Επιλεγμένα δείγματα καλλιτεχνικής παραγωγής τα οποία έχουν εκτεθεί ή/και δημοσιευτεί σε διεθνείς διοργανώσεις/εκθέσεις/καταλόγους με κριτές, που προωθούν και υποστηρίζουν τη Γραφιστική ως μέσο έκφρασης και επικοινωνίας.
Τα παράγωγα αυτά αποτελούν προϊόντα σχεδιαστικής και εννοιολογικής μελέτης και σχετίζονται με τη θεωρητική έρευνα που διενεργείται στο Εργαστήριο ΕΕΓΓΕ. Αφορούν στην οπτικοποίηση της γλώσσας, στη σχέση γλώσσας και εικόνας και στην Οπτική Επικοινωνία. Τα δείγματα οριοθετούνται χρονικά από την ίδρυση και λειτουργία του Εργαστηρίου ΕΕΓΓΕ το 2009.
2024
Yeast Logo
Papadima, A. (2024). Yeast Logo. Award of Excellence in the category “Logo New – Europe & Africa”. 15th WOLDA – Worldwide Logo Design Award 2024.
«Αληκτώ» & «Ηλέκτρα ή Φωτεινή»
Papadima, A. (2024). “Alecto” & “Electra or Fotini”. FRONTPAGE PROJECT – Exhibition, Limassol Municipal University Library, 20-29 November 2024.
“The intricate typographic and linguistic nets of Aspasia Papadima lead to elaborate expressive portraits, or may be, is it the opposite way around? The visual and linguistic forms that emerge, while carrying intersections of multiple cultural origins, from Art Nouveau to Chinese and Japanese calligraphy, look like, without ever becoming, caricatures – like those found in the press.
These ambiguous cultural constructs, while bringing forth the reciprocal relationship between word and image, simultaneously, destabilize their own reading – in contrast to the rigid ideological frameworks presented in the media.
Papadima’s works appear as multifaceted shapes, as conceptual and formal points, codes, and symbols, rather than defined formulations, functioning as thus, more like cultural by-products. Demonstrating in this way, the very possibility of art to articulate both linguistic and visual propositions that move outside the familiar, the defined and the certain. Moving us, therefore, towards new visual and intellectual relations and hypotheses.”
(copy: Vicky Pericleous, Exhibition Curator)
Symbiosis
Papadima, A. (2024). Symbiosis. The 6th Emirates International Poster Festival: AI Futures: Creativity Meets Technology. Dubai, UAE.
Symbiosis is commonly defined as a close and enduring interaction between two or more distinct (biological) species. This concept is repurposed here as a metaphor for the evolving interplay between natural and artificial intelligence, interaction, and creation.
The bee, symbolizing life, creation, structured society, industriousness, and contribution, adapts to engage and connect with the hive/circuit/AI. Over this intricate ecosystem looms the wasp, its natural adversary and, in this context, a symbol of the looming threat posed by unrestrained intellect and the unregulated proliferation of technology.