Video-art Game
In the Video-art Game, the camera transforms visible reality into a virtual one, thus placing us automatically at the first level of simulation. What remains after the game’s action are the recorded images and the player’s experience. After undergoing a series of transformations through editing, the initial image of reality is turned into a copy, whose truth, though existent, remains hermetically hidden. For every work emerging from such an action, Jean Baudrillard’s words seem entirely applicable: “The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.
Achilleas Nasios
Achilleas Nasios is a visual photographer, video artist, professor of visual photography and video art, musician, and performer. He was born and raised in Greece. He studied Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts (FAMU) in Prague, Visual Communication at the Academy of Fine Arts (UDK) in Berlin, Digital Art Forms at the Athens School of Fine Arts (Master’s), and Video Art at the Academy of Fine Arts (KKH) in Stockholm (Master’s). For 12 years, he taught photography at the University of West Attica, the University of Ioannina, and the Photography Group of Paiania. Since 2007, he has been living between Sweden and Greece as a freelance artist and lecturer in the fields of photography and video art. In 2015, he began developing the concept of Photo Games, an experiential method of deepening engagement with photography, which also extends to video. He is a founding member of the Hocus Photus Network. Since 1986, he has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions in Greece and across Europe. In 2000, he was selected as one of the 15 most significant representatives of Contemporary Greek Photography.He was awarded the Golden Aphrodite at the Cyprus International Film Festival (CIFF 2007) in the field of video art. In 2016, he was selected as one of the 100 most important contemporary artists in Europe and represented Sweden in the Spring Exhibition 2016 in Copenhagen.