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Medea Electronique
Συσκευή Επιβίωσης: Η Πόλη ως Μετα-Ψηφιακό Ερείπιο
Οπτικοακουστική Εγκατάσταση από τη Medea Electronique
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ADAF 2026 — META-MORPHOSIS | https://2026.adaf.gr/projects/survival-apparatus-%CF%84he-city-as-a-post-digital-ruin/
Τεχνόπολη Δήμου Αθηναίων [Πειραιώς 100 & Περσεφόνης, Γκάζι, 11854 Αθήνα]
23–26 Απριλίου 2026 | 11πμ-11μμ

Πώς μπορούμε να προσεγγίσουμε εκ νέου το διαρκές γίγνεσθαι της πόλης, της τεχνολογίας, του εαυτού και των διαπροσωπικών σχέσεων; Η οπτικοακουστική εγκατάσταση της Medea Electronique διερευνά πώς αναδύονται συλλογικές πραγματικότητες μέσα από ένα σύστημα πολλαπλοτήτων. Το έργο λειτουργεί ως μια μηχανή που μετασχηματίζει τις υποκειμενικές εμπειρίες των συμμετεχόντων σε διαβαθμισμένα πεδία αντιθέσεων. Οπτικοακουστικό υλικό -βίντεο, ήχος και θραύσματα του αστικού τοπίου- συλλέγεται και μετασχηματίζεται εντός αυτών των πεδίων, παράγοντας ένα δυναμικό σύνολο σχέσεων αντί για σταθερές αφηγήσεις.

Τα βλέμματα και οι οπτικές είναι πολλαπλά, συγκροτώντας σημεία συνάντησης, σύγκρουσης, αντήχησης και καθρεφτισμού. Μέσα από πυκνές αλληλοεπικαλύψεις και διαδικασίες αφαίρεσης, η εγκατάσταση διαμορφώνει ένα περιβάλλον όπου εικόνα, ήχος και δεδομένα ανασυντίθενται διαρκώς. Αντί να συσσωρεύει ιστορίες, το σύστημα τις διαφοροποιεί, αναδεικνύοντας μικρές, τοπικές εντάσεις. Μέσω της Συσκευής Επιβίωσης η πόλη αναδύεται ως ένα διαρκώς ανασυντιθέμενο πεδίο -ένα μετα-ψηφιακό ερείπιο, διαμορφωμένο από συλλογικά γίγνεσθαι και διαγώνιες συνδέσεις.

*** Θα θέλαμε να ευχαριστήσουμε το Ίδρυμα Μιχάλης Κακογιάννης - Michael Cacoyannis Foundation για τη στήριξή του στην υλοποίηση της "Συσκευής Επιβίωσης", που υπήρξε ουσιαστική ήδη από τα πρώτα στάδια σύλληψης του έργου. Καθώς και για την παρουσία του δίπλα στην ομάδα μας, σε ένα σταθερό πλαίσιο εμπιστοσύνης και συνεργασίας.***
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Με την οικονομική υποστήριξη και την αιγίδα του Υπουργείου Πολιτισμού

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Medea Electronique
Survival Apparatus: Τhe City as a Post-Digital Ruin
Audiovisual installation
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ADAF 2026 — META-MORPHOSIS | https://2026.adaf.gr/projects/survival-apparatus-%CF%84he-city-as-a-post-digital-ruin/
Technopolis City of Athens [Pireos str. 100, 11854 - Gazi, Athens]
23–26 April 2026 | 11am-11pm

How can we re-approach the continuous becoming of the city, technology, the self, and our interpersonal relations? This audiovisual installation by Medea Electronique explores how collective realities emerge through a manifold system. The work operates as a machine that transforms participants’ subjective experiences into gradient fields structured by polar opposites. Audiovisual material—video, sound, and fragments of the urban environment—is gathered and processed within these fields, producing a dynamic set of relations rather than fixed narratives.

Perspectives and viewpoints remain multiple, generating points of encounter, conflict, resonance, and reflection. Through dense layering, abstraction, and visual processing, the installation constructs a perceptual environment in which image, sound, and data continuously overlap and recombine. Rather than accumulating stories, the system differentiates them, foregrounding minor, local intensities over dominant representations. Through the Survival Apparatus, the city emerges as a continuously recomposed field—a post-digital ruin shaped by collective becomings and transversal connections.

