Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges

Gelina Palla lives and works in Athens,Greece. She studied Visual and Applied Arts, gaining BA and MA in Painting from the School of Fine Arts, AUTH 1999, Greece and a Master’s degree on Audiovisual Arts (MSc, 2020) at Ionion University, Greece. She is a visual artist and musician/sound artist and also works as an art educator in Greek public education. She was a founding member of miniMaximum improVision (2006-2019), an ensemble conducting and presenting audiovisual live prformances. Gelina Palla composes music and soundscapes for theater and performances. She has worked with the music project JOALZ (2015-2019). She has curated art exhibitions and designed art education programs, as for the Onassis Stegi, The Megaron (Athens Concert Hall) and Piraeus Bank museums network. Since 1992 she works as a free-lance set designer for theater, music performances and advertisement films. Both her artistic research and educational practice combine image and sound, composing drawings, painting or video with sound objects, field recordings and live music, utilising new media and sensors in artworks, installations and performances.

Gelina Palla has participated in exhibitions and performances at Public Tobacco Factory (1922-2022, Exodus, Athens, 2023), Onassis Stegi (Sounderella, Big Bang, 2022), Athens Odeon (100 years BAUHAUS, 2019), Portikus Farnkfurt (Georgia Sagri and I, 2018), Documenta 14 (Epitaph, Athens 2016), Goethe Institut Athen (Timelapse Athens, Moving Silence 2016), Prague Quadrennalle of performing Arts ( 2015), Forum Wallis VII (Switzerland, 2013), Roman Agora archaeological site, “In Agora-Goethe-Institut Athen-60 years" (2012), Athens and Epidaurus Festival (Clytaemnestra-space E, 2011), etc.