BOUZAS VASILEIOS

email: vbouzas@uowm.gr vasbouzas@gmail.com

 

Vasileios Bouzas’s interests include drawing, painting, photography, audio, video, and interactive media. His work, which consists mainly of audio video installations and explorations on web art, has been exhibited in numerous places in Greece and abroad. He is currently an Associate Professor in Fine and Applied Arts of the University of Western Macedonia, Greece.

EDUCATION

2001: Pratt Institute-School of Art and Design, Master in Fine Arts (MFA) on Computer Graphics and Interactive Media sponsored by the Fulbright Foundation (IEE) and the State Scholarship Foundation (IKY)

1997: Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA), Diploma on painting

1989: National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Diploma of Civil Engineering

 

PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE

2021-08: University of Western Macedonia (UOWM) , Department of Visual and Applied Arts (TEET): •Art and Technology” • “Virtual space and composition I, II, III •Drawing •Painting •Photography.

2021-16: University of Western Macedonia, Pedagogical Department of Primary Education, Postgraduate program: “Science, Environment and Technology Education - Science, Environment and Technology in Education

2021-17: University of the Aegean, Department of Sociology-University of Western Macedonia, Department of Visual Arts and Applied Arts, Postgraduate program: “Applied Clinical Sociology and Art Interventional and Experiential Art in the Modern Social Environment.

2011-04: University of Patras, School of Architecture: •Visual Arts I, II, ΙΙΙ, IV •Digital Representations III, IV• Special Chapters of Architectural Technology I: Digital Elaborations •Special Chapters of Architectural Technology II: Digital Archives of Greek Architecture •Design and Digital Applications.

2001-98: Designer, Anatomical Traveloque, New York, Digital Elaborations of real data body representations.

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2021: “Centro de Congressos de Aveiro”, Aveiro, Portugal, ARTECH 2021, “, Exhibition Contingency, “Virtual Garden-Digital Memory” (Interactive Audio-Video Installation)

2019: Art forum, Braga, Portugal, ARTECH 2019-«Digital Media Art Ecosystems ». 9th International Conference in Digital and Interactive Arts organized by Artech-International. “Dismemberment” (Audio-Video Installation)

2019: Belas-Artes, Ulisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, EmMeio#11 exhibition, 18o International Meeting of Art and Technology organized by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the university of Lisbon. “Dismembered Landscapes I” (Audio-Video Installation)

2015: Steuben Hall Galleries, “Alumni Exhibition 2015” by Pratt Institute, New York. Amfitheatros” (Audio-Video0

2015: Milano, [.BOX], "The Greek Element – Selezione di videoarte greca", Selection of contemporary Greek video art focused on “Greekness" by festival Miden. “Narcissus” (Audio-Video)

2014: Beton7 Center for the Arts, Athens, Locked in, Locked in Collective”. “H-Space” (Audio-Video Installation).

2014: “ICTTP2014-timely-Time-based Art”, Ionian Academy, Corfu. “Dismembered Landscapes” (Audio-Video)

2014: Dividing - Sharing - Distributions of space "Metamorphosis of Corporeality”: Art-Body-Technology 8th Festival Audio media Arts, Ionian University,Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Corfu.

2013: School of Architecture, NTUA, Athens. “Amfitheatros” Performance on Camera

2012: Invitation to friends, CAID, Group Exhibition: by Andreas Kargsten, Athens. “Dismembered Landscapes” (Audio-Video Installation)

2011: Art Center, Parko Eleftherias, Cultural Organization of the City of Athens. “Well Space” (Video Installation)

2009: ASFA, Factory Athens. “Notebook” (Audio-Video Installation)

2008: Margaris Foundation, Amfiloxia. “People-ΙΙ” (Audio-Video).

2007: Art-Ahina, International Art Fair. “People” (Audio-Video).

2007: REMAP KM, Athens Where is the Art? Open Spaces.

2006: BAC06 International Festival of Contemporary Art VII, “Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona” (CCCB). H-Space” (Audio-Video/Animation)

2006 : New Media/New York Panel, Art Interactive organized by New Media Caucus, Leonardo Education Forum Boston, Cambridge. H-Space” (Audio-Video/Animation).

2006 : ASFA, “Factory”, Athens. “Shadows and Lights” (Audio-Video Installation).

