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PLANETARY COLLEGIUM – I-NODE GREECE- OPEN CALL FOR PhD CANDIDATES

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PLANETARY COLLEGIUM –  I-NODE GREECE

OPEN CALL FOR PhD CANDIDATES

Syncretic strategies towards art, science, technology, and consciousness research.

Applications are invited for the post of PhD candidates of  the – I-Node, Planetary Collegium PhD Program.

I-Node is the new Node of Planetary Collegium PhD Program of Plymouth University, UK.located in Ionion  Center for the Arts and Culture (ICAC) on the Greek island  Kephalonia.

INFORMATION http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Collegium

http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/273

http://www.facebook.com/ionionode

http://www.ionionartscenter.gr

You can download the I-Node prospectus and the newsletter via sendspace: http://www.sendspace.com/filegroup/cv7ksS6UMcuVApNW%2Bjwm6g

The Planetary Collegium is an international platform for research in art, technology and consciousness, with its hub (CAiiA- Advanced  Inquiry  in Integrated Arts) based in the University of Plymouth. Its president is Roy Ascott.

The Collegium consists of artists, theoreticians and scholars who meet online and periodically face-to-face in many parts of the world, to develop their research in the practice and theory of art, technology and science with special interest in telematics and technoetics. Their doctoral research leads to the award of the University of Plymouth PhD. Post-doctoral research is also pursued. Within the context of transdisciplinarity and syncretism, the Collegium promotes the integration of art, science, technology, and consciousness research within a post-biological culture.

Applicants should have a MA degree and proven fluency in English language (in case English is not their native language).

Applicants  eligibility is not limited to any particular field. It is based on the innovation  of the  proposals  in connection to the Planetary Collegium research  high standards, accepting  students or academics.

All part-time doctoral research candidates attend three mandatory ten-day face-to-face Composite Sessions each year over a continuous three year period. Typically, each session involves three days of individual research updates presented for discussion by the group; a three stage critique by all members of the group in respect of each other’s work; individual supervisory tutorials; a two-day public symposium; and a one-day cultural visit.

Doctoral candidates are required to submit progress reports to the University of Plymouth Research Committee at regular intervals.

  • At the conclusion of each Composite Session, candidates submit their Research Update (ppt) and Critical Response (Word).
  • The Transfer Report (5,000 words), accompanied by independent expert commentator’s report, is submitted to support the transfer from MPhil to full PhD status.
  • After a minimum of four year’s research, a candidate is eligible to submit a thesis for Final Examination, which includes a viva voce examination. The final submission may consist in either a written thesis of 80,000 words, or a thesis consisting in two parts: a digital portfolio of practical work which has been initiated, researched and developed exclusively within the candidate’s registered research period, and a linked narrative of no less than 35, 000 words.

Application materials, timeline and all additional information will be announced on further notice.

Applicants should send their declaration of interest to Katerina Karoussos,

 Director of I-Node: kkaroussos@gmail.com

ACADEMIC BOARD OF THE I-NODE

Professor Roy Ascott ,

Founding Director, Supervisor, President of the  Planetary Collegium, CAiiA Hub, Plymouth University.

Katerina Karoussos

Executive Director of the I-Node

Dr. Iannis Zannos

Director of Studies – First Supervisor (DoS/S1)

Professor at Masters Programme in Sonic Arts and Technologies, Music Department, Ionion University, Corfu, Greece

Georgos Papakonstantinou

Second Supervisor (S2)

Professor  in the University of Thessaly Greece

Archtecture, Director in documentary films and multimedia projects .

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As a part of Planetary Collegium, I-Node is  supported by its Advisory and Academic Board which includes all its Honorary members form CAiiA hub as well as from its two other nodes the M-Node and The Z-Node. Each one of the members is a leader in his/her respective fields. This board stands not only as inspiration to PhD candidates,but also it could provide mentorship and support.

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STONE KINGDOM KEFALONIA 1953-2013 60 YEARS MEMORY OF THE EARTHQUAKE.

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INTERNATIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT – OPEN CALL

  for participation  in the

 INTERNATIONAL  ART’S FESTIVAL 2013-2014

title

STONE KINGDOM KEFALONI1953-2013    60 YEARS MEMORY OF THE EARTHQUAKE 

LOCATION:   Greek Island  Kefalonia

The Festival will be held in different places, included  Archaeological and Historical sites of  Kefalonia,  Specific Venues to be announced.

ELIGIBILITY: The Festival is open to all disciplines and interdisciplinary projects in Arts, Sciences and Research. Expected Artists, Designers, Musicians, Writers, Researchers  Educational Institutions, Art Institutions, Art  involved Organizations from all over the World. The selection will be based on innovative proposals.

Projects of special interest will be the based on the Natural,Historical,Cultural  wealth of the Island, included physical  stone complexes  part of the natural  environment, stone made architectural structures, Ancient  and Cyclopean Walls, Medieval Castles, stone wells………….

The works selection  and prizing will be conducted by a prestigious International Committee [to be announced].

PRIZING :From 1000 euro up to 10.000 euro for the best project upon realization.

