Voltnoi Brege is the stage name of Yorgos Konstantinidis. He was born in Athens 1972 and is an interdisciplinary artist working in the fields of live cinema performance, the internet, audiovisual installations and music.
He has presented his work around Europe in various festivals and institutions such as ICA in London, Mapping Festival in Geneva, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens Biennial, Documenta 14 and the Athens Festival. He was the cofounder of Bios cultural center in Athens. He is a founding member of the audiovisual collectives The Erasers and drog_A_tek. He is a founding member of DETACH who has curated a series of festivals, such as The Death of Recorded Music (2017), Enter Afrofuturism (2017), Blockchain: Utopia or U-turn (2018), Movement 1920 – 2020: Beyond and Between Borders (2020), produced by Onassis Foundation in Athens. He is the co-founder and co-artistic director of movement radio, an international online radio station broadcasting from Athens.
Katerina Gkoutziouli is a curator, researcher and project manager based in Athens, Greece. Her research focus is on art and digital culture exploring issues related to cultural identity, network politics, surveillance in and on the Internet, data-mining, big data and emerging AI technologies.
She has worked as a curator, researcher, mentor, cultural consultant and project manager in public institutions and cultural organisations, such as the Athens School of Fine Arts, the Goethe Institute in Athens, the Athens Digital Arts Festival, the Municipality of Athens, the Athens Development and Destination Management Agency, the Benaki Museum, SIGGRAPH Festival, Bios-Romantso, among others. She has curated exhibitions, workshops and collaborative projects with international artists and curators for different institutions as well as independently. She has also written essays and articles for art publications and online media on issues related to digital culture and the regeneration of public spaces through culture. She holds an MA in Visual Culture from the University of Westminster (London, UK) and a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Athens. She is a recipient of 2020-2021 Fulbright Fellowship.
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