Ilias Kyriazis Digital Cultural Heritage
Ilias Kyriazis is data curator, working on the project Restaging Fashion. His activities concentrate on information visualization, open GLAM data, and creative coding.
He holds degrees in musicology from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), information science from Indiana University Bloomington (USA), and digital media from the School of Fine Arts Bremen (Germany). He has worked as information scientist at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Coding da Vinci / DDB), Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Athens Concert Hall, and Hellenic-American Institute. He has been a Fulbright, Alexandros S. Onassis, Greek State and Lilian Voudouri Scholar. Ilias promotes the idea that information entails non-representational characteristics, and envisions the creation of new interfaces for music, where information design and music information retrieval are brought together and intersect.
Projects Contributions
Publications Published Works
Tracing and Telling: Exploring collection holdings through graph-based narratives
Cultural collections have transcended the boundaries of physical showcases and storage cabinets, evolving into intricate digital webs of interconnected data. The research project Restaging Fashion aimed to expand the possibilities for experiencing the linkages in digitized cultural heritage, focusing on the visualization of collection holdings related to the history of garments. Through graph-based narratives, the project investigated the complex interplay between the linear – and at times tentative – art historical discourses and the non-linear explorations of associated cultural heritage data. The resulting visualizations have been designed with the aim to allow for curated and dynamic exploration of the collection along research essays and their interrelated graphs.