DYNAMO organized numerous exhibitions, workshops, and conferences from 2011-2014 focused on contemporary art and creative practices. This included exhibitions curated by DYNAMO on topics like teenage art, individual artists, and group shows. Workshops were held on topics like physical computing, urban mapping, and creative demonstrations. Conferences addressed themes such as the creative economy in Thessaloniki and designing creative synergies. DYNAMO also administered long-term initiatives including the Creativity For.Th. project and a participatory library.
DYNAMO organized numerous exhibitions, workshops, and conferences from 2011-2014 focused on contemporary art and creative practices. This included exhibitions curated by DYNAMO on topics like teenage art, individual artists, and group shows. Workshops were held on topics like physical computing, urban mapping, and creative demonstrations. Conferences addressed themes such as the creative economy in Thessaloniki and designing creative synergies. DYNAMO also administered long-term initiatives including the Creativity For.Th. project and a participatory library.
DYNAMO organized numerous exhibitions, workshops, and conferences from 2011-2014 focused on contemporary art and creative practices. This included exhibitions curated by DYNAMO on topics like teenage art, individual artists, and group shows. Workshops were held on topics like physical computing, urban mapping, and creative demonstrations. Conferences addressed themes such as the creative economy in Thessaloniki and designing creative synergies. DYNAMO also administered long-term initiatives including the Creativity For.Th. project and a participatory library.
DYNAMO organized numerous exhibitions, workshops, and conferences from 2011-2014 focused on contemporary art and creative practices. This included exhibitions curated by DYNAMO on topics like teenage art, individual artists, and group shows. Workshops were held on topics like physical computing, urban mapping, and creative demonstrations. Conferences addressed themes such as the creative economy in Thessaloniki and designing creative synergies. DYNAMO also administered long-term initiatives including the Creativity For.Th. project and a participatory library.
Curation, Exhibition & Graphic Design with Atelier BowWow + Tsukamoto Lab. Tokyo Institute of Technology DYNAMO, Thessaloniki Greece Organized by DYNAMO, Embassy of Japan in Greece, Instead Postgradute Program of the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly
#Organization, #Curating, #Exhibition Design,
#Graphic Design
2014 January 17 - February 1
Physical Computing - Workshop & Exhibition Curation with Angelos Floros, Exhibition Design, Graphic Design DYNAMO, Thessaloniki Greece The exhibition comes as a result of two workshops moderated by Angelos Floros, on d.i.y. innovative interactive tools (Arduino) and applications (Processing) that allow us to create interactive systems combine analog and digital media, software and hardware that are able to feel environmental triggers and meet our personal desires. Participants: Rania Totsikas, Melina Karanikas & Tanya Tsampazi, Stavros Apotsos Alcibiades Kormpize, Rossikopoulos-Nassos Pappas, Stella, Rossikopoulou-Pappas, George Gkiatas, Zafiria Golanda, George Demetriou, Athanasios Tsaravas, John Tsaravas, Alice Vaina, Nestor Filiousis, Eirianna Vaina, Stamos Economou, Yota Koulali, Sophocles Kontakis, Anna Stereopoulou, Sotiris Hatziharalambous, Dimitra Billia Organized by DYNAMO
#Organization, #Curating, #Exhibition Design,
#Graphic Design
2013 November 22 (Opening)
Collective Library - a participatory library for contemporary creation - Initiative Moderation, Architectural Design, Graphic Design DYNAMO, Thessaloniki Greece Collective Library is a participatory library that is formed bottom-up, and its content is shaped by its own users (user-generated content). In the Collective Library one can find Greek and foreign titles related to contemporary visual, applied and performing arts, and architecture. Collective Library is the first library that asks you not to borrow from it, but to lend one or more titles that you own, to the library making them available to other users. Organized by DYNAMO
Workshop: Artivists for Change Demonstrations, or How do we Creatively Expose that which should be Intolerable? Workshop Moderator with Fotini LazaridouHatzigoga, Maria Kriara Organized by DYNAMO, Thessaloniki, Greece This workshop focuses on how traditional forms of assertion and resistance that are related to social, political, economic or environmental changes and antagonisms can benefit by the implementation of creative tools and practices from the visual, applied and performing arts in order to achieve their goals. Artivists for Change is an initiative taken by individuals and organizations from Greece (DYNAMO), Jordan (Jordan Open Source Association), Germany (Spring Lessons im Aufbau Haus Berlin) and Cyprus (TheatrEtc.) Supported by the European Cultural Foundation (E.C.F) and Cultural Innovators Network (C.I.N.) #Organization, #Moderation, #Curation, #Catalogue Editing
