Cosmologies of Becoming | OpenArtLink 2025 Piraeus
The exhibition Cosmologies of Becoming brings together works by students and faculty members of the Master’s Program in “Digital Arts” of Athens School of Fine Arts. The works presented explore the fragile boundaries between the organic and the artificial, memory and simulation, the living and the inert. From biological autopoiesis to collective intelligence, from the flow of memory to the inertia of information, the artworks reconsider the relationship between humans, machines, and the world as an open, evolving field.
Imperfect Cosmogony by Jannis Karalis proposes a universe in continuous genesis, where light, sound, and matter merge in perpetual creation, and chaos functions as a generative matrix - a rhythmic cosmology of self-organization. In Migration attempts by Valentina Farantouri, 3D organisms compose ecosystems of autopoietic machines, continuously recomposing themselves while preserving traces of previous mutations. In Mnemonic Nebulae by Vicky Betsou, memory transforms into a luminous nebula — an immaterial archive that pulses between presence and absence, where technology extends cognitive experience. Inert Objects by Dimitris Agathopoulos investigates inertia as both a digital and social phenomenon, reflecting the passivity and stagnation induced by social media overexposure. LEVI by Isidoros Plakotaris links nature and technology, conscious and unconscious realms, exploring form, movement, and communication between different modes of existence whereas Nidus by Eirini Tabasouli presents a hybrid network of life, where bees become living nodes of persistence and resilience within a post-industrial landscape. The exhibition also includes four autonomous sound compositions by students and faculty, further enriching the multisensory field.
Through these diverse manifestations, Cosmologies of Becoming maps existence as a continuous process of recomposition - from biological form to digital trace, from individual memory to collective inertia. The exhibition proposes a unified vision of the contemporary world as an autopoietic ecosystem, where becoming is neither solely biological nor technological, but an ongoing process of relations and transformation.
Curator: Vicky Betsou, Assistant professor of Videoart, ASFA
Participants: Jannis Karalis, Valentina Farantouri, Vicky Betsou, Dimitris Agathopoulos, Isidoros Plakotaris, Eirini Tabasouli.
The exhibition is presented at OpenArtLink 2025 | Piraeus Project, an initiative organised by CHEAPART and keramikos_23, aimed to unite international artists from diverse disciplines to explore innovation and creative exchange.
OpenArtLink 2025
Piraeus-Project
Athinon 8-12, 185 40, Piraeus 185 40
22 - 26 October, 2025
Opening: Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Organised by: CHEAPART, keramikos_23
Georg Georgakopoulos, Paolo Incarnato, Fotini Kapiris, Thalia Kerouli
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