IN-BETWEEN project

Instances from the presentation / The dog Menios has attended all seminars / The youngest of the participants, the son of Rita Stavraki, one of the collaborators / The house of Stavroula

Kalamata / in-between project >> miden festival
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>Kalamata is a city by the sea, with an international dance festival www.kalamatadancefestival.gr/ and a dynamic, sensitive, and promising video art and technology festival – the Miden Festival. http://www.festivalmiden.gr/
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>Miden festival this year is opening with the work of a pioneer and a verygood friend, Robert Cahen www.heureexquise-documentation.net/artistes/cahen.htm (my old friend Robert, we have had a great time to all these festivals!!!).>This year, Miden Festival also dedicates a great part of its activities to social webtechnologies, combined with the city.
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>I am invited to run a workshop with the collaboration of Voula Zoi, based on the In-Between project (http://www.medialab.asfa.gr/inbetween).
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>During the workshop we meet the group "Personal Cinema", which is also doing aworkshop for its project "My feed" ; and we share the space and the equipment.The project "My feed" (http://myfeed.transludic.net/) is the new web projectof the group, initiated by Ilias Marmaras, programmed by Yiannis Scoulidas andcurated by Daphne Dragona. Participants add their ideas and create digitalimages for the project, through personal accounts that can be re-accessed anytime for a new "play".

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>All this activity is host by the centre of environmental development ofKalamata. http://www.kpe-kalamatas.gr/

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> A group of young people willing to "open their houses on the web"participates to the In-Between project.>Stavroula is not convinced to canalize her energy on the web. However, shewill invite us to her house to help us upload our "houses", as we can't do allthe work in the centre. She will prepare "pastitsio" to offer lunch to our team. >All ended well, the houses were uploaded, we discussed about the next level ofthe project, and our team is going on to this trip.
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>This was the last preparation meeting for Delphi.>At the same time, Miden festival is starting its main activities in Kalamata, (10 – 12 July )

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>while the "Utopia" project is continued in Crete.
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>We will try to connect in real time through Skype.

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>Miden festival will include among others;

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>SEA LEVEL and FESTIVAL MIDEN: Dreaming of my city (ongoing project)An ongoing project organized by Sea Level (the non-profit organization thatorganizes Festival Miden) and supported by the European Program "Youth inAction", entitled "Dreaming of my city: an open social web action for art andculture in urban environment". The project will extend "Urban (R)evolutions",which begun as a collective video and images screening, to a widercommunication platform for urban environment on the web. The program will be completed in November 2009. www.dreamingofmycity.blogspot.com/

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>FESTIVAL MIDEN: Urban (R)evolutions On Saturday 11/7/2009 a special project of Festival Miden 2009 regardingurban landscape, under the title Urban (R)evolutions, will serve as anintroductory screening for "Dreaming of my city", the new ongoing project ofSea Level and Festival Miden, which will be completed in November 2009. More than 100 visual artists, photographers and architects from all over theworld present video and still images about urban landscape in Urban(R)evolutions screenings. More info: http://www.festivalmiden.gr/
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>In this context, Festival Miden has invited Dimos Dimitriou, a New Mediaartist from Greece, to create in situ a video about the city of Kalamata,which will be presented in a special screening at the closure of FestivalMiden, on Sunday 12/7/2009Meet Dimos Dimitriou at http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/addfield/

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>Also artist Tzimis Efthimiou will lead an open workshop on video art, aimingto the production of a collective video about Kalamata during the festival andHariklia Hari (visual astist and architect) will give an open lecturepresenting participatory architectural projects and cases ofarchitectural-urban actionism (Saturday 11/7/2009). ( more information in http://dreamingofmycity.blogspot.com/ )

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> The next station is the night of the 9th of July in Delphi.

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Manthos Santorineos