Exhibition: 'You and AI: Through the Algorythmic Lens"

Organised by Onassis STEGI

Venue: Pedion tou Areos.

Bill Balaskas & Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, Before the bullet hits the body, 2021, ground mural at Pedion tou Areos.

The work takes its title from the seminal 2018 report by the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, which led to the dismantlement of β€œpredictive” policing programmes of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). The algorithm presented at Pedion tou Areos describes an area’s predicted rate of crimes based on its historical average rate of crimes combined with recent trends. The Coalition’s community organizing expanded the critique of LAPD’s algorithm beyond just questioning the β€œfeedback loop,” showing how police use the veneer of science to mask their violence and, thus, exposing crime data as a social construct intended to contain, control, and criminalize Black, brown, and poor communities. The Coalition argued that surveillance and crime data create the conditions of police violence β€œbefore the bullet hits the body.” These conditions include incidents of police brutality like the 2020 killing of George Floyd, which led to global protests by the Black Lives Matter movement. The installation adopts the visual language of these protests, which included slogans written on major roads in the U.S. Along with the installation at Pedion tou Areos, the project consists of a curated presentation of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition’s work on Stegi’s website and a series of online discussions.
 

'Images of a Floating World'

Primarolia Festival
12-30 September 2020
Kanellopoulos-Kritsotalakis Building, Aigio, Greece

For further information https://primarolia.com/
 

'the HOLD'

Bill Balaskas is participating in a group exhibition by the We Are Publication collective
Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London
25 September - 14 December 2019

https://www.stanleypickergallery.org/exhibitions/we-are-publication/
 

TOYOTAYA Commission

Bill Balaskas is the winner of the TOYOTAYA Commission by the Cork Opera House and the National Sculpture Factory for Cork Midsummer Festival 2019.

https://www.corkmidsummer.com/programme/event/red-air-bill-balaskas
https://visualartists.ie/news/bill-balaskas-awarded-the-the-toyotaya-commission-cork/

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Platforms Projects 2019

'Autobiographical Systems', curated by Emmanuel Mavrommatis
16-19 May 2019
β€œNikos Kessanlis” Exhibition Hall of the Athens School of Fine Arts

https://platformsproject.com/

Farewell to thee (solo exhibition)

A new site-specific installation inspired by the US-North Korea crisis.

7 March - 14 April 2019
Phoenix
4 Midland Street
Leicester, LE1 1TG

More information: https://www.phoenix.org.uk/event/bill-balaskas-farewell-to-thee/

"Squared" & "Apertures"

UKYA presents a "dispersed" solo exhibition ("Squared") and a lecture-performance ("Apertures") by interdisciplinary artist and distinguished UKYA alumnus Bill Balaskas. The events are hosted in the context of the inaugural UKYA City Takeover festival, which will take place in Nottingham, UK.

"Squared" - a "dispersed" solo exhibition
7 - 13 February 2019
Multiple venues
Nottingham, UK

"Apertures" - a lecture-performance
Sunday 10 February 2019, 14:00
The Florist
Nottingham, UK

More information: http://www.ukyoungartists.co.uk
 

β€˜RCA SECRET 2018’

Fundraising exhibition and sale of original postcard-sized artworks by internationally acclaimed artists, illustrators and designers.
Royal College of Art, South Kensington, London, UK
30 November - 3 December 2018

More information: https://london.secret.rca.ac.uk/2018/
 

Bill Balaskas has been invited by Italy to represent his home country Greece in the official World War I centenary exhibition ’Quando scoppia la pace’ (β€˜When peace erupts’).

The exhibition will be inaugurated by the Italian President on 4 November 2018, in Vittorio Veneto - the site of the Great War’s final battle.
Curated by Dimitri Ozerkov, curator of contemporary art at the Hermitage State Museum, St Petersburg, Russia.

"Autobiographical Systems"
A group exhibition curated by Emmanuel Mavrommatis, in the context of Platforms Project 2018.
"Nikos Kessanlis" Exhibition Hall of the Athens School of Fine Arts
17 - 20 May 2018

https://platformsproject.com

European Investment Bank Institute Artists’ Development Awards

Bill Balaskas has been selected as one of the four winners of the 2018 EIB Institute Artists' Development Awards.
A newly commissioned installation will be unveiled by the artist in Luxembourg on 25 June 2018.

