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This on-going project, titled in reference to famous 17th century automata as the Digestive Duck and the Mechanical Turk, revolves around the emergence of "mechanized" subjectivity, inextricably linked to Modernity's central narratives. Contrary to many past and present techno-scientific views that often reduce intelligence to abstract mathematical properties, the project focuses on the materiality of information and cognition, looking at human memory and consiousness as emergent properties deeply intertwined with the emotional qualities that a suffering living organism experiences.
This on-going video series combines digital abstract imagery with poetry written by the artist over the years. It is a playful exploration through a variety of digital media, such as generative image techniques and GAN algorithms, aiming to create hybrid landscapes, where dream, memory and speculation meet. These ambiguous spaces are disrupted by fragments of a diaristic practice. Writing is employed less as a narrative device and more as an act of intervention, aiming to subvert the codes of technological imaginaries centered on efficiency and productivity. All soundscapes are created by the artist.
A series of large-scale abstract digital compositions, indirectly echoing contemporary ecological and societal crises through distorted, mashed-up fragments.
The work is an augmented reality application featuring an animated digital sculpture. It offers basic interactivity through touchscreen engagement. Α cluster of female bodies, mechanical limbs, and indeterminate entities appears to hover within “real” space. Through physicality, the work explores fluid modes of subjectivity that question fixed categories around the concepts of gender and "nature". It is also an attempt to reinterpret the stereotypical image of the Birth of Venus, evoking a "mutated" perception of femininity.
This work is part of a broader series of digital sculptures integrated into AR applications. Complexes of human bodies appear intertwined with debris, artifacts and other creatures. The piece focuses on the entanglement of human activity and experience with vast ecosystems that include other living organisms as well as our own material infrastructures and tools. Through a detached sci-fi lens, the work examines human activity from the perspective of a future archaeology.
A multi-layered audio-visual narrative revolving around the concept of catastrophe while also exploring the organic intertwining of the virtual and the 'real' in our contemporary experience. Filmic material often augmented with digital sculptures, synthetic images produced through machine learning as well as a multitude of diverse information collected from the net, construct a post-apocalyptic scenography. This fragmentary data collage gestures toward present-day eco-social challenges, the ongoing discourse surrounding the potentialities of ML algorithms, and the fetishized status of technology in the collective imaginary.
A series of large scale abstract digital compositions. Distortion, glitch and chaotic fragments construct an ambigouous space reflecting the over-exhaustion and information overload of contemporary experience.
The installation hosts the main video “Dissipative_Structures”, consisting of footage taken in the now abandonded first power station of Greece, fractured findings from the Net and synthetic images produced using machine learning, complemented by a sci-fi poem entitled “Α Hacker’s Jacuzzi”. The work reflects on the concept of the network across sociological, ecological, and neuroscientific contexts. It also focuses on symbiotic, more-than-human perspectives, approaching the decaying factory as part of a vast ecosystem marked by openness, fluidity, and a dynamic equilibrium where entropy and disintegration are inseparable from vitality and growth.The soundscape was composed by electronic musician
W.Burroughs’s phrase “Language is a virus from outer space” triggered the first ideas around this project. In this context, I focus on the arbitrariness and “alienness” of language that constructs -to a large extent- the way we perceive our bodies and selves as distinct entities.
In our postmodern universe of media hyper-activity, massively spread fake news and data warfare, the “viral” aspect becomes even more relevant.
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A colourful mashup of digital imagery reflecting contemporary experiences in our global physical and digital fragmented and multiple realities.
These 3d sculptures explore the concept of female physicality. They emerge as floating entities of ambiguous nature, mysterious remnants that once were animate. The sculptures are implemented in various AR apps and can be juxtaposed with multiple environments.
My contribution to , an augmented reality exhibition aiming to bring awareness about gender and race inequalities in representation concerning public art in NYC. Inspired by the Yankton Dakota musician-violinist, writer, activist and educator who signed by the name "Red bird". The project seeks to spread AR juxtapositions in public spaces in various cities around the world.
