Leda Kyriakou
From the use of architecture in colonial control and identity building to the development of coloniality within the metropolis and shaping the interior enemy in the Paris banlieus.
Thursday December 17th2020, 14:00, Teams
Lecture within the framework of the course South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge
Tutor: Iris Lykourioti
Biography
Leda Kyriakou is a graduate of the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly (2016), and of the postgraduate program ‘Research in Architecture: Architectural Design - Space - Culture’, of the National Technical University of Athens. On the research project of the undergraduate studies she focused on the use of architecture as a means of control and construction of identities, and subsequently the thesis of the postgraduate program was based on the subject ’The echo of colonialism in the metropolis: the construction of the ‘internal enemy’ in the banlieues of Paris’ (supervisor professor Stavros Stavrides). The subjects have been presented to undergraduate students and to the seminar of the Greek Association of Architects, ’Approaching space by the way of Maria Mantzari’ (March 2019). She works at a technical office and at a digitalisation of image and sound files.
15.12.2020 18:00
Lecture titled «Urban Top(i)ographies», by guest speaker architect Dimitris Kontaxakis, Assistant Professor of the Department of Architecture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, as part of the course ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION III-V: Z: The habitable bridge
Host professor: Ioanna Symeonidou
Monday 14 December2020, 18:00 Teams
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Thursday 10 December 2020 / Event time: 19.00
As part of our residency program for 2020-2021, we are hosting the philosopher Luce deLire. Due to the conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic, our residency is organised as a long-distance liability-residency.
Digital Enclosure and it's Revolutionary Other
During the European 14th through 16th century, the great enclosure consisted in the literal fencing in or off of previously commonly used land so as to ensure that it could only ever be used privately from then on. This led to the impoverishment of millions and drove people to move to the cities, where they would sell their labour power. A similar process has been happening in cyber space for about two decades now: platforms are trying to keep you on their vicinity so as to mine your data and force you into subscriptions. In this way, the internet is becoming less and less a common space and more and more an enclosed space that looks like a corporate form of nation states. Digital Echo-Chambers, the radicalization of political conflict on the ground and its judicialization are effects of this overarching process. In a way, we are already living in a multipolar digital world, where Google-Android-land competes with Apple-land and certain other actors (Amazon, Spotify, Facebook) may or may not be more or less compatible with these general digital affiliations. The effect is that people are being deprived of their access to the commons (torrent network, streaming websites, pirate libraries), which are in fact increasingly being illegalized. The artificial scarcity generated by way of such illegalization and centralization necessitates people to flock around the main actors, which benefit greatly from this original accumulation. Thus Apple and the Google Play Stores keep control over which apps will be readily available to users and which are not. Naturally, they take percentages from developers and consumers for their ' services.' This is exactly how original accumulation works: produce scarcity through privatization and illegalization of collective usage of commonly accessible resources and harvest wealth from the desperation of those looking for alternatives.
In this workshop, we will first focus on classical original accumulation and its conjoined manifestations in Europe and its colonies. We will then look at its most current formation – the enclosure of the internet – and a possible queer enclosure, namely the industrialization of the libidinal economy in a pink totaliterian picture. However, although most of these texts are not immediately concerned with the digital enclosure, in our discussion, we will try and focus on the latter, so as to understand the past through the future, which is where it is anyway created.
To register for the workshop or state your interest in auditing please email us on fpmedialab@gmail.com.
Do not hesitate to contact us for more information or for a detailed syllabus of the course/workshop. You can also contact directly Luce deLire at Luce@getaphilosopher.com.
For more information on the work of Luce deLire visit www.getaphilosopher.com
For more information on the work of the Centre and our projects and events you can visit our website http://www.centrefeministmedia.arch.uth.gr
Stamatis Schizakis
High Up, towards the South. The First, Last and Always Psiloritis Biennale.
Thursday December 3th 2020 14:00 Teams
Lecture within the framework of the course South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge
Tutor: Iris Lykourioti
Biography
Stamatis Schizakis studied history and theory of art and photography at the University of Derby and art history at Goldsmiths College. He works as a curator at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, since 2005. He has curated the exhibitions Bia Davou, Retrospective (2008) (co-curated with Tina Pandi), George Drivas, (un)documented(2009), Angelo Plessas, The Angelo Foundation: School of Music (2011), Marianne Strapatsakis, Invisible Places – The Vast White (2011), Rena Papaspyrou, Photocopies straight through matter (2011), Georgios Xenos, Procession No 163 & Thousand Images (2012), Phoebe Giannisi – TETTIX (2012) Dimitris Alithinos, A Retrospective (2013) (co-curated with Tina Pandi), PLEXUS Petros Moris – Bia Davou – Efi Spyrou (2015) (co-curated with Tina Pandi) as well as the screening programs Wonder Women (2010), Secret Journeys (2011) at EMST and Terrhistories-Greece as part of the 26th Festival instants Video in Marseilles (2013). Since 2015 he is a PhD candidate at the University of Sunderland researching the introduction of new technologies in art in Greece. Since 2017, he realizes the First and Last and Always Psiloritis Biennale.
A poetic reading and discussion by the poet and publisher of the Poetry Review [frmk] Katerina Iliopoulou.
Course: Space and Poetics. Thursday 3/12/2020, 2.00-5.00 pm.
ABOUT AMBIANCES 2020
After the Congresses of Grenoble (Creating an Atmosphere, 2008), Montreal (Ambiances in Action, 2012) and Volos (Ambiances, Tomorrow: The Future of Ambiances, 2016), this 4th International Ambiances Network Congress, entitled "Ambiances, Alloaesthesia: Senses, Inventions, Worlds" questions the renewal of the forms of feeling in a world that is undergoing major changes. It aims to consider how the contemporary environmental, social, technological, political and ethical changes are likely to affect the sensitive worlds, their ambiances, and the ways of experiencing them.
This conference brings together more than a hundred scientific contributions coming from an international base of academics, practitioners, artists and PhD students working on ambiances and atmospheres. They offer an up-to-date account of the variety of themes and issues within this field, showcasing the latest research and methodological approaches. Organized in sixteen themed sessions, the presentations examine the ongoing preoccupations, debates, theories, politics and practices of this field, drawing on multidisciplinary expertise from areas as diverse as anthropology, architecture, computer science, cultural studies, design, engineering, geography, musicology, psychology, sociology, urban studies and so on.
ORGANIZATION
The congress is organized by the International Ambiances Network, Scientific and Thematic Network of the French Ministry of Culture.
This initiative is funded by:
- Bureau of Architectural, Urban and Landscape Research at the French Ministry of Culture,
- Grenoble School of Architecture,
- AAU “Ambiances, Architectures, Urbanités”, Joint research unit between CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research), Grenoble School of Architecture, Nantes School of Architecture, Centrale Nantes,
Partners:
CY Cergy Paris University,
University of Thessaly
For more info please visit https://ambiances2020.ambiances.net
Tuesday 01-12-2020, Zoom
Dimitra Chatzisavva is Associate Professor in Theory and Architectural-Urban Design at the Technical University of Crete.
27/11/2020 14:00 Teams