Kostas Daflos is a PhD Architect (NTUA), new media artist MΑ ¨Digital Arts¨ (ASFA-Patras University), Sculptor (ASFA), based in Athens. Explores through the Cipo_ program methods between art and architecture and creates do-it-yourself (DIY) dialogical robotic nomadic installations and vehicles, functioning as public interactive interventions for performances. He has organized several student workshops, collective acts and collaborative urban researches with educational and critical processes in different specific context. His interests focuses on literal art practices involving dialogical art and social art, tactical media and activism under the theoretical ideas of the cyborg performativity, the everyday life, the commons and the public spheres. Since 2003 he has participated in independent festivals through different art and technology frameworks such as: 4th LAST Festival: Life/Art/Science/Technology, Thymos Foundation, San Jose State University (California), Diffrazioni Festival (Florence, 2019, 2016), Fournos_Center for Digital Culture (Athens), Bios ‘Oπa!’ (Athens), TeDance ‘Technologically Expanded Dance’ (Lisbon), Break 2.3 ‘New Species’ (Ljubljana), Digital art exhibition ‘Science & Art’ (Shanghai). Preselected: Body>data>space: Robots + Avatars (2012), 3rd LAST Festival, Interactive Digital Experimental Art (IDEA), Stanford University (California). He has authorial, academic and architectural activity both from realization and published work. He is an Assosiate Professor at NTUA, Athens School of Architecture.
Courses
During the current academic year, this person is a tutor in the following courses:
Undergraduate Courses
- 1st Semester
- Plastic Arts 1: Introduction to Perceptual Principles of Plastic Arts
- Plastic arts 1: Introduction to perceptual principles of Plastic Arts
- 2nd Semester
- Plastic Arts 2: Structure and Form Analysis fromthe Natural World Aiming at Plastic Expression
- Plastic Arts 2 Structure and Form Analysis from the Natural World Aiming at Plastic Expression: Plastic Arts2 Structure and Form Analysis from the Natural World Aiming at Plastic Expression
- 3rd Semester
- 4th Semester
- Special topics in Painting and Plastic Arts 4: Β. Plastic Arts in the Public Space
- 5th Semester
- Special Topics In Plastic Arts 5: Plastic applications to compact and fluid materials
- 6th Semester
- Special Topics In Plastic Arts 6: Plastic Arts with Multiple Means and Materials
- 7th Semester
- Special Topics In Plastic Arts 7: Narrative audio-visual constructions
- 8th Semester
- Special Topics In Plastic Arts 8: Public action by performativity tactics