Mara Karayanni
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| Born | Athens, Greece |
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| Lives in | Athens, Greece |
Mara Karayanni (Μάρα Καραγιάννη, 1979, Athens) studied photography and graphic arts at the Fine Arts School of Athens and hold a Masters in media design from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (2008). They create software and hardware tools for interactive projects and work as a freelance web designer and developer using free and open source software. Mara collaborated with choreographer Thomas Körtvélyessy and composer Sjoerd Leijten to reflect on authorship and open/closed structures in dance and sound composition with the use of notations and code. They have also given lectures about the complexities of copyright licensing. Mara is a member of the Genderchangers and Media Liberation Front/Feminism collectives which have organized workshops and events about media and public space. They lived in Rotterdam, Brussels, Paris and Athens. (2022)
- Works
- Propaganda Machine
- Notations Under Provisions
- Content removed / Walls installed
- dance and sound performances
- Publications
- "Software As Dispute Resolution System: Design, Effect and Cultural Monetization", Computational Culture 7, Oct 2019.
- Tunnel Up / Tunnel Down: A Zine About Private Virtual Networks, 2019.
- Psaroskala Zines
- Links
