Open Call | ID-ENTITIES: Imprints of Personal Data Exhibition

ATHENS PRINTMAKING ART CENTER - PANDOLFINI & SIATERLI C.N.P.P. welcomes submissions from printmakers, visual artists and groups, from all over the world for its upcoming international printmaking exhibition with the topic ID-ENTITIES: Imprints of Personal Data which will take place in 2025 at ETCH INK art space, in Athens (Greece).

The exhibition seeks to critically examine the general and widespread digitisation of human interactions and the impact of personal data processing systems in human lives. Writer, columnist and lawyer Francesco Carraro, draws attention to the risks of a complete digitisation of personal information, addressing the right to remain "analog", i.e. not to be fully and irrevocably digitized in regards to identity and profiling. A compulsory digitisation of human relationships is synonymous with ultimate control over all aspects of life. It also heralds a future of humanity regulated and guided in directions over which people have no authority or impact. Likewise, it means that society is being subjected to increasingly intrusive systems of control over the privacy of citizens, to the extent that they also even run the risk of being erased or "deactivated" by the same System at a single click of the mouse.

Where are personal data collected, how are they distributed, who are they shared with and how do they eventually determine our identities, our choices and decisions? Is it possible that art can outsmart the system? Could it constitute a source of resistance against the predetermined objectives and decisions of automated systems and softwares?

With the language of printmaking as a vehicle, ATHENS PRINTMAKING ART CENTER welcomes scenarios of resistance, fictional identities, subversive data flows, experimental profiles, creative "hacks", original visual falsifications and unconventional paths of escape.  Artists are invited to renegotiate the notions of democracy, privacy, freedom and identity through their own scenarios of defiance. Moreover, they are encouraged to take a critical stance on the problematic parameters and risks associated with an information-based society, data diffusion, technology and the digitalisation of identity and human life. The exhibition attempts to map the dangers and hidden aspects of the automated processes of personal data, but also to propose ways of resistance focused on the idea of maintaining an analog self and an analog identity in a broad sense.

Selected proposals will be exhibited in a curated exhibition at ETCH INK art space, in Athens, between February and June 2025. Official dates will be announced later in the year.

Application form: forms.gle/wtvCDx2BsnQwtN1Z8

Deadline: 15 Νοvember 2024

Please note: Shortlisted artists will be notified by email and will receive more instructions about the procedure and the shipping of artworks.

More about ATHENS PRINTMAKING ART CENTER - PANDOLFINI & SIATERLI

ΑΤHENS PRINTMAKING ART CENTER - PANDOLFINI & SIATERLI was founded by the artists Pino Pandolfini and Dimitra Siaterli. It has been running in Athens since 1977 as an open workshop for art and printmaking. Its activities include many cultural activities, exhibitions and exchange exhibitions in Greece and abroad, printing artworks, art editions, cooperation with artists, cultural organizations, galleries, schools, regular seminars and lesson programs. The aim of the ΑΤHENS PRINTMAKING ART CENTER PANDOLFINI & SIATERLI, from its founding until now, has been to make accessible the language of printmaking, the history, the potential and its particular expressive power in the art world. The lengthy historical pathway of the space includes important collaborations with artists and institutions from Greece and abroad, which have strengthened the cultural exchange and community of the domestic art scene. By supporting the participation in the creative process and the personal stylings of the artist, the organization encourages the inherent production of printmaking, as well as the interdisciplinary workings of art. After an artistic mission of 44 years, the ATHENS PRINTMAKING ART CENTER - PANDOLFINI & SIATERLI, today estimates the production of approximately 1500 prints from 160 artists, who have collaborated with the workshop during its many years within the domestic and European art scene. The collection of the Athens Printmaking Art Center continues to be enriched with new works to this day. Since 2018, the ATHENS PRINTMAKING ART CENTER PANDOLFINI & SIATERLI opened for the public as a non-profit the cultural center ETCH INK art space, in the center of Athens. ETCH INK art space operates as the headquarters of C.N.P.P., as an exhibition space for art and printmaking, as a space for seminars and printmaking workshops, as an artistic space for projects, conferences, lectures, screenings, research programs on printmaking and its relations with other art forms, with other cultural organizations and galleries. Following the exhibitions Escape Plan 1984/2024, Self Portrait, Herbarium, Bestiarium I & II, the upcoming exhibition ID-ENTITIES: Imprints of Personal Data is the fourth international exhibition organised and produced by the ATHENS PRINTMAKING ART CENTER at ETCH INK art space.