Louie Psihoyos (photographer/filmmaker, USA)

Louie Psihoyos is a second generation Greek-American photographer. He was born in Dubuque, Iowa in 1957, the son of a Greek immigrant from the Peloponnesos region near Sparta.

At the age of 23 he became the first new National Geographic photographer hired on staff in more than a decade and worked with the magazine for 17 years. Psihoyos has been the subject of several books about the work of National Geographic Photographers and has published two books of his own.

Recently she made a documentary film called “The Cove” ortraying the annual killing of more than 2,500 dolphins in a cove at Taiji, Wakayama in Japan, which won the U.S. Audience Award at the 25th annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, United States in January 2009.

Louie Psihoyos - Official website
The Cove – Official website
Louie Psihoyos, “The Cove”: An Ecological Crisis and Green Filmmaking (indiewire.com, 13.01.09)
The Cove at Wikipedia

Athanasios Argianas (Sculptor, UK)

Argianas (b. 1976, Athens, Greece) lives and works in London. Also known as a musician under the pseudonym Gavouna, Argianas demonstrates the versatility of a practice combining several media and formats. His sculptures and installations are based on musical pieces that he’s written.Athanasios Argianas creates ephemeral gestures in space. He simulates small incidents. The suggestion of a broken piece of glass on the floor is made with the low tech trompe l'oeil materials of glue and water.

Athanasios Argianas - one of London's 40 Best Artists (TimeOutLondon, 21.10.08)
New Contemporaries Exhibition in Manchester
Mimicking, Falling and Falling Exhibtion in Max Wigram Gallery, London

Chris Hondros (Photographer, US)

hondros Chris Hondros (born March 14, 1970, in New York City, to immigrant Greek and German parents) is an American Pulitzer Prize-nominated photojournalist. He has worked in most of the world's major conflict zones since the late 1990s, including Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Kashmir, the West Bank, and Iraq.

His work has appeared on the covers of magazines such as Newsweek and The Economist, and on the front pages of most major American newspapers, including The New York Times and the Washington Post.

In 2006 he received the Robert Capa Gold Medal, war photography's highest honor, for "exceptional courage and enterprise" in his work from Iraq. He lives in New York City, where he is a staff photographer for Getty Images.

Official Website
Hondros at Wikipedia
Hondros' interview at the Independent: "How I captured Iraq" (03.03.2008)

Ari Marcopoulos (Photographer, Netherlands)

marcopoulos_bail Ari Marcopoulos is a photographer and filmmaker born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He moved to New York in 1979 and now lives and works in Northern California.

Marcopoulos has captured urban life through an intimate lens: in the 1980s and ‘90s, his chronicling of New York subcultures became an ongoing portrait of the city’s youth in hard-edged contrasts and a poetic style. He photographed the emergence of resistance movements, the world of hip hop and skateboarding, and iconic artists, such as Michael Heizer, Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Hammons, with the same ease as the striking portraits of his own family and surroundings.

Ari Marcopoulos at Rena Bransten Gallery
Exhibition at New Orleans Museum of Art
Exhibition at MC in Los Angeles

Ioannis Michaloudis (Sculptor)

An internationally known artist from Greece, Ioannis Michaloudis holds a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne in Visual Arts and has been a research fellow at the Visual Arts Research Center at MIT. Michaloudis is especially famous for his amazing sculptures made out of a space-age silica called "aerogel" - a smoke or cloud-like material made out of 99.9% air and 0.1% glass. The lightest solid material on earth, aerogel is not only hauntingly beautiful in terms of its light properties but is also used by NASA in the collection of cosmic dust.

Official Website
Exhibition at the museum of Cycladic Art
Interview with Michaloudis

Miltos Manetas (Multimedia Artist)

manetas Miltos Manetas is a renowned international artist who makes paintings, videoworks, prints and performances about video games, players and computer hardware. He also produces websites as artwork and initiates art actions, claiming that websites are today’s most radical art. He is also the starter of the Neen Art Movement, an international movement for the digital age.

Official Website
Manetas's work in the Saatchi Gallery

Andreas Angelidakis (Architect)

Andreas Angelidakis is an architect working at the intersection of digital culture and architectural production. In these parallel realities, Angelidakis treats the internet as a place where ideas are born and get tested, where new social behaviors define the way our society will develop in years to come. In-between the internet and real life, Angelidakis has for a long time worked in the field of contemporary art, and it is this work which forms a bridge between different realities, between experimentation and implementation, between ideas and buildings.

Offical Website
Andreas Angelidakis's blog

Jannis Varelas (Painter)

varelas Varelas was born in Athens in 1977 and lives and works in Athens and London.Varelas appropriates elements from diverse sources including cut-outs from magazines and imagery deriving from children's drawings, primitive masks and a stereotyped paradisiac universe.His works can be seen as a humorous rebellion against different kinds of authorities. The power relations found in church, school, cultural meetings and between genders are questioned.

“Caliban Case” in Kirkhoff Gallery, Copenhagen
Exhibtion in Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna

George Raftopoulos (Painter, Australia)

George Raftopoulos was born in Sydney in 1972, the son of Greek parents. He has had two extended stays in Greece, seeking to absorb his family's cultural foundations in Corfu, and to trace his generational connections there. As Raftopoulos travelled in Greece, he felt close to the great dramas of Greek myth, to the inspiring threads of Greek history, and to that remote past where legends and facts intersect. He is interested in classical Greek theatre, and his own paintings have a similar grandeur of scale and comparable sense of the momentous.

Official Website
Raftopoulos at Tim Olsen Gallery

Nike Savvas (Multimedia artist, Australia)

savvas Nike Savvas is currently one of Australia's most successful artists. Her paintings, installations and sculptures dissolve the boundaries between architecture, art and the everyday. Savvas uses mass-produced, glitzy materials from the disparate worlds of night-clubs, brothels and children's parties to produce highly formal, shimmering spatial effects.

Savvas has shown extensively in Australia and Europe, with over thirty solo shows. Her last solo show in London was Bordello Red at the Groucho Club, in 2001. She was featured in New Contemporaries in 1998 and is represented in Australia by the Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney and the Jensen Gallery, Auckland.

Nike Savvas at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
Savvas interview at the Age

Philip George (New Media artist, Australia)

george Phillip George is a second generation Greek Australian. He spreads his time between teaching and consulting on computer-aided design, producing artwork and when the onshore winds are right, surfing at Bondi. His Greek heritage is a source both of curiosity and pride and it competes for his attention with such diverse interests as tantric Buddhism, neurophysiology and systems theory. An artist of curious contradictions, George is technically one of the most adept at working with new media, but is not interested in discussing the mechanics of his work. Instead he uses the tools of the modern day alchemists (a.k.a. software designers) to make his own magical worlds.

Official Website
Review of Phillip George's Tranzlution exhibition

John Conomos (Media artist, Australia)

conomos John Conomos is a media artist, critic and writer who explores the formal collisions of old and new media. Reflected in his practice over the past 20 years is a fascination with the idea of cinema, video and new media as a form of writing. Conomos' work is a collaborative synthesis between video, new media, media theory, performance, installation and photography, presented in a broad context of the literary, visual and cinematic arts. Conomos' art and theoretical work has reached a wide orbit of local and international audiences in galleries, festivals, conferences and journals.

John Conomos page the Sydney College of the Arts

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