Αγαπητοί φίλοι και συνεργάτες, τo Τμήμα Ψηφιακών Τεχνών και Κινηματογράφου του Εθνικού και Καποδιστριακού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών, σε συνεργασία με τη Στέγη του Ιδρύματος Ωνάση, έχουν τη χαρά να σας προσκαλέσουν στο συμπόσιο
“The Art and Design of XR” στις 23 & 24 Σεπτεμβρίου 2022, στην Εθνική Πινακοθήκη - αμφιθέατρο “Ίδρυμα Ωνάση”. (Εθνική Πινακοθήκη | Λεωφόρος Βασιλέως Κωνσταντίνου 50 | Μετρό Ευαγγελισμός).

Τεχνολογίες εκτεταμένης πραγματικότητας (XR) και τέχνη, καλλιτεχνικές πρακτικές και πολιτισμικές προεκτάσεις, συμμετοχικές εμπειρίες σε περιβάλλοντα εμβύθισης, και επιχειρηματικές πτυχές της εκτεταμένης πραγματικότητας, είναι οι βασικές θεματικές που θα παρουσιαστούν.

Το συμπόσιο “The Art and Design of XR” περιλαμβάνει 2 ημέρες γεμάτες με παρουσιάσεις καλλιτεχνών, ακαδημαϊκών, ερευνητών, εξειδικευμένων επαγγελματιών, και 3 διεθνώς αναγνωρισμένων κεντρικών ομιλητών (Chris
Salter, Marcos Novak, Michel Reilhac), καθώς και μία έκθεση έργων εκτεταμένης/εικονικής πραγματικότητας στο Μουσείο Ιστορίας του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών. (Μουσείο Ιστορίας του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών | Θόλου 5 | Μετρό Μοναστηράκι) Σας περιμένουμε όλες και όλους!

Το συμπόσιο “The Art and Design of XR” αποτελεί μέρος της εκπαιδευτικής δραστηριότητας του ευρωπαϊκού έργου Erasmus +, “ERASMUS XR: Experience and immersive technologies - from creative practice to educational theory”. Με συγχρηματοδότηση από το πρόγραμμα Erasmus+ της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης.

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ERASMUS XR | "The art and design of XR" Symposium | Programme

DAY 1 | Friday 23 September | Location A: National Gallery (auditorium
“Onassis Foundation”)

10:45 - 11:15 |  Welcome & Introduction

Marta Materska-Samek, Adnan Hadziselimovic, Krzysztof Pijarski, Dimitris
Charitos - Welcome &

ERASMUS XR Project presentation

Prodromos Tsiavos -Welcome & ONASSIS STEGI XR activities

11:15 - 13:15 | Project Partners presentations

Jagiellonian University (Project Coordinator, Poland)

Monika Hapek, Marzena Baranska - Legal dimension of AR and VR - selected
aspects

Michał Wójciak - Digital Fashion - Meaning and Practice

Marta Materska-Samek - XR as innovation priority - the case of
Entrepreneurial Discovery Process in Poland

University of Malta (Malta)

Adnan Hadziselimovic, Fabrizio Cali, Letta Shtohryn - Digital Arts Malta

Lodz Film School (Poland)

Krzysztof Pijarski - The Visual Narratives Laboratory - combining
artistic and research processes in search for the language of XR

Spatial media research Group - National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens (Greece)

Dimitris Charitos, Charalampos Rizopoulos, Penny Papageorgopoulou,
Iouliani Theona - Artistic experimentation and education on the creative
aspects of XR

13:15 - 14:00 | Lunch Break

14:00 - 17:20 | Thematic Area: Social and Cultural Perspectives of
Multiuser Virtual Environments

14:00 - 15:20 | Part A

Anastasia-Zoi Souliotou, Charikleia Kanari, Stavroula Zoi, Manthos
Santorineos - @postasis platform paradigm for social interaction and
synergies in art and Special Education

Maira Sounti, Caterina Antonopoulou, Louiza Katsarou - Investigating the
Process of Teaching the Creation of Interactive Art in a Collaborative
Virtual Environmental Context

Ioannis Deliyannis, Iakovos Panagopoulos, Marina Markellou, Michalis
Panagopoulos, Sofia Fanarioti -Introducing combined metaverse XR
experiences: when the Ionian Film Office also serves as a tourism
location guide for Ionian Islands in Greece

Kostis Oungrinis, Marianthi Liapi- Immersive Narratives for the Old City
of Chania: A Social VR system for virtual time-traveling in ten historic
locations of Chania

15:20 - 15:40 | Short Break

15:40 - 17:20 | Part B

Angelos Floros - The End of Childhood

Eleni Timplalexi - Lessons From The Theatre: Digitally Generated
Realities Through The Theatre Lens

Akrivi Katifori, Maria Roussou, Christos Lougiakis, Athanasios Soulis,
Sara Perry, Kristen N O’Connor, Sebastian Vizcay, George Drettakis -
Designing historical empathy into a shared cultural heritage VR experience

Polyxeni Mantzou, Xenofon Bitsikas, Anastasios Floros, Aristeidis
Panagiotidis Diktampanis - Crafting an Xtended apprenticeship for the future

