COMMUNICATION AND DESIGN, TUESDAY, 16/04/2013, 15.00, ROOM Z.
LECTURE by Dr. AGGELIKI AVGITIDOU
TEXT BASED ART, PRESENTATION OF PROJECTS.
Artist, architect and scholar Dr. Aggeliki Avgitidou will present a lecture at the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly, at the city of Volos, on Thursday, 16 04 2013, at 15.00. The lecture will be held for the purposes of the COMMUNICATION & DESIGN course as part of a series of lectures directed by assistant professor Iordanis Stylidis. The content of the lecture is the presentation of her creative history and, more specifically, the correlation between the art, text and narration. Avgitidou’s work is focused on the urban field as a field of both individual and collective memory, a field where subjectivity is formed, identity is negotiated and desire is expressed. The media she uses are photography, video, installation, animation and performance.
See poster.
Lecture within the framework of the workshop “Multimedia Data Bases as narrative Mechanism”.
Roy Ascott
Roy Ascott is a pioneer of cybernetics and telematics in art. His artistic and educational activity focuses on the impact of digital and telecommunications networks on human behavior and consciousness. He synthesizes recent advances in science and technology with experimental art and ancient systems of knowledge. Ascott studied under Victor Pasmore and Richard Hamilton at King's College, University of Durham. He has a rich educational and artistic activity. The Groundcourse at Ealing School of Art, London, was the first of his radical interventions in art education. He has been Dean of San Francisco Art Institute, California, Professor and Head of Communications Theory in the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, and Principal of Ontario College of Art, Toronto and Adjunct Professor in Design|Media Arts at the University of California Los Angeles. He is actually Professor of Technoetic Art at University of Plymouth and director of the PhD candidates program Planetary Collegium. He is founding editor of the international journal Technoetic Arts and member of the editorial boards of Leonardo.
See the lecture poster
The Lab of Environmental Communication and Audiovisual Documentation (LECAD) and the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly is happy to invite you to participate to an intensive, five-day workshop entitled 'Multimedia Database as Narrative Mechanism'. The workshop will take place in Volos between Saturday 13 and Wednesday 17 April 2013.
Please read the attached file for further information
The workshop is designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students of architecture, planning and regional development, fine arts and cultural studies. Basic knowledge of interactive projects and digital design will be appreciated. For additional information on the workshop’s theme, its aim and scope, the collaborators, dates, locations, travel and accommodation and registration please refer to the attached document.
April 12 – 13, 2013, Volos, Greece, Auditorium of the Department of Architecture
Organised and hosted by the Lab of Environmental Communication and Audiovisual Documentation (LECAD) and the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly in conjunction with the I-Node of the Planetary Collegium.
Symposium theme
Databases represent an abstract process of organising information, a potentially powerful categorisation system providing a range of options for viewing, navigating and searching. On the other hand, a database represents a logic of organising knowledge, a model of structuring our experience, thus emerging as a cultural form. The Symposium readdresses the notion of narration in the context of a multimedia database (textual, iconic, cinematic, audio).
In the digital era, multimedia databases and narrative media manifest themselves interconnecting and interrelating in the context of information and communication technologies (internet, multimedia, virtual reality, locative media). Information access has become a central activity in most scientific disciplines, while traversing information and retrieving meaning out of it raises theoretic, pedagogic and aesthetic issues. Establishing multiple trajectories through data, defining links between database’s records creates narrative paths. The design of interfaces and the use of metaphors enable the creation of interactive electronic narrations.
The above presented problematic indicate the main topics of this Symposium:
- Database as a storytelling mechanism and a medium for communicating ideas
- Database logic and interface design
- Database structure and mental maps
- Metadata logging for generating multiple narrations
- Narrative and interactions
- Navigation methods and spatialized representations
- Historical evidence transcribed into the conceptual setting of an urban database
- Investigation of the aesthetic and ideological constitution of archives and lists
- Multimedia databases and museum applications
- Multimedia databases and locative media
The symposium will provide the theoretical framework for the ensuing workshop on the same subject, organized by LECAD and the Department of Architecture, April 14 to 17.
For further information, please read the program, the attached file and the symposium poster.
Coordinator:
- Associate Professor Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly
Organising Committee:
- Associate Professor G. Papakonstantinou
- Stavros Alifragkis, Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Adjunct Lecturer, Hellenic Military Academy
- Giorgos Kalaouzis, Laboratory Teaching Staff, Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly
- Nicolas Remy, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture Marseille, France & Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly
Symposium Administrator:
- Ifigenia Charatsi, LECAD, Laboratory Staff, Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly
Technical support:
- Nikos Vamvakas, LECAD, Laboratory Staff, Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly
- Eleni Pispiri, LECAD, Laboratory Staff, Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly
Keynote Speakers:
- Professor Roy Ascott, Founding President of the Planetary Collegium, School of Arts and Media, Plymouth University. De Tao Master of Technoetic Arts
- Professor François Penz, Director of the Digital Studio for Research in Design, Visualisation and Communication, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge
9/4/2013, 21:00, Dep. Arch. Volos
Katerina Zacharopoulou was born in Athens in 1958. She studied painting (1982-1987) in Athens, while she attended special seminars in the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1990-1994) regarding educational issues on contemporary art for children and youth. In 1998 she worked and lived in Chicago showing her work in museums and working with students on the idea of a Water City and the myth of Nymphes in Greek culture. Since 1993 she works on Greek Public Television (ERT), presenting a program on contemporary art and artists
Since then, she has developed a rich educational activity on contemporary art issues, without ceasing to work as an artist herself. She is interested in the meaning of contemporary art and its language and the way this art becomes a relayed system through images that can be transmitted. She is particularly interested in the role the artist plays as an exposed agent of knowledge and experience.
Her relationship with television gives her the idea of live performance in front of a camera. Her work has been affected by that. The last ten years she works on the “Artistic Identity” as an Alter Ego of the every day ‘Shelf”. Her media are video, photography, installations, drawings and writing.
In the frame of the events organized by the Laboratory E.C.A.D. (Thalis program) and with the support of the Department of Architecture, we are welcoming the NoTours workshop proposed by the spanish collective of artists and sound engineers escoitar.org.
For the fifth consecutive year, the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly is participating to the design-build workshop "Ateliers Design" that will take place in Paris, France, in march 2013.
This multidisciplinary workshop is aiming at the custom design and full-scale construction of industrial design objects and small-scale architectural structures, while fostering applied experimentation with materials, structural systems and fabrication/ construction processes.
PARIS. march 18-22, 2013
Application to be sent to Maria Vrontissi - omadak@gmail.com
Deadline: 18.1.2013
Organised by:
Ecole des Ponts ParisTech
Ecole d'Architecture de la Ville & des territoires a Marne-la-Vallee
An initiative of the [K]-Construction Research Unit of the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly.