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A project bridging technology, psychology, electronic music & digital arts to raise social awareness.

• What are our reactions when confronted with pressing social issues?
• How does technology capture and convert human reactions into digital data?
• How can human experience be transformed into works of contemporary artistic creation? The 'Transition to 8' project aims to raise awareness about important social issues and to inspire large social groups to recognize what they have in common. Transit

ion to 8 employs information and communication technologies, sociopsychology, electronic music, and digital arts to redefine the relationship of art with society and lay the groundwork for a new approach to future festivals through a cross-sectoral approach that combines contemporary artistic creation with the humanities, research, and innovation.

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The project is part of the Operational Programme Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation 2014-2020 (EPAnEK) and is co-financed by Greece and the European Union.

12/06/2026

𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗰𝘀 #𝟲 | 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺

Back to Basics is a short TT8 series that revisits the project’s core contexts and frameworks where they come from, what they mean, and how they shape the way we work across art, community participation, and environmental awareness. Each post focuses on one key concept, offering a clear entry point into the thinking behind Transition to 8.

The original Transition to 8 was designed from the start as an interdisciplinary collaboration. No single field could carry the full weight of what the project wanted to do: connect social reality to contemporary artistic creation through research, technology, and participation.

That’s why the Phase 1 team was complementary by design:

▪ MENTOR in culture acted as the bridge between research, community, and cultural production-bringing applied research experience, participatory methodologies, and strategic cultural management to translate complex local realities into cultural outputs.
▪ The Athena Research Center brought the technological backbone-digital know-how, data science capacity, and platform development expertise, building the infrastructure that allowed research outputs to become accessible, shareable, and usable by artists.
▪ The Laboratory of Qualitative Research in Psychology and Psychosocial Well-Being (NKUA) (Εργαστήριο Ποιοτικής Έρευνας στην Ψυχολογία και την Ψυχική Υγεία) grounded the work in psychosocial research-mapping local social phenomena, leading sociodrama sessions, and producing qualitative insight and analysis rooted in lived experience.

Together, these roles formed the TT8 methodology working side by side-so that community experience could be documented responsibly, processed meaningfully, and transformed into contemporary and relevant artistic outputs.

10/06/2026

“It’s hard not to come to blows.”

“I feel useless, powerless, from public authorities.”

“I don’t know where to look.”

Three voices. Three fragments. Three testimonies that open a window into something larger.

Discover the stories behind the testimonies at transitionto8.com

05/06/2026

Back to Basics #5 | The Methodology

Back to Basics is a short TT8 series that revisits the project’s core ideas and vocabulary -where they come from, what they mean, and how they shape the way we work across art, community participation, and environmental awareness. Each post focuses on one key concept, offering a clear entry point into the thinking behind Transition to 8.

Originally, the project idea was born with the objective and desire to combine fields that used to be treated as separate: the humanities, science, technology, and contemporary art. That convergence raised urgent questions: What kinds of relationships are possible between art, science, and technology? How can artistic experimentation absorb scientific knowledge without losing its originality, creativity and way of expression? And how can science benefit from art’s capacity to make complex realities felt, understood, and shared?

TT8 aimed at answering these questions through a participatory, interdisciplinary process centred on sociodrama. People step into roles, enact situations, and explore multiple perspectives from the inside out. What makes the TT8 methodology unique is how it recorded and translated this experience. Each sociodrama session was documented by specialists, while consenting participants wore wireless sensors that captured physiological indicators such as heart rate, skin temperature, and skin conductance. Qualitative observations, audiovisual documentation, and sensor data were then synchronised into a unified dataset and annotated to identify key emotional and relational moments.

From there, TT8 produces digital moodboards, multimedia compositions that combine sonifications and visualisations of the data with selected images, phrases, data points, MIDI material, and other creative elements.

Through this staggered, multidisciplinary approach, the Transition to 8 methodology seeks to treat science and art as complementary disciplines that inform and strengthen one another, without compromising their distinct value and integrity.

03/06/2026

The TT8 platform is where the project’s process becomes visible.

Designed to collect, organise, and activate data generated through sociodrama sessions, the platform connects community experience with artistic creation.

It is not just a digital tool. It is a space where voices, perspectives, and shared concerns can become material for new artworks, public dialogue, and future cultural action.

Explore the platform and discover how collective experience can become a source for artistic creation.

🎵 Video soundtrack: T.Raumschmiere

SONICA | MOTA - Museum of Transitory Art

29/05/2026

𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗰𝘀 #𝟰 | 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹

Back to Basics is a short TT8 series that revisits the project’s core ideas and vocabulary, where they come from, what they mean, and how they shape the way we work across art, community participation, and environmental awareness. Each post focuses on one key concept, offering a clear entry point into the thinking behind Transition to 8.

In Transition to 8, the festival or the showcase events scheduled at the end of each phase of the project are approached as sustainable cultural tools for the societal and economical competitiveness of the city they are being held in.

The vision of TT8 is to establish a mobile, recurring festival format, built on interaction and participation, where the needs and challenges of local communities are translated, through research, technology, and the humanities, into contemporary artistic creations that are accessible and relevant to the community.

The festival model also aims to diversify cultural production, not only locally in Greece, but across a broader European and international context, by connecting different scientific disciplines with electronic music, digital, sound and visual arts. From the start, it was envisioned as part of the cultural calendar of Eleusis 2023 | European Capital of Culture, with a longer-term trajectory connected to Creative Europe and the wider network of European Capitals of Culture. Today, as TT8 is currently in its Creative Europe phase, we are working to take this vision further, expanding its reach, strengthening its international connections, and scaling its impact to the next level.

