ART RESUME
Selana E. Bronte is a journalist, documentary maker and digital artist. She studied “Communication, Media and Culture” (specialisation in Cultural Management) at the Panteion University of Social and Political Studies, Athens, Greece. In 2002 she obtained a Masters of Arts in Documentary Research at the London College of Communication (formerly the London College of Printing), University of the Arts London. In 2022 she completed a MA in Digital Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece. She has also studied ballet and modern dance at professional dance schools in Athens, London and Belgium. Today she follows singing lessons with the acclaimed opera-singer Marita Paschalidou at the Municipal Conservatorium of Kallithea .
Filmography
Polykatoikia, digital video, 52’, Athens 2018-2020. This video was produced as part of her diploma degree for the MA in Digital Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts. The subject concerns the transformation of the polykatoikia (the urban Greek apartment building) during the housing, energy and financial crisis of Greece. Premiered at the Mikrokosmos Cinema in Koukaki, February 2022.
Song To The Sirens, digital video, 5′, 2015. Music video Song to The Sirens, commissioned by Mechanimal for its track Song to The Sirens (Secret Science album, 2014), was screened at the symposium Something’s UP with the Greek Family: From the Family-as-Frame to the Family-as-Short-Circuit, Stegi-Onassis Foundation, 28 April 2015.
The Man Installation, digital video, 7′, Athens 2013.
Boofo, video, 1’20’’, 2011. A short feministic satire based on the eating routine of the eagle owl.
Zorro the Cat, video, 50’. The portrait of a black n’ white cat that lives in the gentrified area of Psirri in Athens. Screened at the 12th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, March 2010.
Ich Ich Du Ach Sie, video, 72’. Subjective documentary on the rave scene of the 90s in Athens. Shortlisted for the contest of the 6th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, March 2004.
Group Exhibitions / Art Events
Echo Chamber, curated by Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Athens, 22.06.2023 | Part of the exhibition-event-lab Woman Case, organised by Eleni Tzirtzilaki, Circuit and Currents, Exarcheia, 20-30 June 2023.
Θα μένουμε Σπίτι σας, curated by Xenia Kalpaktsoglou | No Apocalypse Now, Back To Athens 9, Megaron Isaia, Athens, 29 June – 3 July 2022.
IFAC, Platforms Project 2017, Kentro Technon, Athens 20-25 May 2017.
Parallel Vienna, DaDa Da Academy, Opensource Gallery, Vienna, 21-25 September 2016.
Parallel Vienna, DaDa Da Academy, Vienna, September 2015.
Family Business, radio show with Panos Papadopoulos, Babylon Radio, 3137, Athens, 6-9 November 2014.
Lustlands, curated by Nadja Argyropoulou & The Callas, Family Business Gallery, New York, 2013: Video documentation of the arts festival Lustlands, Thermisia Argolidas, Peloponnese, 04.06.2013.
If sport is the brother of labour, then art is the cousin of unemployment, DaDa Da Academy, 12/09-11/10/2013 | Art Athina, Platforms Project, Back Τo Athens 2, CAMP!, Pindaros Hotel, Athens 2013.
7o Athens Video Art Festival, Athens Technopolis, 20-22 May 2011.
5ο Velvet Festival, The Callas, Bios, Athens, 29-31/03/2010.
Cultural Management
Curated the first solo show of the Greek graffiti artists Dickasso: #keepondicking, IFAC Athina, Athens, 15-23 July 2017.
Organised the group show Parnassos at Parnassos Literary Association, Athens, 2012. Production: Da Academy & Wiener Art Foundation.
Chief Coordinator of the Benaki Museum strand of Outlook, an international contemporary art exhibition across three venues, organized as part of Cultural Olympiad in Athens, Sep. 2003 – Jan. 2004.
Concerts
Mixed Choir of Municipal Conservatoire of Kallithea, 14th Music Maestralia- Greek Music Choir Festival, Preveza, Greece, 15.07.2023.
Mixed Choir of Municipal Conservatoire of Kallithea, “Tribute to Orestis Bazos the composer and director of the Municipal Conservatoire of Kallithea”, Municipal Theatre of Kallithea, Athens, 21/12/2022.
Mixed Choir of Municipal Conservatoire of Kallithea, Christmas Concert of Municipal Conservatoire of Kallithea, Municipal Theatre of Kallithea, Athens, 29/6/2023.
Talks
“Documenta 14 in Athens”, Evangelische Akademie Hofgeismar, Kassel, Germany, 9.06.2018.
“Documenta 14 and the Greek Media”, Evangelische Akademie Hofgeismar, Kassel, Germany, 29.04.2017.
Member
ESIEA (Journalists’ Union of Athens Daily Newspapers)
ΕΕΝ (Greek Documentary Association)