I very recently completed my master of arts by research (MARes) in Hybrid Arts from Ionian University.
The master’s was one year and for about 6 months I conducted a research project on Van Beuningenplein in Amsterdam. I’m now hoping to pursue a lot of the follow-up projects this opened up.
I will gradually be adding pages and posts about it!
Ground Truth – a view from somewhere
This short video presents the different ways this participatory art/research project engages with Van Beuningenplein, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, taking place during October 2025 to March 2026.
Urban tree management applications tend to value a city tree economically, based only on quantifying its ecosystem services – such as cooling and cleaning air, storing carbon, and holding back floodwater. This ‘hard’ data encourages technocratic decisions about the landscape, with major consequences for those who live in it. Cutting down even a sick tree loved by a neighbourhood elicits strong emotions and reactions. Ground truth – A View from Somewhere bridges data perspectives and residents’ lived perceptions by involving local inhabitants in the development of these apps. Using a feminist data-driven art practice to unfold a tree AI companion app and digital twin, they together let the stories that people tell be treated as equally important data, and consider the complexities of inclusion in the neighbourhood. Multiple truths are revealed, to ultimately propose more inclusive and caring relationships between people, technology, and landscape. We speculatively plant fig trees, a new potential native on the tree scene, to help open up processes with the municipality and encourage (non-digital) participation from underserved communities.
I’m currently doing a master’s of arts by research, in hybrid arts!
More info to follow. . .
If you are looking for where to leave feedback about the poster from DCAC 2025 then please go here
I attended some very interesting and amazing gatherings in the last year: the FEMeeting conference, which took place in Evora, Portugal in September 2022
and two Reassemble labs from Fiber festival in Amsterdam. #3 Natural Intelligence, about fossil free internet futures, climate justice and working with nature (from which I joined the Permacomputing wiki group) and #4 Weatherscapes, more specifically taking the weather as its subject for artistic research and making.
I’m currently working at a remote sensing for environmental/social impact benefit corporation (b-corp) as well as at the Waag Futurelab on the More-than-Planet project. More info to come!
Echoing Forms: Experiments in Hybridity is an online exhibition of my photographs at Fermilab (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Batavia, Illinois, USA, 16th August until 15th November 2021.
solo exhibition at the fermilab online gallery with artist’s talk on 3rd october (9pm CEST/2pm CT) (will be recorded)
>> Register for Echoing Forms talk by
Showing Sonogram (from Signature Print) in this exhibition starting just when people are allowed to go to art events again in London…
An exhibition about people and art itself. A polymorphic exhibition curated by Vanessa Giorgo, Anna Kolosova and Melissa Vipritskaya Topal showcasing artworks of different mediums and perspectives about how it really is to be a part of this community.
There is this idea(l) of the artist creating art for art’s sake, living la vie bohème, being envied for their freedom and having the liberty to express their individuality. But is this the case?
Being a practicing artist does not necessarily mean one’s life is effortless and without any obstacles. Taking the (often subconscious) decision to become an artist comes with costs. Countless external factors hinder many artists from reaching their full potential by limiting their existence. Living in a world where the humanities and, in particular, the arts, are not favoured by the wider socio-economic system as a fruitful financial ecosystem, indicates that the majority of people working in the creative industries will have to find alternative means of supporting themselves financially.
Through an open call, we invited artists who have experienced these types of dualities. Through this show, the participating artists, are exploring how various stimuli from this contradiction have fed into their work, through a variety of mediums. from painting, photography, and digital art, to moving image, textiles, and sound art. It will be a multi-sensory event, consisting of a group of twenty-five creatives who have investigated how their work has been affected by the additional efforts that they have had to make in order to make ends meet, as well as how they imagine their futures will unfold. Driven by an emotional and ethical impetus, the purpose of this project is to reflect on the truths of the people in the creative industries, showcasing the complex character of their realities through their art and to pave the way of repurposing the art world with more care and collectivity.
Dates: 18th to 23rd May 2021
Private View: 21st May 2021
Location: Craft Central, E14 3AE
Artists:
Emily Mary Barnett
Sabrina Brouwers
Rebecca Byrne
Elodie Carrel
Silas Grocott Cain
Charlie Hawksfield
Megan Jentsch
Stuart Jones
Anna Kolosova
Eman Khokhar
Pasqual “Lino” Livrieri
Sujata Majumdar
Seray Ozdemir
Zula Rabikowska
Cameron Randall
Belen Santamarina
Sound Hybrid Artist (S.H.A.)
Mia Sinclair
Sophie Stewart
Eirini Tampasouli
Melissa Vipritskaya Topal
Roberta Volpe
Jeremy Wolf
Curators: Vanessa Giorgo, Anna Kolosova, Melissa Vipritskaya Topal
For any enquiries, please contact van.giorgo@gmail.com
30% of all donations will go to the mental health charity Mind.
The space is wheelchair accessible.
Showing a few works from roots/home and one from signature print, in this beautiful exhibition curated by Vanessa Giorgo, with 7 other amazing second generation artists.
nb you need to rsvp to Vanessa (email on the flyer) to attend in Southend on 24th/25th!
I’ll post the link to the online exhibition when available.
…This exhibition will explore the complex perspectives of second-generation immigrants around their lived experiences regarding their balancing of their cultures and their oscillation between feelings of belonging to the ‘motherland/s’ and the ‘promised-land’. Do they put down roots and become assimilated in the new culture or do they carry their ancestors’ heritage and try to reproduce it – are their parents’ cultural traditions passed down on them and their descendants more often than not? Do they create new traditions in their country of birth?
Collaborating with Jenny Timmer for my second Cyclic Matter artist collaboration!
Our podcast has been recorded and I will announce it here as soon as it’s available to listen to.
A conversation with Dominique Cro, kicking off our 3 month collaboration on an art work for Cyclic Matter. It is inspired by the subject and questions posed by our curator and moderator Inês Ferreira Norman.
It’s the second episode in the exhibiting artists’ podcast series from Radio mARTen, Cyclic Matter’s podcast channel:
(direct link to soundcloud here)
