Event Awards 2022

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The Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), continues its successful course winning  five awards at this year’s Event Awards 2022!

The 7th edition EVENT AWARDS of Boussias Communications offered ADAF the opportunity to stand out by winning four significant distinctions for projects it implemented during 2022.  

Athens Digital Arts Festival received the following awards at the nomination of Event Awards 2022:  

Award: PLATINUM & GOLD | Category: Augmented / Virtual Reality Technology | Project: “culture path” | Participants: International Festival of Digital Arts in Greece, Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) / Μinistry of Culture and Sports / Ηellenic Foundation for Culture

 

The Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) created “Culture Path“, an AR&VR pavillion experience for the Ministry of Culture and Sports

Culture path has been presented till today at:

  • 85th Thessaloniki international trade fair | 11 Sept 2021 – 19 Sept 2021 (country of honour, Greece)
  • 53rd Cairo International Book Fair |26 Jan 2022 – 7 Feb  2022 (country of honour, Greece)
  • Expo 2020 Dubai | 1 Οct  2021 – 31 Mar 2022 (National Greek Pavillion)
  • International Airport of Athens Eleftherios Venizelos- exhibition hall “art & environment” departures level ( entrance 3) | 15 Sept 2022-19 Apr 2023

 

Culture path was created in September 2021 for the pavilion of the Ministry of Culture and Sports at the 85th Thessaloniki international trade fair and later  visited Cairo for the 53rd international book fair – Greek pavilion where Greece was also the country of honour. Following its successful tour, it visited  Dubai and the national pavilion in the framework of EXPO DUBAI 2020, while it is now exhibited in the International Airport of Athens “Eleftherios Venizelos”

 

In such activities , the use of technology is achieving the most impressive presentation of  content to the viewers, offering a new light to the Greek cultural product. This way we have accomplishing best dissemination and promotion of Greece abroad while strengthening its attraction to tourists.

An interactive pavilion, a path of culture, which with the facilitation of AR & VR technology,  the Greek Cultural Heritage is “meeting” and “dialoguing” with works of modern and contemporary creation. Culture Path is prompting and creating a dialogue between the past and the present gazing towards the future. An educational proposal- reason for a dialogue that exploits the borders of art and culture  widening the spectrum of imagination and calling for a future visit to the premises of the museums.

Award: GOLD | Category: Festival | Project: “17th Athens Digital Arts Festival – “Tāctus” | Participants: The International Festival of Digital Arts in Greece, Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) / Μinistry of Culture and Sports – Museum of Modern Greek Culture / City of Athens – OPANDA – Technopolis City of Athens / Region of Attica

Athens Digital Arts Festival has opened its doors the the Museum of Modern Greek Culture at the historic centre of Athens

The buildings and outdoors spaces that are hiding inside the building block belonging to the Museum, have been unveiled to the public, hosting  works of digital technology. For the ADAF event spaces, we have utilised as well the extra spaces of the museum in the area of Plaka, like the Tzisdarakis Mosque and the Bathhouse of the Winds among others.

Interactive installations, video art works, animation & web art, extending reality experiences in the AR & VR sphere, performances, talks and workshops, composed the content of this impressive program that counted thousands of Greek and foreign participants. The activities of the festival occupied the proximate area of the museum in the city centre, as well as small roads in the so called “Athenian Merchant Triangle”.

Award: SILVER |Category: AV Technology / Design | Project: “3D Projection Mapping Show – Greek -Parliament” | Participants:  The International  Festival of Digital Arts in Greece, Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) / City of Athens – ΟPANDA – Technopolis City of Athens/ Greek Parliament
One more 3D Mapping Show  from Athens Digital Arts Festival. A Christmas spectacle 3D projection mapping for kids and adults specially curated from the international festival of digital arts in Greece, Athens Digital Arts Festival.  Between  28 – 30 of December 2021 the west facade of the Greek Parliament transformed into a Christmas celebratory tale with Santa Claus, his Elves and Nutcrackers that animated complementing the architectural characteristics of the building. For yet another year, ADAF painted and illuminated the Parliament of Greece with a 3D Projection Mapping Show transferring thus the Christmas Spirit and wishes for the new year to the whole city and country. A celebratory and unique event that took place both physically and in live broadcasting both on television and the internet (social &  web pages), offering to the audience the opportunity to follow it despite their position on the worldwide map.
 
