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YIANNIS I. ANDRONIKIDIS

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Yiannis Andronikidis is an art historian, writer, and translator. After studying History, Archaeology, and History of Art at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, he completed his thesis at the Edinburgh College of Art entitled Documented subjectivities, artistic autonomy, and the social register: critical analysis of Forensic Architecture’s vision. In 2021, he initiated the research project, translation as an_archival process, as part of The Whole Life Academy (HkW, Berlin), which consists of a series of visual, textual, and audio documents, as well as the book, blUe magnets: a few millibreaths away from intimacy, A) GLIMPSE) OF), 2024. He is co-editor of the journal ‘brossura/ manual for pirate languages,’ and, as part of the collective Coated Spirits, co-curator the radio program ‘Video Club.’ His texts and translations, in different formats, can be found in TripleAmpersand &&&, Robida Magazine, Philosophy World Democracy, death of workers whilst building skyscrapers, Ultra Dogme, Another Gaze/Another Screen, and fade.radio. Since 2022, he has been undertaking research at The New Centre for Research and Practice, centred on modes of rehearsing and archiving in Vilém Flusser, Maryanne Amacher, and Gilbert Simondon.