A way of resisting (Athens Data Garden), 2020
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The first chapter of Data Garden, A way of resisting (Athens Data Garden) started in 2018 and was finalized in 2020. The second chapter of Data Garden, was created in 2022 under the title The mountain islands shall mourn us eternally (Dolomites Data Garden).
An imaginary community of digital citizens stores its most valuable digital data in micromeria acropolitana – a small plant that is endemic to the Acropolis. The community protects the network of plants by concurrently defending its members’ right to self-disposal of information. As the storage space transitions from the computational “cloud” to the Earth, and as control passes from the companies to the users, the life cycle of data follows that of a plant, fostering a relation of interdependence and care. In a peculiar garden, users become the plants’ gardeners, whereas plants in their turn become gardeners of the stored information.
Can anyone think of the future of connectivity beyond surveillance, minimizing the consequences of technological infrastructures on the natural environment? Is it possible for the bond between human and non-human worlds on this planet to be substituted? Can plants, as organisms on which life itself is depended, contribute to the creation and adoption of new practices of an everyday life that is mediated by technology? Data Garden investigates this set of questions by recounting a fictitious narrative that contains elements of truth. The narrative of Data Garden unravels in spring 2020, amidst the global pandemic that brought the violent awareness of the extreme climate crisis.
Data Garden received in October 2020 the INSPIRE PRIZE 2020 from the Metropolitan Organization of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki, Greece – MOMus.
‘FOR ME, TECHNOLOGY IS AN EXISTENTIAL DISCUSSION’, STUDIO INTERNATIONAL
3 ΕΛΛΗΝΙΔΕΣ ΣΤΑ ΞΕΝΑ: Η ΚΥΡΙΑΚΗ ΓΟΝΗ.., ΤΟ ΠΟΝΤΙΚΙ
BLENHEIM GALLERY WALK LEEDS ART UNIVERSITY SOLO SHOW 2023
ONASIS STEGI 2020 SOLO SHOW VIRTUAL TOUR AND INFO
INSPIRE PRIZE2020, MOMUS ΠΕΙΡΑΜΑΤΙΚΟ ΚΕΝΤΡΟ ΤΕΧΝΩΝ
DATA GARDEN AT ARS ELECTRONICA
ΦΥΤΑ ΣΤΗ ΘΕΣΗ ΣΚΛΗΡΩΝ ΔΙΣΚΩΝ, ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ
ΠΟΛΕΜΙΣΤΗΣ ΣΤΟΝ ΚΗΠΟ, ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ
ΠΡΟΛΑΒΑΙΝΕΙΣ ΝΑ ΔΕΙΣ ΤΟΝ ΚΗΠΟ ΔΕΔΟΜΕΝΩΝ, ATHENS VOICE
ΕΝΑΣ ΚΗΠΟΣ ΔΕΔΟΜΕΝΩΝ ΣΤΗ ΣΤΕΓΗ ΤΟΥ ΙΔΡΥΜΑΤΟΣ ΩΝΑΣΗ, LIFO
ΤΙ "ΔΕΔΟΜΕΝΑ" ΦΥΤΡΩΝΟΥΝ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΚΡΟΠΟΛΗ, THE ART NEWSPAPER GREECE
ON INTERSPECIES NETWORKS, AFFINITIES AND AFFECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURES, DELFINA FOUNDATION
DATA GARDEN EXHIBITION REVIEW, FEROCIUS URBANITES
EXAMINING COMPLEX RELATION OF TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY, BALKAN ART SCENE
ΤΕΧΝΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ ΣΥΝΟΜΙΛΟΥΝ ΜΕΣΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΤΕΧΝΗ, ΠΡΙΣΜΑ
ΜΙΑ ΜΥΣΤΗΡΙΑ ΕΓΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΣΗ ΟΠΟΥ ΤΑ ΦΥΤΑ ΑΠΟΘΗΚΕΥΟΥΝ ΨΗΦΙΑΚΑ ΔΕΔΟΜΕΝΑ, ATHINORAMA
ΣΤΟΝ ΠΟΛΥΜΕΣΙΚΟ "ΚΗΠΟ ΔΕΔΟΜΕΝΩΝ" ΣΤΑ ΕΓΚΑΤΑ ΤΗΣ ΣΤΕΓΗΣ Η ΠΛΗΡΟΦΟΡΙΑ ΑΝΘΙΖΕΙ, ΕΛCULTURE
THE WORK WAS COMMISSIONED BY ONASSIS STEGI AND PRESENTED AS A SOLO SHOW AT ONASSIS STEGI IN 2020.