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ΤΕΙ. Β΄Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο με θέμα «Η Αισθητική στη Νέα Ψηφιακή Πραγματικότητα»,, 2016
Για να τεκμηριωθεί και να αξιοποιηθεί η λεγόμενη ψηφιακή πραγματικότητα θα πρέπει να καταγραφεί, ... more Για να τεκμηριωθεί και να αξιοποιηθεί η λεγόμενη ψηφιακή πραγματικότητα θα πρέπει να καταγραφεί, να αποσαφηνιστούν τα διακριτά όριά της και να μελετηθούν τα ειδικά χαρακτηριστικά της. Η διαδικασία αυτή δεν είναι τόσο εύκολη, γιατί η ψηφιακή τεχνολογία σε πολλές περιπτώσεις αντικατέστησε τη μηχανική ή ηλεκτρονική τεχνολογία με έναν ιδιαίτερα αποτελεσματικό τρόπο, συνεχίζοντας την ίδια παράδοση και αφήνοντας ανεκμετάλλευτες τις ιδιαίτερες ιδιότητές της. Ουσιαστικά, δημιουργούνται τρεις διαφορετικές πραγματικότητες που σχετίζονται με την ψηφιακή τεχνολογία: η κοινωνική πραγματικότητα, η οποία απορρέει από τις έρευνες της επίδρασης της ψηφιακής τεχνολογίας στην κοινωνία, η εργασιακή πραγματικότητα, η οποία εξελίσσεται λόγω των νέων εργαλείων και νέων επαγγελμάτων και τέλος η νέα ψηφιακή πραγματικότητα, η οποία κατά την άποψη μας, βρίσκεται ακόμα στα πρώτα στάδια της ανάπτυξής της και η οποία αποτελεί ουσιαστικά έναν νέο χώρο προς εξερεύνηση. Μέχρι τώρα κυρίως έχει δημιουργηθεί το περιβάλλον μέσα στο οποίο πρόκειται να εδραιωθεί η νέα πραγματικότητα, καθώς και τα νέα εργαλεία, θεωρητικά και πρακτικά, τα οποία θα την ερμηνεύσουν. Το εργαστήριο πολυμέσων της ΑΣΚΤ και στη συνέχεια το Ελληνογαλλικό Μάστερ από την αρχή της ύπαρξής τους, ερευνούν και πειραματίζονται προς την κατεύθυνση καθορισμού και αξιοποίησης της νέας ψηφιακής πραγματικότητας. Το παρόν κείμενο αποτελεί μια σύνοψη αυτών των προσπαθειών.
In the last decade, Art education has experienced important changes due to the introduction of en... more In the last decade, Art education has experienced important changes due to the introduction of entirely innovative forms of expression and communication. Digital technology is the critical factor to give birth to these forms. In the digital era, the artistic laboratory and thus the entire Art education system is equally dynamic as the artwork itself. Digital interactive artworks, and even traditional artworks subject to digital processing (e.g. video montage), require innovative approaches in their creative process structure, with this effecting seriously their aesthetics. These entirely new approaches also reflect on the educational methodology. On the other hand, digital technology has created new facts regarding artist's identity and relation with society. Social web and collaborative authoring platforms have removed the artists' isolation and have established artistic communities that join forces towards batch modes of expression and production. This reflects on the educational process through collaborative and distance learning practices. The Multimedia-Hypermedia & Video Art laboratory of the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) is built on the above ideas and has always dynamically acted towards the development of a new generation laboratory that faces the new challenges. The basic principles that have evolved through 10 years of research are the following: A. The artist is a member of an interdisciplinary group, in an interconnected laboratory. B. The space for artistic experimentation, communication and lifelong learning of this artist is a virtual space that the authors call meta-space. It is a special platform allowing the investigation of innovative concepts and structures that the digital environment encapsulates in its core. This is achieved by defining a conceptual multidimensional space that manages elements (e.g. sounds, images, texts, actions) and their ontological relations, rather than a virtual 3D space imitating real world through realistic landscapes and avatars. Special courses on programming concepts and structures complete and upgrade this meta-space. In other words, this meta-space is an educational system that evolves by its participants. C. In addition to handling artistic elements and concepts, this meta-space has the potential to act also as a knowledge-space. This knowledge-space provides the artist with tools for theoretical (artistic and scientific) research. These tools enable advanced searching, as well as organization and classification of information. This knowledge-space is important as it allows linking of the artistic thought with other human thought disciplines (e.g. philosophy, mathematics etc). It communicates with external evolving systems, such as PLM systems, the semantic web. Since the establishment of the ASFA Multimedia-Hypermedia & Video Art laboratory, these ideas have moved on through personal research of its members, and collaborations with other universities, namely the This paper presents a) the gained experience from these actions and b) the results and directions for further research towards a complete proposal for a future digital creative laboratory structure.
Proceedings of the 17th EDITION OF THE EUTIC international conference - IN THE INTERSECTION OF ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: DIALOGOS BETWEEN HUMANS AND MACHINES, 2022
A prosperous area for experimentation, measuring and interpretation of recorded tracking data has... more A prosperous area for experimentation, measuring and interpretation of recorded tracking data has been
shaped through emerging biofeedback tracking technologies.