***We would like to thank the Ίδρυμα Μιχάλης Κακογιάννης - Michael Cacoyannis Foundation for its support in the realization of Survival Αpparatus, which proved essential from the very early stages of the project’s conception. We also wish to acknowledge its continued presence alongside our collective, within a sustained framework of trust and collaboration.***
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With the financial support and under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture

This weekend we filmed major parts of what will form part of a new audiovisual installation by Medea Electronique. Presented later this year in Athens, Greece.

Produced by Medea Electronique

Behind the camera:
Michael Tebinka
Miltiades Christides

Concept/production/post-production/installation
Haris Laloussis , Manolis Manousakis , Vasilis Kountouris, Studio Entropia , Alexandra Niaka , Kleopatra Korai , Angeliki Poulou, Yanni Lolis , Eli Peristeraki, Eric Lewis

Actors/dancers/performers
Yiannis Nikolaidis
Margarita Kostoglou

Maria Douni
Silia Kakoliri-Vai _vai
Salomi Potamitou
Marw Aslanidou
Niki Karekou

Anastasia Kotsiou
Melina Apostolou
Stella Grigoraki
Katerina Plantzou .plantzou
Nikos

After hosting this great Festival at Koumaria Residency we are announcing this years Resident artists and guest take a moment to look at the video and check out the residents
his years residents and quest artists are

Trang Dinh
Olga Ntenta
Tasos Stamou
Anastasis Karras
Fanis Sakelariou
Konstantinos Haldaios
Yannis Tsakalos
Stelios Giannoulakis
Margarita Kostoglou

And Medea Members

Alexandra Niaka
Eli Peristeraki
Aggeliki Poulou
Eric Lewis
Michael Tebinka
Yannis Lolis
Haris Lalousis
Manolis Manousakis
Vassilis Koundouris
Tim Ward

THE SPACE BETWEEN - a Digital Arts Festival SPACE BETWEEN Digital Arts Festival in Sellasia, Sparta by Medea Electronique March 1 & 2, 2025 The inaugural Space Between Digital Arts Festival, organized…

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MedeaElectronique (@medeaelectronique.bsky.social) Medea Electronique is based in Athens (GR) and is comprised of artists working collectively. We share a passion for innovation in the performing arts.

Well time has come, this is the weekend schedule of events in Sellasia. Save the date if you are around this unique area of Parnonas this weekend visit us.

Koumaria 2025 Open Call
By artist collective Medea Electronique
http://www.medeaelectronique.com/

RESIDENCY DATES: May 18-May 28
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION : APRIL 10th
RESULTS BY : April 15th

*** The residency is held in collaboration with the Ioannina Municipal and Regional Theatre (Greece).

Medea Electronique (an Athens-based arts collective) is seeking artists to contribute to the collective’s new interactive multimedia installation/performance based on the 2014 story “What I Learned from the Snake” (by Ivan Vyrypayev) ), which will be showcased at the Ioannina Municipal and Regional Theatre (Greece) in autumn 2025. This installation-performance will merge physical objects, sound, video, movement, and digital elements into an immersive playground. You will be working collaboratively with the members of Medea Electronique. Your contribution will be fully credited in the installation/performance program notes, and all associated documentation and promotional materials.

In keeping with the conceptual development of this project, the theme of the residency is toys, and so we are primarily looking for artists who work with, or wish to work with, toys in all their manifestations—as objects, concepts, and mechanisms that can transcend their traditional function and become sites of artistic and technological experimentation.

Toys are more than mere playthings. They are sites of radical invention, engines of imagination, and experimental tools that bridge past and future. From ancient Greek automata to Tetris, Nintendo1990, VR gaming consoles, and contemporary interactive installations, toys have always blurred the lines between illusion and reality, function and fiction, entertainment and critique. We are interested in what toys can do, not just what they are, toys as sites where we communicate, compete and learn.

