit of a global organization dedicated to supporting collaboration and knowledge exchange in new media communities.
Credits
Interactive Installation: Elektro Moon Vision
Mural: Nikos Tsounakas
Photography / Cinematography: Manos Kalafatelis / Spyros Maltezos
Production: Multitrab Productions
Powered by GERMANOS
Main Venue
23, Mitropoleos str. , Historic Center of Athens
www.adaf.gr
#ADAF2017 #PostFuture
Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) has successfully completed its 13th edition that took place from 18 to 21 of May at a venue of very interesting architectural perspective, at 23 Mitropoleos Street, by courtesy of “NBG PANGAEA REIC” in support of ADAF.
More than 250 artists from 22 countries submitted their view regarding the theme of the Festival, #PostFuture. For four days, #ADAF2017 invited the audience to imagine the future, offering a unique experience. This year’s edition explored the ways that technological advancements influence art and the everyday life, under the constant question, if the future is already here then what has to follow? In this framework, the Festival presented interactive installations, web art, digital image, video art and animation screenings, presentations of international festivals and audiovisual performances. Moreover, the audience had the chance to engage with the international artistic scene at the Artsits Corner and the rooftop of the Festival, as well as to familiarize with digital culture and its representatives through talks.
This year, as we integrated at the programme “PEPP – Regional Operational Programme ATTICA 2014-2020 – European Regional Development Fund – With the support of Greece and the European Union”, we’ve been given the chance to attract more and diverse visitors due to our free entrance, to expand our audience through multiple acts and to develop our activities during the year. Furthermore, we presented international festivals with exclusive content and guests, such as Japan Media Arts Festival (Japan), MashUp Film Festival (France), ArtFutura (Spain), Imagine Science Films Festival (U.S.A), Videonale E.V. (Germany), Mapping Festival (Switzerland), VideoFormes Digital Arts (France). ADAF 2017 collaborated with the Ministry of Culture and Sports presenting for the year of cultural exchanges between Greece and China, the special event #PostFuture Dialogues, offering to the audience the opportunity to enjoy installations and screenings by Greek and Chinese famous and upcoming artists in public and private places, as well as a tribute to Microwave International New Media Arts Festival. In addition, ADAF presented the 24hour artist projection “Digital Canvas” that was broadcasted by IkonoTV and the rich compilation of video-art short films and animation in collaboration with the international digital platform The PhotoPhore.
Another great collaboration that we established was with GERMANOS (Powered by GERMANOS). The Festival expanded its horizons, introducing new technologies in the field of digital arts. ADAF and GERMANOS joined forces and organized multiple important actions, such as the VR Creations Contest, presenting the first VR gallery with artworks of the audience.
In this edition, the festival has also enriched the kids program, ADAF Kids, offering to the kids and their parents the chance to explore the magic world of digital culture, through educational workshops, technological experiments, animation screenings and interactive installations. Kids learned the secrets of 3D Printing, painted digital graffiti and made a moving flower robot by playing with light sensors.
More than 17.000 visitors attended ADAF 2017 and had the opportunity to get closer to digital culture and get familiar with new artistic practices. The audience luxuriated a special tribute to the unique digital persona of Theo Mass Lexileictous, got transferred to infinity through the interactive installation Infinity Room by Refik Anadol the was supported by the Delegation of European Commission and the European Parliament Office in Greece (Europe4All, #EU4U), flew to magical dreams with the interactive VR installation Immersio by Immersio Group, and watched web art with the unbeatable speeds of COSMOTE VDSL. Finally, every night the Theater of the Festival was enabling entrance toto different dimensions with the audiovisual performances by renowed and award winning artists such as Kenta Nagakawaga, NOHlab και Audiofil, Marco Donnarumma, ο Fraction, ο Doron Sadja, οι Stratofyzika και ο Martin Messier, Pandelis Diamandides, François Zajéga and Loïc Reboursière.
We would like to thank you all for participating and supporting this year’s edition and we are looking forward to seeing you back again in Athens Digital Arts Festival 2018 with the promise of an even more complete experience.
Stay tuned because the #PostFuture is still here!
Click here to see the festival in photos
*/ Participation: 1834 artists’ submissions / 250 artists / 23 countries
*/ Public attendance: more than 17.000 people
Watch the Post Video Teaser
*/ 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival | 18 – 27 May 2017
Main Venue
Mitropoleos 23, Historic Center of Athens
Parallel Actions
Athens International Airport, “Eleftherios Venizelos”
Syndagma Square
Monastiraki Square
Kolokotroni 61
#ADAF2017 #PostFuture !
