PROGRAM
FRIDAY 31 MAY 2019
10.00 - 17.00 - “Data-Walks” Locative Media Walk Workshop
Day 1 of the two-day workshop (pre-registration required) led by Nikos Bubaris (University of the Aegean, Akoo-o) and Ismini Gatou (University of the Aegean)
14.00
DATA-CAFE OPENING (14.00 - 21.00)
15.00 - 17.00
VR EXPLORATIONS AND MULTIMEDIA ETHNOGRAPHIC PROJECTS [DATA-CAFE]
Moderator: Agata Lisiak (Bard College Berlin)
Ηow can experimenting with new media technologies transform our pedagogy? Can the ‘lab’ supplement the classroom, productively blurring distinctions between teaching and research, student and professor? How can we best re-present the data-stories of our interlocutors (and ourselves) through new modalities of ethnographic expression?
Exploring VR in the Studio Arts Classroom
John von Bergen (Bard College Berlin)
Presentation of IAKA Students’ Multimedia Ethnographic Projects from the Course “Digital Storytelling & Multimedia Ethnography” Instructors: Penelope Papailias & Constantinos Diamantis (University of Thessaly)
To Be Thy Own Self or Not To Be? Constructing identities on YouTube. A Case Study of Mikeius
Sofia Amarantidou, Antonis Bakopoulos, Anna-Katerina Bati, Yiannis Gaitanas, Maria Demertzi
DisStracKtions: Interface and Social Interaction in Greek YouΤube
Nasiia Fotiadou, Margarita Papagiannouli, Georgia Paveli, Marina Rousiti, Evaggelia Stoumpaki
Oi Kaftres: Discovering Ourselves Through Insta Personae
Vasilina Alamani, Iliana Kirmanidou Rekalidou, Irene Maragkou, Aria Maxairidou
17.30 - 19.15
Panel #1 - PROCEDURAL RHETORIC [MUSEUM]
Moderator: Maria Cecire (Bard College, New York)
Is composing ‘rules’ and ‘prompts’ a new and particularly powerful form of authorship in that it presents users with ethical choices, simulates social situations and exposes them to the situation of the Other? What are the politics involved in the unfolding of designed, but also real-life, algorithmic narratives?
Digital Storytelling and the Story of the Present
Yannis Skarpelos & Sophia Messini (Panteion University)
Serious Games and Procedural Rhetoric: The Case of “Bury Me, My Love” and the Uneasy Feeling of Virtually Stepping in One’s Shoes Charis Papaevangelou (Utrecht University)
Violence interfaced: Designing Modes of Attention and Interaction in E-learning for Kindergarten Safety Kārlis Lakševics (University of Latvia)
Learning Networks, Micro-communities, and Digital Artifacts: A Data Story of Becoming Alexis Brailas & Ismini Katsarou (Panteion University)
19.15 - 19.30
Welcome
Penelope Papailias, Constantinos Diamantis
19.30 - 21.30
Keynote Roundtables [MUSEUM]
Moderator: Penelope Papailias (University of Thessaly)
Participants
Mitsos Bilalis (University of Thessaly) | Despina Catapoti (University of the Aegean) | Maria Cecire (Bard College, New York) | Agata Lisiak (Bard College Berlin) | Manolis Patiniotis (University of Athens) | Petros Petridis (University of Thessaly) | Despoina Valatsou (Research Centre for the Humanities)
#1 HUMANITIES IN THE AGE OF THE DERIVATIVE (Intro)
Post-structuralism proclaimed the “death of the author”, postmodernism the “end of grand narratives” and digital humanities the “end of the book”. In contemporary network culture, fan fiction, fake news, micro-genres, memes and GIFs push against core humanities ideas -- and the social hierarchies built up around them -- including authorship, legitimacy, the work, audience, reading, logocentrism, originality, provenance, meaning, publication/the public, etc. This roundtable will bring together scholars across a range of humanities and social science disciplines (literary studies, history, archaeology, anthropology, media studies) who have been working actively with paradigms such as ‘digital humanities’, ‘public humanities’ and ‘experimental humanities’ to consider the state of the field.
