Ioannis Andronikidis

Greece (residence)
research interests: lens-based practices, documentary, video-essay, photography, subjectivity reproduction, Guattari, commons, aesthetic commons, documented subjectivities, politics and aesthetics, socially-engaged art, fieldwork, art activism
affiliation: The New Centre for Research & Practice
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Yiannis I. Andronikidis is an art historian, writer, and translator currently based in Greece. After studying History, Archaeology, and History of Art at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, he completed his thesis at the Edinburgh College of Art entitled “Documented subjectivities, artistic autonomy, and the social register: critical analysis of Forensic Architecture’s vision” (supervisor: Dr Angela Dimitrakaki). In 2021, he initiated an ongoing research project, “Translation as (an)Archival Process,” at HkW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) in Berlin, which consists of a series of visual, textual, and audio documents and culminates in the print publication, “Blue Magnets,” forthcoming by A) GLIMPSE) OF) INK. He is a member of HEKLER, a transnational community of artists, cultural workers, and activists that foster a critical and experimental examination of hospitality and conflict, co-editor of the journal 'brossura: manual of pirate languages,' and co-founder of Coated Spirits, a collective exploring the “hauntological affect” of sound in film-making. His texts and translations, in different formats, can be found, among others, in TripleAmpersand Journal (&&&), Philosophy World Democracy, Another Gaze/Another Screen, Ultra Dogme, and fade.radio. On January 2023, he co-initiated the TechnÄ“: Art & Technology Team, hosted at FORTH/PRAXI; and since 2022 he has been undertaking research as part of the Art & Curatorial Practice Programme at The New Centre for Research and Practice (dir. Cécile Malaspina), where he develops research to be presented in 2024.


https://yiannisandronikidis.com/