Cross Art
I have dedicated a large portion of my work to composing and creating original score and sound design for a series of art projects that involve new media. In this section you will find works made either with the New Media art collective Medea Electronique or collaborative schemes that hired me to participate in their [...]
Arbitrariness (interactive photography installation)
arbitrariness EN_Press_Card_arbitrariness©mariaPaschalidou2012 © maria paschalidou 2012 Sound synthesis / sound installation Manolis Manousakis Programming & software development Marinos Koutsomichalis 11th of May – 17th of June 2012 Opening Friday 11th of May http://www.cact.gr/ Maria Paschalidou’s project arbitrariness seeks to map the area between the ‘random’, ‘non-random’ or even ‘unfortunate’ through repeated acts of narrating and [...]
Fragments of the Unseen
London 2011 Exploration 03 Inspired by the current political situation and the Occupy London movement though this fragment we project our own personal experiences gathered while traveling through the city of London. The privatization of public space became our main subject and at the same time our main obstacle. The creature, with cameras strapped in [...]
Beyond Reasoning
Beyond Reasoning 4 channel audiovisual installation THE WORK PREMIERED AT BETON7 Beyond Reasoning, Medea Electronique’s recent work is a four channel audio visual installation piece inspired by Attalis work Noise. Noise is a resonance that interferes with the audition of a message in the process of emission. It is any disruption of any social process, [...]
Monotonia
Monotonia “The same things will happen again, and then will happen again,the same moments will come and go” C.Cavafy “People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination…” R.Vaneigem We live in a universal ‘condition’ which forces upon us a ‘monotonous situation’. [...]
Case of Emergency
Case of Emergency is the project title of a performance that deals with the ongoing multi level decay of the historical (and not only) part of down-town Athens, Greece. Athens, like most EU capitals, is loaded with a sequence of historical events, cultural tendencies and practical particularities, which are embodied in variable percentages as aspects [...]
Project_1 At Benaki Museum
The first creative offering of the Medea Electronique team is titled Peirama 1 (pronounced Peeramah Hena). It is based on a different reading of the Myth of Medea. The Chorus, the inner voice of Medea, is the human conscience reacting to what will follow and tries to change the course of the events and prevent [...]
Stench on a White Shirt
17 Nov 2006 Medea / Stench (Live Set) Presented at the Small Music Theater in Athens (Greece) 4 Apr 2005 Medea / Stench (Live Set) Presented at the Mylos in Thessaloniki (Greece) Middle East of Eden Animation – Panayiotis Goubouros, Music – Manolis Manousakis, Illustrations Christos Laskaris World Trade Animation – Panayiotis Goubouros, Music – [...]