Art in the age of Information

This masterclass addresses the issue of ‘Information’ on Art’s Research and Practice.  It examines the influence of the Information Era in our everyday life. In the decade of the 70s several  additions came out in Arts and Design having their roots in technological and scientific progress. Arts, Technology, Sciences and Humanitarian Studies compose a multidisciplinary syllabus providing a new set of tools and methods leading artists and designers to a different way of thinking and practicing. Those tools help the creators to work on crucial issues of our society and especially those that are related with digital forms, such as data and metadata, in Modern Times. The lectures introduce open technologies as an established method for artistic practice combining software and hardware providing a common ground to artists and creators globally.

Angelos Floros is assistant professor of Interactive Media at the Department of Audiovisual Arts of Ionian University. The last twenty years he developed an extensive research and a plethora of interactive media projects for several institutions such as Athens Academy, Acropolis Museum, and others. His artistic work presented world wide in Venice Biennale, Prague Quadrennial, ZKM Karlsruhe, National Museum of Contemporary Arts in Athens (ΕΜΣΤ), 1st Thessaloniki Biennale, etc.