photo by Alexandros Andriotis On Sunday the 3rd of April 2011 I gave a performance under the Acropolis, just outside the new museum. It was based on my NYU ITP thesis titled Modus Operandi http://itp.nyu.edu/shows/thesis2010/2010/04/06/dimitris-makris/ The performance was part of the project ArtMeetSpace www.artmeetspace.com http://athens.startupweekend.org/2010/11/23/and-the-winners-are/ http://www.metropolisnews.gr/?p=2271
Karakter from Dimitris Makris on Vimeo. Any given hour contains innumerable tokens of thoughts, emotions, stimuli, sense data etc. We identify with those, as they occur, however as time passes, very little, if anything is salvaged. One can recall how one felt a few hours back. But if one considers days or months back, a [...]
The property of events of our daily experience that occur within our physical boundaries and, at the same time, beyond our agency Internal Exogeneity from Dimitris Makris on Vimeo.
The art installation THERETRO invites the visitor to lie down in an actual coffin and to have her picture taken. It challenges her to experience the prova generale of a final performance that she will not be experiencing. The central point is an epistemic one. There are two modes of knowing: the abstract and the [...]
The starting point of this piece is the concept of the “irony” of objects: they were around before us and they will be around after us. Given that we tend to perceive the world with respect to our existence, it is hard to be in communion with the truth of their independent existence. This can [...]
Early in the afternoon of Wednesday, Oct. 21st, Dimitris walked extremely slowly across the ITP floor while Andrea was documenting the performance on video. That was “Passage”, created as a midterm project for Recurring Concepts in Art. The assignment was to recreate an earlier technological piece without the use of technology. Moreover, the project had [...]
http://www.itp30show.org/permalink/aglpdHAzMHNob3dyDwsSCEJsb2dQb3N0GKcfDA A weighing scale that weighs another weighing scale. A knife that cuts another knife. A staple that has stapled another staple. These are examples of reflexive relationships in the sense that the action is self-referential, it is directed towards a member of the class of the agent. Reflexivity is a fundamental characteristic of consciousness [...]
This is a text. This is a script. This is a shell. This is written in the context of a class. This is written to fulfill the academic requirements of the When Strangers Meet class taught by Kio Stark during the 2009 spring semester of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at the New York University. A [...]