"When All is Said... and Done"

A group exhibition curated by Artemis Potamianou
Agnus-Hughes Gallery & Centre for Contemporary Curation, London, UK
9 March - 8 April 2018

http://angus-hughes.com

"On Technology and the Nature of Truth"

Panel discussion at Watermans Arts Centre, London
Saturday 3 March 2018, 11:30 am

https://www.watermans.org.uk/events/trajectories-symposiumon-technology-and-the-nature-of-truth/
 

'Trajectories'
A group exhibition curated by Eszter BircsΓ‘k, Sara Choudhrey and Irini Papadimitriou.
Watermans Arts Centre, London, UK
24 January - 7 March 2018

For further information: https://www.watermans.org.uk/events/trajectories/

"Balance Exercises"
23-26 November 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece

Bill Balaskas is participating in the museum exhibition "Balance Exercises", curated by Prof. Emmanuel Mavrommatis, in the context of Art Thessaloniki 2017. Balaskas will present his installation "Anarchy near the UK", which was commission in 2016 by MACBA - Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona.
 

β€˜RCA SECRET 2017’

Fundraising exhibition and sale of original postcard-sized artworks by internationally acclaimed artists, illustrators and designers.
Royal College of Art, Battersea, London, UK
9 - 15 September 2017

More information: https://london.secret.rca.ac.uk/2017/

SHOW RCA 2017

Bill Balaskas presents his doctoral research for his PhD by thesis at the Royal College of Art, alongside his mixed-media installation "Re: Evolution" (2013).

Royal College of Art
School of Humanities Research Exhibition
Stevens Building, Kensington Gore, London
24 June - 2 July 2017

http://www.rca.ac.uk/show2017

Artist Talk: "Against the Slow Cancelation of the Future’

Talk at the Centre for Cultural Studies
Goldsmiths University of London, New Cross, London
Friday 16 June 2017, at 12 pm

β€˜The Assassination of Guy Debord’

A new performance & participatory installation presented in the convention hall of the EU Council.

Friday 12 May 2017, 6 pm

European Convention Center Luxembourg (ECCL)
Place de l' Europe, 4
2311, City of Luxembourg
Luxembourg

Organized in the context of the β€˜Friday Island’ event series

β€˜Living Forward, Looking Backward’

Essay by Ioli Tzanetaki in β€˜Archipelago' journal of Goldsmiths University of London (2017).

The essay is based on Bill Balaskas' most recent solo exhibition at Kalfayan Galleries, in Athens, titled β€˜Remains of a Summer Bliss’ (September-October 2016)

http://www.archipelagojournal.org/
 

Address: Anaxagora 3, Athens 10552

For further information: http://gesturesofresistance.com/

"GREEK MOMENT / MOMENT GREC"

Bill Balaskas' work is featured in a collective book, edited by Emmanuel Saulnier
Paris: Editions du Regard

http://www.editions-du-regard.com/regard/accueil.htm
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nEUROsis
Curated by Yiannis Colakides
NeMe Arts Centre, Limassol, Cyprus
19 November - 17 December 2016

http://news.neme.org/1808/neurosis
 

Participating in a group show: “Good Night, And Good Luck“
A Plus A Gallery, Venice, Italy.
28 September – 30 November 2016
 
For further information:
http://aplusa.it/exhibitions/c-c-personal-exhibition/

"Fireflies in the Night Take Win"
Video art survey organised by curators Barbara London, Kalliopi Minioudaki, Francesca Pietropaolo with artistic director Robert Storr at Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), from June 23–26, 2016

For further information: snfcc.org/metamorphosis

Bill Balaskas and Stefanos Tsivopoulos

PUNK: Its traces in contemporary art.

Curated by David Torres
MACBA (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona), Spain
13 May - 25 September 2016

Bill Balaskas is participating with a new installation specially commissioned by MACBA for the exhibition, titled "Anarchy Near the UK" (2016).
 

Further information:
http://www.macba.cat

RCA Secret 2016
Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London, UK
8 - 15 April 2016

www.london.secret.rca.ac.uk/2016/

"Devalue - Value - Surplus Value: Between work and art" (group exhibition)

Curator: Charis Kanellopoulou
ISET - The Contemporary Greek Art Institute, Athens, Greece
31 March - 25 June 2016

http://www.iset.gr

Participating in group show "PIGS", Curated by Blanca de la Torre at Artium, Spain.
Exhibition dates: 19 February – 15 May 2016

Group show “PUNK: Its traces in contemporary art”, Curated by David Torres.
23 October 2015 - 31 January 2016
ARTIUM Museum of Contemporary Art, Vitoria, Spain

Performance
Blindness
In the context of "The Dark Precursor"
Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium
9 - 11 November 2015
 
