Angela Melitopoulos: Cino(so)matic Cartographies
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Address
CNR OXFORD ST & GREENS RD PADDINGTON NSW 2021
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12–1PM
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+61 2 8936 0888
Angela Melitopoulos is an artist based in Berlin who has made experimental video-essays, installations, documentaries and sound pieces since 1985. She studied at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf with Nam June Paik and holds a PhD in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths University in London. She is a professor in the Media School of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Melitopoulos’ work focuses on mnemopolitics, time, geography and collective memory in relation to electronic/digital media and documentation. Within her research projects she works on collaborative geopolitical projects, organises international seminars and creates activist media projects. Her videos and installations have received awards and been shown in many international festivals, exhibitions and museums such as Berlinale, Berlin; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Antonin Tapies Foundation, Barcelona; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Manifesta 7; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Whitney Museum, New York. Her recent project Crossings was shown at Documenta 14 in Kassel.
In conjunction with this lecture, Angela Melitopoulos presents a workshop on her new project Matri-Linear B at UNSW Art & Design from 11am–1pm on Wednesday 30 October 2019.
Angela Melitopoulos is presented in association with ANU School of Art and Design, Australian National University, Canberra.
This UNSW Art & Design Research Forum is organised by Dr Verónica Tello, Jasmin Stephens, and Catherine Woolley.
Image: Angela Melitopoulos, 3rd Conference on Contemporary Greek Film Cultures, 2018