The LOGICOMIX will be presented on Sunday 5, 2009. Trianon Filmcenter, h21:15

LOGICOMIX
Concept and Story: Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou
Script: Apostolos Doxiadis
Drawings: Alecos Papadatos
Color: Annie Di Donna

Logicomix will be published in autumn 2009 by Bloomsbury in the UK and the US. International editions will follow.

The graphic novel Logicomix is based on the epic story of the quest for the foundations of mathematics. This is a quintessentially modern intellectual adventure, most of whose protagonists paid the price of knowledge with extreme personal suffering and, in some cases, insanity. In Logicomix, the role of narrator is granted to the most eloquent and spirited of the quest’s heroes, the great logician and philosopher Bertrand Russell. It is through his eyes that the plights of such great thinkers as Frege, Hilbert, Poincaré, Wittgenstein and Gödel come to life, and through his own passionate pursuit of absolute certainty that the various narrative strands come together. A parallel tale, set in contemporary Athens, records the creators’ clashing opinions on the meaning of the quest for foundations.


CVs

Apostolos DOXIADIS
Was born in Australia of Greek parents, and grew up in Athens. He studied mathematics at undergraduate and graduate level, first at Columbia University in New York and then at the École Pratique des Hautes Études.
Upon his return to Greece, he started to direct for the theatre, puppet theatre and cinema; his second feature film, Terirem, earning the International Art Cinema award at the 1988 Berlin Festival.
He published four novels in Greek and, in 1999, translated into English his Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture. Uncle Petros became a bestseller in many of the thirty-plus languages in which it has been published to date. It was short-listed for the Prix Médicis Étranger and was awarded the first Peano Prize, an international award for books related to mathematics. In addition to its wide readership, Uncle Petros has received enthusiastic reviews the world over, as well as praise from luminaries such as Nobel laureate John Nash (of A Beautiful Mind fame), psychiatrist and author Oliver Sacks, critic George Steiner, playwright Michael Frayn, Fields Medallist Sir Michael Atiyah, and many other important writers, intellectuals and scientists, while the Independent’s Gilbert Adair has hailed it as pioneering the new genre of “mathematical fiction” – a branding, incidentally, Apostolos is not too crazy about.
Apostolos has recently completed Seventeenth Night, a play on Kurt Gödel. Apart from his work in fiction and the theatre, in the past few years, Apostolos has written and lectured extensively on the relationship of mathematics to narrative and the theory of narrative intelligence. In 2005, he founded the not-for-profit international organization Thales and Friends, and organized the first “Mathematics and Narrative” meeting at Mykonos, a meeting Nature magazine hailed as marking “the beginning of a rapprochement between the estranged arts of mathematics and storytelling”.

Alecos PAPADATOS
Was born and grew up in Salonica, Greece. After graduating in economics from the National Aristotelian University, he moved to Paris where he apprenticed at cartooning and animation studios, while completing a master’s degree in marketing at the Sorbonne.
In 1986 he became professionally involved with animation and for the next five years worked as animator, animation supervisor, cartoon designer and director in animated commercials and cartoon video-clips as well as animated television series.
He was animation director for the cartoon series Babar, produced by Canal Plus.
In 1991, he moved to Athens, where he established his own studio and began to teach animation and animated film production. Together with animator and production coordinator Annie Di Donna, his wife, he produced layouts, color backgrounds and animation for several animated series, pilots, feature films and CD-ROMS for the European market, as well as a great number of cartoon commercials in 2D/3D.
In addition, Alecos created and designed cartoon characters and technical storyboards for animated series, and directed and produced cartoon character animation for film credits.
In 2001, he turned to his early loves of cartooning and comics, at first working as a cartoonist for the major Athens daily “To Vima” and doing commercial comic strips and comics. From 2003 to 2008 Alecos worked full-time on Logicomix.

LOGICOMIX: Official Webesite