September 29, 2006
Kostas Daflos
Bodysmaze/Cibo _05
In Kostas Daflos' last visual art work Bodysmaze/ Cibo _05 which consists a performance machine for the production of virtual spaces, the specific site of the interactive installation reinforces the tangible urban public space. The human action is being captured by a web camera, which activates a programmed robot -unit and produces a thermoelectric, -liquid nebula environment, as an interface, which is the medium for the projection and the intermediary in the communication of our visual experience with the technological platform of the personal computer. In his former visual artworks as in Cipo _03 (and here), and its genuine descendant muscle- skeleton Cipo _04, he focused his research on visual plasticity, video-installations and interactive real environments, co-existing automatic intelligence' robotic objects with human beings and communicating via web cameras . His artworks expand the real space in the World Wide Web.
Architect - National Technical University of Athens (N.T.U.A.), School of Architecture, Sculptor -National Athens School of Fine Arts (A.S.F.A). Postgraduate Degree in «Digital Forms of Art», National Athens School of Fine Arts (A.S.F.A.), in collaboration with the Department of Computer & Information Science, Polytechnic School of Patras University.
He is a PHD Candidate at the N.T.U.A., School of Architecture. He focused his research on visual plasticity, video-installations and interactive real environments, where automatic intelligence’ robotic objects co-exist with human beings and communicate via web cameras. His artworks expand the real space in the World Wide Web.
Since 1997 he has participated: in several research programs, in conferences, in national and international architectural competitions with awards, national and international exhibitions. The areas of expertise include human computer interaction, computer mediated environments, new media, and interactive multimedia installations. His interest is to create a new class of “connected objects”. He is an author of a number of essays on contemporary architecture, arts and communications. He curates and participates in web sites with a personal theoretical and visual art work www.transitionalathens.com, www.apothecae.com. He teaches Visual Arts and Digital
Representations at the Polytechnic School of Patras University, Department of Architecture.
Posted by jo at September 29, 2006 01:06 PM
