Nicolas Kolonias

Nicolas Kolonias

Professor of Art and Philosophy at Chiang Mai University

Nikolas Kolonias is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Multidisciplinary Studies Department, Faculty of Fine Art at Chiang Mai University in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He studied cybernetics, anthropology and eastern philosophy at School of Oriental and African studies (SOAS), University of London and philosophy of aesthetics at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He obtained his PhD from Amsterdam University and his dissertation was entitled ‘The Diagrammatic Strategies of Digital Machines’ it examined the optics of the digital image in relation to aesthetics, neuroscience and eastern philosophy of the mind.

He is the author of ‘Art in the Age of Cybernetic  Machines’, (Chiang Mai University Press, 2021) and The Brain  as a Screen – Deleuze and Contemporary Art in Thailand.’  (Chiang Mai 2019).

"At Eleusis, one realises, if never before, that there is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. At Eleusis, one becomes adapted to the cosmos. Outwardly Eleusis may seem broken, disintegrated with the crumbled past; actually, Eleusis is still intact and it is we who are broken, dispersed, crumbling to dust. Eleusis lives; lives eternally in the midst of a dying world."
Henry Miller

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