Within this context, contemporary digital art education could be expanded to include suitable methodologies
of studying such innovative mechanisms and integrating them in artistic experimentation frameworks. This
paper presents such an experimentation framework developed within the educational activities of the Multimedia
Laboratory of Athens School of Fine Arts. The framework is composed of the following fundamental components:
a) a proposed educational methodology on utilizing that technology in art practices in virtual space, b) the
research methodology upon available low-cost EEG technology on tracking subject’s responses to stimuli and
artistic experiences that utilize such mechanisms c) the experimentation prototype platform that has been suitably
designed. Based upon this framework, different emerging case-study scenarios in virtual space utilizing EEG from
student artists will be analysed.
Acotaciones. Revista de Investigación y Creación Teatral
In the following paper, the case of Experiments in Automatic Writing, a festival-project that too... more In the following paper, the case of Experiments in Automatic Writing, a festival-project that took place in October 2011 at Fournos Centre for Digital Culture in Athens, Greece, and involved collabora-tive writing and performance with the use of digital media, is presented and discussed. The project lasted for 4 days and involved 42 writers, playwrights, journalists, artists, poets, chat users, performers, actors, musicians, a visual artist and a chat bot. The article reflects on the so-cial, theoretical, writing and performative circumstances that gave rise to the project as well as its intentions and outcomes. By analyzing in depth the project, a reflective contribution to the field of digitally enhanced performance and theatre gamification practices is intended, from the point of view of the designer of the event as well as that of the practitioner. Some suggestions are made with regards to possible future uses of the methodology developed within the project framework in the arts...
Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Games Based Learning (ECGBL 2021), Publisher: Academic Conferences International, 2021
The majority of children and students play computer games and are familiar with their terminology... more The majority of children and students play computer games and are familiar with their terminology. However, they may not know how they are constructed and, primarily, they are not aware of their importance for contemporary digital culture. The same applies, also, for educators. In this paper, we present a proposal for an open prototype workshop, a combination of software and methodology, introducing art students and educators to concepts of contemporary digital culture (e.g. ecosystems of humans and artificial entities), through a construction and composition approach, based on powerful tools of multiuser games. The proposed workshop is named Creation of the world, precisely because it concerns the construction of an original multiuser world, collaboratively by educators and students. It is organized in a scalable way, adaptable to different levels of education and technological knowledge. Creation of the world is built upon the infrastructure of @postasis platform (apostasis.eu), which we have specially designed to support distance, collaborative education and artistic creation. This platform has been implemented based on Unity game engine and provides customizable tools for creating virtual entities with dynamic behaviours (avatars, Non-Player-Characters (NPCs), Internet-of-Things mechanisms) that coexist in a multiuser access space. The role of the educator is important throughout the workshop as to the definition of the world's main concept, the rules of its development (e.g. NPCs' behaviours) based on platform's tools, and the transfer of these to the students through targeted lessons. Students are encouraged to jointly construct elements of realistic or imaginary artificial worlds and their characters, by using composite means, starting from existing knowledge (e.g. painting, texts, digital elements, scripting). Their creations are gradually transformed and integrated in the platform's space, thus developing an ecosystem of interacting virtual characters and humans. Students and educators dressed as avatars jointly experience the constructed world and discuss on its concepts and redesign. Through this process they both acquire practical skills, and a critical view of the production cycle of such a world, and thus are able to reflect on creative ideas. Results are presented from cases of secondary and higher art education and directions of further research are proposed.
Produced in the scope of the 5th Multiplier Event of Erasmus+ @postasis: Virtual Artistic Laboratory (23-24/1/2020) Organization: Athens School of Fine Arts, 2020
Approaching the work of Pantelis Xagoraris through contemporary digital spaces. Α proposal for an... more Approaching the work of Pantelis Xagoraris through contemporary digital spaces. Α proposal for an experimental course through an artistic "action" with the Virtual Artistic Laboratory - @postasis platform (Erasmus+)
This paper presents the Global Earth Artistic Project, an ongoing project developed by the artist... more This paper presents the Global Earth Artistic Project, an ongoing project developed by the artist Manthos Santorineos and the computer scientist Stavroula Zoi. Ιt is a virtual exhibition in which, through the Geo-located Augmented Reality technology, virtual artworks will be exhibited in different areas of the earth related to major important but also minor but equally important events to the evolution of humans. These events show different paths of humanity.
In order to access this “geo-exhibition”, visitors have to download the relevant Android app from the web site of the exhibition, go to the specified geographical points and view the corresponding exhibits through their smart phones or tablets.
The creation of the Global Earth Artistic Project will be completed in three years, that is, when it is said that probably there will be the first colony on the Moon. The next stage is that this exhibition is transferred as a set of images to the implied Moon colony.
Regarding the technological implementation, it will also evolve based on corresponding technological advances in Geo-located Augmented Reality, accessible through smart devices. An important aspect will be to make the visitors conscious of the “pyramidal” space formed by their smart phone and the, at least three, satellites calculating Geographical Positioning System (GPS) coordinates, and, on the other hand, to provide the creator a framework for developing structures, in order to explore all the dimensions of this particular space.
The first version of the technological platform supporting the above functionality (the Geo(augmented)CulturalSpace platform) has been designed and is under implementation by the authors, based on the Unity game engine.
Τhe first experimental tests took place, in the form of a virtual exhibition in the context of the 2nd «Κοινωνώ» Art Festival, Tinos, Greece, 15/7/- 2/9 2017 (https://www.kinono.gr/). A number of artists that come from the island of Tinos were asked to create a small artwork and link it to a specific point in the landscape of Tinos. The exhibition was curated by Manthos Santorineos and Christos Artemis and was transferred to the Geo(augmented)CulturalSpace platform. The public was asked to participate through their GPS enabled Android smart phones.
