Hybrids: On the borderline between Art and Technology at Onassis Cultural Centre

8 NOV 2016 – 15 JAN 2017

12:00-21:00

Exhibition Hall

Suggested age for visitors 12+ years old

Artworks, workshops and performances in a new media show which transcends the boundaries separating art from scientific research.

Want to see science meet art? Technology, activism and pop culture proceed hand in hand in this new exhibition staged by the OCC in collaboration with Ars Electronica, the innovative research and new media cultural centre from Linz, Austria.

Can a work of art create new forms of energy? How would you represent your digital persona in this socially networked world of ours?

Hybrids explores the concept of hybridism—the mixing of different media and idioms to create new forms of artistic expression. Artworks, workshops and performances in a new media show which transcends the boundaries separating art from scientific research. Putting the post- in digital art today at the OCC.

Curated by: Manuela Naveau

Coordination: Christos Carras

Organization: Konstantina Soulioti

Parallel events are curated by: Prodromos Tsiavos

Parallel events are organized by: Heracles Papatheodorou (exhibitions’ parallel events), Marianna Christofi and Pasqua Vorgia (Digital Wednesdays), Myrto Lavda and Eleanna Semitelou (Educational programmes)

Architectural Design: George Parmenidis, Christine Longuépée

Participants: Morehshin Allahyari (Iran), Ars Electronica Futurelab (Austria), James Bridle (United Kingdom), Paolo Cirio (Italy), Gilberto Esparza (Mexico), Exonemo (Japan), Anastasis Germanidis (Greece), Marinos Koutsomichalis (Greece), Manu Luksch (Austria), Lauren McCarthy (USA) and Kyle McDonald (USA), Jon McCormack (Australia), Julian Oliver (Germany) and Danja Vasiliev (Russia), Afroditi Psarra and Marilena Georgantzi (Greece), Saša Spačal (Slovenia) with Anil Podgornik (Slovenia) and Mirjan Švagelj (Slovenia), Lucie Strecker (Germany) and Klaus Spiess (Austria), Alex Verhaest (Belgium)

Hybrid cocktails and drinks by ABSOLUT, “mixing” Swedish tradition and innovation with art, will be the ultimate highlight in the exhibition’s opening night.

Onassis Cultural Centre

Full price: 5 €
Reduced, Friend, Families (3-9 people) & Small groups (5-9 people): 3 €
People with disabilities, Unemployed, Families/Large groups (10+people): 2€
Kids 6-11 years old: Free admission