Book your free ticket: http://2017.adaf.gr/free-ticket/
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Duration: 18 – 21 of May 2017
Main Venue: 23, Mitropoleos str, Historic Center of Athens
www.adaf.gr | #ADAF2017 #PostFuture
Heading to the 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), you can take a glimpse of the setting up of #ADAF2017 through a timelapse video. Explore #PostFuture and discover a futuristic reality. ADAF 2017 will be hosted in the heart of the historic center of Athens, at 23 Mitropoleos Street, on May 18-21.
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Kolokotroni 61
21:00 – 00:00 | REC | Elektro Moon (PL/HU)
Syntagma Square
10:00 – 00:00 | Kalliplokamos | Eirini Kokkinidou & Vasilis Boukis & Chalarampos Kokkinidis (GR)
Athens International Airport ELEFTHERIOS VENIZELOS
24hours | #PostFuture Journey Exhibition
Thursday 18 May
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | All Floors
ADAF Exhibition | 10:00 – 00:00
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | 1st Floor
Tribute Exhibition
10:00 – 00:00 | Theo Mass Lexileictous (CY)
Special Screening
10:00 – 00:00 | ikonoTV
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | 2nd Floor
ADAF Screening Room
10:00 – 12:00 | ADAF Video art: #PostHumanities
12:00 – 13:50 | ADAF Video art: #PostUtopia
13:50 – 15:00 | ADAF Video art: #PostAbstract
15:00 – 16:55 | ADAF Video art: #PostFuture
16:55 – 18:20 | Festivals of the World: Videoformes: In-between ! | Introduction by Gabriel Soucheyre (FR)
18:20 – 19:20 | Special Screening: PhotoPhore #PostReality
19:20 – 22:40 | ADAF Animation: #PostNarrative
22:40 – 23:50 | ADAF Animation: #PostTranscendent
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | 4th Floor
ADAF Workshops
15:00 – 19:00 | Room 1 | The future of mapping | Instructor: Sebastien Schnabel (FR)
15:00 – 18:00 | Room 2 | Rethinking Heritage: A Workshop on 3 Dimensional Collage | Instructors: Atanur Andiç & Cansu Nur Şimşek (TR)
ADAF Kids Screening Room
10:00 – 00:00 | ADAF Kids Animation: #PostYouth
ADAF Kids Workshops
10:00 – 11:00 | Room 3 | Noise Toys | Instructor: Stelios Giannoulakis (GR)
10:00 – 10:30 | Room 2 | 3D Printing | Instructors: David Saltiel & Ilias Saltiel (Athens Makerspace) (GR)
11:00 – 12:00 | Room 3 | Noise Toys | Instructor: Stelios Giannoulakis (GR)
11:00 – 11:30 | Room 2 | 3D Printing | Instructors: David Saltiel & Ilias Saltiel (Athens Makerspace) (GR)
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | Theater (Ground Floor)
ADAF Talks
09:00 – 12:00 | Digitisation in the field of culture and the Creative Europe Programme | Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports/Directorate of International Relations and European Union
and Greek Film Center
16:00 – 18:00 | Creativity and Technology, Artists Flash Talks
18:00 – 19:00 | Theo-Mass Lexileictous Performative Lecture (CY)
ADAF Kids Talks
12:00 – 12:30 | Technology in the 21st Century | Ilias Saltiel (Athens Makerspace) (GR)
ADAF AV Performances
22:00 – 22:30 | NOS “live” | NOHlab and Audiofil (TR)
23:00 – 23:40 | Color Field Immersion | Doron Sadja (US)
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | Roof Top
21:00 – 00:00 | Open Air Screenings
Outdoor Events
Kolokotroni 61
21:00 – 00:00 | REC | Elektro Moon (PL/HU)
Syntagma Square
10:00 – 00:00 | Kalliplokamos | Eirini Kokkinidou & Vasilis Boukis & Chalarampos Kokkinidis (GR)
Monastiraki Square
21:00 – 00:00 | FLORA | Philipp Artus (DE)
Athens International Airport ELEFTHERIOS VENIZELOS
24hours | #PostFuture Journey Exhibition
Friday 19 May
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | All Floors
ADAF Exhibition | 10:00 – 00:00
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | 1st Floor
Tribute Exhibition
10:00 – 00:00 | Theo Mass Lexileictous (CY)
Special Screening
10:00 – 00:00 | ikonoTV
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | 2nd Floor
ADAF Screening Room
10:00 – 11:10 | ADAF Animation: #PostTranscendent