La société se trouve dans une situation hybride entre la civilisation du papier et celle de la te... more La société se trouve dans une situation hybride entre la civilisation du papier et celle de la technologie numérique, surtout en ce qui concerne l’enregistrement de la connaissance, mais la technologie numérique est actuellement utilisée pour l’amélioration des conditions et non pour leur évolution, et les vrais changements ne sont pas encore accomplis. Or les propriétés du nouveau système de traitement de la mémoire pourraient être exploitées en vue d’un changement de la manière de recherche et l’artiste-chercheur peut profiter d’une technologie qui se caractérise de la notion de « plateforme » et non plus de « media ». Dans ce cadre, il a été créé un système pour l’usage des capacités numériques de traitement de la connaissance pour affronter les problèmes de complexité de l’objet de recherche. Nous étudions ainsi l’hypothèse que ce système, le doctorat_machine, constitue la nouvelle forme de doctorat au niveau de l’enregistrement et de la présentation de la recherche.
International Conference The Future of Education 5th Edition, Jun 11, 2015
The use of digital technology and interactive games as educational tools, after a period of skept... more The use of digital technology and interactive games as educational tools, after a period of skepticism on behalf of the educational system itself, has been adopted by the latter, giving very positive results. One of the most important reasons for this acceptance has been the use of these tools in the area of special education, particularly in the areas of general knowledge or main school subjects through specialized software and peripheral computer devices. What happens however in music education that appeals to deaf students? Can technology be used to educate the deaf on music?
So far in this area, technology has established its presence through peripheral systems, especially analog, such as chairs or accessories transporting vibrations that focus on music pleasure and not on music education. Music education however is particularly important, since through this process someone is able to develop abilities such as synchronization and harmony, be developed emotionally and mentally, cultivate new skills, improvise, create, and be given the opportunity to leave his imagination free. Moreover, music helps in language skills development and in socialization.
This study aims to integrate digital technology, in particular low-cost virtual reality systems (HMD combined with hand movement tracking systems) in the process of music education for the deaf. The ultimate goal of this research is to offer the deaf a new or a different form of contact with sound through a ludic and interactive environment. An important feature of this effort is the use of technological aids as flexible and affordable solutions, which could easily be used by music institutions, schools, cultural places or even at home.
In addition, interactivity in such an application can result into two more benefits. On one hand due to the active participation of the user, the experience itself becomes more effective and interesting. On the other hand, the system of interaction is able to grant various statistics, such as recording the user's performance, the user's interaction timespan or the repeatability, aiming at further development and upgrading of the application.
The project presented in this paper consists of a composite immersive visual and audio system. For its realization a HMD is used, combined with a hand movement tracking system, as well as a special construction consisting of specialized speakers (low frequency) which surrounds the user at a certain position and distance. The application constitutes of three main categories: a) visual performance of oscillations of the sound in order to make its structure clear, b) creation (by the user) of rhythmic patterns through default processes and c) representation through three-dimensional space of musical compositions specifically made for this purpose in order to describe the frequency range and the meaning of timbre.
The Digital Storytelling in Times of Crisis conference. Laboratory of New Technologies in Communication, Education and the Mass Media and theResearch Institute of Applied Communication of the University of Athens , May 10, 2014
Is there a distinct difference between the perception of «crisis» within a linear narrative mediu... more Is there a distinct difference between the perception of «crisis» within a linear narrative medium and in a medium of interactive storytelling? Do games of interactive storytelling, which have beenaccused as corruptors of youth, contribute significantly to the practice of problems solving, since most
of these games exploit the «crisis» in their central narrative structure? Can they be compared with the news or the mass media? These issues are raised by the Επιλογή in Crisis project, comprising a) the production of a virtual reality artwork where crisis is simulated in an arbitrary artistic way and b) an experiment with different groups of participants aiming to explore the view of crisis through this interactive construction and an audiovisual linear narrative. The most important conclusion is not eventually extracted by the statistical data, but by the fact that approaches of this type are interesting tools for experimentation and research about crisis. This research lies in an intermediate space
concerning art, sociology, psychology and media. The fact that the experiment was performed with a low cost virtual reality device that everyone can obtain - and recently this device was purchased by an important social media company - shows that the direction of this type of research is particularly interesting and could have different ways of evolution.
… and Multimedia, 2009. VSMM'09. 15th …, Jan 1, 2009
This paper presents Action Room II, a low cost experimental hypermedia platform for the creation ... more This paper presents Action Room II, a low cost experimental hypermedia platform for the creation of hybrid stages targeting the needs of experimental performances and spectacles, or for interactive narratives. The main characteristic of this platform is that different media streams, theatrical lighting, humans, objects, and robotic parts can be synchronized through a software console running at a laptop. The design of such a platform was based on a thorough study of performing arts requirements, both referring to audiovisual production and to experimental programming. The adopted technical architecture of the Action Room II platform is presented, along with its implementation. The fact that the Action Room II was used for a full season theatrical play for children, which is presented in this paper, gave the opportunity for further development of the platform and conclusions for the next version.
… 2007. ICALT 2007. Seventh IEEE International …, Jan 1, 2007
In this paper we propose the replacement of the paper dissertation and its substitutes (e.g. text... more In this paper we propose the replacement of the paper dissertation and its substitutes (e.g. text in word or pdf formats) by a new structure, within the environment of a training tool named doctorat_machine. The proposed structure that doctorat_machine produces is a fully digital tree-based form of knowledge classification, within which the dissertation structure is dynamically organized and presented. The proposed platform is predicated on the following two conditions: A) the existence of a digital library, with a different organization than that of the Dewey Decimal System, in an innovative system which we are developing and we call binary and B) a different "script" of the Ph.D., not based on paper, but on the proposed platform.
