Demosthenes Agrafiotis

I'm active active in the fields of poetry/painting/photography/performances/intermedia/installations and their interactions, with books of poetry and essays, and exhibitions of photography, paintings, drawings and installations, both in Greece and abroad. I have a special interest for the relations between art and new technologies, for multimedia or intermedia projects and also for performances. My essays are dedicated to analysis of different forms of art as cultural phenomenon. I have participated in different type of artistic activities: publications, small press initiatives and mail - art / alternative - action art projects.

Photography has been however my first attempt to be active in the artistic field! Dating back in the mid '60s. I haven't been able to imagine my life without pictures ever since. Having a permanent inclination towards the intermedia approach, I have been working on two objectives: first, to cultivate the art of photography in continuous dialogue both with itself and with other artistic “regimes”(poetry, painting, music, video) - in recent years, I have developed a special interest for the intersection of Photography and Performance ; second, to elaborate (since the mid '70s) a discourse, a theoretical approach on photography, through the combination of words and photographic images.