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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ΜONTREAL – Visual artist Gioula Papadopoulou was honored with the Best Artificial Intelligence project award at Dérapage 23, an event in Montreal, Canada, dedicated to non-narrative and abstract video. This event, with a history since 2000, showcased selected works and presented this year’s awards at the Cinémathèque Québécoise on May 11, in collaboration with the Sommets du cinéma d’animation festival. The Artificial Intelligence project award was introduced this year as a special category, focusing on the utilization of contemporary generative AI tools.
The award-winning video, titled “AI made me do it: Ophelia,” was created using Artificial Intelligence systems and recently featured at the Alchimies Numériques exhibition at IMMIX Galerie in Paris. It presents a surreal and non-narrative animation where the classic character Ophelia encounters peculiar dream mutations and unexpected futuristic scenes through multiple variations of an initial image, which was generated as “Ophelia” by an AI algorithm. Moreover, the audio component of the project was also produced from the initial image using an artificial intelligence platform that transformed the image into sound.
Gioula Papadopoulou, an accomplished visual artist and art director/curator of the international festival Video Art Miden, specializes in video art in her artistic practice. She has showcased her work in numerous exhibitions, site-specific projects, and video art festivals both in Greece and internationally. As the art director/curator of Video Art Miden, she has organized and curated numerous screenings, exhibitions, and events in Greece, collaborating with prominent festivals, museums, and institutions worldwide. Since 2020, she has been teaching at the New Media Laboratory, School of Visual & Applied Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
CAIRO — Stalled talks aimed at securing a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas are expected to restart in earnest in Qatar as soon as Sunday, according to Egyptian officials.
Days after a Russian missile struck near where Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was in Odessa meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Greece moved to send more guns and ammunition to help against Russia’s ongoing invasion there.
UPPER DARBY, PA – The Saint Demetrios Greek School in Upper Darby held a celebration on March 17 in honor of March 25th, 1821.
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin basked in a victory early Monday that was never in doubt, as partial election results showed him easily securing a fifth term after facing only token challengers and harshly suppressing opposition voices.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Monday, their first interaction in more than a month, as the divide has grown between allies over the food crisis in Gaza and conduct of the war, according to the White House.