#2 ALGORITHM AS AUTHOR
This roundtable will challenge experts in the theory, history and ethnography of technology to consider the impact of the ‘datalogical turn’ and algorithmic culture on conceptions of subjectivity, narrative, author/ity and value in contemporary society.
21.45 - 02.00
OPENING CONCERT & AFTER PARTY [LAB-ART]
Crafting Music in the Digital World
Costis Drygianakis (Presentation & Sound Ethnography Project)
Crossing Paths
Anna Vs June (Live Act)
Digital Music After Party
Future Funk - Nova Fm 106 - Volos (Producers: Konstantinos Harlampopolous aka GRiD, Pj Apostolos Koukouvinos & Afriend aka Dimitris Kalantzis)
SATURDAY 1 JUNE 2019
10:00 - 16:00 “Data-Walks” Locative Media Walk Workshop
Day 2 of the two-day workshop (pre-registration required) led by Nikos Bubaris (University of the Aegean, Akoo-o) and Ismini Gatou (University of the Aegean)
11.00 - 11.45
Coffee/ Breakfast [DATA-CAFE]
12.00 - 13.45:
Panel #2 - USER-GENERATED CONTENT AND THE CURATION OF SELF [MUSEUM]
Moderator: Yannis Skarpelos (Panteion University)
What are the emerging aesthetics, senses of subjectivity and perceptions of labor associated with platforms that harness micro-work and micro-content production? What new modes of curation are being applied by users themselves and other agencies to these massive data assemblages and transfers?
Datafying and Visualizing Digital Community Imaginaries: An Experimental Approach Mariana Ziku (KU Leuven)
My Office as a Database: Labor in Microwork Platforms
Iraklis Vogiatzis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Do stories have Emotions?
Vasiliki Lalioti & Manolis Patiniotis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Circa (Istanbul, 2018, 12’)
Film screening and Q&A session with the director
Buse Yildirim
14.00 - 15.45
Panel #3 - DATA-BODIES AND THE VIRTUAL SENSORIUM [MUSEUM]
Moderator: Yannis Hamilakis (Brown University)
What novel sensory experiences, forms of sociality, desires and aesthetic expressions are emerging from the modes of interaction, consumption, profiling, legibility and regulation associated with the social media platforms and database hegemonies of neoliberal society? What kind of agency is available to the late capitalist data-bodies of everyday austerity?
On the Network Culture of Electronic Dance Music in Austerity Athens
Leandros Kyriakopoulos (Panteion University)
Mapping the Senses: Introducing the Digital ASMR Phenomenon within the Sensory Field of Modernity Aikaterini Kasimi (Panteion University)
’What Do I Like? Digging Deep into the Data’ – Individual and Social Bodies’ Construction Through ‘Digital’ Porn Experience Giorgos-Ilias Sakkas (Panteion University)
15.45 - 17.00
Data-Feed break
Conversation will continue over lunch, a beer and/or coffee at the Aithrion restaurant [DATA-CAFE].
17.30 - 19.00
Keynote Roundtable [MUSEUM]
#3 NETWORKED IMAGES AND PARTICIPANT ETHNOGRAPHIES
Moderator: Penelope Papailias (University of Thessaly)
Participants
Steffen Köhn (Freie University Berlin) | Maple J. Razsa (Colby College, Maine) | Christos Varvantakis (Goldsmiths University of London) (online) | Eleana Yalouri (Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences, Athens)
Contemporary digital culture is predominated by image- and video-centered genres - from memes and GIFs to Instagram stories and machinima. At the same time, network connectivity and database modularity have enabled the emergence of new modes of interactive and participatory storytelling. What are the implications of these transformations for anthropological knowledge production and our own storytelling? This panel brings together leading scholars and practitioners who are experimenting within (and beyond) paradigms such as visual anthropology, multimodal anthropology and participatory ethnography to share their thoughts on new modes of (re)presenting, producing and disseminating cultural knowledge.
