“Culture Path” travels to the 53rd Cairo International Book Fair

Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) participates with the “Culture Path” augmented reality project in the 53rd Cairo International Book Fair in the Greek pavilion of the Hellenic Foundation for Culture and the Ministry of Culture and Sports. During the Exhibition, ADAF’s AR installation, through the Greek pavilion, will entice visitors to a unique AR experience, bringing the scent of Greece to Egypt.

Culture Path is an interactive route of culture,  where technology of augmented reality (AR), facilitates the intersection of cultural heritage of Greece with modern and contemporary creation. Through this small path in the Greek pavilion, and through AR technology the visitor has the ability to have a stroll through milestones and less known works of art, coming from museums all over the country.  The borders of the imagination are expanding and the Greek Pavilion of the Cairo International Book Fair invites us to a discussion – motive for a future visit to the museums of Greece.

The exhibition will take place from January 26 to February 7 at the International Exhibition Center of Egypt, with Greece, being a Guest of Honour, bringing along famous publishers and literature works. Cairo International Book Fair is one of the most important events of the Arab world, having welcomed more than two million visitors. The exhibition aims to expand Egypt’s touch with the Greek cultural heritage – and in particular with the Greek literature – thus extending the interpersonal relations of the two states.

 

Festive 3D Projection Mapping Shows accross Greece!

For another consecutive year, Athens Digital Arts Festival, the International Digital Arts Festival of Greece, painted and illuminated the country with four 3D Projection Mapping Shows, thus spreading the message of Christmas and the best wishes for the new year. Specifically, the four points that were illuminated are the Greek Parliament, the Municipality of Athens, the Municipal Theater of Piraeus and the Municipality of Alexandroupolis.

 

Greek Parliament

The western facade of the Greek Parliament was transformed into a Christmas fairytale, with Santa Claus, Elves and Nutcrackers coming to life alongside the architectural elements of the building.

28 – 30 December 2021

 

Municipality of Athens – The Night of Wishes

On Christmas day, Kotzia Square was filled with the traditional lanterns of the “Night of Wishes” and with the bright interactive musical nutcrackers, enriching the festive decoration of the ice rink.

December 24, 2021

 

Piraeus Municipal Theater

The spirit of Christmas “came to life” at the Municipal Theater of Piraeus. The emblematic building of the city was flooded with festive colors, magical images and a Christmas atmosphere.

23 – 24 December 2021

 

Municipality of Alexandroupolis 

Impressive lighting, multidimensional geometries that highlight the architectural aspect of the Munincipality, Christmas motifs, wishes and festive performances compose the ideal setting for Christmas 2021 in Alexandroupolis.

29 – 30 December 2021

 

OPEN ART in collaboration with ADAF commence the 3rd edition of OPEN ART seminars

The Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) once again collaborates with OPEN ART, a program which offers artistic practice in the fields of art, technology, science and society in the form of free seminars. The third edition aims to approach the fields of Sounscapes (Landscape sounds), Electoracoustic Music and Sound Installations with research and creativity.  

The program consists of two courses taking place over a ten (10) week period : the first course “The Art of Listening” by Giorgis Sakellariou and the second course “Art In The Information Era”  by Aggelos Florou, head of science at OPEN ART. This series of lectures and workshops will analyze landscape sounds through environmental recordings, not only as an object of research but as a framework for dialogue and reflection, and a tool for creative practices. 

The OPEN ART program is implemented within the framework of Artist Lab, an institution of OPEN ART that enables renowned and established professionals from the fields of art and technology to design and teach a selected subject on an annual basis. 

The first and second editions have been completed with guests Marianthi Tzislaki-Kotsanou, in the field of Interactive Media & Performance in Public Space and Anna Vasof in the field of Transmedia Art. This year ‘s guest is George Sakellariou, a musician, researcher and academic of Electroacoustic Music who lives and works in Lithuania.

 

A few words about Giorgis Sakellariou 

Georgis Sakellariou is a composer of experimental and electroacoustic music. Since 2003, he has been internationally active through the release of personal albums, collective works and composing music for short films and theatrical performances. He also leads workshops and performs his music live around the world. 

His practice focuses on the communal experience of listening and the communication between composer, audiences, performance spaces and the rest of the physical and supernatural world. He only performs in absolute darkness, fostering an all-inclusive and profoundly submerging sonic experience.

From Where I Stand

The Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) in collaboration with the Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa G.I. Katsigras Museum, present “From Where I Stand,” the first digital art exhibition to take place in Larissa. 

The exhibition will take place from December 10th – 12th 2021 in the foyer of the Medical School of Larissa’s building (ex Katsigra Clinic), located in the heart of the city at Tahidromiou Square, at the Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa G.I. Katsigras Museum as well as in central public spaces.  The exhibition and its rich program aim to connect digital arts with the public of Larissa and to promote artistic expression through innovation, while highlighting the digital artistic community of the city. 

