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G E N E | M E M E | T E C H N E

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The Medea Symposium is by assumption an interdisciplinary meeting on the edge of

science, art and technology, where an exchange of ideas from different areas of

knowledge take place and it is intended to lead to non-standard connections of

disciplines, which function separately in the traditional approach. The symposium

program includes a conference multi-panel conference and accompanying exhibitions.

On the first edition of Medea in 2011 Invited Lecturer was prof. Marcos Novak from the

University of California Santa Barbara, the most important pioneer of virtual architecture,

who was by this occasion in Poland for the first time. In 2016 Invited Lecturer was prof. Lex

Drewinski, from the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam, the most recognized

contemporary poster designer in the world. The interdisciplinary formula of the Medea

Symposium is extended every year. Last year the Medea Academic Conference included 4

panels related to art (main panel), science (PTA), social sciences (ISLICS) and Economical

Sciences (ITS) and two accompanying exhibitions took place: Roller Poster / Crete and

Arch Inside /Crete. Within the boundaries of last year’s Symposium 38 lectures took place

from scientists and artists from renowned science facilities from 10 countries and an

accompanying exhibition of over 100 works from known Polish and German designers.

The next edition of Medea Symposium will be held south of Thessaloniki in Paralia

Katerinis at the foot of the Olympus Mountain in cooperation with the Fine Arts

Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Thessaloniki Science Center &

Technology Museum NOESIS. The formula of this year’s conference will be extended by

Medea Meetings organized in cooperation with the International Biennale of Art –

Mediations Biennale and a third accompanying event – Exhibition of Polish Printmaking

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Gene | Meme | Techne

Medea Meetings

The word information comes from Latin word informare, which means shaping, applying

form. In physics there is a notion of entropy, which is in simplification a measure of

disorder. According to the second law of thermodynamics all the processes in a closed

system are proceeding to the state of equilibrium, which is a state of maximum entropy.

There is a singularity in such system, which is called life. Life in its surroundings decreases

entropy and produces information.

The first layer and first advanced carrier of information amongst living organisms is the

Gene. The second layer and carrier of information, which emerged among more advanced

living organisms is the Meme and it is the layer of our conscious existance. There is also a

third layer announced by futurologists, which was named Artificial Intelligence or

Technological Singularity. Let us call this layer Techne. The Meme is in the same relation to

the Gene as Techne will be to the Meme. We are considering the introduction of

mechanisms that will control the evolution of Techne. Is the relation of Genes and Memes

also associated with such kind of mechanism? The juxtaposition of these three words is

the tagline of this years Medea Symposium, which will take place at the foot of the

Mountain Olympus – a mythical seat of the Olympic Gods and near the capital cities of

Ancient Macedonia - Aigai and Pella, from which Alexander the Great departed to his

conquest of the Persian Empire initiating the Hellenistic Era in Western Civilization.

Starting from this year, in collaboration with the Mediations Biennale in Poznan, a series of

Medea Satellite Meetings will be initiated with the aim of bringing closer to the wider

audience issues occurring on the edge of science, art and technology associated with the

evolution of computers, the global teleinformation network and information processing

systems. The adopted formula of the Medea Meetings will be a series of lectures and

workshops with creators, who explored new technological layers of human presence as

pioneers, defining new notions, creating new fields of exploitation or acting artistically

based on the computer space of information.

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MEDEA 2018

ISLICS 2018

PTA 2018

ITM 2018

ROLLER POSTER / THESSALONIKI

ARCH Inside / THESSALONIKI

transPRINT / THESSALONIKI

Sixth International Interdisciplinary Symposium on Art, Science and Technology

Third International Symposium on Legal Implications of Cyber Society

Third International Symposium on Physics, Technology and Art

Second International Symposium on Information Tools in Management

Showcase of Polish Self-Edition Posters and Invited International Artists

Exhibition of the Chair of Interior Architecture of the Visual Arts Department of the

Academy of Art in Szczecin and Invited Guests

Exhibition of Polish Printmaking

Faculty of Physics, University of Athens, Greece

Faculty of Economics and Management,

University of Szczecin

Faculty of Architecture,

Silesian Univesity of Technology

Fine Arts Department,

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki Science Center & Technology

Museum NOESIS

Mediations Biennale in Pozna

Pomeranian - Greater Poland Nanotechnology

Forum

RollerPoster, National Exhibition of Self-edition

Posters

Alnoor Mitha

(Manchester School of Art, Manchester

Metropolitan University)

George Papadopoulos

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Institute of Molecular Physics,

Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznań

Cooperation:

