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.