“From Where I Stand” will host 114 artworks by Greek and International artists from all categories of digital arts: Digital Installations, Video Art, Animation, Games, 3D, Virtual & Augmented reality, 3D Mapping etc and will also host a series of screenings, educational workshops and talks for all ages.  The exhibition honors this unique region of Greece with a special tribute that will showcase the work of 14 artists from Larissa. 

The Medical School of Larissa will host digital artwork ranging from Installations, VR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality), Web Art and Games in the foyer of its building located on Tachidromiou Square and a unique projection by artist Giannis Kranidiotis will take place on the facade of the building. This commissioned work depicts and pays tribute to the famous artwork of A. Tassou “Marinos Antipas – Kileler 1910” from the permanent collection of the G.I. Katsigras Museum, in an extraordinary way.  Tahidromiou Square will also feature “Pymar,” an interactive and immersive installation by Kranidiotis.  

The Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa G.I. Katsigras Museum will exhibit artwork from all categories by local and international artists as well as Video Art and Animation screenings.  A series of 8 talks will take place on both days and 2 workshops, including the workshop “animate your star” specially designed for kids. 

The Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa G.I. Katsigras Museum is a cultural organization promoting fine arts on a national level. It was founded in1983 after the late doctor and collector Giorgios I. Katsigras donated his private collection to the Municipality of Larissa in 1981. 

The Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) is an organization that represents Greece internationally in Digital Arts and is a prime meeting point of all forms and trends of modern digital culture. It aims to highlight the multiple ways in which art communicates with technology as well as the impact of this relationship on modern life in an urban environment. ADAF further aims to enhance the public audience’s contact and awareness of new media and digital culture. 

 

 

Click here to see the full program.

The program is organized and funded under the auspices of the Ministry of Sports and Culture.

“IMAGINAIRY” | New digital art exhibition at Athens International Airport by Athens Digital Arts Festival

The Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) continues its collaboration with the Athens International Airport and invites its passengers to experience the unique digital art exhibition “IMAGINAIRY”, from 15.11.2021 to 31.5.2022. 

The exhibition, a compilation of high-aesthetic works by artists of the new digital age, screened on specially designed installations, highlights the new “metaverse era” through a panorama of 43 video and animation artworks by local and international artists. The works are inspired by the following themes: Future, Mankind, City, Travel, Destination, Nature and Expression. 

“IMAGINAIRY” is an invitation to a journey through imagination, aiming to enhance the visitor’s travel experience within a heterotopic space of transition: the airport. Through the screenings of the unique artworks, the traveler experiences contemporary art through a mental journey to unexpected and undefined destinations. 

The exhibition is on display accessible at the:  

  • Arrivals, Extra-Schengen Baggage Reclaim Hall – Reclaim Belt 1
  • Arrivals, Schengen Baggage Reclaim Hall – Reclaim Belt 12

Boussias Lighting Awards 2022

The Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) received 4 awards at the Lighting Awards 2022 by Boussias Communications, an award ceremony where design meets art and science and where Greek Lighting Designers are awarded for their inspiration, their creativity and innovation. 

The nominations were evaluated by a highly specialized jury consisting of renowned Greek architects and professionals in the field of lighting as well as academics from Greece’s leading universities. 

Specifically, ADAF received two GOLD awards in the categories Culture and Lighting Design for Events. In the Culture category it was awarded for the 16th Athens Digital Arts Festival Lets Get Phygital – Light Festival which took place in the historical city center of Athens in collaboration with the Municipality of Athens and OPANDA. In the category Lighting Design for Events, the GOLD was received for the Light Installations project for the Athens International Airport, Eleftherios Venizelos. 

ADAF received a SILVER Award in the category Projection Mapping for its 3D Projection Mapping 200 Years from the Greek Revolutionon the façade of the Greek Parliament and a BRONZE award in the Public Category for the Interactive Lighting Sign I Love Piraeus for the Municipality of Piraeus. 

3 GOLD AND 1 BRONZE at this year’s Event Awards 2021!

The Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), continues its successful course and wins four awards at the  Event Awards 2021! 

The 6th Event Awards of Boussias Communications offered ADAF the opportunity to stand out through four significant distinctions for the projects it implemented in in the unprecedented year of 2021.  

At a time where human contact and our relationship with public space is being reevaluated, digital art  offered us the opportunity to live unique experiences and to shift our perception of art and the public space. ADAF evolved organically and quickly adapted to the unprecedented conditions that were created by the pandemic and through its specially designed projects, was able to offer original experiences to its audience when almost everything around us seemed to freeze in time.  

The Athens Digital Arts Festival received the following awards at the Event Awards 2021.  

