Dissipative Structures
The video “Dissipative_Structures” consists of footage taken in the now abandonded first power station of Greece, fractured findings from the Net and synthetic images produced using machine learning. It revolves around the concepts of dispersion, entropy, disintegration and rebirth related with human and non human ecosystems. The video is complemented by a sci-fi poem entitled “a hacker’s jacuzzi.” The soundscape was composed by electronic musician .
Unknown Disruption
A multi-layered audio-visual narrative revolving around the concepts of disaster, the unexpected, the liminal, the uncanny and the alien. 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 could be seen as a visual poem or as fictional study material of a future archaeology conducted by human or non-human entities.
Encrypted Bodies
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 as conceivable entities.
In our postmodern universe of media hyper-activity, massively spread fake news and data warfare, the “viral” aspect becomes even more relevant.
Sounds by .
Dispersion Ingestion Territory (Triptych)
A colourful mashup of digital imagery reflecting contemporary experiences in our global physical and digital fragmented and multiple realities.
X-bodies
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.
Zitkála-Šá, the name she chose herself
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.
Notes on Alchemy II
This series concerns the process of Mapping in general and especially its relation to the various sciences involved in the so called “Dawn of the Age of Reason”. 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.
TheyCallitFemaleNature
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.
XX Series
This series of digitally enhanced renders of 3d sculptures concerns 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.
~450nm
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.
Memory Scan
These works comment on the act of storing and re-experiencing events and the plasticity and virtuality of our so-called memories.
Lowrez
Everyday urban experiences mixed with thoughts on contemporary Greece and dreamscapes give form to these low resolution visual poems.
Personal Telesterion
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.
Soundscape by .
Notes on Alchemy
This work concerns the contibution of Mapping to modern science and 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 Thomas 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.
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