Bill Psarras

Bill Psarras (Dr., b. 1985) is an artist and musician. He is an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of Ionian University (Greece) where he also works as a postdoctoral researcher exploring “the interdisciplinary and intermedia impact of site-specific poetics and walking performance in the field of Geohumanities” (IKY State Foundation Scholarship 2017-2019). He has a BA in Audiovisual Arts and Sciences (Ionian University), an MA in Digital Arts (University of the Arts London) and a Ph.D in Arts & Computational Technology from Goldsmiths University of London (AHRC Award 2013-2014), supervised by Prof. Janis Jefferies and Prof. Lanfranco Aceti. His doctoral research (also practice-based) has focused on intermedia and interdisciplinary explorations of the emotional geographies of cities through walking as art, senses and embodied technologies; by proposing the concept of a hybrid flaneur for the 21st century city. His art practice includes site-specific walking performances, audiovisual installations, video art, poetry and music composition, exploring in various ways the poetics and politics of the 21st century urban experience. He has exhibited in more than 65 international festivals and group exhibitions (Onassis Foundation, Benaki Museum, UK Fringe Arts Bath, ROOMS 2013, WPA Experimental Media, MOVE WITH(OUT) project) and cultural institutions (Royal Academy of Arts 2010 Summer Exhibition, Goethe Institut ArtUp project, Storefront for Art and Architecture NY). His research has been published in international journals (Leonardo Electronic Almanac, The MIT Press; Technoetic Arts Journal, IJART), conferences proceedings, book chapter, workshops and symposia in the intersections of contemporary art, media arts and urban cultural studies (Australia, Portugal, UK, Greece, Netherlands, Germany, France) as well as in State Museum of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki, Greece. On 2014, he was invited as a keynote speaker at the University of Chichester for the Performing Place symposium. He is a rock musician and also the man behind the soundtrack project Ludmilla My Side. On 2017, he published his first poetry collection in Greek entitled `Tundra’ (Pigi Publications) presenting 44 poems on the intersections of art-geography-architecture.

Activities
Site-Specific Arts

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