Opening: Thursday, 8 October 2026, 20:30
How technology transforms our perceptions of place, memory, identity, communication, reality, and human existence itself? We try to find answers to this question looking at the works on show across various media and practices in the “Digital Beings”, at MOMUS-Experimental Center for the Arts, at the Port of Thessaloniki, 8-25 October, 2026.
Through image, sound, hybridity, interactivity, and new digital approaches, the works create different conditions for viewing and experiencing, inviting us to navigate between the real and the digital, the familiar and the unknown, the material and the immaterial, as well as their digital traces. By harnessing the ever-evolving digital technologies that shape the present, artists explore new ways of approaching human experience, seeking to understand what it means to exist and coexist within the emerging futures.
The exhibition is being held to mark the tenth anniversary of the Postgraduate Programme "Audiovisual Arts in the Digital Age" at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, at the Ionian University. This postgraduate programme serves as a space for experimentation where audiovisual creation intersects with digital media, interactive technologies, and new forms of production and dissemination of image and sound. Through this convergence, traditional artistic languages are not abandoned but are transformed, gaining new possibilities and being redefined in an environment where technology is now an active part of the artistic process.
Two performances by Alexandros Monokandylos (8 October) and Sonic Scapes / Martha Gogakou – Adam Siagas (23 October), work as a parallel programme to the exhibition, with free admission.
Curated by: Konstantinos Tiligadis, Artist-Professor, Director Master’s Program “Audiovisual Arts in the Digital Age”, Ionian University / Vasilis Alexandrou, Artist- Contract Lecturer, Ionian University, Ioanna Tzampa, Artist / Eirini Papakonstantinou, Art historian – Curator MOMUS
Artists: Stergios Adam, Vasilis Alexandrou, Manty Albani, Giota Andriakaina, Myrto Apostolou, Martha Gogakou, DEMIAN, Katerina Dounavi, Charalambia Englezou, Despina Kavallari, Yanna Kali, Natalia Aikaterini Kerkyra, Konstantia Makri, Agatha Mingou, Alexandros Monokandylos, Maria Bolia, Valasia Dodulu, Gelina Palla, George Panagiotakis, Corina Papafrangkοu, Paresia Pasipoularidou, Nektarios Pachiadakis, Vivi Perysinaki, Tinatini Popiashvili, Makrina Prousali, Fotis Raftopoulos, Giorgos Simeonidis, Christina Sfakianaki, Ioanna Tzampa, Konstantinos Tiligadis, Zefi Tiftiktsoglou, Konstantinos Tsioutas, Maria Tsiroukidou, Evgenia Faliaridou
Plus Events / Performances
Alekos Monokandylos, Τick-Τock
Thursday, 8 October 2026 / 21:00
MOMUS-Experimental Center for the Arts (Warehouse Β1, Pier Α, Thessaloniki Port)
Time appears embodied. Clad not in numbers and calendars, but in the wild extravagance of a cosmic being. A figure straight out of Sun Ra’s imaginative universe an embodiment of the melting present, the clinging past, and the future ticking insistently: tick-tock.
Before him, a PC keyboard. Each key, a second. Each press, a rhythmic sound the tick-tock of our world. With every repetition, the rhythm accelerates. The pulse quickens. And with it, the movement.
The body unfolds. It carries the fear of decay, impatience, exhaustion, loss, and anticipation. The emotions generated by time transform into gesture, resistance, and a cry manifesting through glitches and paradoxical patterns.
A physical composition, a sonic assault, a performance-machine that disrupts time as we know it and leaves us with nothing but the present.
Admission free.
Sonic Scapes (Martha Gogakou – Adam Siagas)
Thursday, 23 October, 2026 / 21:00
MOMUS-Experimental Center for the Arts (Warehouse Β1, Pier Α, Thessaloniki Port)
Sonic Scapes is an audiovisual duo formed by visual artist Martha Gogakou and musician Adam Siagas. Their performance is a unique, unrepeatable live experience in which sound and image emerge together in real time. The audience witnesses Martha Gogakou creating abstract landscapes on stage through the dynamic interaction of liquids and pigments, whose movements unfold in unpredictable and organic ways. The evolving compositions are captured live and projected onto a large screen, transforming the act of painting into a living, cinematic spectacle that invites viewers into an immersive world of colour, movement, and transformation. At the same time, Adam Siagas shapes the sonic dimension of the performance through live electronics, creating ambient soundscapes that respond intuitively to the flow, rhythm, and intensity of the visual process. His live sonic interventions interact harmoniously with the colours and their movements, establishing a continuous dialogue between sound and image.
Admission free.
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