11:10 – 14:30 | ADAF Animation: #PostNarrative
14:30 – 15:45 | Festivals of the World: MashUp Festival: POP MASHUP SAMPLING FLOOR | Introduction by Julien Lahmi (FR)
15:45 – 16:45 | Festivals of the World: Japan Media Arts Festival: 2016 Focus in Japan Selection (JP)
16:45 – 18:40 | ADAF Video art: #PostUtopia
18:40 – 20:35 | ADAF Video art: #PostHumanities
20:35 – 21:40 | ADAF Video art: #PostAbstract
21:40 – 23:40 | ADAF Video art: #PostFuture
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | 4th Floor
ADAF Workshops
16:00 – 19:00 | Room 1 | MashUp Creation | Instructor: Julien Lahmi (FR)
15:00 – 18:00 | Room 2 | Rethinking Heritage: A Workshop on 3 Dimensional Collage | Instructors: Atanur Andiç & Cansu Nur Şimşek (TR)
ADAF Kids Screening Room
10:00 – 00:00 | ADAF Kids Animation: #PostYouth
ADAF Kids Workshops
10:00 – 11:00 | Room 3 | Noise Toys | Instructor: Stelios Giannoulakis (GR)
10:00 – 10:30 | Room 2 | 3D Printing | Instructors: David Saltiel & Ilias Saltiel (Athens Makerspace) (GR)
11:00 – 12:00 | Room 3 | Noise Toys | Instructor: Stelios Giannoulakis (GR)
11:00 – 11:30 | Room 2 | 3D Printing | Instructors: David Saltiel & Ilias Saltiel (Athens Makerspace) (GR)
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | Theater (Ground Floor)
ADAF Talks
13:00 – 15:00 | Creativity and Technology, Artists Flash Talks
ADAF Kids Talks
12:00 – 12:30 | Technology in the 21st Century | Ilias Saltiel (Athens Makerspace) (GR)
ADAF AV Performances
22:00 – 22:20 | Corpus Nil | Marco Donnarumma (IT)
22:50 – 23:10 | THÆTA | StratoFyzika
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | Roof Top
21:00 – 00:00 | Open Air Screenings
Outdoor Events
Kolokotroni 61
21:00 – 00:00 | REC | Elektro Moon (PL/HU)
Syntagma Square
10:00 – 00:00 | Kalliplokamos | Eirini Kokkinidou & Vasilis Boukis & Chalarampos Kokkinidis (GR)
Monastiraki Square
21:00 – 00:00 | FLORA | Philipp Artus (DE)
Athens International Airport ELEFTHERIOS VENIZELOS
24hours | #PostFuture Journey Exhibition
Saturday 20 May
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | All Floors
ADAF Exhibition | 10:00 – 00:00
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | 1st Floor
Tribute Exhibition
10:00 – 00:00 | Theo Mass Lexileictous (CY)
Special Screening
10:00 – 00:00 | ikonoTV
ADAF Workshops
11:00 – 16:00 | Browser History Dating | Instructor: Dries Depoorter (BE)
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | 2nd Floor
ADAF Screening Room
10:00 – 11:00 | ADAF Video art: #PostAbstract
11:00 – 13:00 | ADAF Video art: #PostHumanities
13:00 – 15:00 | ADAF Video art: #PostUtopia
15:00 – 16:55 | ADAF Video art: #PostFuture
16:55 – 18:00 | Festivals of the World: Art Futura: Premiere 2016/2017 | Introduction by Montxo Algora (ES)
18:00 – 19:00 | Festivals of the World: Imagine Science Films Festival: The Hyper-Present at the Edge of the Future (US)
19:00 – 20:30 | Special Screening: In Limbo | Skype Introduction by Antoine Viviani (FR)
20:30 – 21:40 | ADAF Animation: #PostTranscendent
21:40 – 00:30 | ADAF Animation: #PostNarrative
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | 4th Floor
ADAF Workshops
11:00 – 15:00 | Room 1 | U.A.U: Unitary Applied Urbanism | Instructor: Mariano Equizzi (IT)
15:00 – 18:30 | Room 2 | Creating a touch/hugging machine with soft robotics | Instructor: Caroline Yan Zheng (CN)
17:00 – 18:00 | Room 3 | Browser History Dating | Instructor: Dries Depoorter (BE)
ADAF Kids Screening Room
10:00 – 00:00 | ADAF Kids Animation: #PostYouth
ADAF Kids Workshops
10:00 – 13:00 | Room 3 | Digital Kids Orchestra | Instructors: Lili Kotsira & Manos Rovithis & Katerina Iordanidou (I.D.E.A: Inclusive Digital Educational Amusement) (GR)
13:00 – 14:00 | Room 3 | Animating your Image | Instructor: Ilias Chatzichristodoulou (GR)
17:30 – 19:00 | Room 3 | Wearing a Sentiment 1.5 | Instructors: Marilena Georgantzi & Efi Souli (GR)
19:00 – 19:30 | Room 3 | Toothbrush Kits Presentation | Instructor: Nikos Athanasopoulos (GR)
