Angela Melitopoulos
Angela Melitopoulos realizes experimental and philosophical video-essays, installations, documentaries, and sound pieces since 1985. She studied Fine Arts with Nam June Paik. Her work focuses on mnemopolitics, duration, cartography, geography, collective memory crossing machinic aspects of subjectivation in relation to electronic/digital media, and documentation. Melitopoulos’ videos and installations were awarded and shown in many international festivals, exhibitions, and museums. She foregrounds the invention of multi-screen formats, performance related expanded cinema screenings, and lectures that link media-art and philosophy. Her installation "Assemblages," co-realized with sociologist and philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato, initiated a series of debates around Félix Guattari’s ideas on the potential of machinic animism for the decolonization of the mind in the societies of the Global North. Her last video-installation project, "Crossings," is about the chaosmotic intensification within the debt crisis in Greece and is currently shown at the Documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany. Melitopoulos is teaching as a professor in the Media School of the Royal Art Academy in Copenhagen.