For Koumaria 2025, we seek creators who engage with game-machines, both old and new—hacking, repurposing, deconstructing, and reimagining their form and function. We are interested in:
• Reconfigured Play – Modifying existing toys and game machines, altering their mechanics, aesthetics, and social roles. (bring your own old and/or new toys!)
• Invention & Craft – Designing new forms of playable devices that question or expand the notion of the toy.
• Unexpected Assemblages – Employing old materials and obsolete technologies in new and surprising ways.
• Play as Ritual & Performance – Exploring play as a liminal space where technology and human experience intersect.
• Subversive Games – Prototyping alternative play experiences that disrupt dominant narratives and hierarchies.

Residency

Since 2009 the artist collective Medea Electronique has organized an annual 10-day experimental artist residency, Koumaria, near Sparta in Greece (the village of Sellasia), focusing on improvisation and new media practices. New-media artists from all over the world, inspired by the Greek natural landscape, come together to create a multicultural and cross-media ‘dialogue’ culminating in a collective presentation in Sellasia, and high-quality documentation of the works produced during the residency. Past residents have formed lasting friendships and new artistic partnerships. For us the residency serves as a model for future creative collaborations.

The residency is held at an organic olive oil farm at the foot of Mount Taigetos in Sparta. The base for the residency, a modern and comfortable house, features dormitory-style bedrooms, large and comfortable common rooms (featuring fireplaces and magnificent views of the surrounding mountains and fields), two primary spaces for project development and practice, terraces, rooftop overlooks, and a large and modern kitchen. The surrounding hills, mountains, villages and the not-too-distant sea, coupled with a vast expanse of sky, stars, and ever-changing mountain vistas, afford the residents amble space and opportunity for creative work. Meals are taken communally, with an emphasis on fresh and local produce and traditional recipes. In this environment artists not only have the chance to live and work together interacting with the Greek landscape, but also to trade their experiences concerning everyday life and culture. Chores are undertaken collectively, but there is ample time for residents to work, create, explore the surroundings and enter into new artistic partnerships.

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Your application should include a statement of your interest in this year’s theme, and a sketch of a way you might want to explore it collaboratively with other artists across disciplines and media. In particular you should make clear your interest and experience in working with toys as creative tools.

It is worth emphasizing that Koumaria’s focus is COLLECTIVE art creation. You should expect, and desire, substantive input from other residents, and be open to having projects morph considerably during the course of the residency. We will all be working together with the goal in mind of creating the proposed installation/performance as a collective work.

Medea Electronique, being an eclectic art collective, is interested in people from diverse cultural and artistic backgrounds. Past residents have come from a variety of artistic backgrounds, and from numerous countries. While assorted nationalities and ethnicities have been represented, the common language of the residency is English (although fluency is not necessary, an ability to interact with other artists in English is necessary).

Members of Medea Electronique will be on hand to both guide the overall direction of the residency, and to fully participate in the residency as artists.

(Note: This is a remote region of Greece, with limited ability to obtain tech/electronic materials while we are there. Residents will need to check in advance concerning what materials will be available, and what they will need to bring. It is far easier to get in the area a bail of wire, or a piece of pipe then a semi-conductor or an obscure battery!)

The residency provides:

In terms of hospitality
• Housing and food supplies during the course of the residency
• Transportation to all the sites around the residency
• Clean bedsheets and blankets

While there are few expenses the residents need to consider while at the residency, it is worth having some funds for trips to local cafes and the like. Calculate approximately 5-10 euros a day for such incidentals.

Notes:
• Rooms, Bathrooms at the residency are shared
• Cooking and cleaning the house during our stay is undertaken collectively. We will create a cleaning rota so everyone knows what day they are expected to do what (say help that day with evening dishes, or sweep)

HOW TO APPLY
Paperwork to submit
• A personal statement saying why you want to participate. This statement should speak to this year’s theme. (see above)
• A small sample of your individual work (web-site, videos, pictures etc.)
• Your C.V.

SEND ALL MATERIAL AND INFO AT
[email protected]

Note: Email Subject should have your name_Application Koumaria Residency 2025

SPACE BETWEEN
Digital Arts Festival in Sellasia, Sparta by Medea Electronique
March 1 & 2, 2025

Focusing on in situ creation, cross-media improvisation, and digital media, it will host artists from Greece, Europe, and Canada. The festival features sound performances, performative installations, VR works, and videos, presented in various locations in and around the village. The festival is realized through close collaboration with the local residents, whose care and support continuously inspire us—whether through practical assistance or by providing materials that enrich our artistic projects.

