Adjunct Faculty
Michail Adamis
Born in Athens in1980, he has a degree in Painting (2008) and Printmaking (2013) from the Athens School of Fine Arts, were he also studied photography, artist book and graphic design. Between 2004-2005 he studied in the University of Art and Design were he attended classes and workshops in environmental art, painting, comics and printmaking while he began using sound as an art medium. In 2007 he created Mephisto Me Studio (studio of graphic design and printmaking) with awards both in Greece (EVGE honorary mention) and abroad (two Laus awards, Spain). Since 2006 he has been organizing D.I.Y. concerts of experimental, avant-garde and noise music, having curated and co-organized over 150 concerts and performances from Greece and abroad. His work involves mediums as painting, printmaking, publications, sound installations, environments, performances, video, animation and music, with a plethora of presentations both in Greece and abroad. Since 2017 he has worked in municipality artistic educational programs with the use of various artistic mediums as painting, comics, video and animation. He lives and works in Athens.(https://adamis.bandcamp.com/)
Courses
1. Printmaking I
Arxonti Ioannou
Archonti Ioannou is an Architect (University of Thessaly, 2013), she holds a MSc degree in Architectural Design (UTH, 2015) and is a PhD candidate in the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly and she works as a freelancer in Florina. Her research focuses on the application of wood as a structural element, in other words in the study of building construction system with wooden bearing structure in Greek territory. She participated in a series of architectural competitions, where she won awards and distinctions. Her research and studies have been published in the proceedings of international conferences and journals and at the same time she has taken part in architectural exhibitions and workshops.
Courses:
1. Technical Drawing [ ΕΘ.100]
2. Design 3 [Εσχεδ.3]
Fotini Kalle
Fotini Kalle was born in Athens in 1978. She studied painting in the Athens School of Fine Arts and Performance Design and Practice at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London with a scholarship from the Onassis foundation. She holds a PhD from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Visual and Applied Arts with scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation. Her PhD research negotiates “live art” and its affiliation with political and pedagogical theories and practices. She has presented her work at State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki 2019, Athens Biennale 2015-2017, Diverse Universe Performance Festival, Estonia 2015, Month of Performance Art, Berlin 2014, 2cd International Visual Arts Festival of Patras, 2013, and other. She also participated in workshops in Europe and the USA reflecting on the idea of the body as a cultural vehicle, the concept of utopia, the importance of the space and the object in live art (La Pocha Nostra performance art laboratory, PAI, San Francisco 2011, Nezaket Ekici long duration performances, University of the Arts, Berlin 2013 and others). She is a founding member of the performance group The Girls and the ASFA BBQ performance festival. Her work ranges from installations, performances and video.
Courses:
Επε. 15 Performance, Space, Installation
Επε. 16 Introduction to Visual Performance
Evagelia Kirkine
She was born in Thessaloniki. She graduated (grade A) from Theatre Department-School of Drama, Faculty of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She also studied at Dipartimento di Musica e dello Spettacolo and at Academia di Belle Arti di Bologna. Since 1999, she is working as stage and costume designer for theatre, opera and film productions. She has designed over fifty performances at National Theatre of Northern Greece, National Opera House of Athens, Musical Megaron Hall of Thessaloniki, Municipals Theatres of Kavala, Kozani, Veroia and Ioannina, and many others theatres all over Greece. She has also designed many awarded short films and the first 3dimensional film I Come to Light, for the Film Museum of Thessaloniki. As a stage designer of National Theatre, she participated at Masterclass di Scenogarfia-Nel Segno di Josef Svoboda in Macerata, Italy. She has also participated as a costume designer at the exhibition of costumes Memories of Ancient Drama-National Theatre of Northern Greece, 30 Years in Epidaurus. She was teaching stage and costume design at the Film Studies Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and at the Drama School of National Theatre of Northern Greece.