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | Theater (Ground Floor)
ADAF Talks
12:00 – 13:00 | Museums Beyond the Digital | Bhavani Esapathi (IN)
13:00 – 15:00 | Future of Culture Panel | Participants: Irini Papadimitriou (GR) & Montxo Algora (ES) & Bhavani Esapathi (IN) & Despina Catapoti (GR)
15:00 – 16:00 | Between the Real and the Digital | Nikos Kourniatis & Ioanna Fakiri (GR)
16:00 – 17:00 | Creativity and Technology, Artists Flash Talks
ADAF AV Performances
22:00 – 22:45 | Tanukis | François Zajéga (BE) & Loïc Reboursière (FR)
23:10 – 23:40 | False Awakenings | Padelis Diamadides (GR)
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | Roof Top
21:00 – 00:00 | Open Air Screenings
Outdoor Events
Kolokotroni 61
21:00 – 00:00 | REC | Elektro Moon (PL/HU)
Monastiraki Square
21:00 – 00:00 | FLORA | Philipp Artus (DE)
Athens International Airport ELEFTHERIOS VENIZELOS
24hours | #PostFuture Journey Exhibition
Sunday 21 May
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | All Floors
ADAF Exhibition | 10:00 – 00:00
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | 1st Floor
Tribute Exhibition
10:00 – 00:00 | Theo Mass Lexileictous (CY)
Special Screening
10:00 – 00:00 | ikonoTV
ADAF Workshops
11:00 – 16:00 | Browser History Dating | Instructor: Dries Depoorter (BE)
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | 2nd Floor
ADAF Screening Room
10:00 – 13:20 | ADAF Animation: #PostNarrative
13:20 – 14:30 | ADAF Animation: #PostTranscendent
14:30 – 15:15 | Festivals of the World: Microwave International New Media Arts Festival: Future X Imagination (HK)
15:15 – 16:15 | Festivals of the World: Videonale: VIDEONALE.16 on Tour (DE)
16:15 – 18:15 | ADAF Video art: #PostHumanities
18:15 – 19:20 | ADAF Video art: #PostAbstract
19:20 – 21:15 | ADAF Video art: #PostFuture
21:15 – 23:10 | ADAF Video art: #PostUtopia
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | 4th Floor
ADAF Workshops
14:00 – 18:00 | Room 1 | Sense of Smell | Instructor: Klara Ravat (ES)
16:00 – 18:00 | Room 2 | AI and Prosthetics | Instructor: Marco Donnarumma (IT)
17:00 – 18:00 | Room 3 | Browser History Dating | Instructor: Dries Depoorter (BE)
ADAF Kids Screening Room
10:00 – 00:00 | ADAF Kids Animation: #PostYouth
ADAF Kids Workshops
10:00 – 11:00 | Room 3 | Animating your Image | Instructor: Ilias Chatzichristodoulou (GR)
11:00 – 13:00 | Room 3 | Interactive Garden | Instructor: Artemis Papageorgiou (GR)
13:00 – 14:00 | Room 3 | Paper Circuits | Instructor: Marianna Anthropelou & Alexandros Kalfoglou (Athens Makerspace) (GR)
14:00 – 14:30 | Room 3 | Lemon Kits | Instructor: Nikos Athanasopoulos (GR)
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | Theater (Ground Floor)
ADAF Talks
14:00 – 15:00 | Human-Machine Configurations: AI Robotics and the Disintegration of Human Integrity | Marco Donnarumma (IT)
15:00 – 16:00 | Mythological Doppelgängers, computing machinery and intelligent behaviors | Dimitris Ginosatis (GR)
16:00 – 17:00 | The Sound of Life | Τero Alamäki (FI) & Manolis Anastasakos (GR) & Kleopatra Alamantariotou (GR)
ADAF AV Performances
22:00 – 22:30 | Field | Martin Messier (CA)
22:50 – 23:30 | Vector Field | Fraction (FR)
Mitropoleos 23 – Historic Center of Athens | Roof Top
21:00 – 00:00 | Open Air Screenings
Outdoor Events
Kolokotroni 61
21:00 – 00:00 | REC | Elektro Moon (PL/HU)
Monastiraki Square
21:00 – 00:00 | FLORA | Philipp Artus (DE)
Athens International Airport ELEFTHERIOS VENIZELOS
24hours | #PostFuture Journey Exhibition
Creative Directors
Ilias Chatzichristodoulou | Founder & Director
Spyros Manolatos | Production Coordinator
Nikki Georgiou | Programme Coordinator
Elli-Anna Peristeraki | Festival Curator
Eirini Olympiou | Video Art Curator
Kostas Petrou | Animation Curator
Christiana Kazakou | Workshops & Talks Curator
Duration: 18 – 21 of May 2017
Main Venue: 23, Mitropoleos str, Historic Center of Athens
Free Tickets: Book Now!
