Dimitris Ginosatis
Short academic curriculum
Since 2009 to present, Dimitris Ginosatis has been teaching -as Adjunct Lecturer (upon contractual basis), Adjunct Assistant Professor (upon contractual basis) and Academic Fellow- "Media Philosophy & Aesthetics", "Theories & Technologies of Aesthetic Perception" and "Research Methodology" at the "Digital Arts" postgraduate program studies as well as at the undergraduate program studies of the Athens School of Fine Arts.
His research and teaching activity has been oriented towards a form of interdisciplinary ontoaesthetics at the intersection of classical modern and contemporary continental philosophy, cultural studies, media & communication theory, 2nd order cybernetics and radical constructivist epistemologies.
He holds a PhD diploma in Philosophy, Aesthetics & Media Studies, which he received in 2008 from the Department of Communication, Media & Culture of the Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences (Athens-Greece), from which he also received his degree (BA) in 1998. In his PhD he dealt with the ontological, epistemological and aesthetic implications of digital system modelling and simulation technosciences.
He also holds a degree/diploma in "Literary Translation Theory & Practice" (two-year degree program, 1998-2000), which he received from the French Institute of Athens, and he has subsequently conducted related research -as an Academic Fellow, under the auspices of the French Institute of Athens, the French Ministry of Culture and the ATLAS Programme (2000)- on the scientific terminology of the 18th century French philosophical materialism at the International College of Literary Translators (Collège International des Traducteurs Littéraires) in southern France (Arles).
He has written and published essays on the subject of philosophy, aesthetics, technical media and culture, and he has delivered lectures in (inter)national academic conferences, symposia, as well as in workshops, seminars and masterclasses (in collaboration with Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle University, University of Toronto’s “M. McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology”, the “Digital Futures Program” of the Ontario University of Arts & Design, documenta 14, the Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences, the University of the Aegean, the Ionian University, the Benaki Museum and other foreign and domestic academic and cultural institutions).
Part of his academic output (PhD thesis, research projects, papers, essays, conference lectures, catalogue texts and journal articles) can be openly accessed either through HAL Archives-Ouvertes.fr of the French Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe or through the Social Science Research Network (www.ssrn.com).
He has translated (from French and English) into Greek and published thirteen books in the fields of 20th century continental philosophy (J. Derrida, M. Foucault, S. Kofman, P. Klossowski), 20th century contemporary art theory & aesthetics (N. Bourriaud), ethics & biotechnology (M. J. Sandel) and 18th-19th-20th century french literature (M. de Sade, G. de Maupassant, J. Tournier). He has also (co)translated into Greek essays by Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Kittler and Vilém Flusser.