Dana Dimitras

Dana Dimitras

Dana Dimitras is Co-Founder, Head of Curation and Lead Writer at Visual Atelier 8. Her work spans contemporary art, photography, design and architecture, with a focus on project selection, visual storytelling and interviews with creators.
Interview With Matteo Mauro

Interview with Matteo Mauro

Born in Sicily, you decide to move to London and proceed your artistic career. How these two different cultures had influenced your creative expression? Humans act similarly, but express themselves differently. Despite the London culture is very different from the…

Interview With Yuen Hsieh

Interview With Yuen Hsieh

Yuen Hsieh is a multimedia artist who specialised into film directing. Born in Taiwan, he graduates at Royal College of Art and starts shooting his video around the world. Being inspired by sci-fi films and video games he creates his own possible…

Interview With Al Mefer

Interview With Al Mefer

Al Mefer is an artist and neuroscientist based in Alicante, Spain. He makes us experience the world differently, by using our imagination. To picture his illusionary scenes, Al chooses a particular colour palette which stimulates the human brain perception. Defined…

Neon art installation of a woman's face with glowing yellow-red eyebrows, black and white photo, modern artistic portrait.

Interview with Javier Martin

Your first contact with art was at a very tender age, having your first exhibition at the age of eight. How did you discover the interest for the realm of art? My first contact with art was when I was…

Interview With ZES

Interview With ZES

How would you describe your music? I would describe my music as individual blissful melancholy. I believe there is a deeply existential emotional sentiment in each and everyone of us, whether you are on a top of a mountain by…

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Interview With Miodrag Guberinic

Going back to your teenage years in Serbia, when did you start having an interest in fashion design? I think since age of 3. I used to draw ladies with huge dresses more like objects. Later I would imagine how…

Interview With Archan Nair

Interview With Archan Nair

Formerly an entrepreneur, you started painting in 2006 at the age of 24 and made the shift as an independent artist in 2007. How did you become interested in art? I was always drawn and fascinated by all forms of…

Interview With Annette Labedzki

Interview With Annette Labedzki

Paint-mixing videos has recently become a social media phenomenon and it continues to evolve into a type of performance art. One of its major representatives is Canadian artist Annette Labedzki. In a really short time Annette has mesmerized the digital…

Interview With Michael Najjar

Interview with Michael Najjar

Artist, adventurer and future astronaut, Michael Najjar focuses on the cutting-edge technologies influencing and shaping our modern society. Born in 1966 in Landau, Germany, Najjar attended the Bildo Academy for Arts in Berlin, where he was trained in the practices of conceptional…