19.15 - 21.00:
Panel #4 THE POSTHUMAN INTERFACE [MUSEUM]
Moderator: Constantinos Diamantis (Freie University Berlin)
Can we identify the interface as a key analytical figure to speak of the entanglements and relationalities of the emergent posthuman, post-apocalyptic, post-representational, post-analog world, beyond habituated dichotomies of the humanist tradition such as human/nonhuman, body/machine, reality/digitality, fact/fiction, original/derivative? Can analysis of popular cultural production and ethnographic experimentations on and with the interface cross-fertilize our understanding of the politics and poetics of contemporary digital culture?
Window, Threshold, Frame - Towards an Anthropology of Interfaces
Steffen Köhn (Freie University Berlin)
Navigating the Wasteland: Narrating the Post-apocalypse in Fallout 4 and Psycho: A Fallout Machinima Maria Pantsidou (University of Lancaster)
The Construction of Humanoid Robot Identity in HBO’s Westworld Series
Eleni Tsatsaroni (University of Thessaly)
360° Cameras + Algorithmic Interpolation: Digital Tools for a Relational Ethnography
Ezekiel Morgan (Freie University Berlin)
“.” (Berlin, 2018, 13’)
Film screening related to the presentation
Ezekiel Morgan
21.15 - 22.15
Screenings #1 - MACHINIMA & DESKTOP DOCUMENTARIES [MUSEUM]
Short Introduction to Machinimas: Petros Petridis (University of Thessaly)
Influencer (Berlin, 2018, 16’)
Discussion/ Q&A session with the director at the end of the film panel
Lillian Dam Bracia
Positive Youtubers – A Machinima Documentary (Online, 2017, 15’)
Leandro Goddinho
Even Asteroids Are Not Alone (Iceland, 2018, 17’)
Jón Bjarki Magnússon
22.20 - 23.50
Screening #2 - INTERACTIVE - PARTICIPATORY DOCUMENTARY [MUSEUM]
The Maribor Uprisings – An Interactive - Participatory Documentary (Maribor, 2017, 90’)
Presentation and Q&A session with the director Maple J. Razsa
Maple J. Razsa & Milton Guillén
SUNDAY 2 JUNE 2019
10.00 - 10.45:
Coffee/ Breakfast [DATA-CAFE]
11.00 - 12.45
Panel #5 - THICK DATA AND INFO-RHETORICS [MUSEUM]
Moderator: Dimitra Kofti (Panteion University)
Can ethnographic narratives be persuasive in a datafied world? Does ethnography need to become data ethnography or even morph into meme to survive in - and disrupt - contemporary knowledge economies? At the same might ethnography illuminate the crisis around trust, truth and expert knowledge - ethnography included - in the age of the prod/user?
Translating Ethnography: Social Media Data in Urban Planning Process
Daria Radchenko (KB Strelka Institute, Russia)
Public Care and Digital Distrust: An Ethnography of Knowledge Activism in Times of Misinformation.
Magdalena Góralska (Kozminski University in Warsaw, Oxford Internet Institute)
My Post-doc in Three Pictures: Data Visualisation and Ethnographic Writing/representation
Eleni Sideri (University of Macedonia)
Know-What-I-Meme: An(other) Experiment in Producing and Disseminating Knowledge
Alexandros Papageorgiou (University of Thessaly), Joy Al-Nemri (Bard College), Penny Paspali (University of Łodz-University of Oviedo) & Nicholas-George Sykas (University of Thessaly)
13.00 - 14.45
Panel #6 - NON-REPRESENTATION AND LOCATIVE MEDIALITIES [MUSEUM]
Moderator: Iris Lykourioti (University of Thessaly)
How are locative media and geosocial networking technologies creating novel modes of social interaction and relationality, whether on social media platforms or ethnographic media walks? How do the resultant non-linear traces of bodies moving and interacting in physical and digital environments challenge the adequacy of representational approaches to space, image and body, suggesting the need for a shift toward a post/neo-phenomenological understanding of performativity, embodiment, encounter and mediatization.
