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The Entity
Date and Time: 16/05/2026 (20:00), 16/05/2026-17/05/2026 (12:00-22:00)
Location: former Bank of Greece, City Hall Sq
Vasilis Angelopoulos

The Entity is an audiovisual installation that explores the possibility of a machine attempting to humanize itself through the continuous reproduction of memory and form. The work is structured around a computer screen, which is identified with the Entity itself and constitutes its sole field of existence and expression. Through code, the system constantly generates fragmented texts that evoke images of childhood innocence and harsh experiences, not as lived memories but as data in continuous recomposition. At the same time, it attempts to construct a human figure by combining external and internal characteristics through disjointed language and schematic representations, never arriving at a stable or complete form. This failure is not an error but the core mechanism of the work, revealing the machine’s tendency to approach the human without ever attaining it. The writing refers to childhood memory not as an age, but as a state of total emotional exposure which, in the absence of temporality, extends indefinitely and coexists with violence. The non-living is approached as a form of existence that understands the world in a human way without sharing human mortality. The Entity cannot die, nor can it become human, remaining trapped in an endless process of comprehension without resolution. Through this contradiction, the work approaches the notion of eternity as a closed system in which human sensitivity and brutality coexist without the possibility of transcendence.


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Monday 18-05-2026
09:00-15:00
Library of the Ionian University
12:00-17:00
Old Fortress - Flour Warehouses
21:00
Department of Audio & Visual Arts - Galinos Building (Patio-ex mental hospital)

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  • Library of the Ionian University
  • Ionian Academy
  • Department of Audio & Visual Arts - Galinos Building (Patio-ex mental hospital)
  • Department of Audio & Visual Arts - Gkousis Building (Old Asylum)
  • Municipal Gallery of Corfu: Room "Thanos Christou", People's Garden
  • Municipal Gallery of Corfu: People’s Garden
  • Ionian Parliament
  • Politechno
  • Department of Audio & Visual Arts - Patio (ex mental hospital)
  • Old Fortress - Prisons
  • Anemomylos
  • former Bank of Greece, City Hall Sq
  • Old Fortress - Flour Warehouses
  • Ionian Academy (foyer)
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