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..._Data Dreams & Ethical Realities, Panel Discussion, Onassis AiR, 18 Sept, 2024
_The Day the Earth Caught Data at Kastelana, Pyrgos, Santorini 23 Aug-23 Sept 2024
_A Time of Her Own,  Hellenic Centre, London, 15th May 2024
_Onassis AiR, Athens, February - March 2024 _The Nightmare of Persephone, Kairos Politismou, Tinos, 5-6 July 2023
_Arcaeological Dialogues, Syros, 27-29th May 2023 _Athens by Collage: The Representation of the Metropolis between Realism, Intervention and Autonomy, by Fabiano Micocci, Anteferma Editions.
_Curation of the exhibition Expressions of Light in Selene restaurant, Santorini,Sept -Oct. 2022
_Levels of Life: Photography Imaging and the Vertical Perspective - Conference and Exhibition,The Photographers Gallery & London College of Communication, 30th June-2nd July 2022
_Lipiu exhibition catalogue


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THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT DATA  (E1)
2023


     


The Day the Earth  Caught Data
unfolds in a series of several episodes that attempt to create  fictional narratives about the end of the world, using different tourist locations. The material is from online sources, using satellite images from Google Earth and  screenshots from Photosphere, developing in interactive installations. 
Constant surveillance practices on Earth’s surface, frequent use of mapping apps, as well as incessant sharing self-referential content online, compliments tourism’s already significant part in climate crisis. The work unfolds in a series of different ‘episodes’ attempting to draw parallels between a widely shared, seemingly uncomplicated reality and a troublesome fiction where the image-makers become storytellers of their own unsettling future. The title is a reference to post-apocalyptic film “The Day the Earth Caught Fire” (1961) and each episode suggests a dystopian scenario, aftermath of the intense human presence and the constant use of digital media that accompanies it, wondering if  the end of the world might come from our own visual representations of it.

Episode 1 of The Day the Earth  Caught Data was a site-specific installation  in the island of Tinos. It consisted of Google Earth  satellite images of the area of Exobourgo in Tinos and a screenshot of shared users’ photos in Google Street View  Photosphere. The work brings attention to the prominence of the specific location and the multiple references it carries through the traces of ancient ruins, religious symbols, satellite antennas, and other human interventions and signals. The installation simulates a sanctuary that has been created by the last remnants of humankind to appease nature or perhaps to declare their presence there inscribing a final imprint or even performing an ultimate attempt of communication.
                


The Day the Earth  Caught Data (E1) was part of The Nightmare of Persephonegroup exhibition, in Tinos, Greece, 5-6 July 2023, organised by Kairos Politismou, curated by Christoforos Marinos and Christos Chryssopoulos.