Workshop
M.U.S.H.ROOMS,
regarding Architecture and Gastronomy
24-26/5/2013
Benaki Museum, Pireos Street Annexe, Athens
Greek Institute of Architecture in cooperation with Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly, organize a three-day workshop exploring the interrelations of Architecture and Gastronomy. The workshop will take place at Benaki Museum, Pireos Street Annexe in the frame of "Gastronomy Days / Greek Designation of Origin".
MAY 17,18,19,20,21 2013
INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURE II: 1st YEAR OF STUDIES 2012-2013
TUTORS:
PHOEBE GIANNISI, IRIS LYKOURIOTI, YORGOS TZIRTZILAKIS
PROGRAM AND ORGANIZATION OF THE VISITS:
DR. CHRISTINA MISTOPOULOU, DEPARTENT OF HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY
STUDENT’S ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE:
eva kosvira, katerina kotsaki, kornelia papadopoulou, michalis sminas.
Special thanks to:
The ‘Simonides’ Cultural Association of Chora and to Yorgos Vlavianos, official guard of the Archaeological sites of Amorgos Island.
Download the program and more information.
You can download, also, files of related bibliography from the server of the Department's Computer Lab.
15/5/2013, 21:00, Amphitheatre, Dept. Architecture
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
Tuesday 16 April, 21:00, Theatre of the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly
Lecture in the framework of the courses:
Kinespheres/Commonspheres#4, Garment/ Costume: Customs and Practices of Space,
Seminar III of the Postgraduate Program of studies and
Synergies#3, Infrastructures, Elective Studio IVB of Undergraduate studies
Tutors: Evelyn Gavrilou, Iris Lykourioti
Biography
Pascale Feghali was born in 1969 in Beirut/Lebanon. She studied Sociology of art (1988-1993) at La Sorbonne and Visual anthropology (1999-2007) at Nanterre were she met Jean Rouch, one of the initiators of the French Nouvelle Vague. She followed his working method based on the total freedom of movement of the filmmaker during the shooting, developing a special gymnastics for that purpose. In 2007, she obtained her PHD in Visual Anthropology. Since 1995, she teaches at Saint-Joseph University in Beirut at the department of Cinema and Theatre studies. Between 1997-2001 she has founded and directed the Ayloul Festival in Beirut, an annual festival focusing on the cross-exploration of theatre, danse, installation and video. She is a research associate (since 2009) in urban anthropology at the CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique) in France.
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.
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.