New artistic practices often operate “in between” the real and the imaginary, the actual and the virtual. Through immersive media, virtual reality, and electroacoustic music, the boundaries between the real and the fictional, the authentic and the constructed, have become blurred. Contemporary artists navigate these liminal spaces, crossing the borders between scientific disciplines, arts, media, analog and digital worlds, as well as between creation and research. Simultaneously, they move across spaces, languages, and cultures. How is this liminal space collectively produced? What does it mean to exist “in between”?

In addition to the fixed media works, installations and performances, these questions will also be explored in a discussion moderated and facilitated by Christos Carras (CCSC_Consulting Synergies for Culture) and Eric Lewis (Professor, McGill University, Canada) on Sunday, March 2, featuring participating artists from Space Between.

Free Admission
We thank the residents of Sellasia for their support and assistance, especially: Yiannis Kapetanakis, Yiannis Kokkinias, and Panagiota Xydi.
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The Space Between Digital Arts Festival is held under the auspices of and with partial financial support from the Ministry of Culture.
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SPACE BETWEEN
Φεστιβάλ Ψηφιακών Τεχνών στη Σελλασία της Σπάρτης από τη Medea Electronique
1 & 2 Μαρτίου 2025

Το Φεστιβάλ Ψηφιακών Τεχνών «Space Between» διοργανώνεται για 1η φορά τον Μάρτιο του 2025, από τη Medea Electronique, στη Σελλασία της Σπάρτης. Εστιάζοντας στην in situ δημιουργία, στον cross-media αυτοσχεδιασμό και τα ψηφιακά μέσα, φιλοξενεί καλλιτέχνες/ιδες από την Ελλάδα, την Ευρώπη, τον Καναδά. Περιλαμβάνει sound perfomances, performative intallations, VR έργα, video, που υλοποιούνται σε τοποθεσίες μέσα και γύρω από το χωριό τόσο για παραστάσεις όσο και για επιτόπιες εγκαταστάσεις. Για την υλοποίησή του Φεστιβάλ συνεργαζόμαστε στενά με τους κατοίκους του χωριού, οι οποίοι κάθε φορά μας συγκινούν με τη φροντίδα και την αρωγή τους, είτε σε πρακτικό επίπεδο είτε τροφοδοτώντας μας με υλικό για τα έργα που δουλεύουμε.

Οι νέες καλλιτεχνικές πρακτικές συχνά λειτουργούν «στο ενδιάμεσο» μεταξύ του πραγματικού και του φαντασιακού, του υπαρκτού και του δυνητικού. Είτε μέσω των εμβυθιστικών μέσων, της εικονικής πραγματικότητας, της ηλεκτροακουστικής μουσικής, τα όρια ανάμεσα στο πραγματικό και το φανταστικό, στο αυθεντικό και το κατασκευασμένο έχουν θολώσει. Οι σύγχρονοι καλλιτέχνες κινούνται μέσα σε αυτούς τους ενδιάμεσους χώρους, διασχίζοντας όρια μεταξύ επιστημονικών κλάδων, τεχνών, μέσων, αναλογικών και ψηφιακών κόσμων, αλλά και ανάμεσα στη δημιουργία και την έρευνα. Παράλληλα, μετακινούνται μεταξύ χώρων, γλωσσών και πολιτισμών. Πώς παράγεται συλλογικά αυτός ο οριακός χώρος; Τι σημαίνει να βρίσκεται κανείς «στο ενδιάμεσο»;

Τα παραπάνω ερωτήματα διερευνώνται και στη συζήτηση που συντονίζουν και εμψυχώνουν οι Χρήστος Καρράς (CCSC_Consulting Synergies for Culture) και Eric Lewis (Καθηγητής, McGill University, Καναδάς) την Κυριακή 2 Μαρτίου,με τη συμμετοχή των καλλιτεχνών/ιδών του Space Between.

Είσοδος Ελεύθερη

Ευχαριστούμε για τη ν υποστήριξη και βοήθεια τους κατοίκους της Σελλασίας και ιδιαίτερα τους : Γιάννη Καπετανάκη, Γιάννη Κοκκινιά, Παναγιώτα Ξύδη