Award: Bronze | Category: Cultural Event | Work:”From Where I Stand” |Participants: The International Festival of Digital Arts in Greece, Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF)/ Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa G.I. Katsigras Museum

Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) in collaboration with the Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa G.I. Katsigras Museum, presented “From Where I Stand,” the first digital art exhibition to take place in Larissa. 114 artworks from the whole spectrum of digital arts emphasising in interaction and cutting edge technology, travelled to Larissa, offering the opportunity to the audience to meet digital art and its capabilities through a program of outstanding aesthetics. The event entertained grand visibility while the artworks enchanted the local audience.  The visitors came in contact with AR and VR works,  Web art works, Immersive works, Interactive works, Video games, 3D Mapping Projections, as well as Digital images, Video art and Animations by greek and international artists as well as local artists from the city of Larissa. Additionally the local community sharing the works and their experience through their social media, created significant experience visibility making Larissa a mention worthy point on the map of the contemporary cultural creativity.

Open Air Screenings at the square of Agios Dimitrios in Ampelokipi

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The “ADAF Open Air Screenings” returns in the context of the programme “Culture in Neighborhoods” by the Athens Culture Net of the Municipality of Athens.

On November 04, the square of Agios Dimitrios in Ampelokipi will be transformed into a large, open, cinematic event, with Animation and Video Art works by artists of the international digital art scene, aiming to impress children and adults.

We invite residents and visitors to a night of screenings – Open Air Screenings – with free admission.

Location: Agios Dimitrios Square, Ampelokipi

Date: 04/11/2022

Opening time: 19.30- 21.30

Free entrance

Innovative Workshops using Digital Technology

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Children’s Museum of Thessaloniki , under the sponsorship and auspice of the Ministry of Culture and Sports is organizing a series of activities for children, utilising digital mediums and tech tools.

Two days of innovative workshops aiming towards children’s contact and familiarization with the merge of art and technology, is taking place in collaboration with the International Festival of Digital Arts of Greece, Athens Digital Arts Festival and the educational program OPEN ART of Ionian University, adding up to the mosaic of expression play and education. Digital tools and technologies such as microprocessors, sensors and the secrets of animated image will create a unique experience of artistic expression, creation and education.

Taking under consideration the value and importance of digital technology in education, entertainment and contemporary everyday life, the creative and interactive two days workshops will help children discover new places and ways of expression. Tutors from the digital arts field will present contemporary practices in the meet point of art and technology, actively improving the knowledge level of every child on tech and art matters.

The Art and Technology workshops will take place on Friday 4th and Saturday 5th of November 2022 and are designed for children from 4 to 13 years, as well as are applicable for sectors and institutions for  children hospitality.

PROGRAM:

Friday 04/11/2022

Making my first animation– Animation workshop

Instructor: Ilias Chatzichristodoulou, Founder and Director Athens Digital Arts Festival

Age: 4-8 yrs – Duration: 50 min

4 workshops delivered ( 15 seats each) at 9:30, 10:30, 11:30, 12:30

Participation cost:3 euro 

 

Banana Party – experiential robotics workshops for children

Instructor: Angelos Floros, Assistant Professor, Department of Audio & Visual Arts – Ionian University
Scientific Responsible OPEN ART

Age :8-12 yrs – Duration : 60 min

3 workshops delivered ( 10 seats each) at 17:00, 18:00, 19:00

Participation cost:5 euro 

 

Saturday 05/11/2022

Live Painting with Light- workshop for creating animated neon paintings.

Instructor: Ilias Chatzichristodoulou, Founder and Director Athens Digital Arts Festival

Age:5-8 yrs – Duration :45 mins

4 workshops delivered (15 seats each) at10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 13:00

Participation cost : 4 euro

 

Furry Robots– Experiential robotics workshop for kids

Instructor: Angelos Floros, Assistant Professor, Department of Audio & Visual Arts – Ionian University
Scientific Responsible OPEN ART

Age: 11-13 yrs – Duration: 60 mins

3 workshops delivered (10 seats each) at  17:00, 18:00, 19:00

Participation cost :  5 euro

During the aforementioned workshops there will be animation compilations screenings for kids. The specially curated animation artworks are coming from exceptional international festivals and are highlighting values such as family, friendship, environmental consciousness through fun and interesting stories.