Honorary Chairmen:

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Venues:

Timeline:

Organizers:

Co-organizers:

Center of Science and Technology NOESIS,

Thessaloniki

Hotel Rea, Paralia Katerinis

September 1-8 2018

Visual Arts Department, Academy of Art in

Szczecin

Association for Support of Science, Art and

Technology Development MEDEA

Faculty of Interior Design and Stage Design,

University of Arts in Pozna

Institute of Physics, Faculty of Mechanical

Engineering and Mechanotronic,

West Pomeranian University of Technology

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Gda sk University of Technology

Faculty of Law and Administration,

University of Zielona Góra

Faculty of Humanities,

Koszalin University of Technology

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Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics

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PTA 2018 Chairman:

ISLICS 2018 Chairwoman:

ITS 2018 Chairman:

ROLLER POSTER / SALONIKI Curator:

ARCH Inside / SALONIKI Curators:

transPRINT / SALONIKI Curators

Niko Guskos

e-mail: [email protected]

tel.: +48 692 167 103

Izabela Gaw owicz


tel.: +48 501 009 910

Zygmunt Dr ek


tel.: +48 505 110 171

Justyna Machnicka


tel.: +48 505 383 639

tel.: +48 790 301 503

Pawe Machomet


Miros aw Paw owski

[email protected]

cooperation:

Marta Dziomdziora

[email protected]

Magdalena Uchma

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Katarzyna Utecht


Dominika Zawojska


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Scientific Committee:

Organizing Committee:

Project Coordinator / MEDEA 2018 Chairman:

Zygmunt Dr ek (Szczecin, Poland)

Justyna Machnicka (Szczecin, Poland)

Andreas Guskos


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Niko Guskos (Szczecin, Poland)

Józef Jurek (Poznań, Poland)

Mirosław Pawłowski (Poznań, Poland)

Jarosław Rybicki (Gdańsk, Poland)

Xenis Sachinis (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Janusz Stankowski (Poznań, Poland)

Tomasz Wendland (Szczecin, Poland)

Natalia Bąba-Ciosek (Gliwice, Poland)

Krzysztof Wojciechowski (Poznań, Poland)

Wojciech Kempiński (Poznań, Poland)

Izabela Gawłowicz (Zielona Góra, Poland)

Andreas Guskos (Szczecin, Poland)

Niko Guskos (Szczecin, Poland)

Andreas Guskos (Szczecin, Poland)

Izabela Gawłowicz (Zielona Góra, Poland)

Marta Dziomdziora (Szczecin, Poland)

Ireneusz Kuriata (Szczecin, Poland)

Justyna Machnicka (Szczecin, Poland)

Jakub Palka (Szczecin, Poland)

Dominika Zawojska (Szczecin, Poland)

Katarzyna Utecht (Szczecin, Poland)

Mikołaj Stankowski (Poznań, Poland)

Iwona Wierzchowiecka-Rudnik (Koszalin,

Poland)

Program Committee:

Macedonia

Macedonia is the biggest in area and second in population size geographical region of

Greece (34 178 km2 / 2 487 447 inhabitants). The capital of Macedonia is Thessaloniki, the

second largest city in Greece (315 196 inhabitants). Here are located: the Mount Olympus,

the highest mountain range in Greece (highest peak, Mitikas, 2918 m.a.s.l.) and the Holy

Mountain Athos ( ), an autonomous region inhabited by orthodox monks.

Macedonia was an ancient Greek kingdom established and ruled for most of the time by

the Argead dynasty, from which also Alexander the Great came. Argeads derived their

origin from Temenides of Argos in Peloponnese, so also from Hercules (Heraklides), of

whom according to mythology Temenos was the great-great-grandson. Theopompous

mentions the mythical Karanos, one of the sons of Temenos, as a progenitor of the Argead

dynasty, who after the death of his father and lost struggle for succession decided to

search for another location for his kingdom and with this aim went to the Oracle of Delphi,

where he received a prophecy from Pythia that he should go to the lands of Bottiaeans

abounding in flocks and found a city where he will see goats white as a snow with star

shining horns, which are sleeping in a deep sleep (gr. , aiga – goat). Karanos in a place

that he has found according to the prophecy founded a city, which he named Aigai ( )

– today’s Vergina, where an archeological site and a complex of Macedonian royal tombs

are located.

