FRONTPAGE PROJECT - Workshop
Date Issued
November 21, 2024
Abstract
FRONTPAGE PROJECT - Exhibition | Symposium | Workshop, Department of Fine Arts, School of Fine and Applied Arts, CUT - Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol Municipal University Library, November 20 – 29, 2024
Group exhibition | symposium | workshop centered on the themes of "front page" and "headline news" in print and digital media.
Participants include artists and cultural producers from the visual arts, from academic fields, and the media.
The Department of Fine Arts at the School of Fine and Applied Arts of Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) develops and organises the second part of the international investigative project FRONTPAGE in collaboration with the European Communication Institute (ECI), in partnership with the Athenian Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) and the open visual arts group AxionArt and the collaboration of the Video Art Festival Miden (Mηδέν). It is supported by various academic institutions, including Donau-Universität Krems (DUK). In Cyprus, the research project is curated and organised by assistant professor and visual artist Vicky Pericleous and [Ρε:Re] Speculative Fine Art Practices Lab (CUT), which she develops and coordinates, visual artist Andreas Savva (special teaching staff), and curatorial assistant, Rebecca Taki, student of the MA History and Theory of Art, (CUT), with the support and involvement of the Department of Fine Arts (CUT).
The FRONTPAGE project will unfold through a public symposium featuring esteemed academic speakers addressing topics relevant to the project, alongside the international FRONTPAGE exhibition at Limassol Municipal University Library, and a visual art workshop that engages academics from various fields and students from the Department of Fine Arts at CUT. The outcomes of the workshop will be presented in 2025 in Athens in an expanded exhibition featuring student work from the Athens and Thessaloniki Schools of Fine Arts, the University of West Attica (ΠΑ.Δ.Α.), the Department of Digital and Performing Arts of the University of Peloponnese, the Ionian University, as well as contributions from established artists.
Group exhibition | symposium | workshop centered on the themes of "front page" and "headline news" in print and digital media.
Participants include artists and cultural producers from the visual arts, from academic fields, and the media.
The Department of Fine Arts at the School of Fine and Applied Arts of Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) develops and organises the second part of the international investigative project FRONTPAGE in collaboration with the European Communication Institute (ECI), in partnership with the Athenian Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) and the open visual arts group AxionArt and the collaboration of the Video Art Festival Miden (Mηδέν). It is supported by various academic institutions, including Donau-Universität Krems (DUK). In Cyprus, the research project is curated and organised by assistant professor and visual artist Vicky Pericleous and [Ρε:Re] Speculative Fine Art Practices Lab (CUT), which she develops and coordinates, visual artist Andreas Savva (special teaching staff), and curatorial assistant, Rebecca Taki, student of the MA History and Theory of Art, (CUT), with the support and involvement of the Department of Fine Arts (CUT).
The FRONTPAGE project will unfold through a public symposium featuring esteemed academic speakers addressing topics relevant to the project, alongside the international FRONTPAGE exhibition at Limassol Municipal University Library, and a visual art workshop that engages academics from various fields and students from the Department of Fine Arts at CUT. The outcomes of the workshop will be presented in 2025 in Athens in an expanded exhibition featuring student work from the Athens and Thessaloniki Schools of Fine Arts, the University of West Attica (ΠΑ.Δ.Α.), the Department of Digital and Performing Arts of the University of Peloponnese, the Ionian University, as well as contributions from established artists.