PCAI is delighted to announce that PCAI collection artist George Drivas received the jury award for his work “Biography of a Software” from CIFRA -International Media Arts Platform.
“Biography of a Software” was presented for the first time back in 2024 at Pi, the former Pikionis Pavilion in Delphi organized by PCAI in the framework of the Ministry of Culture’s 2024 programme “All of Greece, One culture”.
What happens when a person who has forgotten everything tries to remember with the help of a computer? And what if that person hasn’t really forgotten everything? Is this a story of erased memory—or fabricated identity? The line between recall and reconstruction blurs when the mind itself is in question. “The Biography of a Software” is a multimedia project created with the help of various AI programs that are generating moving, still images and human voices. By following literally, a software update approach, it aims to be presented based on an ongoing “improvement” process, where a new master is produced every few years based on the last AI developments.
Screenplay and Direction: George Drivas
Performed by: Alexandra Zoe, Panis Kalofolias, Rena Eirini Kyprioti, Panagiotis Margetis
Editing: Christos Gakis
Original Music Composed by Melina Paxinos
Sound Design: George Ramantanis
AI VFX: Nikolas Athanasiou Doubouridis
Costume design: Adonis Kozakidis
Art Direction Consultant: Efi Gousi
Hair and Make up: Sofia Karathanasi
Prop design and construction: Konstantinos Chaldaios and Efthimis Gronthos
Legal Advisor: Zoi Mavroskoti
Line Producer: Skeptik Productions, Greece
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Image credit: George Drivas, The biography of a Software, UHD Video, 2024
Activity aligned with Goals 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 16, 17