… , 2007. ICALT 2007. …, Jan 1, 2007
In this paper we argue that teaching Digital Arts, which is more than teaching new media, require... more In this paper we argue that teaching Digital Arts, which is more than teaching new media, requires collaboration beyond national characteristics, state-of- the-art technology, and powerful expressive means which are found in multi-user virtual environments and games platforms. We present our experiences from the Delphous experiment, on a prototype multi-user platform for artistic training and collaborative creation.
Body, Space & Technology …, Jan 1, 2011
Contemporary designs create new performance structures in terms of directing and acting on the st... more Contemporary designs create new performance structures in terms of directing and acting on the stage with the assistance of the technology. We have moved far from physical props and furniture in order to create the environment. "Soft sets" [Aronson 2008: 27], digital pictures, virtual spaces and human's bodies create the main illusionistic environment, which absorbs the performer and his audience. We have moved away from Giacomo Balla's designs, where lights replaced performers' bodies. Scenography has become a setting that can be created by a bodysuit or an exoskeleton controlled by the spectator via a computer interface. Digital scenography builds new worlds, strongly influenced and affected by the technological advancement. Telematic sets, Robotic and Cyborg Theatres create a new era in the performance art.
EASA007 CITY INDEX, Ecole d’Architecture Université Technique National d’Athènes NTUA, Athens, Greece, 2010
ΤΕΙ. Β΄Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο με θέμα «Η Αισθητική στη Νέα Ψηφιακή Πραγματικότητα»,, 2016
Για να τεκμηριωθεί και να αξιοποιηθεί η λεγόμενη ψηφιακή πραγματικότητα θα πρέπει να καταγραφεί, ... more Για να τεκμηριωθεί και να αξιοποιηθεί η λεγόμενη ψηφιακή πραγματικότητα θα πρέπει να καταγραφεί, να αποσαφηνιστούν τα διακριτά όριά της και να μελετηθούν τα ειδικά χαρακτηριστικά της. Η διαδικασία αυτή δεν είναι τόσο εύκολη, γιατί η ψηφιακή τεχνολογία σε πολλές περιπτώσεις αντικατέστησε τη μηχανική ή ηλεκτρονική τεχνολογία με έναν ιδιαίτερα αποτελεσματικό τρόπο, συνεχίζοντας την ίδια παράδοση και αφήνοντας ανεκμετάλλευτες τις ιδιαίτερες ιδιότητές της. Ουσιαστικά, δημιουργούνται τρεις διαφορετικές πραγματικότητες που σχετίζονται με την ψηφιακή τεχνολογία: η κοινωνική πραγματικότητα, η οποία απορρέει από τις έρευνες της επίδρασης της ψηφιακής τεχνολογίας στην κοινωνία, η εργασιακή πραγματικότητα, η οποία εξελίσσεται λόγω των νέων εργαλείων και νέων επαγγελμάτων και τέλος η νέα ψηφιακή πραγματικότητα, η οποία κατά την άποψη μας, βρίσκεται ακόμα στα πρώτα στάδια της ανάπτυξής της και η οποία αποτελεί ουσιαστικά έναν νέο χώρο προς εξερεύνηση. Μέχρι τώρα κυρίως έχει δημιουργηθεί το περιβάλλον μέσα στο οποίο πρόκειται να εδραιωθεί η νέα πραγματικότητα, καθώς και τα νέα εργαλεία, θεωρητικά και πρακτικά, τα οποία θα την ερμηνεύσουν. Το εργαστήριο πολυμέσων της ΑΣΚΤ και στη συνέχεια το Ελληνογαλλικό Μάστερ από την αρχή της ύπαρξής τους, ερευνούν και πειραματίζονται προς την κατεύθυνση καθορισμού και αξιοποίησης της νέας ψηφιακής πραγματικότητας. Το παρόν κείμενο αποτελεί μια σύνοψη αυτών των προσπαθειών.
In the last decade, Art education has experienced important changes due to the introduction of en... more In the last decade, Art education has experienced important changes due to the introduction of entirely innovative forms of expression and communication. Digital technology is the critical factor to give birth to these forms. In the digital era, the artistic laboratory and thus the entire Art education system is equally dynamic as the artwork itself. Digital interactive artworks, and even traditional artworks subject to digital processing (e.g. video montage), require innovative approaches in their creative process structure, with this effecting seriously their aesthetics. These entirely new approaches also reflect on the educational methodology. On the other hand, digital technology has created new facts regarding artist's identity and relation with society. Social web and collaborative authoring platforms have removed the artists' isolation and have established artistic communities that join forces towards batch modes of expression and production. This reflects on the educational process through collaborative and distance learning practices. The Multimedia-Hypermedia & Video Art laboratory of the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) is built on the above ideas and has always dynamically acted towards the development of a new generation laboratory that faces the new challenges. The basic principles that have evolved through 10 years of research are the following: A. The artist is a member of an interdisciplinary group, in an interconnected laboratory. B. The space for artistic experimentation, communication and lifelong learning of this artist is a virtual space that the authors call meta-space. It is a special platform allowing the investigation of innovative concepts and structures that the digital environment encapsulates in its core. This is achieved by defining a conceptual multidimensional space that manages elements (e.g. sounds, images, texts, actions) and their ontological relations, rather than a virtual 3D space imitating real world through realistic landscapes and avatars. Special courses on programming concepts and structures complete and upgrade this meta-space. In other words, this meta-space is an educational system that evolves by its participants. C. In addition to handling artistic elements and concepts, this meta-space has the potential to act also as a knowledge-space. This knowledge-space provides the artist with tools for theoretical (artistic and scientific) research. These tools enable advanced searching, as well as organization and classification of information. This knowledge-space is important as it allows linking of the artistic thought with other human thought disciplines (e.g. philosophy, mathematics etc). It communicates with external evolving systems, such as PLM systems, the semantic web. Since the establishment of the ASFA Multimedia-Hypermedia & Video Art laboratory, these ideas have moved on through personal research of its members, and collaborations with other universities, namely the This paper presents a) the gained experience from these actions and b) the results and directions for further research towards a complete proposal for a future digital creative laboratory structure.
