Event

EventResearchTalkThursday Talk

Research Seminar: Angelo Plessas, Independent Practitioner

CLOUD EUPHORIA: A post-analysis on the networked effects of emotions

Thursday 27th September 4pm T-Room, 1st Floor Evo House

Nowadays we live in a maze of perplexity and contradiction, treating feelings as data, augmenting
them, compressing them, duplicating them, erasing them. Data like “happiness” or “sadness” are
becoming abstractions because there is never a single moment when we can explicitly feel one or
another. Let’s click into these “files” and explore these techno-cultural forms of communicational
imperfection.

Angelo lives and works in Athens. The central aim in Angelo’s work is to network the offline with
the online to generate new ways of relating to both. His work highlights the ambiguous approach of
spirituality with technology opening up themes of freedom of speech, social relations and identity.
Angelo’s activities range from performances to artist residencies; from self-publishing to interactive
websites; from sculpture to live-stream events and educational projects. He is the organizer for the
annual, week-long gatherings of the ‘Eternal Internet Brotherhood/Sisterhood’ in different remote
places in the world and, most recently, of the ‘Experimental Education Protocol’. He exhibits
internationally, highlights include Documenta 14, both in Kassel and Athens; The Museum of
Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Jeu de Paume, Paris; the DESTE Foundation, and the National
Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; Frieze Projects 2013, London. A Fulbright alumnus, he was awarded the DESTE prize in 2015.

---

Design Informatics T Room, 1.09 Evolution House, 78 West Port, EH1