Also the Aegean Sea took its name from goats that were associated with the white

foamed peaks of waves on a disturbed sea (gr. � + ). Greek geographer and

traveler Strabon derives also the name of Egypt from the same source - + –

below (south from) the Aegean Sea. A holy goat was feeding Zeus in his infancy when he

was hiding from the pedofagus Kronos. The shield of Zeus – aegis – was made from goat’s

skin and this is the source of the phrase “under the aegis” and in Greek also the root of the

word storm ( ), which according to mythology was caused by Zeus who was

shaking his shield in anger.

The blossoming of Macedonia occurs in the times of Philip II and his son

Alexander the Great, disciple of Aristotle, whose conquers initiated Hellenistic Era in

history.

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The biggest scientific facility and two biggest libraries of ancient times emerged within

the boundaries of Hellenistic states: the Museum and Library of Alexandria and the

Library of Pergamon. Alexandria was erected by Alexander the Great with the help of

architect Deinochares in 332 B.C. in the place of an older town Rhakotis (dated 2686 BC).

The Museum of Alexandria, which included the famous Alexandrian Library, was erected

by Ptolemy I Soter, Alexander’s general and founder of the Ptolemy dynasty. He was

inspired in his actions by Demetrius of Phalerum, disciple of Aristotle. The first

superintendent of of the library was Zenodotus from Ephesus, who first started the

cassification of the collection, by separating text associated with epics and lyrics. The

collection was significantly enriched by Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who deployed his

representatives all around the Mediterranean with a mission of searching for scrolls and

acquiring them. Furthermore, anyone who stayed in Alexandria and was in possession of

scrolls was obliged to deposit them in the library, where they were copied and the owner

received back the copy. Also the ships in the harbor were inspected in search for books.

The Museum of Alexandria was a scientific and research complex, which included

amongst others the Library, an astronomical observatory, places for meetings, studies,

residencies for scientists, lecture rooms, a zoological garden. According to different

sources the collection of the library included from 400 000 to 700 000 volumines, which

ranked it as the greatest library of the world (Pergamon Library was the second one). The

complex included a scientific library the Brucheum, part of the Museum, where most of

the books were strored and a public library the Serapeum with a collection of 42 000

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Some of the scholars resided in the Alexandrian Museum, example research and

inventions:

Euclid

Herophilos of Chalcedon

Aristarchus of Samos

Callimachus of Cyrene

Erasistratus of Keos

Archimedes

Ctesibius of Alexandria

Philo of Byzantium

Eratosthenes of Cyrene

Apollonius of Perga

Hipparchus of Nicaea

Hero of Alexandria

Menelaus of Alexandria

Claudius Ptolemy

Galen of Pergamon

, c. 365 BC 300 BC. Basics of geometry, mathematics and mathematical logic.

, 335 BC 280 BC. Medicine (named “the father of anatomy”)

, 310 BC 230 BC. Astronomy. First proofs of a heliocentric nature of the

Solar System

, c. 310 BC 240 BC. Probably the second superintendent of the

library. Poetry, first history of literature. Classification of the collection according to sections:

philosophy, history, medicine, mathematical sciences, natural sciences, law, epos and poetry,

drama, rhetoric, others. Authors placement in each section in alphabetical order.

, 304 BC 257 BC. Medicine (named “the father of physiology”). Co-

founder of the medical school in the Museum.

, 287 BC 212 BC. Mathematics, physics, mechanics. Archimedes’ principle,

Archimedes’ screw, lever, number, integral methods for calculating volume and area.

, 285 BC - 228 BC. Mechanics. Valves, piston pump, springs, water

clock, pneumatic canon, water organs (hydraulis).

, born 280 BC. Mathematics, mechanics. Thermometer, catapult.

, 276 BC 194 BC. Third superintendent of the library. Philosophy,

mathematics, astronomy, geography. Proof of the sphericity of Earth, measurment of the

diameter of Earth.

, c. 268 BC 190 BC. Geometry and astronomy. Solution of the Delian

problem, first solar clock.

, c. 190 BC 120 BC. Mathematics, astronomy, geography. Determining

the distance of the Moon from Earth, Determining the time of the Earth circulation around

the Sun, defining the latitude and longitude.

, c. 10 AD 70 AD. Principal of the Higher Technical School (first univesity

of technology) in Alexandria. Mathematics, physics, mechanics. Formula on a triangle field,

steam turbine, siege machines.

, c. 70 AD 140 AD. Astronomy, mathematics. Spherical geometry.

, c. 100 AD 168 AD. Astronomy, mathematics, geography. „Almagest” -

geocentric theory.

, 130 AD 200 AD. Medicine.

There is an ancient hydraulis exposed in the Archeological Museum of Dion a musical

instrument invented by Ctesibius of Alexandria .

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