Peripheral ARTeries
Bill Psarras (Greece / United Kingdom) Born in Greece in 1985. He is an artist and musician who lives and works in London. After BA and MA studies in audiovisual arts (Greece) and digital arts (UK) he is a PhD candidate in Arts & Computational Technology of Goldsmiths University of London, conducting practice-based research on the exploration of emotional geographies of the city through artistic walking and embodied media practices (AHRC partly funded). Bill work has an intermedia approach mostly based on audiovisual installations, walking as art, video/digital art, soundscapes and music. His works are inspired by the emotional and sensorial experience of the city and the poetics of inbetweeness with references to flaneur, psychogeography and romanticism. His works has been exhibited in various international festivals in Europe, US and Australia, in group exhibitions of cultural organizations and galleries (Visual Dialogues 2013 - Onassis Foundation, ROOMS 2013, WPA Experimental Media, Royal Academy of Arts 2010 Summer Exhibition). Goethe Institut has also included his work for the database of Greek artists in the media art project ‘Art Up’. He has published and talked in international conferences and symposia including ISEA 19th (Australia, Portugal, UK, Greece, Netherlands, Germany, France) as well as in State Museum of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is a rock guitarist and the man behind the soundtrack music project; Ludmilla MS.
Website: http://billpsarras.tumblr.com
Urban Halo (2013)
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