Activities and artists that have been part of Digilog 2024.
Thomas Valianatos (born in 1972, Athens) attended Athens School of Fine Arts, receiving a B.A. in Painting in 2003 and a M.A. in Digital Arts in 2006. The body of his work ranges from 2d & 3d animation works and comic book art works to electronic music composition and live audiovisual performances (1998–2024).
Thomas Valianatos is a founding member of the artistic Audiovisual collective “Pixel Pulse” where it was founded in Athens in April 2022 and is surrounded by visual artists, musicians and …
>> aka Karnaby.n Nikolas Karnabatidis was born in Patras in 1991. In 2016 he graduated from the department Fine and Applied Arts university of Western Macedonia with a specialization in …
01/09/24 – 15/09/24 in Stravas, 20300 Loutraki, Greece. Originally I wanted to share the experiences of this greatly inspiring landscape and region here in the hinterland of Loutraki. Now Digilog is a mix of holidays and livestyle expression of audio and video artists, within the locally offered oportunities and challenges. All in the form of a laid back spontaneous come together to have creative workshops, while still slightly structured by a programme.
Bruce LANE is a creative coder, building his own VJ software, which is an audio-reactive shader mixer. He also uses Resolume, HeavyM and recently Touch Designer, according to the type of installation/performance. Bass player and music composer for Batchass, Boxon, Suture Obsession, Champollion.
On Saturday evening we set up our stuff at Hotel Siagas, booked the meeting of the Narcotics Anonymous, Korinthos branch. This time my video installation » Applause!« was also present with four TVs.
Sophia Liarou is a visual artist and an experimental sound designer who tries to narrate imaginary stories in all possible dimensions.
Tim Vis is a video artist and performer with Strava origins who grew up in Germany as Tim Oberstätter.
Despite of the mainstream technology, he also likes to use old equipment or explore the electronic devices available on site and combine them with the current usual to create unique digital art installations.
For the evening of the 6. September we spontaneously decided to make a pop-up appearance at the restaurand Ηρα* close by. We used the van of Kurt and Steffen as a surface to project on.
Katia Vonna Beltran is a nomadic artist, photographer, video maker and performer whose practice is essentially focused on Live Cinema. As an “Artivist”, she takes up ecological and political issues and explores the notion of Fragility and actions of social Resistance. She brings together collected objects and her own photographic vision. Using a hybrid audiovisual device, mixing low-tech and digital this whole universe comes to life creating a live cinematic story. By diverting and repurposing objects and images, she is questioning our way of living and inhabiting.
Kurt Komell is one of the founders of the 1st Thuringian VJ Crew Queps in 1998. In the first years of the crew, they played the technofloors in southern Thuringia and Erfurt. Early on, Kurt showed an interest in processing real videos and live cameras.
Steffen Koch is a multitalent. He is the owner of a filmmaking company, producing music, programming video plugins. In his work as a video artist, he has performed over 600 shows with various music styles such as techno, dubstep, ska, house, rock, ambient, electro-acoustic composition. From the small club and small projection area with 300 people to large events with LED-WALL as the main artist in front of 50.000 people.
Evangelos Aslanidis is an Athens GR based producer, musician and visual artist. While having participated in various greek indie bands and working as a sessionmusician on several projects, Evangelos was simultaneously working on his own material, exploring new production & music writing techniques. Over the last years Evangelos has morphed into an audiovisual system where he combines his musical creations with visual art elements. Music and audio has become one structure and lately Evangelos explores visual programming, audio reactivity, coding, 3D game engines, 2D as well as mixed visual techniques, while his main tool of exploration is TouchDesigner software.
2024’s public spectacle with live video art performances (VJing) to electronic music, live-sets and dancable Electro-Rock. It happened Friday the 13th September in the venue «Pantelis Zervos*», which is located in a park above the city of Loutraki. On this evening the results of the Digilog live performers come-together have been shown.