 

The First Augmented Reality exhibition in Athens International Airport from ADAF

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Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF),in collaboration with the international Airport of Athens is presenting the first Augmented Reality (AR) exhibition in the premises of International Airport of Athens titled «culture path».

Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF),in collaboration with the international Airport of Athens is presenting the first Augmented Reality (AR) exhibition in the premisses of International Airport of Athenstitled  «culture path». An interactive path for culture where with the  activation of technology, the works of Greek Cultural Heritage meet each other and talk with the works of modern and contemporary creation

«culture path» creates a dialogue between the past and the present with its gaze toward the future. The exhibition is taking place in other spots inside Athens Airport giving the opportunity to the visitors of Athens to explore this special path and to experience a unique and innovative cultural and artistic experience.

The choice of artworks has been done from the Ministry of Culture and Sports with the participation of Archaeological Museum of Olympia, National Museum of Contemporary Art, National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum, Underwater archaeological site of the Peristera Shipwreck Alonissos, National Archaeological Museum, Loverdos Museum, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, MOMus – Museum Alex Mylona, Archaeological Museum of Delphi, Museum of Royal Tombs at Aigai.

The exhibition space “ art and environment” on departure level ( entrance 3)/ is a space open 24h a day till 19.4.2023

Culture Path

MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND SPORTS
SPECIAL SECRETARY OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE

Coordination

Nicholas Yatromanolakis
Deputy Minister of Culture and Sports,

responsible for Contemporary Culture

Eleni Doundoulaki
Secretary General of Contemporary Culture​

Projects Advisors

Aggeliki Pouliou

Katerina Tseliou

Christianna Mantzourani

Collaboration with

Archaeological Museum of Olympia

National Museum of Contemporary Art

National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum

Underwater archaeological site of the Peristera Shipwreck Alonissos

National Archaeological Museum

Loverdos Museum, Byzantine and Christian Museum

Archaeological Museum of Heraklion

MOMus – Museum Alex Mylona

Archaeological Museum of Delphi

Museum of Royal Tombs at Aigai

ATHENS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT S.A.

Supervision – Coordination

Chara – Helene Mitsotakis

Head Public Relations & Culture

ATHENS DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL

Founder and Director

Ilias Chatzichristodoulou

Project Management

Lydia Lampropoulou

Graphic Design

Constantinos Samaras

Video Creation

Nikolas A Tsounakas

DIGITAL PRINTS

Apolyto Creative Spot

TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Plan B

Athens Digital Arts Festival is utilizing cutting edge technology including augmented reality applications, 360 experiences, immersive experiences, 3D projection mapping, holograms, light installations indoors and outdoors and AI artworks.

ADAF is expanding its network, creating a worldwide connection where the knowledge the ideas and art are in dialogue. It is cultivating interconnections of communication and ideas and works with other festivals, universities and cultural institutions from Greece and abroad, exploring and presenting the most current international ideas in digital arts.

Starting in 2019 as a reaction to the international pandemic, ADAF has started the first online festival organizing and presenting ADAF ONLINE a international online platform of digital arts making the festival open to international audience without any geographic restraints.

Athens Digital Arts Festival is traditionally taking place in spring in the historic Center of Athens utilizing and reinstituting the milestones for the city, implicating the local communities and creating new paths where every one can explore experiences in the city through a new and unique way. At the same time in making stronger the connection and familiarization of the audience with the new media and digital culture with a huge program of parallel activities and collaborations through the whole duration of the year.

EDEN hosting Max Cooper & Nesa Azadikhah join forces with ADAF

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EDEN Sunday parties and ADAF join forces yet again, offering unique audiovisual experiences, in order to creatively “shake” things up in Athens! It’s going to be a  party full of surprises, audiovisual installations in various rooms, a lounge area and a cocktail bar.

Max Cooper returns to Athens for an exclusive live a/v show – what will be an epic five-hour marathon – showcasing not just his impressive latest release ‘Unspoken Words’ but past favourites and a decidedly clubby techno mix. 