Narrative(s) in Transition. Representational and More-than-Representational Aspects of Locative Media
Ismini Gatou (University of the Aegean)
On Kinesthetic Narratives
Nikos Bubaris (University of the Aegean)
Locating “Romeo”: Geo-sociality and Virtual Embodiment in the PlanetRomeo Dating App
Grigoris Gkougkousis (Panteion University)
Audiovisual Traffic & Cosmopolitan Communities
Violetta Koutsoukou (University of Thessaly)
15.00 - 16.45
Panel #7 - STORIFY THE CITY [MUSEUM]
Moderator: Eleana Yalouri (Panteion University)
How can new media practices and technologies be used to both reveal and intervene in the utopian visions, dystopian realities and hegemonic narratives of the city, making visible and audible vulnerable and marginalized bodies? How can critical cultural production, productively blurring art and ethnography, bring attention to the ongoing interplay of layers and traces of digital, physical and imaginative urban storytelling?
Street Art and Urban Interventions in the Center of Athens: Presentation of an Ongoing Video-walk Project for Ethnographic Research and Pedagogical Purposes
Pafsanias Karathanasis (Athens Ethnographic Film Festival - Ethnofest)
Aesthetic Techniques and the Gendered Body: Towards a Narrative in the ‘Expanded Field’
Elpida Karava, Silas Michalakas, Valia Papastamou & Ioanna Zouli (Centre of New Media and Feminist Practices in Public Space & University of Thessaly)
Urban Story-Telling in Metamodern Times: Finding Oneirotopia or Joining the Pixels of Digital Urban Dreams
Neoklis Mantas & Αlex Deffner (University of Thessaly)
FRIDAY 31 MAY 2019
10.00 - 17.00 - “Data-Walks” Locative Media Walk Workshop
Day 1 of the two-day workshop (pre-registration required) led by Nikos Bubaris (University of the Aegean, Akoo-o) and Ismini Gatou (University of the Aegean)
14.00
DATA-CAFE OPENING (14.00 - 21.00)
15.00 - 17.00
VR EXPLORATIONS AND MULTIMEDIA ETHNOGRAPHIC PROJECTS [DATA-CAFE]
Moderator: Agata Lisiak (Bard College Berlin)
Ηow can experimenting with new media technologies transform our pedagogy? Can the ‘lab’ supplement the classroom, productively blurring distinctions between teaching and research, student and professor? How can we best re-present the data-stories of our interlocutors (and ourselves) through new modalities of ethnographic expression?
Exploring VR in the Studio Arts Classroom
John von Bergen (Bard College Berlin)
Presentation of IAKA Students’ Multimedia Ethnographic Projects from the Course “Digital Storytelling & Multimedia Ethnography” Instructors: Penelope Papailias & Constantinos Diamantis (University of Thessaly)
To Be Thy Own Self or Not To Be? Constructing identities on YouTube. A Case Study of Mikeius
Sofia Amarantidou, Antonis Bakopoulos, Anna-Katerina Bati, Yiannis Gaitanas, Maria Demertzi
DisStracKtions: Interface and Social Interaction in Greek YouΤube
Nasiia Fotiadou, Margarita Papagiannouli, Georgia Paveli, Marina Rousiti, Evaggelia Stoumpaki
Oi Kaftres: Discovering Ourselves Through Insta Personae
Vasilina Alamani, Iliana Kirmanidou Rekalidou, Irene Maragkou, Aria Maxairidou
17.30 - 19.15
Panel #1 - PROCEDURAL RHETORIC [MUSEUM]
Moderator: Maria Cecire (Bard College, New York)
Is composing ‘rules’ and ‘prompts’ a new and particularly powerful form of authorship in that it presents users with ethical choices, simulates social situations and exposes them to the situation of the Other? What are the politics involved in the unfolding of designed, but also real-life, algorithmic narratives?