www.adaf.gr | #ADAF2017 #PostFuture
The Unicorn is all around! Take a walk in the center of Athens and take a glimpse of the #PostFuture !
Download Layar augmented reality app and scan the #PostFuture: https://www.layar.com/mobile-download/
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]]>Duration: 18 – 21 of May 2017
Main Venue: 23, Mitropoleos str, Historic Center of Athens
Free Tickets: Book Now!
www.adaf.gr | #ADAF2017 #PostFuture
The 13th Digital Art Festival of Athens (ADAF) is around the corner and invites you to participate in its talks and workshops. ADAF 2017 will be held from 18 to 21 May in the heart of the historic center of Athens, at 23 Mitropoleos Street.
Under this year’s theme, #PostFuture, participants will be able to attend a rather interesting talks and workshops programme that will analyze important issues and questions about how technological developments affect everyday life.
Join our Facebook Events and experience the #PostFuture :
]]>Main Venue: 23, Mitropoleos str., Historic Center of Athens
Free Tickets : Book Now!
www.adaf.gr | #ADAF2017 #PostFuture
Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) returns for the 13th consecutive year in the Historic Center of Athens and invites everyone to a unique futuristic experience. ADAF 2017 will take place from the 18th to the 21st of May at a venue of very interesting architectural perspective, at 23 Mitropoleos Street, by courtesy of “NBG PANGAEA REIC” in support of ADAF.
ADAF 2017, under the theme #PostFuture, invites all of you to imagine the future! Currently, we are witnessing how virtual reality widely interweaves with and affects every aspect of everyday life. While the contemporary way of life gets reflected on the merge of “digital” and “reality”, this year’s edition will explore the ways that technology and innovation affect and form the future of art and society. If the future is already here then what’s to come?
Creative Directors:
Ilias Chatzichristodoulou | Founder & Director
Spyros Manolatos | Production Coordinator
Nikki Georgiou | Programme Coordinator
Elli-Anna Peristeraki | Festival Curator
Eirini Olympiou | Video art Curator
Kostas Petrou | Animation Curator
Christiana Kazakou | Workshops & Talks Curator
INFO
Facebook event: 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival | #PostFuture
Watch the show reel video:
]]>The themes of the video it’s nothing else than #PostFuture, focusing mainly on the #PostReality theme asking artists to show the infinite possibilities that reality offers to overcome themselves. Technology, utopia, parallel universe and dreams are the basic features.
Stay tuned and updated!
*/ 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival | 18 – 21 May 2017
Venue: Μitropoleos 23, Historic Center of Athens
2017.adaf.gr | #ADAF2017 #PostFuture
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As part of the festival’s contribution to the promotion of digital culture in Greece, ADAF revives this downtown building and invites the public to the #PostFuture!
*/ 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival | 18 – 21 May 2017
Venue: Μitropoleos 23, Historic Center of Athens
2017.adaf.gr | #ADAF2017 #PostFuture
]]>#ADAF2017, under the theme #PostFuture, is inviting all of you to imagine what the future will be like! During the current years, we are witnessing how virtual reality widely interweaves with everyday life and affect its every aspect. While the contemporary way of life gets reflected on the merge of “digital” and “reality”, this year edition will explore the way that technology and innovation will affect and form the future of art and society. If the future is already here then what is going to follow?
1055 artists from 67 countries submitted their artworks, offering #ADAF2017 a huge amount of inspiration and creativity.
