Reset! network is heading to Athens for its Reset! Forum on April 8th!
Reset! and its Greek member Culture for Change are joining forces for a one-day event dedicated to exploring digital ethics in the cultural sphere.
Through workshops, panel discussions, a radio corner, networking opportunities, and artistic performances, participants will get the opportunity to connect and reflect with European independent and cultural and media players.
All formats are free.
Find the programme of the day below, as well as links to register.
10:30 – 12:00: Digital Desiderable Futures in the Media
📍Goethe Institut
Participants will collectively imagine a more ethical, resilient, and plural media landscape. They will be encouraged to envision alternative media futures grounded in public value, cultural diversity, transparency, and care - where digital tools serve democratic communication, media freedom, and community needs.
With:
Danai Maragoudaki (Journalist, Solomon | GR)
Speaker TBC (Reporters United | GR)
10:30 – 12:30: Workshop · ARTificial™: AI Good or Evil?
📍Goethe Institut
Is AI the hero or the villain? Maybe neither. Maybe both. In this 2-hour hands-on workshop, we abandon the binary and step into the space where the colors live. Through examples of AI art creation, embodied inquiry using the YO method, and collective sense-making, participants confront, in their hands and in their gut, what it truly means to create alongside a machine. No expertise required. Just bring your curiosity, your doubts, and a laptop/tablet/mobile device. We'll make things. We'll break things. We'll find something unexpected in between.
With: Yoryos Styl (Interdisciplinary Artist, Educator & Curator | GR)
10:30 – 12:30: Workshop · Do You Read Me? How Cultural Information Can Be Equally Addressed to All
📍Goethe Institut
The proposed workshop will focus on digital ethics in cultural communication, with particular emphasis on accessibility, inclusion and fair representation of diverse audiences. Through a combination of conceptual input and hands-on examples, participants will explore how digital platforms, social media and newsletters can operate ethically, ensuring that information genuinely addresses everyone, including persons with sensory impairments. The workshop will connect inclusive communication practices with the broader framework of Digital Ethics in Culture, offering practical tools and methodologies for responsible, transparent and socially conscious digital communication within cultural and socially engaged organisations.
With: Christina Vlachou (Co-founder, Off Stream | GR)
13:00 – 14:30: Radio Corner · Carte Blanche to the Reset! Working Group on Digital Ethics
📍Goethe Institut
Free entrance.
15:00 – 15:45: Artistic Performance · LAKE / Live Act Komposition Errors
📍TAF (The Art Foundation)
LAKE / Live Act Komposition Errors is a listening-oriented, live audiovisual format based on collective creation, presence, and shared authorship. Conceived as a temporary ecosystem, LAKE invites audiences into a space where music, sound, visuals, and bodies coexist in real time, and where the experience only fully unfolds if you are physically there. At the core of LAKE is horizontal collaboration: audio and visual artists work as equals, improvising together within a shared framework. There is no hierarchy between sound and image, no separation between “performers” and “context.” Everything emerges live-electronics, voices, instruments, textures, rhythms, and visuals, shaped by deep and body listening.
With: Julius Humpert-Martin (Multidisciplinary Artist I DE), Andriy Kostiukov (Producer & Dj I UA), Roberto Maqueda (Heterodox Percussionist I ES / CH) and Efrén Parra (Vj & Audiovisual Producer I ES / DE)
15:55 – 16:40: Screening & Conversation by KINO Athens
📍TAF (The Art Foundation)
16:00 – 17:00: Talk · Overcoming the Negative Impact of Digital Transformation, Are We Independents Too Late?
📍TAF (The Art Foundation)
Digital transformation has reshaped artistic independence, authorship, and control over creative work. More and more, we face a growing difficulty of protecting art and cultural productions in our platform-driven ecosystems, and we need to ask ourselves whether us independent cultural players still have room to reclaim agency—or whether key decisions have already been made for us. Can the digital space and its tools become allies in protecting, managing, and sustaining creative work, or do they further accelerate loss of control and value?
By unpacking current challenges and emerging practices, the talk invites reflection on how we might mitigate the negative impacts of digital transformation and redefine independence in today’s media and cultural landscape.
With: Emiko Gejic (Berlinsidestories, Clubcommission & Urbane Praxis | DE), Vasilena Mitsiadi (Engineer & Ex-Municipal Councillor of the Municipality of Trikala | GR), Katerina El Raheb (Researcher, intermedia artist & performer | EG / GR)
Moderation: Clarisse Teyssandier (Reset! network | FR)
16:45 – 17:30: AI Screening · The Biography of a Software, George Drivas (2024)
📍TAF (The Art Foundation)
What happens when a person who has forgotten everything tries to remember with the help of a computer? And what if that person hasn’t really forgotten everything? Is this a story of erased memory, or fabricated identity? The line between recall and reconstruction blurs when the mind itself is in question.
17:15 – 18:15: Participative Talk · Independent Culture Beyond Western Digital Frames
📍TAF (The Art Foundation)
This panel will examine how digital infrastructures like platform algorithms, data-driven booking tools, media visibility metrics, and agency databases shape which artists from outside Western Europe become visible in the international cultural market. The discussion will address how feedback loops between Western-based media, festivals, agencies, and platforms reproduce structural bias, reinforce cultural hierarchies, and limit diverse artistic representation -making things harder for artists that are not in the Western digital frames.
With: Alkim Erkan Tanrigünverdi (NOVADER I TR), Branislav Jovancevic (Composer, Music Producer & Cultural Manager I RS), Maria A. (Belarusian Council for Culture I BY / PL)
17:30 – 18:15: Screening · In Athens, a modern poet and philosopher contemplates on notion of loneliness, Popaganda (2025)
📍TAF (The Art Foundation)
Being alone above social stigma: how to appreciate solitude? Why is enjoying your own company still frowned upon, especially in Greek society? That’s the topic Nikos Erinakis explores. Assistant Professor of Social & Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Culture at the University of Crete, Erinakis also teaches in London and Athens, and is an acclaimed poet and translator of modern European literature. Popaganda took him out to dinner, alone, to reflect on the simple yet radical act of dining solo. A conversation about embracing solitude beyond social and digital expectations.
With: Nikos Erinakis (Researcher | GR), Ioannis Tsioulis (Popaganda | GR)
18:30 – 19:15: Artistic Performance · b(l)alloon, Playground for the Arts
📍Romantso
The performance b(l)alloon explores the imprint of time through the materiality of the body. It breaks away from stereotypes, embracing an aesthetic principle in which accessibility is embedded in the creative process itself. Rather than relying on conventional accessibility tools such as interpretation, audio description, or technological aids as an afterthought, the work discovers and cultivates innovative, performative forms of inclusion that emerge organically from its artistic DNA.
19:30 – 20:15: Artistic Performance · "A Journey into Palestine" with Nahead Bishara & Becka Wolfe
📍Romantso
This performance journeys into the dynamic traditional music that accompanies ordinary and extraordinary moments in Palestinian life. They are songs that can be traced back many generations, containing essential stories that express joy, loss and longing, offering a unique perspective into the richness of Palestinian history and culture.
20:15 – 23:00: DJ set & Networking Drinks
📍Romantso
DJ set by Nikos Barpakis followed by an open booth.