17:00–18:00.
Four one–hour recordings are made in four main locations of the divided city of Nicosia.
The empty canvas follows a subdivision process driven by the numerical values of the city’s soundscape. As the output moves towards ambiguity and all recognizable elements disappear, the observer is confronted with an abstract map that no longer carries cultural characteristics of ‘this’ or ‘the other’ community, nor does it force comparative connotations. It is instead offered as an unsolvable riddle, a new kind of city map generated by the city itself.
The produced drawing’s constellations emerge at manifold scales, as the algorithms determine the overall form as well as generate the various microscopic details. The drawings, though computationally designed, exist as such only in printed form, where the visibility of each of their components is directly related to the observer’s distance.
Shape Grammars is an ongoing research on how a simple geometric process can generate forms of great complexity when repeatedly employed.
The form starts off as a cube of six faces. A single rule is employed to divide each face into smaller faces and each next iteration follows this identical rule. The studies begin with simple self-devised subdivision processes and proceed to explore known algorithms such as the Catmull–Clark.
The project aims to question what a designed object is or should be and allows degrees of unpredictability in the final surface and overall form.
Two players.
Two acts.
Act 1 :
Two players sit simultaneously at a fixed point and record their experience in a structured manner – adjective noun verb, one man walking, white car passing.
How can two different ways of seeing be compared?
Act 2 :
Two players move separately and exchange maps that point to the places they explored.
How can their distinct experience of things construct a collective map?
The process is presented in the form of a book in two levels:
The bound section of the book, the raw material or the moment of acting and reenacting.
The unbound section of the book, the processing or response to the recorded material.
The Gathering is a yearly festival organised by Honest Electronics in order to promote underground talent from Cyprus.
Earthgaze / Stargaze were two nights of live ambient & downtempo electronic music, performed at the magical location of Tamassos Reservoir. The Gaze Stage were the events took place was designed for an audiovisual experience by Eleni Diana Elia and Demetris Shammas.