Plásmata II: Ioannina - Human, strange, digital, metaphysical
Onassi Stegi’s exhibition series continues in Ioannina, Greece, with contemporary art, concerts, workshops, discussions, and tours of the city.
The second edition of Onassis Stegi’s digital art exhibition, Plásmata II: Ioannina, poses a series of critical questions: Can we speak on the digital without confining ourselves in the form imposed by screens? Can we talk about technology through the notions of the local and the mythical, nature, and tradition? Can technology become the trigger for granting a voice to those who do not have one? Can we dissolve the boundaries between the natural and the artificial and, at the same time, learn from both?
After last year’s edition in Athens and Pedion tou Areos, where Plásmata captivated the Athenian public with more than 400,000 visitors, the show is now on view in the historic city of Ioannina, Greece. Through July 9, you are invited to a large exhibition on the city’s lakeside route featuring digital works and installations by Greek and international artists, as well as concerts and DJ sets, workshops, discussions, educational programs, tours, and Movement Radio, Stegi’s 24-hour online radio station, that will be broadcasting in full sound.
Visit Ioannina — the historic city of letters, philanthropists, and arts — and enjoy how, alongside 10 landmarks, the exhibition dominates the local scenery with 19 artworks that speak to digitality and tradition, artificial intelligence and the transformation of the reality we live in, and mythology and ecology. In a city full of history and stories, experience creations by artists, designers, and visionaries who converse with the past while looking to the future.
In Ioannina, we follow new itineraries and symbioses at the boundary of the city and Lake Pamvotida. We address supra-local issues through local expression; derive knowledge from ecosystems; become transformed and transform at our end; and find time to look at ourselves and everybody around us, questioning the boundaries between nature, technology, and culture.
Participating artists: Entangled Others, Matthias Fritsch, John Gerrard, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Nikomachi Karakostanoglou, Katerina Komianou, Christian Mio Loclair, Maria Louizou, Maenads, Matthew Niederhauser & Marc Da Costa, Afroditi Panagiotakou & Manolis Manousakis, Malvina Panagiotidi, Panos Sklavenitis, slow immediate, Stefania Strouza, Theo Triantafyllidis, Universal Everything, Maria Varela, WordMord
Plásmata II: Ioannina is on view through July 9 in Ioannina, Greece.
To learn more, visit onassis.org.
