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Angela Melitopoulos, artist in the time-based arts, realized experimental single-channel tapes, video installations, video-essays, documentaries and sound pieces. Her work focuses on migration/mobility, memory and narration. She conceives media art projects in that video technology as a time-based medium revealing mnemonic and micro political processes in documentation. Angela Melitopoulos studied fine Arts with Nam June Paik. She is collaborating in political networks in Europe and Turkey and teaches in academic institutions and art centers. She is publishing theoretical texts and articles and collaborating often with the sociologist and philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato. From 1985 on her work was awarded and shown on many international video and film festivals (such as Berlinale, Video/ Film festival Locarno, EMAF Osnabrück, Film and Video Festival Montreal), and in exhibitions and museums (Manifesta 7, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, Whitney Museum New York, Antonin Tapies Foundation Barcelona, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Museé d’art Moderne Montreal among others).
In Cologne she co-founded the label APRIL, curated exhibitions and lectures and produced publications (CD, DVD, Print).
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