1 GOLD | Category: Best Pivot from Physical to Virtual | Project: ADAF ONLINE  

ADAF ONLINE (online.adaf.gr) was the natural, digital evolution of the physical festival. It was the first Digital Art Online Streaming Festival, which offered daily special experiences and world premieres to its audience. Through its specially designed platform, it hosted artwork of Greek and International artists on demand and live streaming for three consecutive months. 

2 GOLD | Categories: Special Events / Broadcasting & Video & Graphics | Project: 3D Projection Mapping on the Hellenic Parliament for the project “1821-2021, 200 Years from the Greek Revolution” 

This project reflected our history’s memory where the past and present were fused together through the projection of the Greek Revolution’s heroes, on the face of the Greek Parliament.  

1 BRONZE | Category: Cultural Event | Project: “Let’s Get Phygital” 

“Let’s Get Phygital” was the first interactive phygital exhibition held in the heart of the city, highlighting its natural and urban landscapes through digital art. The event highlighted technology in a contactless interaction era (Covid-Free) and was also the first event where the public could enjoy the event through a 3D Virtual Tour.  

We are delighted and honored to receive these awards and as Erini Toli, the President of the Evaluation Committee stated in her speech “ It is a special moment for us to be meeting in person again to celebrate the event industry. It is always important to honor the people who are active and distinguished in the industry. We experienced upheavals, but we adapted and evolved. We found new solutions, we utilized technological tools and remained strong through our creative flame”. 

 

Immerse yourself in Digital Art with FARNESINA: DIGITAL ART EXPERIENCE at the 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival

The 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens and Bright Festival, will be presenting FARNESINA: Digital Art Experience at the building on 19, Panos Street.   

This initiative is under the patronage of the Embassy of Italyin Greece in the framework of the Tempo Forte Cultural Initiative. 

 

“Farnesina: Digital Art Experience” is an immersive digital art experience created by a selection of top Italian Digital Art Studios, a traveling collective exhibition of digital art that will travel around the world in 2021 and 2022. This project is an initiative by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy and the International Cooperation aiming to promote contemporary Italian artists abroad in collaboration with Bright Festival, based in Florence.  

 

The selected digital art studios are: Antaless Visual Design, Antica Proietteria, Apparati Epimeri, FLxER, Kanaka Studio, Luca Agnani Studio, Michele Pusceddu, Monogrid, Mou Factory, Olo Creative Farm, OOOPStudio, Pixel Shapes, The Fake Factory, WöA Creative Company. 

 

 

19 Panos str., Plaka 

10:00 – 22:00 

13 – 24/10/2022 

 

17th Athens Digital Arts Festival “Tāctus”

With the kind courtesy of the Ministry of Culture and Sports, the 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival “Tāctus”, will be taking place from October 13th- 17th at the new premises of the Museum of Modern Greek Culture, in the heart of Athens.

An entire historic neighborhood, comprised of 18 fully restored buildings from the late 19th – early 20th century, constitute the Museum of Modern Greek Culture. ADAF invites you to discover this new cultural gem with an ultimate Digital Art experience.

The main venue for this year’s festival, an entire block consisting of multiple buildings and terraces, will host the selected artwork from this year’s open call, of Greek and International artists from around the world across all categories: Video Art, Animation, Digital Image, Web Art, Installations, Virtual Reality, Games, Augmented Reality, Performances, Workshops, Talks, ADAF Kids and Festivals of The World.

 

A few highlights:

Our favourite category, ADAF KIDS,   an entire digital arts festival dedicated to children and parents, will be housed in its very own building and feature educational and entertaining activities as well as artwork from all categories. 

The Bath House of Winds, a monument which dates back from the first period of Turkish rule (1453-1669), will host works that stood out for their theme and relate to the meaning of the Other, as they emerged through this year’s theme Tāctus”.

The façade of the Tzistaraki Mosque will feature a 3D Mapping Projection show and on the corner of Areos and Kladou Street there will be Open Air Screenings.

The terraces in the main museum will host Performances and the building, 19 Panos Street (the ex café of the Athens School of Fine Arts) will be revived with a series of special events.  

In collaboration with ADAF, the research project AI TRACE (Synaesthetic Engagement of Artificial Intelligence with Digital Arts and its Audience) will be present in a specially designed space to conduct research and explore the audience’s relationship with Digital Arts. 

 

To book your free ticket and time slot, as well as reserve a seat at a workshop or talk,  please visit 2021.adaf.gr. 

ADAF took home two GOLD Impact Bite Awards!

The Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) took home two Gold Impact Bite Awards 2021 for the categories Augmented & Virtual Reality and Digital Excellence for COVID-19 / Distant Learning. 

For the category Augmented & Virtual Reality it was awarded Gold for the creation of an AR & VR application for the Rodopi Mountain Range National Park (The Goulandris Natural History Museum | Greek Biotype/Wetland Centre). 

The second Gold was awarded for the Augmented and Virtual Reality tours designed for the Athens International Airport’s educational program in the category Digital Excellence for COVID-19 / Distant Learning.