For more information:
http://darkprecursor.org/
 

Screening:
Videozoom Greece: "On Πause!"
Curated by Maria Dialektaki and Maria Papaioannou
C/E Contemporary, Milan, Italy
1 & 2 October 2015
 
For more information:
http://www.cecontemporary.com/
 

1st Biennial of the South: "Peoples in Resistance"
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
1 November 2015 - 28 February 2016
 
For more information:
http://iartes.gob.ve/index.php/the-bienal
 

 

Publication
Journal of Visual Culture
Article in the special issue "Visions of Contemporary Cuts", edited by Lanfranco Aceti: "Liberating Speculation: Art, the Currency of Capitalism and the Death of Currencies"
Autumn 2015
 
For more information:
http://vcu.sagepub.com/
 

“PUNK: Its traces in contemporary art”
Curated by David Torres.
23 October 2015 - 31 January 2016
ARTIUM Museum of Contemporary Art, Vitoria, Spain
 
For more information:
http://www.artium.org/English/Exhibitions/Exhibition/tabid/336/language/en-US/Default.aspx?pidExposicion=280
 

“TOUS POUR TOUS”
Exhibition organised in the context of TEMPOCOLOR 2015
18 September – 21 October 2015
Les Chiroux, Centre culturel de Liège, Liege.
 
For more information:
http://www.chiroux.be/event/ec-rire-des-siner/
http://www.tempocolor.be/

10th Mildura Biennale: "Everywhere All at Once Here"
Curated by Jonathan Kimberley.
18 September - 18 October 2015
Mildura Arts Centre/Rio Vista, Mildura, Australia
 
For more information:
http://www.mildurabiennale.com/
 http://mildurapalimpsestbiennale.com/artists-thinkers/bill-balaskas-2/

"Show Me the Money" (group show)

Curated by Peter Knight, Nicky Marsh, Paul Crosthwaite and Isabella Streffen
People's History Museum, Manchester, UK
11 July 2015 - 24 January 2016

More information: http://www.phm.org.uk/

"PUNK. Its Traces in Contemporary Art" (group exhibition)

Curated by David Torres
CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
25 March - 30 September 2015

More information: http://www.ca2m.org/en/future/punk-traces-contemporary-art

"Board Meeting"

Bill Balaskas will chair a panel discussion with Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, Haydn Jones and Jonathan Munro, in the context of the "Executive Chair" exhibition.

Guest Projects / Yinka Shonibare Studio
1 Andrews Road, E8 4QL, London
Saturday 24 January 2015, 3 pm

For more information: http://www.guestprojects.com/

Screening of Parthenon Rising (II) as part of "Rencontres du film d’art"

Thursday 29 January 2015, 8:45 pm
The Regent Cinema
16 rue de l’Indépendance, 31800 Saint-Gaudens, France

For more information: http://leregent.wix.com/rencontres-art

Screening of Parthenon Rising (II) as part of "Rencontres du film d’art"

Thursday 29 January 2015, 8:45 pm
The Regent Cinema
16 rue de l’Indépendance, 31800 Saint-Gaudens, France

For more information: http://leregent.wix.com/rencontres-art

"Videozoom Greece: On Πause!" (group exhibition)

Curated by Maria Dialektaki and Maria Papaioannou
Museo di Roma in Trastevere & Sala 1, Rome, Italy
14 - 29 November 2014

More information: http://www.museodiromaintrastevere.it/ & http://www.salauno.com/
 

"Breaking the Bank II" (panel discussion)

Chaired by Nat Muller, with Georgina Adam, Bill Balaskas, David Batty and Edo Dijksterhuis
TENT, Rotterdam, The Netheralnds
Thursday 13 November 2014, 8 pm

More information: http://www.tentrotterdam.nl/
 

"The Secret Life of Data and the Future of Value" (artist's talk),

Facilitated by Irini Papadimitriou and Alison Powell
Mozilla Festival 2014, Ravensbourne, London, UK
Saturday 25 October 2014, 3pm

More information: http://2014.mozillafestival.org/

"Athens Video Art Festival" (group show)
Installations section, curated by Ifigenia Papadatou
Technopolis, Athens, Greece
2 - 5 October 2014

More information: http://www.athensvideoartfestival.gr/

"No Rest for the Wicked" (solo show)
Curated by Lanfranco Aceti
ArtInternational, Istanbul, Turkey
26 - 28 September 2014

More information: http://istanbulartinternational.com/ & http://museumofcontemporarycuts.org/no-rest-for-wicked/
 

“The Aesthetics of Scale” (artist’s talk)

Chaired by Lanfranco Aceti
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
Saturday 20 September 2014, 1-3 pm

