THE A-CLUB DINNER 2015 23.04.2015 Location: En Kefallinia Organic Farm Restaurant The Island of Kefallonia - Greece
A-CLUB DINNERS
Roy Ascott, DeTao Master- Planetary Collegium President; Katerina Karoussos, A-Club founder, I-Node Director-Planetary Collegium; Josephine Coy, Artist
In ancient Greece, the symposion was an important social occasion where the participants would not only drink, but also talk, play musical instruments, sing, play games, and perform religious rituals. The A-Club has established the A-Club Annual Dinners as an attempt to recall the idea of Ancient Greek Symposia and to relocate it in recent telematic communities and trans-cultural unities. Guests are leading intelectuals of our time, artists and theorists whose their research based on telematics, technoetis and cybernetics. They seek to reflect the social, technological and spiritual aspirations of an emerging planetary society, while sustaining a critical awareness of the retrograde forces and fields that inhibit social and cultural development.
#THE KYLIX A kylix (Ancient Greek: κύλιξ) is a type of winedrinking cup used at Symposia.The almost flat interior circle on the interior base of the cup, called the tondo, was the primary surface for painted decoration in the Black-figure or Red-figure styles of the 6th and 5th century BC. Unique compositional skills were necessary for the artisans to attain due to the lack of verticals and horizontals on the surface. For A-Club dinners the annual theme plays the role of the Kylix as a skeuomorph which, by its informational attributes, provide us with cues and lighting the path to acknowledge our moist media reality that emerged via carbon and silicon entities.
Andrea Traldi, Becomebecome Project; Regina Durig, Swiss Literature Institute, Law C Alsobrook III, Virginia Commonwealth University,Qatar; Diane Derr,Virginia Commonwealth University,Qatar Benjamin Pothier, Arctic Circle, The Farm,INC
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