By combining ICT tools, participatory social practice (including sociodrama), electronic music, visual arts, and interactive/digital formats, the showcase events conducted under the TT8 context, strengthen both their content and their potential sustainability, offering contemporary cultural platforms that can grow, travel, and evolve over time.

22/05/2026

𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗰𝘀 #𝟯 | 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺

Back to Basics is a short TT8 series that revisits the project’s core ideas and vocabulary, where they come from, what they mean, and how they shape the way we work across art, community participation, and environmental awareness. Each post focuses on one key concept, offering a clear entry point into the thinking behind Transition to 8.

In Transition to 8, the platform is not a website. It aspires to set the grounds for new approaches in practices and methods for contemporary artistic creations.

From the beginning, the project proposed the creation of an interactive digital platform designed to collect and organise data generated through sociodrama sessions, data rooted in urgent social phenomena and lived community experience. The purpose was clear: to support awareness, activation, and shared understanding across wide social groups, all under the context of producing art that is relevant, informed, and in line with the pulse of the community.

The outcomes of this idea are deliberately twofold:

First, the platform becomes a living space where data from the sociodrama process is gathered, processed, and made accessible, so that artists can work with it creatively, using open tools and digital practices to produce new artworks.

Second, these artistic outcomes return to the public through periodic multimedia festivals, grounded in the realities of local communities and connected to broader European and international socio-cultural contexts. In this way, the platform is not an “archive” but a bridge: from collective experience to data, from data to artistic creation, and from creation back to the community.

Next post: The Festival.

15/05/2026

𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗰𝘀 #𝟮 | 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

Back to Basics is a short TT8 series that revisits the project’s core ideas and vocabulary, where they come from, what they mean, and how they shape the way we work across art, community participation, and environmental awareness. Each post focuses on one key concept, offering a clear entry point into the thinking behind Transition to 8.

In Transition to 8, “transition” is not a metaphor. It names a process.

The idea around the process of the sociodrama sessions is for them to unfold through a seven-stage journey, each time focusing on a specific issue. These stages are not abstract categories: they are perspectives that encourage participants to engage with the issue physically and emotionally, through interaction and lived experience, from multiple points of view. The aim is to bring people into direct contact with difficult realities (bullying, racism, environmental degradation and more) and to explore them through a structured lens that would allow the production of multifaceted data.

Why move through 7 axes? Because the goal is not only to discuss social issues, but to build consciousness around them, step by step, through sociodrama. And then comes the transition: the shift into a new scale of awareness, symbolised by the 8.

Next post: The Platform.

08/05/2026

𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗰𝘀 #𝟭 | 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟴

Through the Back to Basics series we will revisit the project’s core ideas and vocabulary, where they come from, what they mean, and how they shape the way we work across art, community participation, and environmental awareness. Each post focuses on one key concept, offering a clear insight into the thinking behind Transition to 8.

So… why 8?

In Transition to 8, the number isn’t decorative. It carries the logic of the project. The main idea is to create a recurring cultural framework (imagined as a periodic music festival) that could support awareness, participation, and shared understanding around urgent social issues, from environmental destruction and inequality to discrimination, displacement, and other realities that shape everyday life.

At the heart of this approach is sociodrama: a participatory process where people from different social groups step into dialogue, negotiate perspectives, and explore possible responses to what they are living through.

Within this project design, these discussions were organised across seven levels/axes. And that’s where symbolism around the number 8 enters: 7 is deeply rooted in collective human imagination, the seven natural notes of music, the seven colours of the spectrum, the seven days of the week, the seven energy centres (chakras). Again and again, seven appears as a system, a distinct structure that humans use to understand or interpret the world.

8 is what comes next.
Next post: The Transition.

01/05/2026

🌐 The Transition to 8 website has been updated!

At transitionto8.com, you can now explore the project through its two main chapters:

TT8 2023 - the pilot edition that started in Eleusis, Greece, bringing together social issues, technology and contemporary artistic creation.

TT8 2026 - the European edition of Transition to 8: European societies in flux, expanding the project across Eleusis, Rennes, Ljubljana and Yerevan, and focusing on the social dimensions of air pollution through art, science and technology.

Discover the updated sections, follow the project’s journey, and stay tuned for the upcoming artistic outputs and showcase events.

Explore the updated website: transitionto8.com

24/04/2026

Good Practices Guide Spotlight #4: Using Open Air-Quality Data in Cultural Contexts

Led by MOTA - Museum of Transitory Art, this session explored how open access air pollution data can be understood, contextualised, and transformed into meaningful cultural and artistic material, particularly through interactive elements that communicate the importance of air in urban life.

Good practices captured in the TT8 Good Practices Guide include:
• Identifying reliable open datasets and reading them critically
• Translating data into accessible narratives for audiences and communities
• Using data within interactive and participatory formats (artistic outputs, exhibitions, talks, workshops)
• Strengthening green competencies in artistic contexts through skill sharing and collective learning

This session contributes practical guidance for artists and cultural professionals working at the intersection of environment, data, and contemporary artistic creation.

Check out the full package (sessions, presentations and full report) of the produced good practices guide through the link: https://tinyurl.com/TT8-good-practices-guide

You can also check out MoTA’s relevant project here: https://cyanometer.net/location/slovenia/ljubljana

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