• ΤΕΧΝΗ ΚΑΙ ΠΟΛΗ
    ART AND THE CITY

    FRIDAY 17 & SATURDAY 18, MARCH 2017
    Acropolis Museum Amphitheatre, 15 Dionysiou Areopagitou Street

    Module Art - Architecture - Urban Planning
    School of Humanities, Hellenic Open University

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The conference Art and the City, which is under the aegis of the Hellenic Open University (HOU), is organized by the Module Art-Architecture-Urban Planning (ELP12) of the School of Humanities of HOU and is about to take place on Friday the 17th and Saturday the 18th of March, 2017, at the Amphitheatre of the Acropolis Museum, 15, Dionysiou Areopagitou Ave. (metro station: Acropolis).
The subject is wide and currently extremely timely, as intense social changes and oppositions, in Greece as well as abroad, have direct effects and reflections on the urban environment. Simultaneously, art promises to offer sources of redemption, education and awareness. This combination opens the approach to a diachronic and interdisciplinary outlook, which bifurcates into two wide thematic cycles
FIRST CYCLE

The first cycle refers to the aesthetic experience in the present urban space of the capital, which, incidentally, gives the tone on a pan-Hellenic level, as well as of other cities. Here are included approaches to the urban art which address dimensions of aesthetics, visibility and tactility, ideology, contemplation on the transcendence of aesthetic and on social limits, creative destruction, the place of the human body in the city, as well as the artistic trace of the ephemeral. Included are, also, visual approaches to the city in cinema, theatre, and the new technologies, as well as current forms of the relation between nature as garden and the city.

SECOND CYCLE

The second cycle refers to past urban and artistic morphemes, examining them in reverse historical sequence, namely starting from the 20th century and going back to the prehistoric city. Here are accessed in interpretative manner the aesthetic proposal of modernism and neoclassicism, byzantine visual and theoretical conceptions of visibility and space, as well as the form and the public role of ancient sculpture. As well, dimensions of the archaeological research in the urban tissue of age-long cities and the museological enhancement of the ancient trace.

The international dimension of art and culture in the present, often rebel city, already intrinsically incorporated into the 22 papers of the conference, peaks in the speeches of the two keynote speakers, David Harvey, Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Erik Swyngedouw, Professor, Manchester University.

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