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The “Eye’s Walk Digital”. An innovative festival that combines digital technology, video installation & performing art, experiential design with the unique cultural and architectural background of a city. "Eye's Walk Digital" draws its themes from people and society in order to create a new kind of art by creating a synthesis all of the above mentioned. Its productions are developed in public space boldly and with the participation of artists, visitors and the community.
Eye’s Walk Digital Festival, was created in 2014 thanks to curator Filia Milidaki’s vision. Originally launched on the island of Syros, the festival connects to the unique architectural legacy of a city by creating a layer of digital work (projections, installations, performative) to interface the public space with the local community. We experiment with art in public space aiming at awakening and mobilising individual and collective consciousness in relation to social responsibility and to social change.
Eye’s Walk transforms ordinary public spaces into profound art installations, exploring topics such as freedom of movement and identity, with a community focus. Over the past decade, it has brought captivating public art installations to cities across Greece, Italy, and Iran, bridging digital technology with collective memory.
From the neoclassical mansions of Syros and the port of Eleusis to the rooftops of Ano Syros and Thessaloniki’s historic Byzantine bath, Eye’s Walk has built an international reputation for its fearless integration of digital arts with social issues. Themes like migration, gender, democracy, and identity become focal points, turning spaces as varied as Ottoman hammams and shipwreck graveyards into forums for community reflection and engagement.
This commitment to using art as a means of social dialogue has earned Eye’s Walk recognition from leading cultural networks (Circostrada, IN SITU, The Festival Academy, European Fund for Emerging Artists), allowing it to establish itself as a real force in the industry, highlighting the power of digital art to engage audiences in - often unexpected - places.
Storytelling and narratives are key to the work as is the Greek word «Eros».
“I perceive my curatorial work as an act of “Eros”, that infuses the city with different emotional and physical states, transfiguring it, into a transformative – creative experience with a potentially tremendous impact on neighborhoods’ life, street stories, closed windows’ agony”.
Filia Milidaki – Curator & Founder.