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Georgios Artopoulos

Georgios Artopoulos

Nicosia, CY

 

About 

Giorgos Artopoulos is an architect (Dipl.- Eng), graduated from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece, 2002). He holds a Master of Philosophy in Architecture and the Moving Image (University of Cambridge, UK, 2004) and a PhD, conducted at the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge (2005-2010) with a Doctoral Award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK, where he assisted as tutor and Research Assistant. Giorgos is currently Lecturer in Architecture at Neapolis University and Lecturer in Virtual Environments at The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus. He received the Best International Short Film award in ‘Mestre Film Festival’, Venice and his work was presented in the ‘International Biennale of Contemporary Art’, Czech National Gallery, Prague, the International Exhibition ‘Computational Turn in Architecture’, MAV, Marseille, the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, the 11th and 12th ‘Biennale of Young Creators of Europe’, the ‘63rd Venice Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia’, Venice, the Royal Institute of British Architects, London, the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, the London Design Festival, London, the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, the ISEA 2006 and 2008, the British Council, Brussels, the Byzantine Museum, Athens, the Benakis Museum, Athens and in many International Film Festivals and art exhibitions (Art Expo, Art Tech Media, ARCO, GIROS, Image: Beyond Media, and others). His work was published in books of architecture, in Metalocus International Magazine of Art and Architecture, in Digital Creativity Journal, in Interfaces Journal, in Design Principles and Practices International Journal and presented in many International Conferences (GSM II, eCAADe, ACADIA, ASCAAD, Hellenic Semiotics, Generative Art and others). His research focuses on agile computational design tactics that allow him to study open-ended generative procedures within a computational logic.

Employment 

Neapolis University Pafos, Páfos, CY, Lecturer

Jan 2012 - current
 

The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, CY, Lecturer

Sep 2011 - current
 

Education 

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, PhD, Architecture

Jan 2005 - Nov 2010
 

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Masters, Architecture and the Moving Image

Sep 2003 - Nov 2004
 

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloníki, GR, Masters, Architecture

Sep 1996 - Nov 2002
 

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