2013 October 2-10
Intensive Workshop: Mapping Deserted Urban Centres - Thessaloniki Western Downtown Workshop Moderator P ost-Graduate Masters Degree in Architectural Design Program of the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly - Instead (parapoesis) Organized by DYNAMO, Thessaloni and Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Greece The program studies the area of West Centre of Thessaloniki as the ruin of itself, as a leftover that we can re-consider in order to generate a some-yetunseen potential. In order for potential beneficiary deformations of the existing building mass to be examined, studied and assessed and as a result lead to conditions that organize and reverse the current situation, students were asked to in depth assess the area, in order to identify and map more obvious and formal but also less apparent and informal intensities and extensities, affects and effects, potentialities and virtualities. Key Words: Strategic Design, Mapping, Architectural Design #Organization, #Moderation
2012 November - 2013 June
Creativity For.Th. 1+7 Actions for the empowerment of the Creative Community of Thessaloniki Artistic Direction, Curation, Exhibition Design, Graphic Design, Conference Organization DYNAMO, Creactivity Platform, Municipality of Thessaloniki, Greece Creativity For.Th. is a creative, cultural, business, and educational event, which highlights contemporary creativity and enhances the creative economy of Thessaloniki. It is a first mapping of the dynamics of the creative economy in Thessaloniki that aims to set in motion pilot top-bottom and bottom-up strategies, tools, and practices, spanning from November 2012 till the June 2013, that are essential for the up empowerment of the creative community and the development of creative economy of Thessaloniki Creativity For.Th. was organized by DYNAMO, Creativity Platform with the Support of the Municipality of Thessaloniki
2012 November 10 Creativity For.Th. - Kick Off Multipurpose Hall of the New Town Hall Thessaloniki
2012 November- 2013 February
Creativity For.Th. - BeCreative Platform Mapping of Creative Economy that is found in the historic commercial center of Thessaloniki and the creation of the BeCreative Platform a dynamic open source, participatory digital map with multiple tools of presentation and networking of the various creators. Parallel Event: BeCreative Hackathon, 11th May 2012 (with the Support of the Thessaloniki German Consulate)
2012 December 15-16
Creativity For.Th. - Creative Walk 80+ Creators, and Creative Entrepreneurs based at the citys historic commercial center welcome wider audiences and present their creative spaces, offices, ateliers and showcase and discuss work
2013 May June
Creativity For.Th. - Creative Cluster Toolkit A collaborative interdisciplinary research project conducted by 30 young creative professionals (architects, planners, designers, cultural managers, information/technology experts, economists) for producing strategic tools for the development a bottom-up Creative Cluster in the historic commercial center of Thessaloniki.
2013 May 18 Creativity For.Th. - Designing Creative Synergies International conference on Polices, Tools and Best Practices for Synergies among Creatives and Entrepreneurs. At the International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki, Greece. Organizers: DYNAMO, Creativity Platform, International Hellenic University, ristotle University of Thessaloniki, German Consulat, Goethe Institut, Goethe Institut, Greek-German Commerce Chamber, Business and Cultural Development Centre (KEPA), Creativity For.Th
2013 June 5 Creativity For.Th. - Fast Forward International conference on Policies and Strategies implemented by cities and international organizations for the development of the Creative Economy. At the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki Greece Organizers: DYNAMO, Creativity Platform, Goethe Institut, Business and Cultural Development Centre (KEPA), Periphery of Central Macedonia, Municipality of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki International Film Festival
2014 November - December
Creativity For.Th. What we share is what we have in Common Exhibition about the Results of Creativity For.Th.