Proceedings of the 17th EDITION OF THE EUTIC international conference - IN THE INTERSECTION OF ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: DIALOGOS BETWEEN HUMANS AND MACHINES, 2022
A prosperous area for experimentation, measuring and interpretation of recorded tracking data has... more A prosperous area for experimentation, measuring and interpretation of recorded tracking data has been
shaped through emerging biofeedback tracking technologies.
Within this context, contemporary digital art education could be expanded to include suitable methodologies
of studying such innovative mechanisms and integrating them in artistic experimentation frameworks. This
paper presents such an experimentation framework developed within the educational activities of the Multimedia
Laboratory of Athens School of Fine Arts. The framework is composed of the following fundamental components:
a) a proposed educational methodology on utilizing that technology in art practices in virtual space, b) the
research methodology upon available low-cost EEG technology on tracking subject’s responses to stimuli and
artistic experiences that utilize such mechanisms c) the experimentation prototype platform that has been suitably
designed. Based upon this framework, different emerging case-study scenarios in virtual space utilizing EEG from
student artists will be analysed.
Acotaciones. Revista de Investigación y Creación Teatral
In the following paper, the case of Experiments in Automatic Writing, a festival-project that too... more In the following paper, the case of Experiments in Automatic Writing, a festival-project that took place in October 2011 at Fournos Centre for Digital Culture in Athens, Greece, and involved collabora-tive writing and performance with the use of digital media, is presented and discussed. The project lasted for 4 days and involved 42 writers, playwrights, journalists, artists, poets, chat users, performers, actors, musicians, a visual artist and a chat bot. The article reflects on the so-cial, theoretical, writing and performative circumstances that gave rise to the project as well as its intentions and outcomes. By analyzing in depth the project, a reflective contribution to the field of digitally enhanced performance and theatre gamification practices is intended, from the point of view of the designer of the event as well as that of the practitioner. Some suggestions are made with regards to possible future uses of the methodology developed within the project framework in the arts...
Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Games Based Learning (ECGBL 2021), Publisher: Academic Conferences International, 2021
The majority of children and students play computer games and are familiar with their terminology... more The majority of children and students play computer games and are familiar with their terminology. However, they may not know how they are constructed and, primarily, they are not aware of their importance for contemporary digital culture. The same applies, also, for educators. In this paper, we present a proposal for an open prototype workshop, a combination of software and methodology, introducing art students and educators to concepts of contemporary digital culture (e.g. ecosystems of humans and artificial entities), through a construction and composition approach, based on powerful tools of multiuser games. The proposed workshop is named Creation of the world, precisely because it concerns the construction of an original multiuser world, collaboratively by educators and students. It is organized in a scalable way, adaptable to different levels of education and technological knowledge. Creation of the world is built upon the infrastructure of @postasis platform (apostasis.eu), which we have specially designed to support distance, collaborative education and artistic creation. This platform has been implemented based on Unity game engine and provides customizable tools for creating virtual entities with dynamic behaviours (avatars, Non-Player-Characters (NPCs), Internet-of-Things mechanisms) that coexist in a multiuser access space. The role of the educator is important throughout the workshop as to the definition of the world's main concept, the rules of its development (e.g. NPCs' behaviours) based on platform's tools, and the transfer of these to the students through targeted lessons. Students are encouraged to jointly construct elements of realistic or imaginary artificial worlds and their characters, by using composite means, starting from existing knowledge (e.g. painting, texts, digital elements, scripting). Their creations are gradually transformed and integrated in the platform's space, thus developing an ecosystem of interacting virtual characters and humans. Students and educators dressed as avatars jointly experience the constructed world and discuss on its concepts and redesign. Through this process they both acquire practical skills, and a critical view of the production cycle of such a world, and thus are able to reflect on creative ideas. Results are presented from cases of secondary and higher art education and directions of further research are proposed.
Produced in the scope of the 5th Multiplier Event of Erasmus+ @postasis: Virtual Artistic Laboratory (23-24/1/2020) Organization: Athens School of Fine Arts, 2020
Approaching the work of Pantelis Xagoraris through contemporary digital spaces. Α proposal for an... more Approaching the work of Pantelis Xagoraris through contemporary digital spaces. Α proposal for an experimental course through an artistic "action" with the Virtual Artistic Laboratory - @postasis platform (Erasmus+)
This paper presents the Global Earth Artistic Project, an ongoing project developed by the artist... more This paper presents the Global Earth Artistic Project, an ongoing project developed by the artist Manthos Santorineos and the computer scientist Stavroula Zoi. Ιt is a virtual exhibition in which, through the Geo-located Augmented Reality technology, virtual artworks will be exhibited in different areas of the earth related to major important but also minor but equally important events to the evolution of humans. These events show different paths of humanity.