More information: http://www.hansardgallery.org.uk/

 

“Passé simple, futurs composes” (group show) (curated by Amanda Abi Khalil), Festival du Temps d’ images

Le Centquatre, 5 rue Curial, Paris

17 September  – 28 October 2014

 For more information: http://www.tempsdimages.eu

"The Value of Nothing" (group exhibition)

Curated by Jesse van Oosten and Michel van Dartel
TENT, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
4 September - 16 November 2014

More information: http://www.tentrotterdam.nl/

 

"The Small Infinite" (group exhibition)

Curated by Lanfranco Aceti, with Vince Dziekan
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
4 August - 20 September 2014

The exhibition will feature a new commission by the artist, the mixed media installation "Ou la mort" (Or death, 2014).

More information: http://www.hansardgallery.org.uk/

"Show Me The Money: The Image of Finance From 1700 to the Present" (book)

Edited by Paul Crosthwaite, Peter Knight and Nicky Marsh

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014

The book features the artist's 2013 installation "The market will save us"

More information: http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/
 

"Art Out of Time" (artist's talk)

Participants include Bill Balaskas, Whitney Davis, Ian Kiaer, Elizabeth Price and Alexander Sturgis.
University of Oxford, Institute for Visual Research, Oxford, UK  
26 – 27 June 2014  

More information: http://oxfordvisualresearch.org/
 

"An Opera of Labour and Revolution" (group exhibition)

Curated by Lanfranco Aceti and Susanne Jaschko
Kasa Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey  
26 June – 30 July 2014  

More information: http://kasagaleri.sabanciuniv.edu/
 

"Art After the Crash"
Round table chaired by Julian Stallabrass, with Bill Balaskas, Geraldine Juárez and Brett Scott

Sunderland Museum, Sunderland, UK

Friday 13 June 2014, 3:30 – 5:30 pm

More information: http://www.imageoffinance.com/?portfolio=581

 

"Show Me the Money" (group exhibition)
Curated by Peter Knight, Nicky Marsh, Paul Crosthwaite and Isabella Streffen

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK

13 June – 30 August 2014

More information: http://www.imageoffinance.com/
 

"Red Art: New Utopias in Data Capitalism"

New book publication by the Leonardo Electronic Almanac
(The MIT Press; New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development; OCR, Operational and Curatorial Research; Leonardo/ISAST; Sabanci University; and Goldsmiths, University of London).

Edited and with introductions by Lanfranco Aceti, Bill Balaskas, Susanne Jaschko and Julian Stallabrass.

Official book launch: Monday 19th May 2014, 5:30 pm, Royal College of Art, South Kensington, London.

For more information: http://www.leoalmanac.org/

“Future past – past Future”, Transmediale Festival
SUPERMARKT, Brunnenstabe 64, Berlin, Germany
25 January – 2 February 2014
 
For more information: http://www.supermarkt-berlin.net/event/transmediale14/

"Parthenon Rising (II)" included in The Art Newspaper's Art Basel's Best Artist Films.
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Art-Basels-best-artist-films/31292
 

Living in a Global 'Society of the Spectacle'

Online article in 'Third Text'
Special Issue: 'Global Occupations of Art' edited by Jonathan Harris

http://www.thirdtext.org/living-in-global-society-of-the-spectacle

Afresh A New generation of Greek Artists
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
24/10/2013 - 2/3/2014
Curated By: Daphne Dragona, Tina Pandi, Daphne Vitali

For further information: http://www.emst.gr/EN/exhibitions/emst_exhibitions/main.aspx?ID=224

Kalfayan Galleries present at ReMap4
Bill Balaskas - "Critical Mass"
Opening: 8 September 2013, 17:00 - 22:00

Kerameikou 43 (2nd Floor), Metaxourgeio, Athens

Duration: 8 - 30 September 2013  -  Hours: Monday - Friday 17:30 - 21:00, Saturday/ Sunday 12:00 - 21:00

Artist Talk: Radical Gestures: Designing Protest, Resistance and Refusal

Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, UK
Saturday 1 June 2013

For more information and in order to book a place, please, visit:
http://newsevents.arts.ac.uk/event/radical-gestures-designing-protest-resistance-and-refusal/
 

Greek Student Unfurls 23-meter Banner on RCA Façade to Protest Against Finance’s Dominance - Artinfo

http://www.artinfo.com/node/856712

Maribor 2012
London 2012 Cultural Oympiad
European Capital of Culture
6 - 31 July 2012

Bill Balaskas has been selected to represent the United Kingdom

For further information please visit: www.maribor2012.eu