Vangelis Athanasopoulos is an Assistant Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at the Department of Theory and History of Art at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He holds a BA (Maîtrise, 1999) and an MA (DEA, 2000) in Art History from the University Paris 10 Nanterre, and a PhD (Doctorat, 2008) in Aesthetics from the University Paris 1
Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has taught Aesthetics, History of Art, and Film Theory at various French universities (Paris 1, Paris 3, Paris 10, Université Marne-la-Vallée, Université Catholique de l’Ouest), and he has been a Fellow at the Panayotis and Effie Michelis Chair at the Department of Philosophy and Social Studies, University of Crete (2019-2021 and 2022-2024). Co-founder and member of the editorial board of the online academic journal of art theory Proteus. Cahiers des théories de l’art (http://www.revue-proteus.com/), he has
co-edited the issues 3 («Art et espace public»), 5 («Pornographies. Entre l’animal et la machine») and 10 («Le commissariat comme forme de recherche»). His research fields include, among others, the aesthetics of contemporary art, the philosophy of images, the theory of performance and deconstruction theory. He has published Les photos jamais prises (La Lettre vollée, 2024), Image et culture. Anthropologie historique de la création (Mimésis, 2021), La publicité dans l’art contemporain I. Esthétique et postmodernisme and La publicité dans l’art contemporain II. Spécularité et économie politique du regard (L’Harmattan, 2009). He has also co-edited, with Marc Jimenez, the collective volume La pensée comme expérience. Esthétique et déconstruction (Publications de la Sorbonne, 2016, with a preface by Jean-Luc Nancy) and he has edited Quand le discours se fait geste. Regards croisés sur la conférence-performance (Les presses du réel, 2018).

Email: eathanasopoulos@asfa.gr

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