Fantasy Plot Generator

 Fantasy Plot Generator is a new project comprised by the website (FantasyPlotGenerator.com), a stage and a series of performances. It's a commission for the "Word of Mouth" exhibition, curated by Kernel for the 3rd Athens Biennale -"Monodrome". The website will be the base of the project where visitors invent character names and generate automatically a story with the function of a programming code. This code “borrows” extracted texts from different philosophical dialogues speaking about extreme concepts and social conditions, “remixing” them in a random way and different plots take shape. During the course of the AB3 few of these stories will be “animated” by actors in the exhibition space within a stage of borrowed furniture and costumes from the National Theatre. These perfomances will also take the form of an archive of fotonovelas that will be distributed from here further elaborating read and spoken concepts, a mind connection between space and time.

Actors: Alkistis Poulopoulou, Athina Mathioudaki, Babis Galiatsatos, Electra Nikolouzou, Maria Panourgia, Maria Tzani, Natasha Giannaraki, Nikos Maramathas,  Yorgos Kyriakou and more

Next performance: Saturday 5th of Nov 2011 at 17:30
Saturday 3rd of December 2011
Sunday, 11th December 2011

Perfomances take place at Diplarios (main Venue). Theatrou Sq

Texts picked from the following books: 
Two Regimes of Madness, Gilles Deleuze
Politics of  the very worst, Paul Virilio
Simulations, Jean Baudrillard
The Plague of Fantasies, Slavoj Zizek
We have never been Modern, Bruno Latour

Programming: Derek Clark,  www.the-elite.net,  Kernel, http://kernel-platform.com/ 

Special Thanks:  The National Theatre of Greece 

On the Silver Couch: Alkistis Poulopoulou

Actress Alkistis Poulopoulou

What calms you at this time?

Walks in nature, to empty my mind, spending time with my favorite people. My job. 

I'm sick of the scaremongering. Ιs there something positive we can we learn from this crisis?

We can return to more meaningful and "spiritual" values​​ and to comprehend what collectivity means.

Read in greek here

On the Silver Couch: Pegy Zali

Pegy Zali, part of Kernel group

What do you feel mοre? Curator, artist or architect?
In general in my activity I approached empirically a synthesis of these three fields. Through KERNEL I've been given the opportunity to explore systematically the "dissolution" of these properties.


How the art that you represent  has something to say to it's traditionally hierarchical world?
The way I work has to do with an effort of a continuous navigation between the conditions of production of art. This process does not manufacture a "position" but an example in which you are committed.

On the Silver Couch: Elias Redstone

Elias Redstone 

( architectural curator, archizines.com)

How do you see the relationship between online and print media evolving?

While the internet dominates media, people have an inherent love for designed objects – whether these may be books, magazines or fanzines. Some things are enhanced by their physical nature. Increasingly online and print rely on each other for both marketing and content generation.

Is there revolutionary architecture in our days?

I hope so.

R.I.P Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs, the Master of ideas (1955-2011)

First Mackintosh ad in 1984

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 ?

Monument to Internet Hookups at Thessaloniki's port

Monument to Internet Hookups

A space of open-source unity

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

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

Things I saw on holidays (part 2)

More on InternationalPortraitGallery.com

The first tablet computer was invented by Stanley Kubrick

A scene from the classic 2001:Space Odyssey 

Things I saw on holidays (part 1)

Marble sculptures by Kyriakos Rokos discovered at Abram beach

Thanks to Ilias Lefas

MirageMachine.com, 2011

MirageMachine.com, web commission by Broadway Media Arts

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.

One Related Philosophy at Future Berlin

One Related Philosohy is a show I did at Berlin's artist-run space Future gallery

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)

ZigZagPhilosophy.com

MeLookingAtMe.com

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

Who is your most glamorous woman of power?
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

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

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.