Opening date for applications: 01/02/2013

Deadlines : on going

Application    for individuals:http://bit.ly/hQwuoX ,

for organizations: http://bit.ly/hX3owW

application fee required

Information : www.ionionartscenter.gr,

Contact : info@ionionartscenter.gr

http://www.wooloo.org/open-call/entry/307136

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GΕORGE ANDREW MAKRIDIS- PAINTINGS

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I am a painter with an affinity towards Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Brice Marden,

Matisse, Moralis, Cezanne, Richard Diebenkorn, Caravaggio, Rembrandt,

Tintoretto, Masaccio, Whistler, Monet, Pollock, Rothko, Mondrian, Bazaine,

Giacometti, Morandi, and many more.

I have gradually moved towards non-objective abstraction, but carry realistic tonal

relationships. I think painting is like philosophy. To make it one has to be serious

about it, even when mocking at it, and has to operate within certain boundaries for

the work to compare to its ancient, past, and late history.

When ever I am called to write something about my work, there arise the same

questions: Should I talk about something which after all is only silent? Am I helping

anyone talking about it? The answer to both questions is no.

The more I read about it, the more I pass on to my students. Only a handful of them

are willing to accept the difficulty that comes with it. Fewer will take on the task of

thinking and writing about it. Looking isn’t hard. Seeing is harder. Demystifying art,

now this I’d like to be there when it happens.

Perhaps what makes it interesting is its democratic character. There is no one way

of interpreting it. Painting is safe, in a way; safe from Plato, Lyotard, or any other

person who has written about it. The same goes for people who practiced it,

Picasso, Duchamp, Miro.

It will always be there for someone to study, to try to see, to listen to the subtle

nuances that give it that special character only compared to music, seducing the

senses, analyzing it.

George-Andrew Makridis

Exhibition opening 14 January 2013

IONION CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND CULTURE.

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LOUISE BENNETT Kefalonia Dreaming

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LOUISE BENNETT  Kefalonia Dreaming

Εxhibition date 26 -09-2012

Louise Bennett presents new video work and objects that she has created in response to her experience on the island in her solo exhibition titled, Kefalonia Dreaming. These new art works explore her playful and personal engagements with the beach environment and tourist souvenirs.

Louise Bennett is a visual artist from Brisbane, Australia. Her art practice engages with the intersections of online and physical environments. By mixing video, performance and installation, her work poses questions about how our concepts of and engagements with nature and identity are shifting in contemporary contexts dominated by screen technologies and mediated experiences. Her seemingly non-committal performances in front of her iphone call into question our engagement with online content and the internet’s ability to inform our experiences offline.

Bennett graduated from a Bachelor of Fine Arts Visual Arts with Honours from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. She has been shortlisted in the 2011 and 2012 National Churchie Emerging Art Award, shortlisted for the Jeremy Hynes Award in 2011 and was awarded The Melville Haysom Memorial Art Scholarship in 2010.

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Vicky Yiannoutsos “Persephone’s Plight” Exhibition at Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture

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flier VICKY YIANNOYTSOSPersephone’s Plight – The Four Seasons of Migration.

Birth, Separation, Yearning, Return

The Exhibition.

At the

Ionion Center  for Arts and  Culture – Kefalonia. September, 2012.

“Persephone’s Plight” is a multi-media installation with multiple film and video images drawn form over 20 years of filming between New Zealand and Greece.

Artists Vicky Yiannoutsos comments “’Persephone’s Plight’ is a new chapter in a body of work, which has been in progress all my life, where I continue to chose the moving image to express the complexity, confusion, richness and joy that comes from living between cultures”.

Since first visiting Greece as a young girl, Vicky has identified the myth of Demeter and Persephone as a metaphor for the migrant experience.  This has underpinned her work, resulting in the shooting of the documentary “Visible Passage”, the beginning of its follow-up work “Scattered Seeds”, the feature film script ‘Kore”, as well as many stories, poetry, journals and letters. Translations have begun on the diaries kept by her father since his arrival in New Zealand, as well as letters between him and relatives, in Greece.

In classical terms, the myth embodies the cycles of the seasons-the phases of birth, death, their activity, their dormancy and the regenerative phases of their eternal cycle. For this artist, it is a metaphor for the 20th century migrant experience as expressed through the quartets of birth, Separation, Yearning, Return.

Like Persephone, abducted by Hades to the Underworld where she yearns to return to her mother, the migrant is abducted by the New World.  Separated across the water, she and her mother yearn for each other.  But, once Persephone eats the fruits of the Under world, she is irreversibly changed, as is the migrant  when she partakes of the fruits of the New world. Though the Homeland calls, she can never permanently return – rather, she is destined to journey between worlds, and, like her mother, is trapped in yearning.

The generations that follow – the new seeds – inherit this yearning – this love of a distant culture – through music, language, food, dance and stories.

The exhibition was first mounted in Auckland, New Zealand, in July 2010. Nicolas Greanias (United States Consul in New Zealand) who attended opening night, described the work by “a serious artist with a strong vision”. 

This month the exhibition will have its first ‘return home’  viewing at the Ionian Centre for Arts and Culture on Kefalonia, Greece. This is a long-time dream for the artist, who is delighted that the work has been ‘called back’ to Ionian waters, as most of the Greek filming was done on the nearby island of Kastos, her fathers’ birthplace.

“ I carry two cultures, two languages, two worlds.

I belong to both. I belong to neither.

I am Persephone, destined forever to journey between them”

Vicky  Yiannoutsos

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