In order to access this “geo-exhibition”, visitors have to download the relevant Android app from the web site of the exhibition, go to the specified geographical points and view the corresponding exhibits through their smart phones or tablets.
The creation of the Global Earth Artistic Project will be completed in three years, that is, when it is said that probably there will be the first colony on the Moon. The next stage is that this exhibition is transferred as a set of images to the implied Moon colony.
Regarding the technological implementation, it will also evolve based on corresponding technological advances in Geo-located Augmented Reality, accessible through smart devices. An important aspect will be to make the visitors conscious of the “pyramidal” space formed by their smart phone and the, at least three, satellites calculating Geographical Positioning System (GPS) coordinates, and, on the other hand, to provide the creator a framework for developing structures, in order to explore all the dimensions of this particular space.
The first version of the technological platform supporting the above functionality (the Geo(augmented)CulturalSpace platform) has been designed and is under implementation by the authors, based on the Unity game engine.
Τhe first experimental tests took place, in the form of a virtual exhibition in the context of the 2nd «Κοινωνώ» Art Festival, Tinos, Greece, 15/7/- 2/9 2017 (https://www.kinono.gr/). A number of artists that come from the island of Tinos were asked to create a small artwork and link it to a specific point in the landscape of Tinos. The exhibition was curated by Manthos Santorineos and Christos Artemis and was transferred to the Geo(augmented)CulturalSpace platform. The public was asked to participate through their GPS enabled Android smart phones.
La société se trouve dans une situation hybride entre la civilisation du papier et celle de la te... more La société se trouve dans une situation hybride entre la civilisation du papier et celle de la technologie numérique, surtout en ce qui concerne l’enregistrement de la connaissance, mais la technologie numérique est actuellement utilisée pour l’amélioration des conditions et non pour leur évolution, et les vrais changements ne sont pas encore accomplis. Or les propriétés du nouveau système de traitement de la mémoire pourraient être exploitées en vue d’un changement de la manière de recherche et l’artiste-chercheur peut profiter d’une technologie qui se caractérise de la notion de « plateforme » et non plus de « media ». Dans ce cadre, il a été créé un système pour l’usage des capacités numériques de traitement de la connaissance pour affronter les problèmes de complexité de l’objet de recherche. Nous étudions ainsi l’hypothèse que ce système, le doctorat_machine, constitue la nouvelle forme de doctorat au niveau de l’enregistrement et de la présentation de la recherche.
International Conference The Future of Education 5th Edition, Jun 11, 2015
The use of digital technology and interactive games as educational tools, after a period of skept... more The use of digital technology and interactive games as educational tools, after a period of skepticism on behalf of the educational system itself, has been adopted by the latter, giving very positive results. One of the most important reasons for this acceptance has been the use of these tools in the area of special education, particularly in the areas of general knowledge or main school subjects through specialized software and peripheral computer devices. What happens however in music education that appeals to deaf students? Can technology be used to educate the deaf on music?
So far in this area, technology has established its presence through peripheral systems, especially analog, such as chairs or accessories transporting vibrations that focus on music pleasure and not on music education. Music education however is particularly important, since through this process someone is able to develop abilities such as synchronization and harmony, be developed emotionally and mentally, cultivate new skills, improvise, create, and be given the opportunity to leave his imagination free. Moreover, music helps in language skills development and in socialization.
This study aims to integrate digital technology, in particular low-cost virtual reality systems (HMD combined with hand movement tracking systems) in the process of music education for the deaf. The ultimate goal of this research is to offer the deaf a new or a different form of contact with sound through a ludic and interactive environment. An important feature of this effort is the use of technological aids as flexible and affordable solutions, which could easily be used by music institutions, schools, cultural places or even at home.
In addition, interactivity in such an application can result into two more benefits. On one hand due to the active participation of the user, the experience itself becomes more effective and interesting. On the other hand, the system of interaction is able to grant various statistics, such as recording the user's performance, the user's interaction timespan or the repeatability, aiming at further development and upgrading of the application.
The project presented in this paper consists of a composite immersive visual and audio system. For its realization a HMD is used, combined with a hand movement tracking system, as well as a special construction consisting of specialized speakers (low frequency) which surrounds the user at a certain position and distance. The application constitutes of three main categories: a) visual performance of oscillations of the sound in order to make its structure clear, b) creation (by the user) of rhythmic patterns through default processes and c) representation through three-dimensional space of musical compositions specifically made for this purpose in order to describe the frequency range and the meaning of timbre.
The Digital Storytelling in Times of Crisis conference. Laboratory of New Technologies in Communication, Education and the Mass Media and theResearch Institute of Applied Communication of the University of Athens , May 10, 2014
Is there a distinct difference between the perception of «crisis» within a linear narrative mediu... more Is there a distinct difference between the perception of «crisis» within a linear narrative medium and in a medium of interactive storytelling? Do games of interactive storytelling, which have beenaccused as corruptors of youth, contribute significantly to the practice of problems solving, since most
of these games exploit the «crisis» in their central narrative structure? Can they be compared with the news or the mass media? These issues are raised by the Επιλογή in Crisis project, comprising a) the production of a virtual reality artwork where crisis is simulated in an arbitrary artistic way and b) an experiment with different groups of participants aiming to explore the view of crisis through this interactive construction and an audiovisual linear narrative. The most important conclusion is not eventually extracted by the statistical data, but by the fact that approaches of this type are interesting tools for experimentation and research about crisis. This research lies in an intermediate space
concerning art, sociology, psychology and media. The fact that the experiment was performed with a low cost virtual reality device that everyone can obtain - and recently this device was purchased by an important social media company - shows that the direction of this type of research is particularly interesting and could have different ways of evolution.
