Tomorrow’s Storeys

Liam Young

Liam Young is a speculative architect and filmmaker who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. He is founder of the think tank “Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today”, a group whose work explores the possibilities of fantastic, speculative and imaginary urbanisms, and co-runs the “Unknown Fields Division”, a nomadic research studio that travels on location shoots and expeditions to the ends of the earth to document emerging trends and uncover the weak signals of possible futures. Liam is a producer of a BAFTA nominated short, has premiered films at the London Film Festival and has been collected by institutions such as the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Museum of Metropolitan Art in New York and the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. http://www.tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com/

Leigh Alexander

Leigh Alexander writes about the intersection of technology and popular culture. She hosts the “Guardian” ’s tech podcast, writes a technomancy column at Motherboard called "Oracles of the Web", and occasionally does narrative design for independent video games. She recently published “Monitor”, a cyberpunk novella, and launched an ASMR video series devoted to vintage computing. More projects can be found at leighalexander.net/about.

Ioanna Bourazopoulou

Ioanna Bourazopoulou was born and lives in Athens, Greece. She writes novels, plays and short stories. Her work is mainly categorized as political fantasy and dystopian fiction. She has taken part as a speaker in national and international literature events, exhibitions and round tables. Her short stories and articles are published in Greek newspapers, magazines and literary magazines. She is the author of five novels and one book for children. Her novel, “What Lot’s Wife Saw”, published in Greek, French and English, was included in the “Guardian” ’s list of the Best Science Fiction Books of the year 2013. She has been shortlisted for six national and one international award (Prix du Livre Europeen 2011) and won the following: The Athens Prize for Literature for Best Greek Novel of the year 2007, for her novel “What Lot’s Wife Saw”; the Literature Award KLEPSIDRA for Best Greek Novel of the year 2014, and the Athens Academy Award for Literature 2014, both for her novel, “The Dragon of Prespa I – The Valley of Mud”. She was awarded bursaries by the National Book Centre of France (2012) and the Bavarian State Ministry of Education, Science and Arts (2016).

James Bridle

James Bridle is a British artist and writer based in Athens, Greece. His artworks have been commissioned by galleries and institutions including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Barbican, the Oslo Architecture Triennale, the Istanbul Design Biennial, and has exhibited worldwide and on the Internet. His writing on literature, culture and networks has appeared in magazines and newspapers including “Wired”, “Domus”, “Cabinet”, “The Atlantic”, “The New Statesman”, “The Guardian”, “The Observer” and many others, in print and online. He lectures regularly at conferences, universities, and other events. His formulation of the New Aesthetic research project has spurred debate and creative work across multiple disciplines. His work can be found at http://booktwo.org.

Daphne Dragona

Daphne Dragona is a Berlin based theorist and curator. She is part of the curatorial team of transmediale, festival for art and digital culture. Her current interests lie in post-digital artistic strategies and methodologies as well as in alternatives, counter-infrastructures and systems that aim for users' and citizens' critical empowerment. Articles of hers have been published in various books, journals, magazines and exhibition catalogs. She has collaborated with different institutions. Among her curated or co-curated projects are: “Homo Ludens Ludens” (Laboral, 2008), “Mapping the Commons- Athens” (EMST, 2010), “Data Bodies - Networked Portraits” (Fundacion Telefonica & Alta Tecnologia Andina 2011), “Datenspiel/Dataplay” (Goethe Institut Athen & Frown, 2013), “Afresh” (ΕΜSΤ, 2013), “Home/s” (Goethe Institut Athen & Benaki Museum, 2013) “New Babylon Revisited” (Goethe Institut Athen, 3 137, Space Under, Circuits & Currents, 2014), the transmediale 2015 “Capture All” exhibition & conference program and the transmediale 2017 “ever elusive” conference program. She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Communication & Media Studies of the University of Athens.

Panos Dragonas

Panos Dragonas is an architect, curator and professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Patras, Greece. In 2012 he was joint commissioner/ curator of Made in Athens, the Greek participation at the 13th International Architecture Exhibition – la biennale di Venezia. He has curated – alone or in collaboration – the exhibitions “Adhocracy [Athens]” (2015), “Rethink Athens” (2013), 14F/21GR – “Young Architects from France and Greece” (2012) and the 2nd Biennale of Young Greek Architects (1998). From 2001 to 2013, he was consultant editor of the annual review “Architecture in Greece”. His current research and design activities focus on the transformations of the Greek cities during the economic crisis, the investigation of post-consumerist housing typologies, and the connections between cinema, architecture and the modern city. http://www.deltarchi.com/

Marina Gioti

Marina Gioti is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Athens, Greece. She studied Chemical Engineering, Environmental Management (MSc), Filmmaking, and Media and Communication (MA) in Greece, UK and Belgium. Although she went through a formal cinema training, in her work she explores the aesthetic and narrative capacities of media, through videos, installations and hybrid media works. In her filmic work, she often manipulates found footage, aiming to revisit and retell old, forgotten stories. She has also co-curated two exhibitions and programmed experimental and documentary films for screenings and film festivals. Her films and installations have been screened and exhibited worldwide at both international film festivals (Toronto IFF, transmediale, Jeonju, Viennale, Les Rencontres Internationales) and exhibitions (Art Space Pythagorion, Thessaloniki Biennial, Wroclaw Media Art Biennial, Bozar Βrussels, CaixaForum Barcelona, Deste Foundation, Museum of Cycladic Art and the Onassis Stegi). She is currently in post-production for her first feature film, “The Invisible Hands”, a documentary set in Cairo, Egypt, featuring Alan Bishop of the Sun City Girls and Sublime Frequencies.

Costas Haritos

Costas Haritos was born in Ioannina and now lives and works in Athens as an illustrator and concept artist. He has worked in Greece and internationally for children books, board games, tabletop RPGs (White-Wolf publishing), and independent video games. Currently he’s working on his personal project, in the genre of science fiction and cyberpunk. His work can be found at https://www.artstation.com/artist/costasharitos & http://hyaloclastics.tumblr.com/.

Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling, author, journalist, editor, and critic, was born in 1954. Best known for his ten science fiction novels, he also writes short stories, book reviews, design criticism, opinion columns, and introductions for books. His nonfiction works include “The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier” (1992), “Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years” (2003), “Shaping Things” (2005), and “The Epic Struggle of The Internet of Things” (2014). His most recent book is a collection of Italian fantascienza stories, “Utopia Pirata: I Racconti di Bruno Argento” (2016). He has been "Visionary in Residence" at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena (2005, 2011), the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam (2008), the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University (2013), and the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (2016). In 2008 he was the Guest Curator for the Share Festival of Digital Art and Culture in Torino, Italy, and in 2015 he was the Curator of the "Casa Jasmina" project at the Torino Fab Lab.