Courses:
Εσχ.2στ Applied workshop- Stage design 1st, 2nd, 3rd semester)
Εσχ.5στ. Stage and costume design workshop I (5th semester)
Εσχ.6στ. Stage and costume design workshop II (6th semester)
Εσχ.7στ. Stage and costume design workshop III (7th semester)
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Annita Koutsonanou
Annita Koutsonanou holds a degree in Architecture Engineering from Patras University and also a master in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths University of London. She is a PhD candidate at University of Patras and she works as a freelance architect. She has been a member of the board of Koventarios Municipal Librady of Kozani and she has worked as a close associate in Kozani Municipality. She has carried out numerous projects both for private and public sector and she has participated in many architectural competitions for some of which she has been awarded. She has also participated in workshops and conferences with research interests on cities, public space, cultural approach and the computed mediated experience of public space.
Courses:
email: akoutsonanou@uowm.gr
Georgios Mamatsios
Georgios Mamatsios was born in Kozani in 1967. He studied Hagiography at the Danielite Brotherhood of Mount Athos, receiving a certificate of specialization. He holds a degree in Theology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a degree in Byzantine Music and a diploma in Byzantine and Traditional Music, approved by the Ministry of Culture. The postgraduate specialization diploma from EAP is entitled: “Studies in Orthodox Theology”. He received the Certificate Byzantine Hagiography Level 5 from the Gatehouse Awards, as well as a training certificate from the “Hagiography” program (KEDIVIM2).
He has been active as a hagiographer since 1987 until today. He has painted temples in Greece and abroad (murals and portable icons), participates in individual and group exhibitions, is an instructor in hagiography workshops and has taught in KEK, INE, GESEE seminars on “Preservation of icons-iconostasis and ecclesiastical monuments”. He published hagiographic articles in local newspapers. He taught at the Secondary Education since 2002 and was the director of the Music School of Ptolemaida. From 2019 until today he teaches the laboratory course “Applied Hagiography” at the School of Fine Arts of the University of Western Macedonia (Florina). He is a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece and a member of the Panhellenic Association of Hagiographers.
Courses:
Courses:Εσχ.2λ Applied Laboratory – Byzantine Icon 1st s, 2nd, 3rd semester
Paris Petridis
Paris Petridis has studied photography at the University of Sunderland (PhD). His work has been presented in solo, group shows and Biennials of contemporary art internationally. Author of eight photography monographs, his interests focus on landscape, memory and the politics of space. His work is included in many private and public collections. He is currently working as a professional photographer and adjunct lecturer (www.parispetridis.com).
Courses:
Εσχ.2δ Applied Laboratory-Photography
Εσχ.5δ Photography Ι -5th semester
Εσχ.5ε Photography ΙI -6th semester
Εσχ.5ε Photography ΙII -7th semester
Andronikos Sagiannos
Andronikos Sagiannos studied Object and Jewel Design at the Haute École d’Arts Appliqués (HEAD) and completed his MA degree in Ceramics and polymerized materials at CERCCO (HEAD) in Geneva (Switzerland). He has also attended courses on the art of Enamel and Japanese lacquer at the Escola Massana (Barcelona, Spain) and the seminar on metal casting with professor Kimiaki Kageyama (Florence, Italy). He has also worked as a teacher of Object and Jewel design at the School of Fine and Applied Arts (UOWM, Greece), and at the Post graduate degree program of Alchimia: Contemporary Jewellery School (Florence, Italy). He lives and works in Athens. A permanent collection of his works, along with other artists’ creations, is curated by A.Sagiannos and exhibited at his gallery, in Makrygianni str. (Acropolis, Athens).
