Bahtsetzis, Sotirios
Bahtsetzis, Sotirios
Bio Sketch
Sotirios Bahtsetzis is a curator, essayist, and educator based in Athens, working as Assistant Professor in History of Art at Deree — the American College of Greece and as a visiting professor at several European programs (Hellenic Open University, Aristotle University, FHNW Basel). His writing spans contemporary visual culture, the sociology and economics of art, and the afterlife of the avant-garde, appearing in venues such as e-flux and Afterimage.
Key Works
- "Semiocapitalism, Spectacle, Eikonomia, and the Function of Art" (2019, Widok) — a genealogical reading of the masterpiece as secularized icon and of semiocapitalism's image-economy.
- Chapters in Meta- and Inter-Images in Contemporary Visual Art and Culture (Leuven UP, 2013), Kinematographische Räume in Film und Kunst (Fink, 2012), Inaesthetics 3 (Merve, 2012).
Key Concepts
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Relevance to Geoffrey's Research
Bahtsetzis is directly relevant to Geoffrey's spectacle & iconic architecture and semiotics & representation research areas. His account of semiocapitalism and the image-economy of the "priceless masterpiece" provides a genealogical lens for understanding the icon's role in capital circulation, the "deification of the artist," and the attention economy — the theoretical backdrop against which Geoffrey's interest in Instagram architecture and the icon-as-capital can be read. His Foster-derived caution that critique tends to reaffirm the status quo also feeds the critical-vs-projective debate Geoffrey works through.
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