2005 : National Competition : “Proposal for Public Intervention at Attiko Metro”, Intervention at Panormou Station, (Interactive Sound& Light in situ Installation- Second prize nomination).

2005 : Photo Biennale (Ph.B.) Thessaloniki “Random Transformations”(Photography).

2001: Memorial Hall, Pratt Institute, New York. Shadows and Lights(Audio-Video Installation)

2000: Manhattan Center, by Pratt Institute, New York.

1999: Wall Street Gallery, group exhibition organized by Pratt Institute and Parsons school of design.

1998: Institution of Melina Mercury, Athens. 1997: “Graduates exhibition” National Gallery of Greece, Athens.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS

2021: “Centro de Congressos de Aveiro”, Aveiro, Portugal, ARTECH 2021, “Hybrid Praxis-Art, Sustainability & Technology” 10th International Conference in Digital and Interactive Arts, Exhibition Contingency, “Virtual Garden-Digital Memory”.

2020 :Interdisciplinary Conference, TTT2020, University of Applied Arts Vienna/Online Contemporary, Digital activism and its artistic perspectives”.

2019: Art forum, Braga, Portugal, ARTECH 2019-«Digital Media Art Ecosystems ». 9th International Conference in Digital and Interactive Arts organized by Artech-International, “Dismemberment”.

2019: Belas-Artes, Ulisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, EmMeio#11 exhibition, 18o International Meeting of Art and Technology organized by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the university of Lisbon,”.

2017: The Architectural Teaching: Objects and Perspectives, Universal Conference on the 100 Years of Operation of the School of Architecture of the NTUA, Integration and Presentation at the Scientific Conference, “Landscapes".

2016: Interdisciplinary Conference “Taboo - Transgression – Transcendence in Art in Art & Science 20-22 May 2016, Ionian University, Department of Audio and Visual Arts, The discreet charm of Surveillance.

2015: University of the Aegean, Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, Syros, XARTS 2015 Summer School and Conferences. “Surveillance and visual culture II”.

2015: IVSA Conference, What You See Is What You Get: Old and New Ways of Seeing Society”, Tinos Island, Integration and Presentation at the Scientific Conference:Surveillance and visual culture I”.

2014: Ionian University- Department of Audio and Visual Arts -8th Festival Audiovisual arts.

Metamorphosis of Corporeality: Art-Body-Technology, p.174-Sharing - Dividing - Distribution of space, “Slices through Space”, https://www.academia.edu/11825826/Metamorphoses_of_Corporeality_Art_-_Body_-_Technology.

2013:University of the Aegean, Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, Syros, XARTS 2013, International Conference on Extended Arts, “From Virtual to Real”. 

2012: Goethe Institute, “Digital narratives on screen and in situ”,Art Up: Media Arts in Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey by Goethe Institute.

2012: ASFA - Athens School of Fine Arts Collaboration of Department of Audio @ Sound Arts of the Ionian University, School of Architecture of Thessaly, School of Fine Arts of the University of Western Macedonia, the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and the TEI of Athens,Extending Digital Art workshop at ASFA.

2012: 30th ISME World Conference on Music Education, Thessaloniki Concert Hall, Opening Ceremony: Educational audiovisual presentation.

2011: Summer School of Digital Arts, Ambient 2011. Collaborative project in the Arts between ACROE (Grenoble, France) (Coordinator of the project), ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany) and the Ionian University, Department of Audio and Visual Arts.

2009: ASFA and Goethe Institute, Direct Democracy-Euro-Vision”.

2008: International Symposium on “Information @ Communication Technologies in Cultural Heritage”, University of Ioannina.

2005 : Eugenides Foundation- International Conference, Gardens of Knowledge and other Landscapes of the Economy & Society of Knowledge in the 21st Century. The Dynamics of the Present- Technological Waves, Conversions and Deviations”.

 

DISTINCTIONS

2003: National competition for Intervention at Athens Metro, Second prize, 2001: Alexander Onassis Foundation Scholarship, 1998: State Scholarship Foundation (IKY), 1997: Fulbright Foundation (IEE)

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Teaching-Learning Sequences on Computer Graphics and Interactive Media Arts, Science Art and Technology, Sound, New Media Arts, Interventional and Experiential Art in public spaces