George Gerontides Exhibition (Solo Show) Curation, Exhibition Design, Graphic Design DYNAMO, Thessaloniki Greece Organized by DYNAMO
#Curating, #Exhibition Design, #Graphic Design
2012 December 21 - 2013 February 13
Teenage Angst vol.2 - Exhibition, Workshop, Conference Day 75 teenager-artists aged 15 to 18 years from all over Greece. Curation, Exhibition Design, Graphic Design, Editor, Conference Organization DYNAMO, Thessaloniki Greece Teenage Angst is an attempt to map the blank the national creative landscape, during the ages that precede specialized art and other creative studies. Organized by DYNAMO With the Support of the Deputy Mayor of Culture and Tourism of the Municipality of Thessaloniki
2012 October-November DEMO #4 Workshop, Residency, Seminars, Exhibition Moderator with Maria Kriara Organized by DYNAMO, Thessaloniki, Greece Artists: D. ipouros , M. Leonidou, . otsala, Ch. Trigonakis, N.I. Psimopoulou, M. Markaki, K. Panagiotidou, M. Alvanou, P. Yiahoustides, S. Zorba, A. Karavela, F. Papadopoulos, I. Teliyioridou, E. Antonaki, G. Koulides, L. Kattou, L. Toubouris Open Call #Moderator, #Curator, #Editor
2013 May - June
No More Real Than You Are Exhibition (Group Show) Curation, Exhibition Design DYNAMO, Thessaloniki Greece Participants: Kostas Yatsos, Dimitris Efeoglou, Dimitirs Fragakis Organized by DYNAMO
#Curating, #Exhibition Design
2012 February-March DEMO #3 Workshop, Residency, Seminars, Exhibition Moderator with Maria Kriara Organized by DYNAMO, Thessaloniki, Greece Artists: L. Asimakis , G. Gerontides, Th. Zafiropoulos, S. Ioanou, I. Karamavrou, V. Katsarela, S. Ouzounidou, K. Spathara Open Call #Moderator, #Curator, #Editor
2012 January Controlled Explosion (True Romance) Exhibition Curation DYNAMO, Thessaloniki Greece Participants: Sofia Touboura, Panayiotis Samsarelos Organized by DYNAMO
#Curating
2013 March-May 2012 & January-April 2011
Theory Seminar: Territories, Identities, Practices: Assemblages, Oppositions and Negotiations in Contemporary Art Seminar Moderator with Stephanie Bertrand, Evi Baniotopoulos, Louisa Avgita Organized by DYNAMO, Thessaloniki, Greece The main objective behind these three intensive series of theory seminars was to explore important concepts and practices theoretical perspectives and attitudes and their relationship with contemporary art, i.e. to present an excess of keywords concepts and ideas that could stir things up! in a direction that expands knowledge and deepens the understanding on contemporary art and visual culture. Seminars (Keywords): Art as Denial (Criticism, Framing, Conceptualism, Minimalism) / When the History of Art becomes Art (Modernism, Diversity, History, Orientalism, Synchronicity, Mapping, Ideology) / Urban Regeneration and Contemporary Art (Post-Fordism, Co-Ops, Renaissance, Self-organization, Internationalism, Networks) / What, Where, How, for Whom: Community? (Community, Relational/Social Aesthetics, Ethics, Utopia, the Daily) / The Continuous Exhibition and the Role of Urban Development (Biennialization, Art Fairism, Spectacle, Identity) Art and Work - Art and Order: The artist as subject in the Context of Economic Crisis (Subject, Work, Economy, Crisis, Order, Violence, Conflict) / The Concept of the Balkans and Alternative Histories in the discourse of Exhibitions (Epicenter, Periphery, Post-colonialism, Identities, Alternative Histories, Locality) #Moderator, #Organizer
2011 December Dimitris Fragos Exhibition (Solo Show) Curation, Exhibition Design DYNAMO, Thessaloniki Greece Organized by DYNAMO
#Curating, #Exhibition Design
2011 November 365 Q-R Exhibition Curation, Exhibition Design DYNAMO, Thessaloniki Greece Participants: Nansy Stamatopoulou, Fani Sarandari Organized by DYNAMO
#Curating, #Exhibition Design
2012 October 28 November 21