… and Multimedia, 2009. VSMM'09. 15th …, Jan 1, 2009
This paper presents Action Room II, a low cost experimental hypermedia platform for the creation ... more This paper presents Action Room II, a low cost experimental hypermedia platform for the creation of hybrid stages targeting the needs of experimental performances and spectacles, or for interactive narratives. The main characteristic of this platform is that different media streams, theatrical lighting, humans, objects, and robotic parts can be synchronized through a software console running at a laptop. The design of such a platform was based on a thorough study of performing arts requirements, both referring to audiovisual production and to experimental programming. The adopted technical architecture of the Action Room II platform is presented, along with its implementation. The fact that the Action Room II was used for a full season theatrical play for children, which is presented in this paper, gave the opportunity for further development of the platform and conclusions for the next version.
… 2007. ICALT 2007. Seventh IEEE International …, Jan 1, 2007
In this paper we propose the replacement of the paper dissertation and its substitutes (e.g. text... more In this paper we propose the replacement of the paper dissertation and its substitutes (e.g. text in word or pdf formats) by a new structure, within the environment of a training tool named doctorat_machine. The proposed structure that doctorat_machine produces is a fully digital tree-based form of knowledge classification, within which the dissertation structure is dynamically organized and presented. The proposed platform is predicated on the following two conditions: A) the existence of a digital library, with a different organization than that of the Dewey Decimal System, in an innovative system which we are developing and we call binary and B) a different "script" of the Ph.D., not based on paper, but on the proposed platform.
… , 2007. ICALT 2007. …, Jan 1, 2007
In this paper we argue that teaching Digital Arts, which is more than teaching new media, require... more In this paper we argue that teaching Digital Arts, which is more than teaching new media, requires collaboration beyond national characteristics, state-of- the-art technology, and powerful expressive means which are found in multi-user virtual environments and games platforms. We present our experiences from the Delphous experiment, on a prototype multi-user platform for artistic training and collaborative creation.
Body, Space & Technology …, Jan 1, 2011
Contemporary designs create new performance structures in terms of directing and acting on the st... more Contemporary designs create new performance structures in terms of directing and acting on the stage with the assistance of the technology. We have moved far from physical props and furniture in order to create the environment. "Soft sets" [Aronson 2008: 27], digital pictures, virtual spaces and human's bodies create the main illusionistic environment, which absorbs the performer and his audience. We have moved away from Giacomo Balla's designs, where lights replaced performers' bodies. Scenography has become a setting that can be created by a bodysuit or an exoskeleton controlled by the spectator via a computer interface. Digital scenography builds new worlds, strongly influenced and affected by the technological advancement. Telematic sets, Robotic and Cyborg Theatres create a new era in the performance art.
EASA007 CITY INDEX, Ecole d’Architecture Université Technique National d’Athènes NTUA, Athens, Greece, 2010
περιοδικό Dimart και ΣΑΙΞΠΗΡΙΚΟΝ, 2016
Ο Μάνθος Σαντοριναίος απαντά στην Ερώτηση της Δωροθέας Κοντελετζίδου: "Η Ελληνικότητα είναι ο άγγ... more Ο Μάνθος Σαντοριναίος απαντά στην Ερώτηση της Δωροθέας Κοντελετζίδου: "Η Ελληνικότητα είναι ο άγγελος ή δαίμονας στην τέχνη (σας);" Το κείμενο παρουσιάσθηκε στο ιντερνετικό περιοδικό Dimart και εκδόθηκε ως βιβλίο με τον τίτλο ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΤΗΤΑ – ΠΑΓΚΟΣΜΙΟΠΟΙΗΣΗ. 19 ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΟΙ ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ ΚΑΛΛΙΤΕΧΝΕΣ ΑΠΑΝΤΟΥΝ, Εκδότης: ΣΑΙΞΠΗΡΙΚΟΝ
Πολυδύναμο Δίκτυο Επικοινωνίας Φούρνος, 2021
Η έκδοση πραγματοποιήθηκε με αφορμή την έκθεση [τεχνητή] ΝΟΗΜΟΣΥΝΗ του Μάνθου Σαντοριναίου στο κτ... more Η έκδοση πραγματοποιήθηκε με αφορμή την έκθεση [τεχνητή] ΝΟΗΜΟΣΥΝΗ του Μάνθου Σαντοριναίου στο κτήριο του παλιού κινηματογράφου Άλφαβιλ (15 Δεκέμβριου 2021- 9 Ιανουαρίου 2022)
Οργάνωση έκθεσης πραγματοποιήθηκε από το Φούρνος, Κέντρο για τον Ψηφιακό Πολιτισμό -Πολυδύναμο Δίκτυο Επικοινωνίας.
Το κείμενο από τη σελίδα 25 έως 65 έχει δημοσιευθεί στην Εξαμηνιαία Επιστημονική Επιθεώρηση «Κρίση» Τεύχος 8, 2020 / 2 ISSN 2585-2124
Το κείμενο που ακολουθεί αποτελεί μια προεργασία, κάποιες θεωρητικές σκέψεις-εργαλεία για την έκθεση «(τεχνητή) Νοημοσύνη ή Η νέα Άλφαβιλ» που παρουσιάζεται στον παλιό κινηματογράφο Άλφαβιλ (15.12.2021-
9.1.22). Πρόκειται για μια προσπάθεια δημιουργίας ενός διαλόγου ανάμεσα στο κινηματογραφικό έργο Alphaville (Άλφαβιλ) του Jean-Luc Godard (Ζαν-Λυκ Γκοντάρ) και μια σειρά ψηφιακών έργων που σχολιάζουν το παρελθόν και το μέλλον. Κεντρικός άξονας είναι η τεχνολογία. Τόσο η τεχνολογία που αξιοποιείται για την αφήγηση στις δύο διαφορετικές εποχές (η ταινία Άλφαβιλ του Γκοντάρ έγινε το 1965), όσο και ο σχολιασμός για την ίδια την τεχνολογία και τον άνθρωπο που τη δημιουργεί και την αξιοποιεί.
