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THE RIVER
Infoscape, Installations, Interactive Elements & Interior Architecture: Onassis Cultural Centre: Athens 2012
The River transforms human, urban and cultural movement into data and then creates new movement through its architecture. It flows over the lobby of a Cultural Centre in Athens, mapping and feeding back change from inside and outside the building. The River is a 110m long frieze carrying an embedded, programmable, transparent LED display. Integrated with projections, touchscreens and furniture in a continuous material structure with a series of architectural plug-ins, the River broadcasts images, words and information, directs movement from the City to the Stage, generates encounters and creates collectivities through touch. The River is both hardware and software; virtual and physical; interactive - digital and analog - fluid, solid and discretely luminous. It introduces and activates architectural forms and interfaces between dynamic events - the crowd, performance, traffic or atmosphere - and their representations - shape, notation, light, images and words - in the Arts and Letters. The River tells linear and non-linear stories.
Concept & Design: Petros Babasikas, Chrissoula Voulgari
Design Associates: Farzad More, Kassiani Leontiadou.
Student Interns: Anthi Vathi, Dimitra Bra, Katia Milia, Annita Douka.
Lighting Designer: Nikoleta Theodoridi.
LED Programmers: Thanos Kalkanis, Demos Kapetanelis.
Engineer & Contractor: Future Constructions.
Sound Artists & Interactivity Consultans: Lambros Pigounis, Panos Tsagarakis.
09.2011-12.2012
Infoscape, Installations, Interactive Elements & Interior Architecture: Onassis Cultural Centre: Athens 2012
The River transforms human, urban and cultural movement into data and then creates new movement through its architecture. It flows over the lobby of a Cultural Centre in Athens, mapping and feeding back change from inside and outside the building. The River is a 110m long frieze carrying an embedded, programmable, transparent LED display. Integrated with projections, touchscreens and furniture in a continuous material structure with a series of architectural plug-ins, the River broadcasts images, words and information, directs movement from the City to the Stage, generates encounters and creates collectivities through touch. The River is both hardware and software; virtual and physical; interactive - digital and analog - fluid, solid and discretely luminous. It introduces and activates architectural forms and interfaces between dynamic events - the crowd, performance, traffic or atmosphere - and their representations - shape, notation, light, images and words - in the Arts and Letters. The River tells linear and non-linear stories.
Concept & Design: Petros Babasikas, Chrissoula Voulgari
Design Associates: Farzad More, Kassiani Leontiadou.
Student Interns: Anthi Vathi, Dimitra Bra, Katia Milia, Annita Douka.
Lighting Designer: Nikoleta Theodoridi.
LED Programmers: Thanos Kalkanis, Demos Kapetanelis.
Engineer & Contractor: Future Constructions.
Sound Artists & Interactivity Consultans: Lambros Pigounis, Panos Tsagarakis.
09.2011-12.2012