Yiorgis Kalomoiris

Founder & Curator of Androidus Project Tank

Yiorgis Kalomoiris is an archaeologist and cultural manager, co-founder and curator of the cultural enterprise Androidus – Argastiri. He studied Archaeology at the University of Crete and continued with postgraduate studies in Cultural Organization Management (MSc, Hellenic Open University) and Cultural Informatics (MSc, University of the Aegean). He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of the Aegean, where he is developing a new model of cultural and community planning for the mountain communities of Psiloritis.

Having worked as an archaeologist in excavations, he now transfers this experience from the soil to the digital cloud, engaging actively in the emerging field of Digital Culture.

A central axis of his work is the formulation of a model of local cultural governance, grounded in participation, resilience, outward-looking strategies, and the meaningful use of local knowledge and intercultural stimuli. He has presented his research and perspectives in international fora, collective scientific volumes, universities, conferences, and seminars hosted by institutional and global organizations, including UNESCO, LSE, Heidelberg Universität, FORTH, the University of Crete, and the Nomiki Bibliothiki, among others.

Through the activities of Androidus – Argastiri, Kalomoiris and his collaborators develop digital cultural experiences, ethnographic documentaries, educational programs, cultural gatherings, and VR/AR applications, creating new forms of access to a multi-layered archive of written and unwritten histories.

He is particularly concerned with how collective vision is formed and how culture functions as a “connective tissue” between people, structures, and landscapes. He studies the Psiloritis communities as a living and contemporary cultural confederation of the mountain, where memories, values, and everyday practices become foundations for the future.

He loves travel, books, and mountains, holding a deep belief that we live in a time when communities of people may —literally and metaphorically— build another galaxy.