Σε συνεργασία με τον Agis Mesolongitis

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Collaboration with Agis Mesolongitis

SYNERGY is an art project that blends figurative sculpture with cutting-edge engineering and digital technology. A plaster figure is placed opposite a projector that initially is inert. Visitors can activate the device by standing in front of the form and reaching for the sculpture. The image projected is the photograph of the model that posed for the statue. The position of the hand is tracked continuously and the projection follows the movement, revealing portion of the mapped image.

While the elements of the installation separately are mere studies of each discipline (sculpture and electrical engineering), together as a whole set they comprise a dynamic synthesis with further connotations: There exists a juxtaposition between the real and the representation. As the visitor’s gestures trigger the projection of the photograph, one witnesses the switch between different levels and kinds of depiction, and the combined result is what constitutes the artwork. The traditional passive role of the audience is, of course, challenged. In parallel, the obvious resemblance of the form to works of the classical era (posture, broken limbs) is a straightforward comment about an upbringing rich in stimuli of that kind: The makers’ Greek origins made the constant exposure to classical art inevitable. At the same time, an equally ineluctable part of living today is to be surrounded by modern technology. Seemingly, this is a dichotomy, but what really exists is a merge; a unification of past and present, traditional and contemporary, a fusion that produces an amalgam of what constitutes the modern culture.

*Agis Mesolongitis is a PhD student in Computer Science at the Graduate Center of City University of New York.