ADAF 2017 will explore the undefined future, going beyond digital culture and exchanging views on PostFuture and its four main sections: #PostDigital, #PostEconomies, #PostHumanities and #PostNature.
Stay tuned!
*/ 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival | 18 – 21 May 2017
Venue: Μitropoleos 23, Historic Center of Athens
2017.adaf.gr | #ADAF2017 #PostFuture
ADAF Kids returns strong for this year’s International Digital Arts Festival of Greece- Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), which will take place from 18th till 21st of May 2017, in Mitropoleos 23, in the historic centre of Athens. The festival’s theme for this year is #PostFuture.
Combining education and games, kids will get the chance to explore the ‘post-future’ by taking part in educational workshops, technological experiments, animation screenings and interactive installations. Guided by expert instructors, kids will be able to discover the unlimited possibilities of technology by simultaneously using their imagination and creativity.
ADAF Kids includes:
- Workshops, Technological Experiments, Lectures
Noise Toys | Instructor: Stelios Giannoulakis | Thursday 18/5, 10:00-12:00 a.m.
Paper Circuits | Instructors: Marianna Anthropelou, Alexandros Kalfoglou | Friday 19/5, 10:00 – 12:00 a.m., Sunday 21/5, 10:00 – 12:00 a.m.
3D Printing | Instructors: David Saltiel, Ilias Saltiel | Thursday 18/5, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m., Friday 19/5, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Technology in the 21st Century Instructor: Ilias Saltiel (Athens Makerspace) | Τhursday 18/5, 12:00 – 12:30, Friday 19/5, 12:00 – 12:30
Digital Kids Orchestra | Instructors: Lili Kotsira, Manos Rovithis I.D.E.A. | Saturday 20/5, 10:00 – 13:00
Animating your image | Instructor: Ilias Chatzichristodoulou | Saturday 20/5, 13:00 – 14:00 , Sunday 21/5, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Wear A Sentiment | Instructors: Marilena Georgantzi, Efi Souli | Saturday 20/5, 17:00 – 18:30
Toothbrush Kits | Instructor: Nikos Athanasopoulos Saturday | 20/5, 18:30 – 19:00
Interactive Garden | Instructor: Artemis Papageorgiou | Sunday 21/5, 11:00 – 13:00
Lemon Kits | Instructor: Nikos Athanasopoulos | Sunday 21/5, 14:00 -14:30
- Interactive Installations
Glowing Wall | Artist: Vasilis Kampouris Thursday
Demonz I. | Artist: INITI
Piano Circuits | Creative team: Alexandros Kalfoglou/ Athens MakerSpace
IMMERSIO | Creative team: Immersio Group
- Animation Screenings
Awesome Beetle’s Colors, Idra Sproge (DE), 2016 | AMI, Vorname Nachname (DE), 2017 |Vacal Especial, Rafael Beco (PT), 2016 | Our Wonderful Nature – The Common Chameleon, Tomer Eshed (DE), 2016 | FEARS, Nata Melutkh (UA), 2015 |Charlie et ses grandes dents, Esther Lalanne (FR), 2016 | DARREL, Marc Briones Piulachs & Alan Carabantes Person (SP), 2016
The program is suitable for kids of ages 5-12
- Dates: 18-21 May 2017
- Hours and program duration: 10:00-20:00
- Free Entrance
- For more information:
Nikos Chatzichristodoulou : kids@adaf.gr , 6992793275
Check out the video of ADAF Kids 2016:
*/ 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival | 18 – 21 May 2017
Venue: Μitropoleos 23, Historic Center of Athens
2017.adaf.gr | #ADAFkids #ADAF2017 #PostFuture
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Can you imagine the future?
In the late 90’s Negroponte stated that “the digital revolution is over”. Almost two decades later and having accepted that the digital culture has been stabilized into our everydayness, we are moving forward to a most abstract creation.
This new futuristic lifestyle is reflected from the coherence of the ‘real – virtual’ boundaries into a replica of the physical world where everything is countable in digits, therefore simplified and transparent. Yet is post digital the real progress?
Exploring this blurry future, we invite artists to ‘transcend’ digital culture and exchange opinions under the theme #PostFuture. The deadline for the submissions is 31.01.2017 .
At the same time, our goal is to involve in this interesting and lively conversation all that share the same curiosity with us about our lives in the #PostFuture.
The interaction with a constantly increasing part of the active residents – and visitors – of the city is a primary desire and direction of this year’s Athens Digital Arts Festival. We are now moving into a new, more open and interactive relationship with our audience.
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