Speakers
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 working with emerging technologies, and software. Her projects make opaque systems navigable, fostering critical communities and exploring ways of reading digital existence.
Thanasis Moutsopoulos
Thanasis is a Greek art historian, author, and associate professor specializing in the history and theory of art, architecture, and cultural theory.
Ioli Kavakou
Ioli is an Athens-based artist, writer and curator. Her work explores the elusive category of pseudoscience as an epistemological product and lingering ghost of Western modernity.
Tom Harle
Tom draws on his background in experience design to steer complex multinational organisations through transitions towards more dynamic products that can adapt to users’ shifting contexts and timeframes.
Performance
Fotini Stamatelopoulou
Fotini is a choreographer and 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.
Yorgas Helmet
Yorgas Helmet is the long-running project of Athens-based composer and multidisciplinary artist Georgios Karamanolakis. The project has forged a sonic language that traverses ceremonial black metal, electroacoustic composition, and extreme noise.
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.
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.
