
MELLON | Future Cities – Lecture with Gerfried Stocker
(Artistic Director of ARS Electronica Linz, Austria)
Friday, 25 November 2016 at 20:00
Following the launch of MELLON with ‘Post-Humanoid with Stelarc” and “Future Museum with Chris Dercon”, our programme actions continue with the lecture ‘Future Cities with Gerfried Stocker’, which will take place on Friday, 25 November 2016 at 20:00, at ARTos Foundation, with the support of the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education.
“The main idea behind the term Postcity is that we need to think the city beyond infrastructure and that we have to put the people, the citizens into the center of the future developments. The new technologies which are going to shape our cities and the way we live together in cities will be networked systems which will be very present in our every day lives. In former times we were “operating” machines and we were “using” infrastructure, in the future we will live together with them. We will be in a permanent exchange with them and it will be a very adaptive and responsive situation.How can architecture, urban planning and policy making respond to these needs and what is the role of art to design this future?”
Postcity, habitats of the 21st century, Gerfried Stocker
A few words about Gerfried Stocker
Gerfried Stocker is a media artist and telecommunications engineer. In 1991, he founded x-space, a team formed to carry out interdisciplinary projects, which went on to produce numerous installations and performances featuring elements of interaction, robotics and telecommunications. Since 1995, Gerfried Stocker has been artistic director of Ars Electronica.
Friday, 25 November 2016 at 19:30
Inhibition
Installation | Performance by Marino Koutsomichalis
Inhibition revolves around an ‘intelligent’ headset that is capable of EEG (electroencephalography), algorithmic sound synthesis and machine learning. With the headset on, neurophysical activity is constantly monitored and those particular kinds of sounds that are most likely to inhibit concentration are generated, hindering direct man-machine coupling and destabilising the subject’s cerebral rhythms. In this way a new kind of uncanny ‘meta-mind’ is brought forth, one that is enacted on top of machine learning schemata, neuro-feedback and bio-technological autopoiesis. Embracing the open-source software/hardware paradigm, Inhibition forwards hands-on audience participation and community-driven experimentation. Electronic schematics, 3d-printable/cnc-millable models and code are made available at www.inhibition-eeg.com, where audiences may also socialise with one another, contribute technical material, and upload images/video showcasing their own creative outcomes.
A few words about Marinos Koutsomichalis
Marinos Koutsomichalis is a media artist, scholar and creative technologist. His interests comprise hypermediacy, post-humanism, distributed cognition, computational aesthetics and DIWO, while the most persistent themes in his artistic corpus are self-erasure and the post-self. He strives for contextual and geographical disparity so that the working tactics, materials and technologies his projects revolve around are ever-renovated.
Language: English
Free Entrance
No reservations
For further information please contact us at 22445456 or info@artosfoundation.org
MELLON | Future Museum – Lecture with Chris Dercon
(Appointed Director, Volksbühne Berlin, Germany – former director of Tate Modern London, UK)
26 September 2016 at 19:30
Following the launch of MELLON with ‘Post-Humanoid with Stelarc”, our programme actions continue with the lecture ‘Future Museum with Chris Dercon’, which will take place on Monday, 26 September 2016 at 19:30, at ARTos Foundation, with the support of the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture and the British High Commission in Nicosia.
“Vast, solid, monolithic, vertical museums are probably buildings of the past… Expensive buildings might be a thing of the past. Probably the new Tate Modern is one of the last examples of this period… Today and tomorrow changing the museum will no longer be just a matter of building; it will have to rethink what kind of space the museum can and should be. It can also be a digital space…
We have to think of a new form of museum architecture that isn’t just architecture, but is also about new organizational and financial models… Conceiving a perfect space for art and artists – I don’t think that’s a priority any longer. We have to consider sharing, interconnectivity, and cultural participation: what does the viewer want and need?”
(Excerpts by the publication “Museum of the Future”, Interview – 15th June 2014, Zurich)
Language: English
Free Entrance
No reservations
For further information please contact us at 22445456 or info@artosfoundation.org
A few words about Chris Dercon
Chris Dercon is the appointed director of Volksbühne Berlin, Germany. Previously he was director of Tate Modern; London, Haus der Kunst, Munich; the Witte de With, Rotterdam; and the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam.





Thursday, 26 May, 9:00 – 13:00
Within the framework of the Creative Europe programme ARTECITYA 2014 – 2018.
Reservation required
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Innovation Gym is a research lab dedicated to the discovery of new ways to invent and/or re-invent ideas, processes, products, policies and infrastructures, through mind-shifting towards innovative thinking and the use of existing knowledge and experience.
1. How to get new and innovative ideas
2. How to select and predict which of your ideas will succeed
3. Design the blueprints and plans of your idea in a rapid-mapping approach.
Trans-disciplinary Artist / Innovation trainer / Engineer
He studied Engineering, Physics and Fine Arts in the University of South Alabama, USA and at the Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, Spain and completed a professional education program on Innovation at the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Boston, USA.

Friday, 27 May 2016 at 19:30
Stelarc (Stelios Arcadiou) was born in Limassol in 1946 and was raised in Sunshine, in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.
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