Η CURRENT Athens είναι μία πλατφόρμα μη ιεραρχικής προώθησης της σύγχρονης τέχνης.
Please join us for a discussion between Despina Catapoti and Georgios Vavouranakis to mark the closing of our exhibition "Trade Syllables".
Brief foreword as afterword by Aliki Panagiotopoulou.
Despina Catapodi teaches at the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean, Greece. Her research and teaching interests center on cultural theory, history of science and epistemology, with particular focus on the history and philosophy of material culture and technology.
Currently, she works at the aim of assessing the impact and contribution of digital media on archaelogical/historical heritage outreach and engagement.
Aliki Panagiotopoulou lives and works in Athens, Greece. Recent exhibitions include Drawers, Radio Athènes, Athens (2018); 4 poems, Festival de l'historie de l'art, Fontainebleau (2018), Looooong, a sidewalk/, ARCH, Athens (2018), All: Collected Voices open recording #5, Radio Athenes, Athens (2017) and The Equilibrists, DESTE Foundation/New Museum, Benaki Museum, Athens (2016). She was artist in residence at the Mahler & LeWitt Studios in Spoleto, Italy, in April 2019.
Giorgos Vavouranakis is an Associate Professor of Prehistoric Aegean at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece. He specializes in archeological theory and his research interests include the Prehistory of Crete, the wider Aegean and Cyprus, funerary archaeology, landscape archaeology, public archaeology and the history of archeology. He has published two monographs, five edited volumes and more than 40 papers on the above topics, two of which in the American Journal of Archaeology (2005 and 2014). He has participated in and directed several field projects in Crete and Cyprus. He is currently directing the publication of a Prehistoric funerary complex in southern Crete and is second director of the NKUA excavation at Marathon.