Digital Storytelling and the Story of the Present
Yannis Skarpelos & Sophia Messini (Panteion University)
Serious Games and Procedural Rhetoric: The Case of “Bury Me, My Love” and the Uneasy Feeling of Virtually Stepping in One’s Shoes Charis Papaevangelou (Utrecht University)
Violence interfaced: Designing Modes of Attention and Interaction in E-learning for Kindergarten Safety Kārlis Lakševics (University of Latvia)
Learning Networks, Micro-communities, and Digital Artifacts: A Data Story of Becoming Alexis Brailas & Ismini Katsarou (Panteion University)
19.15 - 19.30
Welcome
Penelope Papailias, Constantinos Diamantis
19.30 - 21.30
Keynote Roundtables [MUSEUM]
Moderator: Penelope Papailias (University of Thessaly)
Participants
Mitsos Bilalis (University of Thessaly) | Despina Catapoti (University of the Aegean) | Maria Cecire (Bard College, New York) | Agata Lisiak (Bard College Berlin) | Manolis Patiniotis (University of Athens) | Petros Petridis (University of Thessaly) | Despoina Valatsou (Research Centre for the Humanities)
#1 HUMANITIES IN THE AGE OF THE DERIVATIVE (Intro)
Post-structuralism proclaimed the “death of the author”, postmodernism the “end of grand narratives” and digital humanities the “end of the book”. In contemporary network culture, fan fiction, fake news, micro-genres, memes and GIFs push against core humanities ideas -- and the social hierarchies built up around them -- including authorship, legitimacy, the work, audience, reading, logocentrism, originality, provenance, meaning, publication/the public, etc. This roundtable will bring together scholars across a range of humanities and social science disciplines (literary studies, history, archaeology, anthropology, media studies) who have been working actively with paradigms such as ‘digital humanities’, ‘public humanities’ and ‘experimental humanities’ to consider the state of the field.
#2 ALGORITHM AS AUTHOR
This roundtable will challenge experts in the theory, history and ethnography of technology to consider the impact of the ‘datalogical turn’ and algorithmic culture on conceptions of subjectivity, narrative, author/ity and value in contemporary society.
21.45 - 02.00
OPENING CONCERT & AFTER PARTY [LAB-ART]
Crafting Music in the Digital World
Costis Drygianakis (Presentation & Sound Ethnography Project)
Crossing Paths
Anna Vs June (Live Act)
Digital Music After Party
Future Funk - Nova Fm 106 - Volos (Producers: Konstantinos Harlampopolous aka GRiD, Pj Apostolos Koukouvinos & Afriend aka Dimitris Kalantzis)
SATURDAY 1 JUNE 2019
10:00 - 16:00 “Data-Walks” Locative Media Walk Workshop
Day 2 of the two-day workshop (pre-registration required) led by Nikos Bubaris (University of the Aegean, Akoo-o) and Ismini Gatou (University of the Aegean)
11.00 - 11.45
Coffee/ Breakfast [DATA-CAFE]
12.00 - 13.45:
Panel #2 - USER-GENERATED CONTENT AND THE CURATION OF SELF [MUSEUM]
Moderator: Yannis Skarpelos (Panteion University)
What are the emerging aesthetics, senses of subjectivity and perceptions of labor associated with platforms that harness micro-work and micro-content production? What new modes of curation are being applied by users themselves and other agencies to these massive data assemblages and transfers?
Datafying and Visualizing Digital Community Imaginaries: An Experimental Approach Mariana Ziku (KU Leuven)
My Office as a Database: Labor in Microwork Platforms
Iraklis Vogiatzis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Do stories have Emotions?