Courses:
Εσχ.2ε Applied Laboratory – Jewel 1st, 2nd 3rd semester
Εσχ.5ε Jewel I – Materials Technology -5th semester
Εσχ.6ε Jewel II – Design – 6th semester
Εσχ.7ε Jewel III – Construction, – 7th semester
Ouresis Todorovich
Dr Ouresis Todorovich (Uros T. Todorovic) is an artist, theorist of Art, byzantinist and iconographer (www.ouresis.com). Ηis area of research includes philosophy and theology. In 2012, with excellent results he defended his doctoral thesis entitled The Diachronic Character of Late Byzantine Painting: The Hermeneutics of Vision from Mistra to New York. His doctoral research was supported by scholarships from the University of Sydney (2006), Kostas and Eleni Ourani Foundation (2007) and Alexander S. Onassis Foundation (2008). His postdoctoral research was supported by National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Alexander S. Onassis Foundation (2013). His other qualifications include: (2012) Bachelor of Theology, Department of Theology, School of Theology, University of Athens, (2006) Bachelor of Teaching (Secondary Education), University of Sydney, Australia, (2005) Certificate in Heritage Conservation, University of Sydney, Australia, (2002) Master of Fine Art (Sculpture), College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, (2000) Bachelor of Visual Arts (Sculpture), Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Australia, and (1996) Diploma in Design, Belgrade Design School, Serbia. His artworks have been exhibited at significant international exhibitions in Australia and Serbia. In 2009 The City of Athens Cultural Centre hosted one of his solo exhibitions entitled ‘Mystagogy’. In July 2016 he was invited among few other contemporary artists to present both his artistic and his scholarly work at Oxford University. He has taken part in international scholarly conferences and has published his research related to Byzantine and Modern art. He has also written texts for the new Great Orthodox Christian Encyclopedia (Stratigikes Ekdoseis). He speaks fluent English, Greek and Serbian, while he also comprehends Persian and Russian. His professional experience also includes conservation of cultural heritage, translation and teaching. Since March 2018 he has been teaching Byzantine painting and Byzantine aesthetics at the Department of Fine and Applied Arts of the University of Western Macedonia in Greece.
Εσχ. 5λ Byzantine Icon, 5th semester,
Εσχ.6λ Byzantine Icon, 6th semester,
Εσχ. 7λ Byzantine Icon III, 6th semester,
email: utodorovich@uowm.gr
Marina Triantafyllou
Marina Triantafyllou graduated “summa cum laude” from the School of English, Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She received her MA (“summa cum laude”) in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (TFL) from the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since her graduation, she has been teaching English at the Departments of Accounting and Finance, Business Administration, and Fine and Applied Arts, University of Western Macedonia. She designed and performed a research study entitled “Comparing the effect of CLIL and EFL teaching on young learners’ vocabulary knowledge and working memory”. The results of the study were presented at an international conference, and they were published in the proceedings. Her research interests lie in the areas of teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP), bilingualism, vocabulary acquisition and working memory.
Courses:
ΑΓλ.1 English Ι
ΑΓλ.3 English ΙΙΙ
email: aff00219@uowm.gr
Andromachi Vrakatseli
Andromachi Vrakatseli holds a PhD from the University of the Aegean in the field of «sound art and exhibition space», investigating the relationships between sound, body and space. Her PhD is the first one in Greece in the field of sound studies. In the context of her postgraduate studies in Music Technology (University of York) she specialized in interactive art technologies. Her scientific research and sound artworks have been presented in many international conferences that deal with sound (The Global Composition 2018, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Sounding out the space Conference, Dublin School of Creative Arts, Sonic Realities Conference University of Aberdeen etc) and cultural exhibitions. She has published in conference proceedings and journals (Leonardo Electronic Almanac, MIT Press, -work accepted,etc). She had collaborated with EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Eugenides Foundation etc in educational programs about sound, image and digital media. She is invited to speak in several workshops in Greece (“Sound and Gallery: Relations between sound and exhibition space”, Art Athina, “Embodied listening in empty space”, EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art etc). She has curated sound in various exhibitions.
Courses:
Επθ. 13 Contemporary art and the art of sound- 3rd- 5th- 7th semester
Επθ.14 Sound design in audio-visual applications I 3rd, 5th, 7th semester
Επθ.15 Sound design in audio-visual applications II 6th semester
email: aff00867@uowm.gr
