michalis

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 Registry, Graduate Show, Athens School of Digital Arts

2007 Emergency Room,organised by Thierry Geoffrey at the

Centre for Contemporary Art

Ileana Tounta, Athens/ www.emergencyrooms.org/athens

Meatspace, Actionfield Kodra ‘07, curated by Christoforos Marinos,Thessaloniki.

2006 Non Material World, Digital Arts Festival, Club 22, Athens.

2004 Solus Locus, Gazon Rouge, Athens.

2003 Senses, Gazi, Athens.

2002 Suburbia, the endless areas of the athenian suburbs, Alpha Station, Athens

2001 ?/37 - 58° ?/23 - 43°, One night exhibition Filopappou Hill, Athens.

WORKSHOPS-PARTICIPATIONS

2007 Participation on the "Arab Guggenheim Museum" workshop, organized by

Nikos Charalambides and presented at the 1st Thessaloniki

Biennale of Contemporary Art

2005 Participation on a speech concerning Feminist Art, which took place as a

parallel event at the “Videographies - The early decades” exhibition,

organized by the National Museum of Contemporary Art. Ergostasio,

Athens School of Fine Arts.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2007 Actionfield Kodra 07, catalogue concerning the 7th Visual Arts festival in

Kalamaria-Thessaloniki, published by the Cultural Organisation

Municipality of Kalamaria

Meatspace, interview of Christoforos Marinos-curator of the exhibition Meatspace,

which took place at the Actionfield Kodra 07 festival, Highlights magazine issue #30

2003 Without Limits, the endless areas of the athenian suburbs,

edited by Nikos Kazeros & Pavlos Lefas, FUTURA publications

AWARDS

2001 3rd place in the competition concerning the participation on the

Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean X Edition,

which took place in Serajevo

EDUCATION

2003 – 06 MA in Digital Arts, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece

1995 – 01 Bachelor Fine Arts, Athens School of Fine Arts,Greece

COLLECTIONS

Athens School of Fine Arts

Various private collections

PARTICLES

Exploring the picture elements

In my work I am interested mostly in the procedure of analyzing the structure of any image.

In some cases it is expressed through drawings with dot-based techniques or through programming resulting in digital "drawings"

and optical sequences which are reconstructing an image, while describing its picture elements.

I am mainly resampling already existing images into new ones, emphasizing on the elementary parts of the picture

such as the pixels of a digital image or the dots of a printed image.

By enlarging the parts of an image not only are they made visible, but in some cases even more significant than the whole image.

This alteration of the image results in redefining its aesthetics while the initial representation and its meaning loses its significance and becomes secondary,

sometimes even "absent", only hinted in the title of each work. While the images become more and more unrecognisable,

the main idea is becoming even more evident and it shares affinities with the objectives of Abstract Art but in a more conceptual manner due to the exploration

of both the morphology and meaning of the "particles" in an image.

Optical perception is one of our primary senses and the role of vision amongst the more significant stimulants for the human brain.

Therefore the main goal is the maintenance of their emotional power through our belief upon their impact on our daily life.

This belief can be formed into an almost religious perception of the image, a new "iconolatry" that has as its subject the Image itself.

This can be accomplished through an artistic "fetishism" concerning the picture elements;

a version of the image caused by the exploration and magnification of its inner structure.

The development of digital media forms a new field of perception and possibilities strongly

related to the meaning of the Image itself, digital or not. To a large extent, a result of the way digital media interprets the consisting parts of an image.

Michalis Zacharias 2006