Teenage Angst vol.1 - Exhibition, Workshop 50 teenager-artists aged 15 to 18 years from all over Greece. Curation, Exhibition Design, Graphic Design, Editor DYNAMO, Thessaloniki Greece 15th Biennial of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean General Secretariat of Youth - Municipality of Thessaloniki Participants were selected through an open-call process. Organized by DYNAMO
#Research, #Curating, #Organization, #Exhibition
Design, #Graphic Design, #Editing
2011 September-October The Quarry And The Encyclopedians Exhibition by Maria Kriara (Solo Show) Curation, Exhibition Design DYNAMO, Thessaloniki Greece Catalogue Published by DYNAMO, English-Greek, Graphic Design by Fotini Filoxenidou Organized by DYNAMO
#Curating, #Exhibition Design, #Editing
2011 September Landslide / ALUD Performance by Regina Jose Galindo In the context of the Performance Festival, 3rd Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art Curator: Irene Papaconstantinou DYNAMO, Thessaloniki Greece Organized by DYNAMO, State Museum of Contemporary Art
#Organization
2011 June Object Not Found Exhibition by Zoe Giabouldaki Curation, Exhibition Design DYNAMO, Thessaloniki Greece Organized by DYNAMO
#Curating, #Exhibition Design
2010 December 2011 March
DEMO #2 Six Weeks = Six Exhibitions Curation, Exhibition Design DYNAMO, Thessaloniki Greece 72 Young Greek Creators (Artists, Designers, Architects) from all-over Greece Participants Selected Through Open Calls Organized by DYNAMO
#Curating, #Exhibition Design
2010 December 2011 March
DEMO #2 Six Weeks = Six Exhibitions Curation, Exhibition Design DYNAMO, Thessaloniki Greece 72 Young Greek Creators (Artists, Designers, Architects) from all-over Greece Participants Selected Through Open Calls Organized by DYNAMO
#Curating, #Exhibition Design
2010 November UTOPIA Exhibition by Topotheque (Solo Show) Curation, Exhibition Design DYNAMO, Thessaloniki Greece Organized by DYNAMO
#Curating, #Exhibition Design
2010 October Kiosk & The Big Bid Exhibition, Auction Event Curation, Exhibition Design DYNAMO, Thessaloniki Greece Exhibition and Creative Auction of Young Greek Applied-Arts Creators Organized by DYNAMO
#Curating, #Exhibition Design,
#Graphic Design
2010 February - March
DEMO #1 Six Weeks = Six Exhibitions Curation, Exhibition Design DYNAMO, Thessaloniki Greece 40 Young Greek Creators (Artists, Designers, Architects) from all-over Greece Participants Selected Through Open Calls Organized by DYNAMO
#Curating, #Exhibition Design
2010 April-May PUSH THE ENVELOPE - Workshop Moderator with Rachel Moore 14 Artists from Thessaloniki and Chicago Organised by DYNAMO,Thessaloniki and Spoke, Chicago Artist Participants: Lena Athanasopoulou, Kim DeBord, Monica Herrera, Georgia Kotretsos, Areti Leopoulou, Dimitris Michalaros, Rachel Moore, Jeroen Nelemans, Theofanis Nouskas, Shannon Schmidt, Briana Schweizer, Hui-min Tsen, Chryse Tsiota, Vasilis Zografos Guest Participants: Stephanie Bertrand, Ellen Rothenberg, Syrago Tsiara, Shannon Stratton The participating artists were selected after an open call by an international jury. With support from the Fulbright Foundation in Greece. #Moderator, #Curator, #Editor
2009 December Naughtiness - Plan b Exhibition (Group Show) Curated by Roula Palanda DYNAMO, Thessaloniki Greece Contemporary Young Greek Artist from Beltsios Collection Organized by DYNAMO, Margaris Foundation
#Organization, #Exhibition Design
2010 November Fotis Sagonas Exhibition (Solo Show) Curation, Exhibition Design DYNAMO, Thessaloniki Greece Organized by DYNAMO
CAST01//Living in Mixed Realities. Artistic, Cultural and Scientific Aspects of Experimental Media Spaces. Proceedings, Monika Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauss, (Eds), 2001
CAST01//Living in Mixed Realities. Artistic, Cultural and Scientific Aspects of Experimental Media Spaces. Proceedings, Monika Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauss, (Eds), 2001
