Lecture / Talk
Promise: a day of talks, a night of music
Get TicketsPromise fosters unlikely dialogues. We build community by connecting people across art, design, and technology. We metabolise ideas from Athens and beyond.
Tickets to the symposium include entry to the night programme of music and performances. Talks will be held in English.
Day programme
14:00 — 21:00
Every civilisation needed a mechanism to promise itself a future — the I Ching, capital, ideology, and now synthetic intelligence. Each proposes its own certainty, but each is trapped inside the logic of its own system.
This one-day symposium asks what comes after these exhausted mechanisms. Through talks and presentations, the event covers failed futures, entropic systems, and the anomalies that exceed certainty.
Speakers explore the poetic undercurrents of the web, terraforming projects, computational design aesthetics, and the subversion of AI bots.
Speakers
Wassim Alsindi (Writer)
Marios Stamatis (Artist, Designer & Educator)
Kristoffer Tjalve (Curator & Independent Organiser)
Karin Valis (Machine Learning Engineer & Writer)
Thanasis Moutsopoulos (Cultural Theorist and Curator)
Iliana Papadopoulou (architect, artist and creative developer)
More speakers TBA
Night programme
21:00 — Late
The evening closes with a music and live performance programme curated by Katerina Gnafaki.
Performances:
DJ sets:
Schedule
Day
14:00 — 14:30 Arrivals + coffee
14:30 — 15:00 Opening address
15:00 — 17:00 First talk series
17:00 — 18:30 Break + snack
18:30 — 19:00 Live performance
19:00 — 20:30 Second talk series
20:30 — 21:00 Closing panel
Night
21:00 — 22:00 Live performances
22:00 — Late DJ Sets