Biographies

Spyros Nakas was born in Agrinio, Greece. He studied Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1996 to 2002. In 2006 he became a fellow of the State Scholarships Foundation and, in the same year, joined the school's postgraduate program under the supervision of professor Tasos Christakis. He was a member of the art group "under construction" from 2008 to 2011. In 2010, he won first prize in the National Museum of Contemporary Art competition for online artwork with his project "fever". His work explores the concept and the structures of play, and how they find application in the fields of art, science and new media.

Myrto Ferentinou was born in Athens, where she lives and works. She studied Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA, 1999-2006) as a scholar of the "Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation". She continued with a second degree at the 2nd Engraving Workshop under professor Viki Tsalamata (ASFA, 2007-2013) as a scholar of the "Suzana Chira Kefallinou Legacy". Following a competition of the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), she took part in the exhibition "Afresh, a new generation of Greek artists" (2013) with her work "Mapping of Uprisings". Her work has been presented in group exhibitions and biennales in art spaces, museums and cultural centers in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Germany, Romania and Italy. Her works belong to the ALPHA Bank Art Collection. Her practice addresses contemporary socio-political developments; she researches the documentation of events and its dissemination through the internet, transforming documents into "memory symbols" and composing a visual testimony of recent events. Her work combines engraving with new media, installation and performance.

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