Alongside him for the ride, will be opening Iranian DJ producer Nesa Azadikhah!

ADAF and Greek artist, V.K. (aka Vasilis Kampouris) will present a specially designed “A.I. generative art machine”, inspired by the artist’s portraits and the architecture of the historic building of Athens Conservatoire.

Links:Instagram – www.instagram.com/vkampourisInstagram – www.instagram.com/adafgreeceMax Cooper, along with Jessica In & Illust. Space and creative agency Uncharted Limbo, will give the audience the opportunity to see, for the first time, the “PVNP” project. An augmented reality visualization of Cooper’s ongoing study of the aesthetics of knowledge creation inspired by the architecture of the iconic building of the Athens Conservatoire and Herodes Atticus. 

The sculptures will be visible within the venue and at other important landmarks of the city, creating a walk of discovery, accessible via mobile devices with a QR code or through this link: https://the.illust.space/metaverse/Max_Cooper/layers/PVNP.

Links:Website – www.maxcooper.netInstagram – www.instagram.com/maxcooper

Website – www.uncharted-limbo.com

Instagram – www.instagram.com/ulcollective

IT’S GOING TO BE FULL AV MELTDOWN ❯❯ IMPOSSIBLY GORGEOUS MAX COOPER

Max Cooper has carved a unique space as an audio-visual artist with a science PhD and an international reputation as a leading electronic musician. His work carries an emotional resonance and sensory immersion, often focusing on humanity’s place in the world. He merges electronic music and visual art with scientific enquiry through installations, live performance, immersive audio-visual experiences, a range of digital media and award-winning music videos. From airy downtempo electronica, charged melodic techno and room shaking drum and bass, the Mesh label head’s live shows are guaranteed to traverse the full spectrum of electronic music.

Unspoken Words is Cooper’s 6th studio album and the latest in an impressive back catalogue that dates back to 2007, when he juggled studying Computational Biology with being resident DJ at a local techno club. He recently supplied the music for a powerful video narrated by Greta Thunberg and Pope Francis and played at COP26, urging world leaders to consider climate and environment in Covid recovery plans. From reimagining iconic venues like The Roundhouse and the Barbican, to being the first techno artist to perform at untouched gems like the Acropolis in Athens, each show is an intricately woven interplay between production, music, art and scientific enquiry. 

Expect impressive floor to ceiling visuals and hair-raising dancefloor material as Max Cooper gets set to present his most daring club project yet at one of Athens’  most iconic venues, Athens Conservatoire, on Sunday 30th October.

 

Athens Digital Arts Festival became a member of Network of Silk Road Arts Festival

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Τhe international festival of Digital Arts in Greece Athens Digital Arts Festival was honored to be invited by China Shanghai International Arts Festival to become a member of  Network of Silk Road Arts Festivals which is an institution made to explore the application of digital technology in artistic projects.

The year 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Greece. And a dialogue on China-Greece cultural exchanges and cooperation themed “classical arts interpreted in the modern language” was held in Shanghai on Wednesday.

During the event, the China Shanghai International Arts Festival signed an agreement online with ADAF for future cooperation.

Under the cooperation, ADAF will become a member of the Network of Silk Road Arts Festivals, which was established in 2017 under the initiation of the China Shanghai International Arts Festival. The network has so far attracted 172 artistic organizations from 46 countries and regions.

“I’m very glad to invite Shanghai partners and art followers to become part of the 19th ADAF scheduled for May 2023,” ADAF founder and director Ilias Chatzichristodoulou said, joining the dialogue online from Greece.

“Despite the impact of the pandemic, we have signed online agreements for future cooperation with 11 performing art groups and organizations from 10 countries since 2020,” said Li. “The festival is suspended, but our international communication and expectations toward the future will never stop.”

 

18ο Athens Digital Arts Festival, FutuRetro returns Online 15th September-15th October 2022

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18ο Athens Digital Arts Festival, FutuRetro returns Online

15th September-15th October 2022

The International Festival for Digital Arts of Greece is presenting for the third consecutive year the fully updated online platform online.adaf.gr, available freely without any geographical restrictions.

