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Friday, September 15, 2023
7:00 pm

Life outside of the Earth: how to design an alien

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

Life outside of the Earth: how to design an alien

What should you consider before successfully designing a convincing alien? What are the life properties that can make the difference between an earthling and an alien? What are the biological traits of living organisms that you need to understand in order to design spectacular alien life? In this talk, Dr. Anna Gioran, biologist and sci-fi aficionado, will explore these questions through the numerous examples of inexhaustible and majestic life that prevails on our planet.

Dr. Anna Gioran studied biology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and conducted her doctoral studies at the University of Bonn in Germany. After earning her PhD, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Disorders (DZNE). At the moment, Dr. Gioran works as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Hellenic Research Foundation. In addition to this, for the past decade she has been working as a scientific consultant for SoundFellas that is a software and media company based in Greece. Her scientific interests revolve around metabolism and ageing while during her free time she loves watching sci-fi films and observing popular aliens.

7:30 pm

The Sound of Space in Entertainment Media

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

Space, fantastic technologies of the future, aliens and their planets are some of the most loved themes in books, paintings, movies, video games, and other forms of expression and entertainment. In the media that includes audio, sound has particular importance because it provides the necessary realism that transports the audience to the center of the action. In this talk, Pan Athen, the founder of SoundFellas and creator of Echotopia, through examples from famous works, will break down the key areas that creators should focus on in their sound so that their projects have aesthetic coherence with the script and their audience is immersed in a unique experience.

Pan Athen is a sound designer, entrepreneur, and educator. He has been involved in audio production and software development for over 30 years and has been teaching audio and creative media for over 22 years. To date, he has directed audio production for bands such as “On Thorns I Lay”, video games such as “Darkfall Online”, and films such as “Short Fuse”, and he has taught audio and creative media to over 2000 students. In 2011 he founded SoundFellas in Greece and, with his team, has designed and produced a large number of stock sound libraries, the video game quality control speaker simulation software “SoundCheck for Unity”, the mobile soundscape composition application “DMDJ”, and the professional soundscape production application “Echotopia”.

9:00 pm

Feature Animation Film «Perlimps»

Chania Cine "Garden"

Claé and Bruó, two secret agents working for enemy kingdoms, who are dispatched to the Enchanted Forest. They finally discovered they're on the same mission: To save the Perlimps from the terrible Giants that have surrounded the Forest.

 

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K61RorJ9m00

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