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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Things I saw on holidays (part 1)


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Marble sculptures by Kyriakos Rokos discovered at Abram beach
Thanks to Ilias Lefas

Sunday, July 31, 2011

On the Silver Couch : Mihalis Filinis

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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

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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

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but you could also see  few other websites in the storefront.
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Right- ObjectRelatedTheory.com (courtesy Chrysanthos Panas)
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Friday, July 08, 2011

On the Silver Couch : Hamish Bowles

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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.

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

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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.
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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, May 29, 2011

The Angelo Foundation School of Music at EMST

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The new project of the Angelo Foundation is  the creation of a hybrid space  
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at EMST's media lounge, taking the form of a music school.
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It is curated by  Stamatis Schizakis.
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Central element of The Angelo Foundation School of Music will be three interactive websites






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and a program of musical workshops during the summer, offering a 
range of possibilities of creative cooperation between different individuals.
More soon




Special thanks to people:
Paolo di Landro for the vestment uniform
 Victoria Deliyianni for the installation help 
Qin Chuan, for additional coding
Mai Ueda, for reading Robot poetry
Semeli Economou, for reading Robot poetry
Kimberley Norcott, for reading Robot poetry
Rebecca Camhi gallery, for various help
Gloria Maria gallery, for various help
Chrysanthos Panas, for various help
Sylvia Kouvali, for various help
Armen Abrahamyan, for coding consulting