Bill Psarras

Conference talk at Hybrid City International conference [Athens]

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:03:30 +0100

On the 23rd of May, I will be giving a talk at Hybrid City International Conference, which going to take place in National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. There will also be printed Proceedings of the Conference, where a full paper of mine is also published. My talk and paper is entitled “Hybrid walking as art: Approaches and Art Practices on Revealing the Emotional Geographies of Tube Stations”. I’ll be glad to meet some of you there. Apart from the website of the conference, there is also a Facebook page.

Conference talk at Becoming Nomad: Hybrid Spaces [York University]

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:54:38 +0100

On the 10th of April, I will give a talk at TaRPA Performance and New Technologies Inter-Conference 2013, at York St. John University (York, UK). The title of the conference is Becoming Nomad: Hybrid Spaces, Liquid Architectures and Online Domains My talk entitled “The Urban Emotional Antenna: Tuning metaphors and actions of the walking artist/flaneur”, will be part of the panel ‘Dispersed Intimacies’ - chaired by Maria Chatzichristodoulou. The full abstracts can be seen here: http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/pdf/Abstracts-bios.pdf

ROOMS2013 Exhibition at Greek National Channel ET1

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 01:21:00 +0000

ROOMS2013 Exhibition at Greek National Channel ET1:

ROOMS 2013 Contemporary Art Exhibition was presented at the last culture show of Greek Channel ET1 ’The Age of Images’ (31/1/2013); followed by a discussion of G. Kappatos (Kappatos Gallery director) and journalist K. Zacharopoulou. ’Emotive Circle’ installation was presented among other artworks of the show.

Watch all the episode online via ET1 National Channel [only in Greek]

Trailer from the forthcoming audiovisual piece of Bill Psarras...

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:52:55 +0000

Trailer from the forthcoming audiovisual piece of Bill Psarras entitled Emotive Circle, which gonna be exhibited at the Contemporary Art Show ‘Rooms2013’ of Kappatos Gallery in Athens, Greece. Curator of the installation: Maria Maragou

Rooms2013 Contemporary Art Show - Kappatos Gallery (Greece)

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:46:23 +0000

Bill Psarras will exhibit his latest audiovisual work Emotive Circle [curation: Maria Maragou] at Rooms 2013 Contemporary Art Show of Kappatos Gallery at St. George Lycabettus Hotel, Athens, Greece. Exhibition opening: 24th January 2013, 20:00. More information at: http://www.kappatosgallery.com/?page_id=3274 and http://www.kappatosgallery.com/?page_id=3119

A second exhibition entitled Rooms 2013 Plus+ will run from Saturday 26th January until 23 February 2013 at Kappatos Gallery [Athens, Greece], where Psarras will show further printed works from his work Emotive Circle.

VIDEOMEDEJA International Video Festival (Serbia)

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:42:03 +0100

Apollo Poetics video piece was accepted to be part of the VIDEOMEDEJA 16th International Video Festival which will take place between 14th and 16th of December 2012 at Novi Sod, Serbia.

Art Up! Goethe Institut (Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey)

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:04:05 +0100

Bill Psarras was invited to be part and is one of the Greek artists for the new project entitled ‘Art Up: Media Arts in Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey’, of Goethe Institute which is just initiated. The project will run across the three Goethe Institutes (Athens, Ankara, Sofia) and will host a series of exhibitions, online presentations, workshops, seminars and interesting writings from curators and media theorists; focusing mostly in the fields of media and new media arts, virtual reality, social media and more. The website will act as an online platform of artists’ profiles [bio, works, links]. For more information please access the website: http://www.goethe.de/ins/tr/lp/prj/art/kue/enindex.htm

NECS International Conference (Lisbon)

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:16:46 +0100

Bill Psarras presented at NECS 2012 International conference which took place in Lisbon (Portugal) between Wednesday 20 and Saturday 23 of June. A pre-constituted panel had been formed by Bill Psarras (UK), Athanasia Daphne Dragona(Greece) and Rocio von Jungenfeld (UK) with the name ‘Mapping Urban Memory: Towards a new media approach of everyday life’. The panel talks referred to issues of urban memory (personal and collective) and how this is presented through the lens of digital mapping and media art. Chair of panel was Ingrid Stigsdotter (Sweden), lecturer in Film studies and Urban landscape at Linnaeus University.

