installation / performance / video
duration: 06:06 min.
participating: Iga Koncka, Konstantina Tsagianni, Laisul Hoque, Ken Nakajima
Highlights is a multimedia installation based on a collective reading of Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition (1958) that approaches reading as a visual practice of action and participation, and viewing as a practice of listening and reflection. By interweaving fragments of human intelligence (the participating readers’ highlighted pdfs) with artificial intelligence (sound), the installation constructs a democratic mechanism that encourages viewers to participate in a viewing-now that evolves into a reading-later. The participants highlighted the text differentiating their readings. The video is a composition of their highlights.
Highlights
participatory installation, multimedia, auto-rotated metal stand, 150x60cm, digital prints, video, colour, AI generated sound.duration: 06:06 min.
participating: Iga Koncka, Konstantina Tsagianni, Laisul Hoque, Ken Nakajima
Highlights is a multimedia installation based on a collective reading of Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition (1958) that approaches reading as a visual practice of action and participation, and viewing as a practice of listening and reflection. By interweaving fragments of human intelligence (the participating readers’ highlighted pdfs) with artificial intelligence (sound), the installation constructs a democratic mechanism that encourages viewers to participate in a viewing-now that evolves into a reading-later. The participants highlighted the text differentiating their readings. The video is a composition of their highlights.
Do electric sheep dream?: The human condition in the era of AI, Maraslio Didaskalion, Athens, December 2024.Self-images from a future that is already happening
multi-channel video installation, colour, sound.
duration: 06:30 min.
participating: Konstantina Antonopoulou, Albert Barqué-Duran, Mikhail Karikis, Akrivi Koukouli, Vagelis Kontos
A group of artists was invited to respond to the image of the future by choosing an Instagram filter as a self-image, generating a polyphonic thought-image that reflects on the potential role of art in contemporary discussions on climate change. Participation here becomes a mode of connection and communication, but also of distinction: the articulation of multiple perspectives on a shared subject. Through the interplay of old and new technologies, the project explores layers of diversity and differentiation, composing a digitalised public sphere that foregrounds the arts’ potentiality for agency. What emerges is a unified yet heterogeneous body: a shared reflection on the future and on the significance artistic practice might hold in shaping critical and collective imaginaries around climate change.
duration: 06:30 min.
participating: Konstantina Antonopoulou, Albert Barqué-Duran, Mikhail Karikis, Akrivi Koukouli, Vagelis Kontos
A group of artists was invited to respond to the image of the future by choosing an Instagram filter as a self-image, generating a polyphonic thought-image that reflects on the potential role of art in contemporary discussions on climate change. Participation here becomes a mode of connection and communication, but also of distinction: the articulation of multiple perspectives on a shared subject. Through the interplay of old and new technologies, the project explores layers of diversity and differentiation, composing a digitalised public sphere that foregrounds the arts’ potentiality for agency. What emerges is a unified yet heterogeneous body: a shared reflection on the future and on the significance artistic practice might hold in shaping critical and collective imaginaries around climate change.
Inspire Project, MOMus, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2023.
Notes on Hannah Arendt
multimedia, video, monochrome, silent, printer, michrophone on tripod stand.duration: 00:35 min.
Notes on Hannah Arendt is an installation composed of a printer, a microphone, and a monitor showing the artist engaged in silent speech. The work explores Hannah Arendt’s theory of action by animating the human capacity to begin anew. The silent figure on the screen resists speech-as-declaration, while the printer becomes a metaphor for potentiality rather than finality, moving toward Arendt’s notion of natality: the radical openness of action as a site where the subject escapes definition and enters a realm of becoming.
Central Saint Martins, London, UK, 2022.