 

In ADAF Online you can find a full program of permanent exhibitions and live events (talks, workshops, performances e.t.c.) which will be held in live streaming and will explore the thematic  “FutuRetro”, the future through the eyes of the past and the past through the eyes of the future.

 

Discover mor than 300 new and exciting works of digital art in the categories: video art, animation, performance, music, digital image, web art, special screenings workshops, talks and ADAF KIDS, for the restless younger audience, in live and on demand format.

Web image Julia Shamsheieva – Free Dome Universe 1.03  Cradle of Life

 

Important information:

 

By registering , every platform user can  book and manage their spot, for attending talks and workshops events, actively participating, together with gaining the opportunity to vote for the artworks of preference to be nominated for this year ADAF Awards.

In the Calendar you can discover our live events, where a different  category is dedicated to each day of the week, and get informed in time for the full lenght of talks, workshops, music and non music performances and screenings of this year’s program.

Photo from the workshop Volumetric Cinema, Current

By choosing the LIVE NOW button from the menu, the audience can enjoy all the live events in streaming on the date and time of their presentation, while the complete permanent exhibition can be experienced by choosing categories on the menu at any time.

The physical edition of the 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival took place between 25-29 of May 2022, with more than 600 works and over 17,000 visitors who had the chance to experience a unique digital art event in the heart of the historic city center of Athens, in Kotzia square and the building complex of the former notoshome department store.

ADAF is renewing its appointment with the audience for 2023 with a new thematic that will be announced together with the open call for its 19th edition in the very near future.

 

18th International Festival of Digital Arts in Greece-Athens Digital Arts Festival

Duration: 15th September-15th October 2022

Free entrance: https://online.adaf.gr/ 

#ADAF2022 #ADAFgreece #TheNewRetro #Futuretro #Futurology #Sci-Fi #Retrofuturism #ADAFonline

Open air Screenings at Varnava Square

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On June 30, 2022  Varnava Square in Pagrati will be transformed into an open air cinema, aiming to impress children and adults, through a curated programme of Animation and VideoArt works from the 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival‘s thematic, “FutuRetro“.

The event takes place in the context of the programme “Culture in the Neighbourhoods” which takes place from 14 to 30 June 2022 in Pagrati with free admission for the public by Athens Culture Net of the Municipality of Athens.

Location: Varnava Square, Pagrati

Opening time: 21.00 – 23.00

Free entrance

 

ADAF participates in the AI TRACE pilot experience

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During the 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival, we had the opportunity to introduce the experience of AI TRACE to the public, a research project aiming to insert the use of artificial intelligence in the field of art and culture. The audience, after being accordingly informed would enter the specially designed room curated and provided to the project by ADAF , becoming the subject of the research, while simply interacted with the works.

Now, Athens Digital Arts Festival and AI TRACE  join forces once more, to present the pilot project. For this purpose, ADAF has curated a specially designed space with digital artworks in the MusiX LAB of the Association of Friends of Music, located in the premises of the Music Library “Lillian Voudouri”.

The research project AI TRACE (Aesthetic Correlation of Artificial Intelligence with Digital Arts and their Audience), following the preparatory research action that took place in October 2021 in the context of the 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival, “Tāctus”, presents the pilot application developed in the context of its work. If you are interested in the use of Artificial Intelligence in the field of Culture, experimentation with Augmented Reality applications and interaction with digital artworks, we invite you to experience the AI TRACE application.

The presentation of the project will take place on Tuesday, 14/6/2022 & Thursday, 16/6/2022, 11:00 – 20:00. Click here to book your place.

 

ADAF @ Plisskën Festival 2022

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ADAF + PLISSKEN team-up to enhance your two-day experience at this year’s  Plisskën Festival with an Immersive Room Experience.

Just two weeks after the physical version of the 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival, themed FutuRetro, Plisskën hosted a specially curated ADAF room full of projections and screenings aiming to impress and to immerse you.

Plisskën Festival, one of the leading Greek music festivals of the past decade,  returned on the 12h & 13th of June at Technopolis with a diverse,  fresh line-up featuring renowned and up-and-coming artists from the contemporary music scene.