TEDx Lviv 2011 (Ukraine)

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:16:00 +0100

Bill Psarras, “Catch me if you can, Find me if you google” work were presented among other artists/participants of Doc-Art project, by the organizer of Doc.Art project, Irina Markova and Olena Oak [title: Spontaneity], at the 2011 TEDxLviv, in Ukraine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adOAbfdpIV4

International Video Art Festival Miden (Greece)

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:49:41 +0100

Apollo Poetics was selected to be part of the 2012 Festival Miden screenings. It will be screened among other international artists in the theme section ‘2084’ on Saturday 7th of July 2012.

Thursday Club: Emerging Art Practice (panel talk)

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:40:35 +0100

The Thursday Club (supported by Goldsmiths Digital Studios and Goldsmiths Graduate School) presents: The last in a series called Emergent Practices A monthly series of interdepartmental, knowledge sharing panels at Goldsmiths, curated by Mafalda Dâmaso (Dept of Visual Cultures) January to May 2012

Speculative art practices

Name: Bill Psarras (Arts and Computational Technology)
http://billpsarras.tumblr.com/
Title: Botanizing on the non-places: new media geographies of everyday life

Name: Gabriel Menotti (Media and Communications)
http://bogotissimo.com/b2kn/
Title: Curating, self-differing, provoking anomalies

Name: Tobie Kerridge (Design)
http://www.tobiekerridge.co.uk/
Title: Speculative design and public engagement

Goldsmiths Symposium 'Theorizing Otherness' Talk

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:39:54 +0100

Tomorrow, I am giving a talk on Goldsmiths Annual Symposium, which this year’s title is ‘Theorizing Otherness’. The speech is an overview of my ongoing PhD subject and it is entitled ‘Emotive Terrains’; a short talk on the rapprochement of urban non-place (stations, airports, zone-areas) emotion and psychogeography through the new media context. Chairman: Professor Les Back

Washington Project for the Arts/Experimental Media 2012

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:38:24 +0100

Apollo Poetics will be screened today (26 April) at Washington Project for the Arts (USA) - Experimental Media 2012 and at Artisphere space in Arilington, Vancouver on May 10 2012! http://www.wpadc.org/exhibitions/exhbt_upcoming.html

Cinematique Film Festival (UK)

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:37:35 +0100

Apollo Poetics will be part of the screenings in the Cinematique Film Festival which will take place in BFI IMAX Cinema in London (30-31 March 2012).

Australian International Experimental Film Festival

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:36:01 +0100

Apollo Poetics video art work was selected to be screened in the Australia International Experimental Film Festival, which will take place in Melbourne (Loop Centre).

Memoria EP (Music)

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:35:05 +0100

Memoria (EP) is the latest music work of Bill Psarras. Five guitar instrumental songs create a post-progressive/atmospheric rock work. Memoria was recorded during November-December 2011 between UK and Greece. The whole EP can be accessed through Bill’s SoundCloud page or feel free to ask for a free digital copy of Memoria! Digital copy will be accompanied by a visual part of the artwork and a small experimental video art piece based on the Memoria music.

VIDEOFORMES International Video Art Festival (France)

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:34:30 +0100

Video/Animation work entitled Nostalgia:Blue Skies Transmission was selected to be part of the forthcoming VIDEOFORMES International Festival of Video art & New media arts, which will take place in France (Clermond-Ferrand) between 14-17/3/2012.

VAFA International Video Art Festival (China)

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:33:56 +0100

Nostalgia:Blue Skies Transmission (2011) is going to be part of the VAFA 2011 International Video Art Festival, which will take place in China (Mocau) between 2/12/2011 and 31/12/2011.

Doc-Art Project exhibition

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:33:28 +0100

Text-image artwork entitled Catch me if you can/ Find me if you Google will be exhibited in an online group exhibition. The artwork will be also part of the real group exhibition which will be curated by Iryna Markova (exhibition organizer) in Kiev this autumn. (Ukraine)

Moving Frames Festival

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:32:27 +0100

The installation Nexus will be exhibited in Moving Frames Festival (Mytilene, Greece) on the 23th & 24th of September 2011. This year’s thematic area is ‘Transition’.