Συνήθως οι εκδηλώσεις οι οποίες έχουν σχέση με την ψηφιακή τεχνολογία και τον τελευταίο καιρό με την κορωνίδα αυτής, την τεχνητή νοημοσύνη παρουσιάζουν σ' ένα μεγάλο ποσοστό εντυπωσιακές εικόνες.
Τόσο εικόνες που παράγονται στον χώρο της τέχνης αλλά και εικόνες που παράγει ή επηρεάζει η ίδια η τεχνητή νοημοσύνη. Η προσέγγιση του θέματός μας δεν συμπίπτει με αυτήν την οπτική, αλλά τη συμπληρώνει.
L' HARMATTAN , Jan 1, 2008
L'ordinateur est un nouvel environnement dans lequel nous sommes obligés de vivre. Le papier n'es... more L'ordinateur est un nouvel environnement dans lequel nous sommes obligés de vivre. Le papier n'est plus en position de répondre aux nouveaux besoins pour l'enregistrement des idées. Une nouvelle méthode d'enregistrement de la recherche pourrait marquer un grand changement dans le système d'enseignement. Sous le nom de doctorat machine est présenté ici un nouvel outil qui pourrait jouer un rôle essentiel dans la mise à niveau de l'éducation.
Catalog of Mediaterra festival 2001. Artistic director Manthos Santorineos
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](Catalog of Mediaterra 2000 festival. Manthos Santorineos Director of the festival, contribution f... more Catalog of Mediaterra 2000 festival. Manthos Santorineos Director of the festival, contribution for the publication Maria Roussou, Maria X
Helicopter House An interactive narrative VR project (Greece – France 2000) by Manthos Santori... more Helicopter House
An interactive narrative VR project (Greece – France 2000)
by Manthos Santorineos
Leonardo, Jan 1, 2005
The web site mouchette.org is animated by the persona of Mouchette, an on-line identity created b... more The web site mouchette.org is animated by the persona of Mouchette, an on-line identity created by an anonymous artist. Toni Sant's introduction places this work in the context of other aspects of identity play on the Internet, and the interview presented here sets out the artist's purposes in creating Mouchette and the understanding of on-line experience underlying the work shown on the site.
Παρουσιάσθηκε στην Ημερίδα με θέμα: "Ψηφιακή Τέχνη και Ιστορία" Διοργάνωση AICA ΕΛΛΑΣ - ΕΜΣΤ (διαδικτυακά) 9 1 2020 και Αναβαθμισμένη, πλαίσιο των δραστηριοτήτων της έκθεσης «τεχνητή ΝΟΗΜΟΣΥΝΗ ή η Νέα Άλφαβιλ» 14 12 2021 – 10 1 2022, 2022
Ο Φούρνος ξεκίνησε το 1993 σαν ένα καταφύγιο μικρών και ανεξάρτητων καλλιτεχνικών προτάσεων. Αποτ... more Ο Φούρνος ξεκίνησε το 1993 σαν ένα καταφύγιο μικρών και ανεξάρτητων καλλιτεχνικών προτάσεων. Αποτελεί έναν από τους πρώτους χώρους στην Ελλάδα που ασχολήθηκαν μεθοδικά με τον Ψηφιακό Πολιτισμό και δημιούργησε τις θετικές συνθήκες για την ανάπτυξη του. Δημιουργήθηκε από την Ντοντό και Μάνθο Σαντοριναίο και στεγάστηκε στο ΑΡΤΟΠΟΙΕΙΟ του παππού του τελευταίου που χτίσθηκε το 1930. Από την αρχή της ίδρυσης του είχε δύο άξονες δράσης που λειτουργούν παράλληλα το θέατρο και γενικά τις παραστατικές τέχνες και τον ψηφιακό πολιτισμό. Στο παρόν ιστορικό παρουσιάζονται οι δράσεις του στον ψηφιακό πολιτισμό.
Keynote speech at 6th EAI International Conference: ArtsIT, Interactivity & Game Creation, 2017
Indies small scale, autonomous companies, with very young people, full of "fresh" ideas, can make... more Indies small scale, autonomous companies, with very young people, full of "fresh" ideas, can make profit of this background for implementing their artistic and commercial work, at minimal cost These new workplace structures that bring together a large group of specialties and professions (designers, directors, sculptors, musicians, programmers, etc.) have many things in common with the revival of the major painting workshops and other structures of the Renaissance 20 th to 21 st century: the revolution of (low cost) mechanisms
Προσεγγίζοντας το έργο του μέσα από σύγχρονα ψηφιακά περιβάλλοντα Πρόταση για ένα πειραματικό μάθ... more Προσεγγίζοντας το έργο του μέσα από σύγχρονα ψηφιακά περιβάλλοντα Πρόταση για ένα πειραματικό μάθημα μέσω μιας καλλιτεχνικής δράσης
με την πλατφόρμα @postasis - Approaching his work through contemporary digital spaces Α proposal for an experimental course through an artistic action with the @postasis platform