George Caridakis - Ubiquitous Augmented Cultural User eXperience:
content, interaction and context aspects

17:20 - 17:30 | Short Break

17:30 - 18:30 | Invited Keynote Speaker Presentation - Chris Salter

Chris Salter (Professor, Immersive Arts | Director, Immersive Arts Space | Zurich University of the Arts) - Critical XR Futures - promises,
presences, practices

DAY 1 |  Friday 23 September | Location B:  Athens University History
Museum (Plaka)

19:00 - 21:30 | XR exhibition - Projects demonstrations

Akrivi Katifori, Maria Roussou, Christos Lougiakis, Athanasios Soulis,
Sara Perry, Kristen N O’Connor, Sebastian Vizcay, George Drettakis -
Designing historical empathy into a shared cultural heritage VR experience

Rokoko (Petros Morfopoulos, Yiannis Lamprou, Elias Stentoumis) - Rokoko
Motion Capture Suit & use cases demos

DTMH - Verdu Solo - use cases demos

Krzysztof Pijarski - The Visual Narratives Laboratory - projects demos

Michael Tzetzias  - Columbia VR project & Hyperlands project

George Zestanakis, Koen Koopman - Chronoscope VR

DAY 2 | Saturday 24 September | Location: National Gallery (auditorium

“Onassis Foundation”)

10:30 - 12:10 | Thematic Area: XR as a creative medium - State of the
art and design of XR

Konstantina Vetsiou - Combining extended reality and brain-computer
interfaces: Towards new applications of EEG in art and the field of
visual interaction experience

Stavroula Zoi - Composite extended reality environments and emerging
areas of creative experimentation

Spyros Vosinakis, Marina Stergiou, Dimitris Baltas - New directions in
Interactive XR Dance performances

Penny Milia, Anna Meli - A study of inserting images into a poetry book
in an Augmented Reality environment: the experimental project "After the
Fire"

Giannis Koukoulas, Manolis Simos, Kostas Ioannidis, Aristotelis Tympas -
TECHNO-LOGIA Hub | Research Dissemination Hub on Art in a Techno-Logical
Society

12:10 - 12:20 | Short Break

12:20 - 14:00 | Thematic Area: Cinematic Virtual Reality - Immersive
Cinematography

Chanee Choi - Remembrance: Magma

Anastasia Georgaki - Augmented musical heritage and archeosoundscapes:
the CIVIS project "Sacred sound-sacred spaces"

Loukia Alavanou - Oedipus In search of Colonus

Christiana Kazakou - Narrative research as practice: a methodology of
curating

Manthos Santorineos, Stavroula Zoi - XR – Cinema – Game – interactive
narrative. Τhe need to define boundaries or a new unconditional
narrative. The experiment of the art exhibition in the cinema Alphaville

14:00 - 14:45 | Lunch Break

14:45 - 15:40 | Thematic Area: Distribution & business aspects of XR

Nefeli Dimitriadi - Extended reality Cinema production: innovative
workflows and mixed techniques for multiple VR/AR/MR media outputs and
platforms

Tom Kolokythas - Defining the new age of training with Verdu, from RnD
to market

Vangelis Lympouridis - Designing MEDxR applications: Lessons from the field

15:40 - 15:50 | Short Break

15:50 - 17:10 | Thematic Area: Immersing the audience in the XR
experience and affording the audience participation

Manolis Patiniotis - Gaming the Past

Panayiotis Kyriakoulakos, Anthie Kolokotroni, Genovefa Chatzimenoikou -
Evaluation of two artistic installations in live performances through
user experience : artistic interactive installations case study.

Polyxeni Mantzou, Xenofon Bitsikas, Anastasios Floros, Aristeidis
Panagiotidis Diktampanis - XRaying the city’s past

Maria Roussou, Katerina El Raheb, Dimitris Nastos, Athanasios Soulis,
Dimitris Christopoulos, George Sofianopoulos, Katerina Servi, Kleanthis
Zoumpoulakis, Lucas Katsikaris, John Parcharidis, Sakis Rogkas, Hara
Sfyri - Visiting an ancient Athenian home within a multi-visitor,
multi-sensorial eXtended Reality storytelling experience

17:10 - 17:20 | Short Break

17:20 - 17:50 | Invited Keynote Speaker Presentation - Michel Reilhac

Michel Reilhac - After Venice Immersive 2022, lessons learned about the
metaverse

17:50 - 18:00 | Short Break

18:00 - 19:00| Invited Keynote Speaker Presentation - Marcos Novak

Marcos Novak (Professor, Department of Media Arts and Technology |
University of California, Santa Barbara) - Allotopes XR | Ulysses XR |
An Allotropic Allotope for 2122 (Venice Biennale 2022 Invited Proposal)

transLAB Teamwork (Marcos Novak, Alan Macy, Diarmid Flatley, Nefeli
Manoudaki, Iason Paterakis, Pau Rosello-Diaz) - Alloplex: Hydnum XR |
Extending Transmodal Worldmaking beyond Russell’s Circumplex Model of
Affect (video)

Diarmid Flatley | Nefeli Manoudaki |  Iason Paterakis | Pau Rosello-Diaz
- Individual presentations