Speakers
Wassim Alsindi
Wassim operates at the intersection of intersections, chronicling visions, designs, and externalities of contemporary technologies across context and episteme.
Karin Valis
Karin is a machine learning engineer and writer with a deep passion for the occult and weird. Her work focuses mainly on finding conceptual resonances between machine learning and the esoteric.
Marios Stamatis
Marios is an Athens-based artist, designer, and educator. His practice explores the increasing influence of new forms of intelligence on the human psyche, intellect, and ultimately the body.
Kristoffer Tjalve
Kristoffer is the co-founder of the Internet Phone Book, Tiny Awards, Naive Yearly and other internet surreal estates. His work explores the web as a medium and material, and seeks aliveness offline and online.
Iliana Papadopoulou
Iliana is an artist, architect, and creative developer who builds communities around a critical relation to technology. Her projects give spatial form to obscure systems.
Programme
A day of talks and conversations moving between the poetic web, failed terraforming projects and the subversions of synthetic intelligences. Symposium attendees get free entrance to the party.
14:00 — 14:30
Arrivals + coffee
14:30 — 15:00
Opening address
15:00 — 17:00
First talk series
17:00 — 18:30
Break + snack
18:30 — 19:00
Live performance
19:00 — 20:30
Second talk series
20:30 — 21:00
Closing panel
The evening closes with a music and live performance programme curated by Katerina Gnafaki.
21:00 — 22:00
Live performances
22:00 — Late
DJ Sets
Venue
Romantso, the former printing plant of the infamous "Romantso" magazine, is situated in the historical centre of Athens and functions both as an incubator for start-up companies within the creative industry and as a cultural centre, organising and hosting a variety of events accessible to the wider public.
Performance
Fotini Stamatelopoulou
Fotini is a choreographer/performance maker with a background in performance psychology and contemporary dance studies. She explores the intersections of performance, sound, spoken word, and text, with a particular focus on contemporary representations of the body, the dynamics of performative labor, the mediation of emotional response, and the cultural articulations of rage.
MIRA新伝統
MIRA新伝統 is an audio-visual and performance art project founded in Tokyo by French music producer Raphael Leray and Japanese performer Honami Higuchi. Since 2024 the project has been based in Athens, Greece. Their work combines theory-fiction, electronic music, video, and ritualized performance to explore post-anthropocene narratives and speculative mythologies.
DJ sets
Jessie is a curator, DJ and new media artist based in Athens. Known for building narratives that are both conceptually rigorous and deeply emotional, Jessie unfolds audio-visual synergies across diverse contexts.
Bpm anti-hero and genre un-defying dj baggymilziade, moves dancefloors via taste and a tiny bit of mastery. Peculiarly deep and playful, his sets aim to serve nothing but the purest of feeling(s).
Based between Paris, Athens and London, photographer and DJ Peggy Theodorogianni brings high-energy, sub-bass-heavy selections, power-clashing Balkancore, reggaeton, electro-oriental sounds, cloud rap, deep-internet finds and more.