Vasiliki Lalioti & Manolis Patiniotis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Circa (Istanbul, 2018, 12’)
Film screening and Q&A session with the director
Buse Yildirim
14.00 - 15.45
Panel #3 - DATA-BODIES AND THE VIRTUAL SENSORIUM [MUSEUM]
Moderator: Yannis Hamilakis (Brown University)
What novel sensory experiences, forms of sociality, desires and aesthetic expressions are emerging from the modes of interaction, consumption, profiling, legibility and regulation associated with the social media platforms and database hegemonies of neoliberal society? What kind of agency is available to the late capitalist data-bodies of everyday austerity?
On the Network Culture of Electronic Dance Music in Austerity Athens
Leandros Kyriakopoulos (Panteion University)
Mapping the Senses: Introducing the Digital ASMR Phenomenon within the Sensory Field of Modernity Aikaterini Kasimi (Panteion University)
’What Do I Like? Digging Deep into the Data’ – Individual and Social Bodies’ Construction Through ‘Digital’ Porn Experience Giorgos-Ilias Sakkas (Panteion University)
15.45 - 17.00
Data-Feed break
Conversation will continue over lunch, a beer and/or coffee at the Aithrion restaurant [DATA-CAFE].
17.30 - 19.00
Keynote Roundtable [MUSEUM]
#3 NETWORKED IMAGES AND PARTICIPANT ETHNOGRAPHIES
Moderator: Penelope Papailias (University of Thessaly)
Participants
Steffen Köhn (Freie University Berlin) | Maple J. Razsa (Colby College, Maine) | Christos Varvantakis (Goldsmiths University of London) (online) | Eleana Yalouri (Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences, Athens)
Contemporary digital culture is predominated by image- and video-centered genres - from memes and GIFs to Instagram stories and machinima. At the same time, network connectivity and database modularity have enabled the emergence of new modes of interactive and participatory storytelling. What are the implications of these transformations for anthropological knowledge production and our own storytelling? This panel brings together leading scholars and practitioners who are experimenting within (and beyond) paradigms such as visual anthropology, multimodal anthropology and participatory ethnography to share their thoughts on new modes of (re)presenting, producing and disseminating cultural knowledge.
19.15 - 21.00:
Panel #4 THE POSTHUMAN INTERFACE [MUSEUM]
Moderator: Constantinos Diamantis (Freie University Berlin)
Can we identify the interface as a key analytical figure to speak of the entanglements and relationalities of the emergent posthuman, post-apocalyptic, post-representational, post-analog world, beyond habituated dichotomies of the humanist tradition such as human/nonhuman, body/machine, reality/digitality, fact/fiction, original/derivative? Can analysis of popular cultural production and ethnographic experimentations on and with the interface cross-fertilize our understanding of the politics and poetics of contemporary digital culture?
Window, Threshold, Frame - Towards an Anthropology of Interfaces
Steffen Köhn (Freie University Berlin)
Navigating the Wasteland: Narrating the Post-apocalypse in Fallout 4 and Psycho: A Fallout Machinima Maria Pantsidou (University of Lancaster)
The Construction of Humanoid Robot Identity in HBO’s Westworld Series
Eleni Tsatsaroni (University of Thessaly)
360° Cameras + Algorithmic Interpolation: Digital Tools for a Relational Ethnography
Ezekiel Morgan (Freie University Berlin)
“.” (Berlin, 2018, 13’)
Film screening related to the presentation
Ezekiel Morgan
21.15 - 22.15
Screenings #1 - MACHINIMA & DESKTOP DOCUMENTARIES [MUSEUM]
Short Introduction to Machinimas: Petros Petridis (University of Thessaly)
Influencer (Berlin, 2018, 16’)
Discussion/ Q&A session with the director at the end of the film panel
Lillian Dam Bracia
Positive Youtubers – A Machinima Documentary (Online, 2017, 15’)
Leandro Goddinho
Even Asteroids Are Not Alone (Iceland, 2018, 17’)
Jón Bjarki Magnússon
22.20 - 23.50
Screening #2 - INTERACTIVE - PARTICIPATORY DOCUMENTARY [MUSEUM]
The Maribor Uprisings – An Interactive - Participatory Documentary (Maribor, 2017, 90’)
Presentation and Q&A session with the director Maple J. Razsa
Maple J. Razsa & Milton Guillén
SUNDAY 2 JUNE 2019
10.00 - 10.45:
Coffee/ Breakfast [DATA-CAFE]
11.00 - 12.45
Panel #5 - THICK DATA AND INFO-RHETORICS [MUSEUM]
Moderator: Dimitra Kofti (Panteion University)
Can ethnographic narratives be persuasive in a datafied world? Does ethnography need to become data ethnography or even morph into meme to survive in - and disrupt - contemporary knowledge economies? At the same might ethnography illuminate the crisis around trust, truth and expert knowledge - ethnography included - in the age of the prod/user?
