Bill Psarras

Conference talks / Proceedings 

•Bill Psarras (2013), Towards a 21st century urban flaneur: “Botanizing”, “weaving” and “tuning” actions and senses through embodied media art practices, The Art of Walking International Conference, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon/CNRS, Lyon [France] — [FORTHCOMING: October 2013]

•Bill Psarras (2013), The flaneur goes ‘weaving’: Actions and metaphors of a shared spatial story, Radical Space Conference, CCSR Centre, University of East London, London [UK] — [FORTHCOMING: October 2013]

•Bill Psarras (2013), Hybrid Walking as Art: Approaches and art practices on revealing the emotional geographies of tube stations, Proceedings of 2nd Hybrid City International Conference, eds. Charitos, D. et. al, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens [Greece] 

• Bill Psarras, Stacey Pitsilides, Anastasios Maragiannis (2013) Derive in the Digital Grid, Breaking the Search to Get Lost, ISEA 2013: 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Sydney [Australia] — [FORTHCOMING: June 2013]

• Bill Psarras (2013), The Sensorial Neo-Flaneur: Botanizing and walking in the city as embodied media art practice, ‘Senses and City’ panel, 4th International Conference on Emotional Geographies, University of Groningen, Groningen [Netherlands] — [FORTHCOMING: July 2013]

• Bill Psarras (2013), The Urban Emotional Antenna: ‘Tuning’ metaphors and actions of the walking artist/flaneur, TaRPA Performance and New Technologies Inter-Conference “Becoming Nomad”, York St John University, York [UK]

•  Bill Psarras (2012), Botanizing on the Urban Data: Walking and Sensing Non-Places, In ‘Mapping Urban Memory’ panel with Daphne Dragona and Rocio Jungenfeld, NECS 7^th Conference, New University of Lisbon and University of Coimbra [Portugal]

• Bill Psarras, Andreas Floros, Marianne Strapatsakis (2009) Elevator: Emotional Tracking Using AudioVisual Interaction, AES 126^th Convention, Munich [Germany]

Journal Publications

•  Bill Psarras, Andreas Floros, Marianne Strapatsakis and Kostas Drosos (2011) Emotional Control and Visual Representation Using Advanced Audiovisual Interaction, IJART: International Journal of Arts and Technology, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 480-498.

Symposium talks

• Bill Psarras (2012) Botanizing on the Non-Places: New Media Geographies of Everyday Life, ‘Thursday Club’ series of talks, Speculative Art Practice session, Goldsmiths University of London, London [UK]

• Bill Psarras (2012) Emotive Terrains: Presentation of Research’s Framework, Goldsmiths Annual Research Symposium, Chairman: Prof. Les Back, Goldsmiths University of London, London [UK]

•  Bill Psarras (2011), Neo-Flaneur: Artistic mapping, Urban Transit Places and New Media Arts, Symposium ‘Places of Feminism/Towards a New Mapping’, State Museum of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki [Greece]

Selected Press Publications, Catalogues, TV 

• ‘ROOMS 2013’ Kappatos Gallery printed catalogues (2013)

• ‘ROOMS2013’  Exhibition at ET1 TV Channel ‘The Age of Images’ (31/1/13) (2013)

• Goethe Institut ‘Art Up’ media arts project online database (2012)

• Royal Academy of Arts ‘Summer Exhibition’ printed catalogue (2010)

More Festivals printed, online catalogues & databases

• CACT: Centre for Contemporary Art symposium online database (2011), Athens Video Art Festival printed and online catalogues (2007, 2008), Video Art Festival Miden printed and online catalogues (2007, 2008, 2012), International Panorama of Independent Film and Video printed and online catalogue (2008), Crash Festival catalogue (2008), AudioVisual Art Festival printed catalogues (2006, 2008, 2009), MA Show Digital Arts printed catalogue and website (2010), VAFA International Video Art Festival online catalogue (2011), VideoFormes International Video Art Festival printed catalogue (2012), Experimental Media of WPA printed and online catalogue (2012), International VideoMedeja Festival printed and online catalogue (2012), Australian International Experimental Film Festival printed and online catalogue (2012), Aigioxos Greek Newspaper small article (2011), Greek Contemporary Artists after 1960 online database (2012), Aigioxos Greek Newspaper article ‘ROOMS2013 Exhibition’ (2013)

Theses

• Bill Psarras, Elevator: Interactive AudioVisual Installation which Converts Provoked and Expressed Human Anger to Artistic Visual Output, Printed BA Thesis upon the original concept of Bill Psarras, Library of AudioVisual Arts department, 120 p. Ionian University 2008-2009 [Greece]

•  Bill Psarras, Visual Landscapes and the Garden of Pixels: Reaching the Ambiance through the Use of Slow Motion in Digital Video, Printed MA Thesis part of final exhibition, 30 p. Camberwell College of Arts / University of the Arts London 2009-2010 [UK]

Other Essays