The series focuses on mapping as a process, as well as its origins and direct connection with the various sciences that developed from the so-called 'Age of Enlightenment' onwards.The common tendency to see Science as De-mystification and relate it to strictly operational procedures is juxtaposed with a historical view on the subject that inevitably reaches a point where scientific, philosophical, magical and religious thought where blended together.
A study on photography and visual signification in collaboration with East End festival. Through a large photo-archive gradually built from private collections, we explore past views of the island of Samos and its people in their everyday gestures and expressions. The installation is located on the old leper house of Κarlovasi, a place where diseased people where relocated for purposes of “hygiene” and “safety” throughout the 19th and 20th century. We can still see the traces of blue paint on its walls, a practice that was supposed to keep patients “calm”. Taking this “blue-ness” as a starting point we choose to move away from places of confinement, to a wide open space of ambiguity and flux.
The work focuses on the acts of recording, storing and re-experiencing events, as well as the plasticity and virtuality of our so called memories. It also questions the popular conception of the brain as a central processing unit estranged from the body and its “lower” functions. The material processed comes at large from the archive of the artist’s father, spanning 30 years of practice in analogue photography, as well as the artist's own footage. Soundscape composed by the artist.
Visual thoughts on the reification of femininity and the virtual character of the female body. Distorted, mutilated and manipulated, fragments of female entities emerge in a vast and obscure space vacuum. Despite their banality, these haunting forms open up to other interpretations through distortion and ambiguity: in the spirit of glitch-feminism, the error is seen as a site of refusal, a strategy to destabilize normative visual economies and reimagine presence beyond essentialist categorisations and oppressive narratives.
Everyday urban experiences mixed with thoughts on contemporary Greece give form to this series of short videos. In sharp contrast with the sharpness and saturation of commercial imagery, these low resolution fragments can be seen as dreamscapes or a kind of visual poetry.
A collage of moving images having as a starting point the archaeological ruins of the city of Eleusis and the ritual practices of the Eleusinian Mysteries that took place there for centuries. Through free connotations concerning the symbolization of everyday objects and networks of coded meaning, we are led to contemporary eleusinian habitats and especially to “Synikismos”, study area of the project.
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This series of digitally processed renders of 3d sculptures focuses on the concept of the female body as an objectified socio-cultural construct. Mannequin, doll, distorted ghost or empty vessel, female physicality haunts these images in all its banality and ambiguity.
This work focuses on Mapping in the context of early Modernity and its relation to the radical sociopolitical changes that gradually took place from the “Age of Enlightenment” and forth, resulting in new unprecedented worldviews. It is heavily influenced by T.Pynchon‘s novel “Mason & Dixon” and its basic motif: the collision between two worlds, our western "rationalized" universe -with its double face of Science and Colonialism- and pre-existing native cultures. An irreversible process that gave new shape to the globe.

Katerina Messini (1987, GR) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the technoscientific imaginary and its entanglement with dominant narratives of truth, progress, and rationality within contemporary ideological frameworks. In her practice, she seeks to disrupt normative visuality through glitches and failures and to foreground the role of embodied experience. She uses various digital tools and modalities to create multilayered works. Her primary media include video, 3D sculpture, augmented reality, generative visuals and diverse forms of writing.
She holds Integrated Master’s degrees in Architecture & Engineering (NTUA) and Fine Arts (ASFA). She is active as an architect and 3d visualizer and has collaborated with new media studios, researchers and institutions on projects involving 3d visualizations, immersive environments and new technologies in education.
The H' Workshop at Synoikismos, by Eleusis 2021 Capital of Culture
2018
A Fork In The Road, Foto Wien festival
2019
The Collection as an Automaton, ACG Art Gallery
2019
Green iDeal - Biennale della tecnologia, Paratissima art-station
2020
East End, Samos Arts Festival
2021
Make Us Visible, XREnsemble AR exhibition NYC
2022
Athens Digital Arts Festival
2022
3 Volumes, Rosalux Gallery
2022
This Current Between Us, Old PPC Steam-Electric Power Plant, N.Faliro
2022-23
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