Translating Ethnography: Social Media Data in Urban Planning Process
Daria Radchenko (KB Strelka Institute, Russia)
Public Care and Digital Distrust: An Ethnography of Knowledge Activism in Times of Misinformation.
Magdalena Góralska (Kozminski University in Warsaw, Oxford Internet Institute)
My Post-doc in Three Pictures: Data Visualisation and Ethnographic Writing/representation
Eleni Sideri (University of Macedonia)
Know-What-I-Meme: An(other) Experiment in Producing and Disseminating Knowledge
Alexandros Papageorgiou (University of Thessaly), Joy Al-Nemri (Bard College), Penny Paspali (University of Łodz-University of Oviedo) & Nicholas-George Sykas (University of Thessaly)
13.00 - 14.45
Panel #6 - NON-REPRESENTATION AND LOCATIVE MEDIALITIES [MUSEUM]
Moderator: Iris Lykourioti (University of Thessaly)
How are locative media and geosocial networking technologies creating novel modes of social interaction and relationality, whether on social media platforms or ethnographic media walks? How do the resultant non-linear traces of bodies moving and interacting in physical and digital environments challenge the adequacy of representational approaches to space, image and body, suggesting the need for a shift toward a post/neo-phenomenological understanding of performativity, embodiment, encounter and mediatization.
Narrative(s) in Transition. Representational and More-than-Representational Aspects of Locative Media
Ismini Gatou (University of the Aegean)
On Kinesthetic Narratives
Nikos Bubaris (University of the Aegean)
Locating “Romeo”: Geo-sociality and Virtual Embodiment in the PlanetRomeo Dating App
Grigoris Gkougkousis (Panteion University)
Audiovisual Traffic & Cosmopolitan Communities
Violetta Koutsoukou (University of Thessaly)
15.00 - 16.45
Panel #7 - STORIFY THE CITY [MUSEUM]
Moderator: Eleana Yalouri (Panteion University)
How can new media practices and technologies be used to both reveal and intervene in the utopian visions, dystopian realities and hegemonic narratives of the city, making visible and audible vulnerable and marginalized bodies? How can critical cultural production, productively blurring art and ethnography, bring attention to the ongoing interplay of layers and traces of digital, physical and imaginative urban storytelling?
Street Art and Urban Interventions in the Center of Athens: Presentation of an Ongoing Video-walk Project for Ethnographic Research and Pedagogical Purposes
Pafsanias Karathanasis (Athens Ethnographic Film Festival - Ethnofest)
Aesthetic Techniques and the Gendered Body: Towards a Narrative in the ‘Expanded Field’
Elpida Karava, Silas Michalakas, Valia Papastamou & Ioanna Zouli (Centre of New Media and Feminist Practices in Public Space & University of Thessaly)
Urban Story-Telling in Metamodern Times: Finding Oneirotopia or Joining the Pixels of Digital Urban Dreams
Neoklis Mantas & Αlex Deffner (University of Thessaly)