Academic Presentations

Athens Video Art Festival in an attempt to establish a contact between the public and the academic aspect of video art and digital arts, hosts in its program important Greek and international institutions that link to video art, its history and all the extents of digital arts. Academic institutions from Greece and abroad, as well as internationally recognized organizations, are presented annually informing the public about the advancements – technological or not – from all the spectrum of digital arts. Our aim is to present the work done within these institutions and also give an additional chance to the students to promote their works. These institutions every year lap up to the call of Athens Video Art Festival and lay the basis for a creative dialogue, which we desire to establish and broaden within the upcoming festivals.

University of Ioannina

A display of the Department of Plastic Arts and Art Sciences of University of Ioannina will take place on Sunday the 9th. In an attempt to broaden our collaboration, University of Ioannina will present at Greek Film Archive installations and video installations, created by its students.

Electronic Arts Intermix

It’s a special honor and pleasure for Athens Video Art Festival 2010 to host on Saturday the 8th of May, Electronic Arts Intermix of New York. Establishing and developing our successful and exclusive collaboration of the past two years, Rebecca Cleman, Distribution Director of the most important organization of distribution and promotion of Video Art in United States for over 30 years, will present to Greek public the history of Electronic Arts Intermix from 1971 till our days. Additionally, she will present exclusive material of an archive, which counts more than 3.500 historical, as well as contemporary video works by some of the most important video artists. Greek Film Archive (Iera Odos 48 & Meg. Alexandrou 134 – 136)

40 years of German Video Art

It’s an honor for Athens Video Art Festival to display for the very first time to the Greek public a comprehensive tribute to the 40 years of German Video Art, in collaboration with Goethe Institut. The display includes a series of art works of highly historical importance by artists such as Wolf Vostell, Marina Abramovic, Nam June Paik and Rosemarie Trockel among others. The tribute will be hosted during the festival at auditorium of 9.84 at Technopolis in a program of continuous screenings.

Manchester Metropolitan University

On Saturday the 8th of May, there will be presented a selection of art works created by post graduate students of Art and Design Department of Manchester Metropolitan University, from all the spectrum of digital arts.

Ilias Sounas

Worldwide known illustrator and animator, Hlias Sounas, will present a workshop on Friday the 7th in a direct relation with Animation category.

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