Nestoras Papanikolopoulos, A Pioneer of Digital Art in Greece

  • Chrysa Bezirgiannidou (Author)
    Visual artist, PhD(c), Department of Product & Systems Design Engineering, University of the Aegean

    Chrysa Bezirgiannidou is a visual artist and a PhD candidate at the University of the Aegean, Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, from January 2021. She holds an integrated master's degree from the Department of Visual and Applied Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with a special commendation in the alumni exhibition and a postgraduate degree in printmaking (State Scholarship Foundation scholarship). She has exhibited her work in group and solo exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Since October 2021 she is an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering of the University of the Aegean in the drawing-color course.

  • Irene Leontakianakou (Author)
    Assistant professor in History of Art, Department of Product & Systems Design Engineering, University of the Aegean
    https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6127-9031

    Irene Leontakianakou is assistant professor of History of Art at the University of the Aegean, Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering. She holds a PhD (2000), a Master’s (DEA) and a Bachelor’s degree (Maîtrise) in History of Art from Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Paris I), Paris, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Conservation of works of Art. Between 2000 and 2013 she worked as an art historian-curator of exhibitions at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. She was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institut Nationale d’Histoire de l’Art (ΙΝΗΑ), Paris, in 2019, and, at Princeton University, Centre of Hellenic Studies, in 2008. She has rich teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her research interests focus on issues related to the Eastern Mediterranean religious painting mainly during the Late Medieval Era and later (13th–18th c.), on the interdisciplinary examination of icons and more recently, on the artistic curatorial perspective of the ‘Garden’.

Identifiers (Article)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/dahj.2025.10.92145

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to explore the work of the pioneer artist Nestoras Papanikolopoulos, who, since 1984, has created digital images using the computer as a medium at a time when this practice was almost unknown in Greece. It is noteworthy that, in Greece, for many years, the leading visual artists who used the personal computer as a means of artistic expression remained for many years on the margins of the visual discourse on contemporary art, as well as its official representatives, art critics, state museums and galleries. Now that the digital image has penetrated most aspects of human activity and, consequently, of art, it is time to acknowledge the contribution of artists who opened new paths in the adoption of a practice based on interdisciplinary thinking and contributed to the creative process of the immaterial image.

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No. 10 (2025)
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Artikel
Keywords
Digital art, Media Art, computer vision, media art archaeology, computer art history
How to Cite
Bezirgiannidou, Chrysa, and Irene Leontakianakou. 2025. “Nestoras Papanikolopoulos, A Pioneer of Digital Art in Greece”. International Journal for Digital Art History, no. 10 (April):3.02-3.23. https://doi.org/10.11588/dahj.2025.10.92145.