theggroup

A group of five and four different nationalities, Julià Carboneras-ES, Etienne de France-FR, Maria Lalou- GR, Evi Malisianou-GR, Fernando Velasquez-Ur has come together after the first e- MobiLArt lab(European Mobile lab for Interactive Artists), Athens-June 2008. More info here

Etienne de France

Born in 1984, Etienne de France received a B.A in Art History in Paris, and then completed a B.A in visuals arts in the Iceland Art Academy of Reykjavik. He works with various media, focusing mostly on photography, video and audiovisual performances. Experimenting with diverse presentations that combine those medias (books, installations, veejaying, interactive works), by challenging narration, he is trying to mix these medias in different ways, to create what he calls “poetic-myths”.

Julià Carboneras

Born in Figueres in 1980 and actually based in Barcelona, Julià Carboneras is a musician and an interactive media artist who experiments in the field of interactive devices focused in show human emotions. He is an image and sound engineer (Ramon Llull University - Barcelona) and has studied classical and contemporary music. He works mainly in live interactive events as a musician, video and light designer composing score soundtracks for dance and visual theatre performances as well as several solo performances. Currently is member of FLEXO.tv collective with the basis in development of immersive light and sound environments. He also works in the field of interactive devices development, specialized in computer vision and multi-touch technologies.

Maria Lalou

Born in Athens in 1977, Maria Lalou is a conceptual artist and individual researcher who lives and works between various countries, based nowadays in the Netherlands. Her creations diverse from sculptural pieces and objects, to space installations and performances, playing with optical illusions and philosophical meanings. She uses metaphor, allegoric-mythical visuals; taking viewer, as a basic element of completing her pieces. She has been exhibiting her works in solo and within group shows in Europe. She has studied Product & Industrial design with specialization in Glass at Denmark’s Designskole in Copenhagen, Interior Architecture & Constructive Technology, Plastic Arts and Design of Space & Object holding a BSc from ATEI of Athens and in Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam from where she received a BFA in Fine Arts - Glass. Her passion in Linguistics and Science, lead her to her research about ‘intermediary spaces’.” Her interest lies in details, which affect the whole and the effect of space on individuals. Lalou reflects a different approach on how things stand” Ryoko Sato. For more information visit: reaction-lalou.com

Evi Malisianou

Born in 1978, Evi Malisianou holds a BSc in Interior Architecture & Product Design from ATEI of Athens and an MSc in Design for Interaction from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Aiming for a perspective that considers all aspects of the user experience she brings together knowledge from different design disciplines. She has eight years work experience in Interior Architecture and Interactive Installations collaborating with agencies in Greece, Italy and the Netherlands. In 2007 she co-founded the creative studio SomeOF9 in Athens and since 2008 she is in permanent collaboration with the architectural studio RCL on museology projects. Her biggest passion is to communicate user experience into design process, creating new concepts for everyday life through research and design. For more information visit: www.evothing.com.

Fernando Velázquez

Fernando Velázquez (1970) is a Uruguayan artist living in Sao Paolo, Brazil, since 1997. His work integrated different Media like painting, drawing, photography and video in multimedia pieces and installations. Velázquez research is about privacy, monitoring and control like mediators on the creation of a self sense. He has a Master in Fashion, Art, and Culture from Senac University (Sao Paolo - Brazil), a post-graduation course in Video and Digital Technologies from Mecad (Barcelona-Spain) and a degree in Multimedia Design at Senac University. He participate in different solo and group exhibitions like the Pocket Films Festival at the Pompidou Centre in Paris in 2006 and he won the 2008 Culturas Prize in Madrid-Spain. For more information visit: www.blogart.com.