I ❤ Konnichiwa - Visions in the Dark

Konnichiwa - Visions in the Dark visuals by Brenna Murphy

On the Silver Couch: Priscilla Tea

Artist Priscilla Tea

- How would you describe your paintings;
Images that are scattered between nature and the internet. They are landscapes and spaces conveying an "echo" of digital.


- Which is your favorite city?
Los Angeles. I feel because it is a city/ a combination that time is being extended and suspended at the same time.


What do you like best and what less in the art world;
I do not like anything.

PostModernism at V & A

Meta-Play, part 1

 The first part of the Meta-Play project started last Sunday at Brescia's  historic Teatro Grande. Meta-Play is an interactive screening of few of my websites part of the Uovo Kids Festival that will be continued at the Science Museum of Milan next February.

On the Silver Couch : Ben Vickers

Artist Ben Vickers

- How would you define post-internet life in 20 words?

Object orientated and lustful, set in a grid of desperation. 

Keywords: ahistorical, 4evaconnected, unforgettable, characterdate, mainstream, 4evavirtual, liminality, facebooksitcom, hundredpercentdreamscape. 

- Have you ever had an internet hookup for sexual pleasure or anything else?

I think the majority of my hookups, sexual or otherwise have at least been mediated by the net. The last was brief, intense and relatively anonymous. 

Read in greek via LIFO here

My 1000 Drachmas as appeared in current Lifo

 A hypothetical new 1000 drachma banknote inspired by Monopoly banknotes. Using familiar symbols such as a banana, (designed by Warhol for the Velvet Underground), or in the middle an allegorical portrait of Greece of a mediterranean version of the Statue of Liberty adorned with the logos of the 2 major greek political parties. The bill will be printed in black and white photocopy because there is no money to print in color and on fine paper.  From the above a "giving" Greece says the "NENIKHKAMEN" phrase of the marathon runner Eucles since it seems to possess her a deep optimism and national pride for the capabilities of the 2 political powers .

On the Silver Couch : Sylvia Kouvali

Gallerist Sylvia Kouvali

The last days of the post-74 era in Greece. Rejoice or fear?

The only thing that scares me is the huge gap between what the country needs and all of these measures "taken" in the Parliament. I do not know what to feel. The only feeling I always had, how tourist I was when I used to live in Greece. Even with elections, who all ask, what will change? Everything seems like a perennial soap opera. How weak is everybody, ultimately, how impossible it is to exert effective policies for the future which in these days means salvation for the country.


Read in greek via Lifo here

Fantasy Plot Generator: Today at 5pm Live streaming from here

Live Video streaming by Ustream

Fantasy Plot Generator quotes are taken from these books

On the Silver Couch: LuckyPDF

LuckyPDF (l-r Yuri Pattison, John Hill, James Early)

You usually organize a "landscape of events" via our internet society. How did you see the eventful physical cityscape of Athens?


James: Athens is an extension of our social environment now, a location for conversation and art. Watched over by a great monument to civilisation, athens could be the birthplace of new global economic thinking.


John: Having a city surrounded by mountains is bad for your air quality but great for your water pressure.

While computer interfacing is a reality does "here" and "there" means something to you?

James: Coming to athens confirmed the importance of travel: as we have adopted the internet as our main 3rd party information tool, we become deadened to understanding reality.

Yuri: I think that "here" and "there" now exist more as emotional ideas, you can still miss someone you're in constant electronic contact with.

Read in Lifo Mag here

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