Τρίτη 5 Μαΐου 2020

ATTENTION fraud



Bio PolyXene Kasda
PolyXene Kasda is homo sentient of Greek origin, grown in the drifting fields of cosmopolitan Alexandria-Lost (Egypt). Trained in fine arts at the Soeur Hermann Besancon workshop in Alexandria, Egypt, she received her academic education in Physics-Chemistry in Cairo and Psychology-Sociology in Athens. Her project Myth/Network 1990-2017 is a psi-glued proposal for the fluid self-immersive aesthetics of transience, expressed as an ideography of the WWW before its spreading (ΕΜΣΤ, archive code 1595, 91), rhizomatic structures (Cultural Contribution Award University of Lucian Blaga, Sibiu 07), multi-sensorial hybrid mappings, topos-engendering RL Boardgames, linguistic/numerical structures (Honorary Medal EETE 09), innovative material PXK (Golden Medal OFA Beijing 08, Best Artwork Award PrimoPianoGallery Lecce 17), inter-space imagery and horticultural -metaphor- generated SAGA projects (Life Achievement Award Visionary Art, Lecce, Italy 17). She lives in Athens, she works everywhere.

Κυριακή 26 Μαΐου 2019

PolyXene Kasda



Polyxene Kasda is homo sentient of Greek origin, grown in the drifting fields of cosmopolitan Alexandria-Lost (Egypt). Trained in Fine Arts at the Soeur Hermann Besancon workshop in Alexandria, she received her academic education in Physics-Chemistry AUC Cairo and Psychology-Sociology ACG Athens. Her project Myth/Network 1990-2017 is a psi-glued proposal for the fluid self-immersive aesthetics of transience, expressed in an ideography of the WWW before its spreading (ΕΜΣΤ, archive code 1595, 91), rhizomatic structures (Cultural Contribution Award University of Lucian Blaga, Sibiu 07), multi-sensorial hybrid mappings, topos-engendering RL Boardgames, linguistic/numerical structures (Honorary Medal EETE 09), innovative material PXK (Golden Medal OFA Beijing 08, Best Artwork Award PrimoPianoGallery Lecce 17), inter-space imagery and horticultural-metaphor- generated SAGA projects (Life Achievement Award Visionary Art, Lecce, Italy 17).

Τρίτη 23 Οκτωβρίου 2018

Poly Kasda, Twixt Cup and Lip, Biennale of Western Balkans 2018

Twixt cup and lip

Polyxene Kasda

Installation 200X1000cm, printed digital/manual images, 2018
The West Balkan Peninsula is undergoing a transitional state of self-restructuring that raises issues of regional connectivity and integration; a convergence challenge largely shaped by its geo-plastic peculiarities formulated in its irrational and yet persisting dogmatic formulas and legends. In a rudimentary attempt to raise mythical awareness and get emotional proximity to this unexplored “virtual space of spectrality” (Derrida), I started surfing on the Balkan legendary waves, leaving behind me a panegyrikon trail of playful doodles. In so doing, I came across haunting figures like the Albanian kallikantzaros and the terrible  ما شاء الله Shtryga with the pale blue eyes..Ι hovered over the Serbian well of Ορφεύς and the pyramid mountain Rtanj said to conceal a spaceship …I met the Slavic three headed dragon Zmey and I witnessed the fly-harassed Bosnian bull Tur balancing on a multieyed fish while carrying the globe on its back… 

Poly Kasda, Twixt Cup and Lip, BoWB 2018

Poly Kasda, Twixt Cup and Lip, surfing on the WB legendary spaces, Biennale of Western Balkans 2018. https://bowb.org/?p=5990


Short bio
Poly Kasda’s lifetime Project Myth/Network 1990-2018 is a polymorphic reticulation of overview art-installations, spectral space cartographies, linguistic games and agro-techno-psycho-social art generating community projects; a dispersive configuration echoing the archetype of transition underlying our contemporary paradigm shift…
M/N first biodegradable interactive world installation in 300 sites of the world was launched in the Meeting of the Worlds PAND conference, Museum of Modern Art of Joensuu, Finland on the 33-6-1990, composing an ideography of the World Wide Web before its spreading. It was completed with her overview PXK Route 2004-2017 intercontinental installation anchored in 27 international events, with her handprocessed material PXK.
Life Achievement Award Visionary Art Italy 2017 – Best Artwork Award PrimopianolivinGallery Lecce 2017-Honorary Silver Medal Greek Chamber of the Arts 2009- Gold Medal Olympic Fine Arts of Beijing 2008 – Collection certificates of Biennials of Beijing 2005-2008, Biennial of Tashkent 2007, MEADOWS Beirut 2012- Cultural Contribution Silver Medal Award Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu Romania 2007 – Three Golden Medals French Academy of Poets of Alexandria..
With a multi-disciplinary academic background in Arts-Physics-Psychology, she is author of many articles and essays; her documentary The Adventures of the Eye 1986 (dir. M. Gastine, Greek National TV) and her Greek essay The Conscious Eye 1988 were one of the earliest encounters of Art theory, cognitive science and AI.
Kondos-Kasda, Artificial Intelligence Professor John Kondos needles Poly Kasda’s Conscious Eye, NotiosAnemos/ Amazon 2015.



 Legacy: Project Myth/Network 1 is archived in the National Museum of Modern Art.  Code 1595. Emst.gr/gr/collections. Donation Xagoraris 1991.
Her work is documented in the  interdisciplinary conference Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence proceedings 2017  Ionian University of Corfu Greece ART THEORY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN GREECE: A DOCUMENTATION OF 30 YEARS OF CROSS-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH WITH DIALOG BETWEEN POLY KASDA AND JOHN KONTOS MarianaZikufile:///C:/Users/HPPROB~1/AppData/Local/Temp/_years_2017_downloads_TTT_proceedings_en_v1-1.pdf