Antonis Antoniou
http://www.myspace.com/antonioua
Antonis Antoniou was born in 1978 in Nicosia, Cyprus working across ive Electronics, Interactive Media, Sound Art, Soundscape Studies, Aural Architecture and Plunderphonics. He holds an MMus in Composition (scholarship award) and a BMus (Hons) in Music from Goldsmiths College London, a BSc from the University of Cyprus, a diploma in Jazz studies from the Philippos Nakas Conservatory in Athens and the ATCL degree in guitar from the Trinity College of London. In 2008 he released his first solo album: 'Hey Maria look!! I can play the guitar'. His 'Soundscape Nicosia' has been broadcasted by the London art radio "Resonance FM" as well as by the SoundArt radio in Devon, CKUT radio in Montreal, Radio Zero in Lisbon and RadioCampus in Bruxelles. He has composed the soundtrack of the puppet-theatre-play 'Karagiozis Exposed' and toured with it extensively during the summer of 2008. (Fringe Festival in Prague, Greece, Cyprus and London). He is a member of 'Trio Tekke' (www.myspace.com/triotekke), an acoustic trio experimenting in rearranging old rempetika songs and composing new pieces in a similar style. A highlight of his recent activities has been collaborating with 10 acclaimed sound artists and avant-garde composers including Julien Ottavi, towards the realisation of David Tudors Rainforest iv at Area10 in London. He has composed music for films and numerous soundscapes.
Alexandros Constandinou
Alexandros Constandinou, a television director by profession has recently moved back to Cyprus after having worked for the film industry in NYC and LA and studying philosophy at King's College, London (2008). His artistic practise is characterised by an extensive fascination with excreta and the pornographic and an exploration of the notion of naïve vis-a-vis the technological advances of the visual.
Yervant Der Parthogh
www.stravaraland.com
www.halloumi.com
www.planet-cyprus.net
Alana Kakoyiannis
www.alanakakoyiannis.com
Alana Kakoyiannis is a filmmaker based in New York City and Nicosia, Cyprus. Her work ranges from interview-based documentary to abstract, image-dominated experimentalism. She has worked independently to produce several short films that have been broadcast nationally and screened internationally, including Current TV, The Anthology Film Archives and the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. Her most recent film Cosmopolis garnered the Grand Jury Prize for Best International Documentary in the Migr_tions Online Festival held by Radio Canada International. Originally from Pennsylvania, she earned her M.F.A from Hunter College, CUNY in Integrated Media Arts and her B.A. in Communications from Denison University. In her professional experience, she has worked with various networks including MTV, NBC and CBS as well as regional film production companies in Greece and Cyprus.
Phanos Kyriacou
http://www.phanoskyriacou.com
Lives and works in Nicosia (Cyprus)
Education
2007 MFA, Goldsmiths University, London, UK
2001 BFA, Middlesex University School of Art, London, UK
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Over the hill (upcoming)
Omikron Gallery, Nicosia
2009
Crashed helmets must be removed
APOTHEKE, Nicosia, Cyprus
The new man has arrived
Midget Factory, Nicosia, Cyprus
SINERGIA
Statues in crisis
Cyprus Museum, Nicosia, Cyprus
Curator: Yiannis Toumazis
Orestis Lambrou
www.orestislambrou.com
Orestis Lambrou was born in Nicosia Cyprus in 1981. He is a film maker and a photographer whose interest is documenting urban spaces from an anthropocentric point of view. Through his work, both still and durational, he attempts to bring forth what is otherwise missed.
He has a BA (hons) in film from the University College for the Creative Arts in Surrey England and an MA in Image and Communication from Goldsmiths University of London. He currently lives and works in London.
E. Panagiotidis
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E. Panagiotidis was born and raised in Athens. He moved to the U.K. In 1996. Since 2002 he lives and works in Cyprus. His first camera was a Zenit.
E. Panagiotidis' series of photographs under the tortuously misleading title In Memory and Love, obliquely allude to the well-known dedication by George Seferis of his 'Logbook III' poems, his 'Cypriot' poems, to the island of Cyprus. Akin to Seferis' poetics, E. Pangiotidis' gaze, attempting to highlight the bizarre, the peculiar, the other, as these are to be found in the everyday, is a version of the native Greek's, of the alamaras' gaze on Cyprus. Such a reflection on the landscape of Cyprus is composed by contradictory yet culturally explicit factors like the surprising vicinity to the Middle East and the resistances towards it, the pretences of familiarity due to an almost common language, the awkwardness when faced with the dispersals of cultural and political identity away from its core manifestation, the snobbish arrogance running through metropolitan outlooks of the provincial, the impossibility of privacy in small and strong-knitted communities, the aporia vis-a-vis the post-colonial condition.
Maria Christina Papaleontiou
www.mcp-jewellery.com
Maria Christina Papaleontiou (b. 12/12/1983, Nicosia, Cyprus) graduated from The English School, Nicosia in 2002 and went on to the University of Nottingham where she gained a Bachelor in Architecture in 2005. During her studies she was awarded a University of Nottingham scholarship and was selected to attend the Architectural Heritage: Perspectives on Town Development in the Historic Centre of Riga (2003), a two week seminar, alongside an international array of architecture students.
In 2005-2006 she was employed by Studio 75, an architecture office in Athens. While there, she worked on a breadth of projects, of ranging scale, varying from interior design to urban planning, including the winning proposal for the renovation of the National Theatre of Greece.
In 2006 she returned to the University of Nottingham and in July 2008 graduated from the Diploma in Architecture course with Merit, thus gaining the RIBA Part II. Her final Diploma project focused on the relationship between food and architecture in Nicosias inner walled city.
Currently she is one half of Dear ARCHITECTS, who took part in the London Festival of Architecture in July 2008, as well as were selected by Sir Peter Cook to represent Cyprus in the Venice Architectural Biennale in September 2008, with the project Make Souvla Not War !.
[ http://DearARCHITECTS.blogspot.com ]
In October 2008 she relocated to London, where did an internship with DMD Architects. She is currently looking for a job as a Part II Architectural Assistant, and realising her passion in Jewellery Design by creating a range using laser cut wood [MCP].
Efi Savvides
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Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert
www.theopisti.com
Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert was born in 1976 in Nicosia, Cyprus. She studied at the University of Texas at Austin (US) where she graduated with a Masters from the Visual Art Studies & Art Education department. She earned her PhD in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester (UK) and is currently a lecturer of photography at the Cyprus University of Technology. Her research interests include photography, museum studies, the analysis of cultural production and consumption, as well as the sociology of art.
Stylianou-Lambert received a number of scholarships and awards such as a Fulbright scholarship (1998, US), a M. K. Hage Endowed Scholarship in Fine Arts (2000, US), a Kelly Fearing Endowed Scholarship in Art Education and Studio Art (2000, US), an A. G. Leventis Foundation Scholarship (2005-2008, France), and an Arts and Humanities Research Council Award (2005-2008, UK). She has exhibited her work in a number of solo and group exhibitions in the US, Czech Republic, and Cyprus.
Constantinos Taliotis
www.constantinostaliotis.com
Maria Toumazou
Maria Toumazou is currently studying in London.
2008 Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, Architectural Ceramics Course
2008-present Goldsmiths College, University of London, BA Art Practice
2001-2007 American International School of Cyprus
Exhibitions
2009 Group Exhibition It Was About Time, London
2008 Group Exhibition at Goldsmiths College, London
2007 Group Exhibition International Baccalaureate, Nicosia
