Steve Jobs, the Master of ideas (1955-2011)
First Mackintosh ad in 1984
Thursday, October 06, 2011
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
The Monument to Internet Hookups at the 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale
The "Monument to Internet Hookups- A space of open-source unity" is now a part of the urban landscape of the glorious city of Thessaloniki. The Monument is a commission by the 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale's main program entitled "A Rock and a Hard Place" curated by Paolo Colombo, Mahita El Bacha Urieta and Marina Fokidis. The Biennale is designed by Andreas Angelidakis.
It is located at the Port of the city giving free and open wifi.
A lovely hookup by artists Kostis Velonis with Yorgos Sapountzis
A night view with Pegy Zali, Georgia Sagri, Pantelis Yiannakis, Petros Moris, Theodoris Yiannakis
On the Silver Couch: Simon Castets
Simon Castets, curator
Why did you become a curator?
Because nobody warned me and I am very bad at soccer.
From your perspective how the art world will look in 30 years from now?
Much older, in flying cars.
What else would you ask yourself?
What else ?
What else would you ask yourself?
What else ?
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Monument to Internet Hookups at Thessaloniki's port
Monument to Internet Hookups
A space of open-source unity
Saturday, September 03, 2011
Nominated by Pae White on 20/20, Frieze Magazine
Frieze magazine invited 20 artists who have been on it's cover to nominate a contemporary artist whose work inspires them. I have been nominated by artist Pae White (see left cover)
Image PlagueOfFantasy.com, 2010 Courtesy Haro and Bilge Cumbusyan
Read whole article on Frieze.com
Thursday, September 01, 2011
On the Silver Couch: Ilias Lefas
On the Silver Couch: Ilias Lefas (cabinet maker)
What is your favorite tool;
The saw! In Italian it's called sega (female) and has the double meaning of the saw and masturbation - due to the repetitive motion during it's use.
Read in greek via Lifo
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
The first tablet computer was invented by Stanley Kubrick
A scene from the classic 2001:Space Odyssey
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Things I saw on holidays (part 1)
Marble sculptures by Kyriakos Rokos discovered at Abram beach
Thanks to Ilias Lefas
Monday, August 01, 2011
Sunday, July 31, 2011
On the Silver Couch : Mihalis Filinis
Mihalis Filinis, yoga and meditation instructor
As a yoga and meditation teacher what can be the "first aid" when feelings of anger anxiety and aggression arise?
The answer to every dark impulse is the pause, the self-observation, conscious breathing. Releasing the tension with 24 extended breaths several times this mutates to humor.
The yoga sessions can replace the effectiveness of (expensive) sessions of psychoanalysis?
Yoga is complementary to psychoanalysis as it enhances self-awareness and releases tension. Yoga mobilizes self-healing mechanisms at many levels of existence.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
One Related Philosophy at Future Berlin
The space is located next to a gun shop so I screened the piece 1MinuteRevolution.com for one minute in the basement of the gun shop
but you could also see few other websites in the storefront.
Right- ObjectRelatedTheory.com (courtesy Chrysanthos Panas)
Friday, July 08, 2011
On the Silver Couch : Hamish Bowles
Vogue USA Editor-at-Large Hamish Bowles
How chic lifestyle can sustain in difficult times?
Chic is not about money; it's an attitude. I think some of the most innately elegant and stylish people I have encountered in my travels have been among the most materially impoverished; like women in rural villages in Uttar Pradesh. So chic is invincible
Chic is not about money; it's an attitude. I think some of the most innately elegant and stylish people I have encountered in my travels have been among the most materially impoverished; like women in rural villages in Uttar Pradesh. So chic is invincible
Who is your most glamorous woman of power?
Catherine the Great
Catherine the Great
On the Silver Couch : Linda Yablonsky
Writer Linda Yablonsky
Does the New York art scene still offer the idea of the "American Dream"?
Did it ever?
Has the internet change how we experience art?
It has certainly changed the way people buy art. But I don't believe reproductions on the Internet supply any real experience of any art except the Internet-based kind.
Read it in Greek via Lifo mag
Read it in Greek via Lifo mag
Thursday, July 07, 2011
Sound Meditation tonight at the Angelo Foundation School of Music
The 3rd Workshop in the series of the Angelo Foundation School of Music at the National Museum of Contemporary Art tonight 7:30 pm.
Guest instructor Mihalis Filinis
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
On the Silver Couch : Kassiani Benou
If you were a politician what would be your immediate steps to reduce corruption in the Greek society;
The only solution is to change the entire political system. Utopia? But isn't utopia an early truth;
Do you see light in the tunnel?
Yes I see. Otherwise I would not live.
Friday, June 24, 2011
On the Silver Couch : Rob Meerman
Rob Meerman (graphic designer)
Is Holland still a heaven for sexual, ethnic or social minorities?
No it isn't really. Most people are really quite liberal, and in politics everybody is very homo-friendly but in the streets it's a different story. We struggle to integrate muslims in our society who seem to have different opinions on homosexuality and who don’t know how important the history of Jewish people has been to Europe.
Kids who claim they are muslim have been hateful towards gay men and gay couples and it has led to people having had to sell their homes because they were being constantly harassed.
Harassment is not very haram, to use this word from the Quran, anyway.
Also, we have had the terrible incident of a refugee from Iran burning himself on Amsterdam’s main square. Asylum procedures are fucked up and people are put away for years in centres where they have nothing to do. They’re not allowed work, and spend their days in complete boredom and they sometimes radicalize as well - from this situation.
So, it’s not very good
Would you get a project from a homophobic client?
They wouldn't choose us anyway, I suppose. But if we knew, we wouldn’t accept it.
On the Silver Couch : Nikos Smyrlis
Nikos Smyrlis (architect and professor)
Is there an original and risky architectural proposal by younger architects in Greece today?
In 2006, Winy Maas of MVRDV in the exhibition "New trends of architecture» wondered: "Why the architectural movement in Greece is so invisible?"Still seems to be.
In 2006, Winy Maas of MVRDV in the exhibition "New trends of architecture» wondered: "Why the architectural movement in Greece is so invisible?"Still seems to be.
What would be your dream project to be built some day?
Exciting buildings, enriched by human experience on Earth. Because nature is breathtaking and the architecture is the compact representation.
Wednesday, June 08, 2011
Robot Poetry Book published by Automatic Books in Venice
Robot Poetry Reading book has just been published in a paperback version by Venice-based publishing house Automatic Books.
The book was launched during the opening of the 54th Venice Biennale at the Book Affair at the Metricubi, the communist community center of Venice.
The book contains a chapter of poems of taken from the website
but also some that are not published.
The fair included the most interesting independent publishing houses of Europe but also conferences, presentations
and a little reading I did from the robot poems
The book contains a chapter of poems of taken from the website
but also some that are not published.
The fair included the most interesting independent publishing houses of Europe but also conferences, presentations
and a little reading I did from the robot poems
Sunday, June 05, 2011
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