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Dynamo Project Space
Selected work from workshops open to the public

Since 2012, in collaboration with Dynamo Project Space in Thessaloniki, a series of seminars and workshops on interactive media, working with open-source software and hardware. The projects below were made by the participants.

ARACHNE: Stavros Apotsos, Nassos Rossikopoulos-Pappas, Stella Rossikopoulou-Pappa
An interactive weaving system: a DIY loom connected to a computer and driven by Arduino and Processing, with which the user weaves an image

BODY INSTRUMENT FOR 2, Dimitra Billia

A spatio-sonic installation for two. Wearing a belt and a set of restraints, the participants produce sound through the movement of their bodies — and, necessarily, through the movement of each other's.

cCalendar, Antonis Lourantos
A calendar for all years, without end. Thirty-five LEDs light in sequence, with the details given on an LCD display.

MIRACLEWORKER, Melina Karanika, Tania Tsampazi
An interactive installation that stages miracles, exaggerated and assembled out of kitsch.

TWEETO'PHONE, Rania Totsika
An apparatus that gives voice to messages from Twitter.

SOUL TRAP, Nestoras Filiousis, Erianna Vaina, Aliki Vaina, Sofoklis Kontakis, Stamos Economou, Giota Koulali
An installation that traps reflections inside a glass cube.

SENSORIAL APPARATUS, Marios Papanikolaou, Peni Michailidou
An exploration of haptic, visual and auditory systems, built around embedded sensors.

NEVRONAS, Giorgos Giatas, Giorgos Dimitriou
A cylindrical structure of several strips, controlled by hand gestures through Leap Motion and Arduino.