PANDELIS DIAMANTIDES

(Grécia- Greece)

PANDELIS DIAMANTIDES - (b. 1978, Athens, Greece) is a sound, visual artist and researcher.

He is the author of the audiovisual series of works Green, False Awakenings, Go Back to Hiding in the Shadows and the recent Quickly Photographed and Released Unharmed. Through a series of collaborations, he has created sound, visuals and software for audiovisual performances, interactive audiovisual installations, contemporary dance and theatre, co-creating artworks such as DROWNING, PLPLPL.PL, Mutual Wave Machine, POLARIS, ANIMA, In Circles and Tune In.

In recent years, his work has been presented at international festivals and galleries in Europe, USA, South America, Asia and the UAE amongst others TodaysArt Festival, the Hague, the Netherlands, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, BOZAR/Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium, Athens Festival, Athens, Greece, The Vortex, London, UK, FIBER Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Mirage Festival, Lyon, France, International Short Film Festival Cyprus, Limassol, Cyprus, SPEKTRUM, Berlin, Germany, China Academy of Art, Shanghai, China, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece, Patchlab Festival, Krakow, Poland, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, AV Node, Istanbul, Turkey, Retune Festival, Berlin, Germany, Fotonica Festival, Rome, Italy, RADAR Festival Beyond Music, Varna, Bulgaria, Voltaje Festival, Bogota, Colombia.

3-1S  SYMMETRY OF GRAVEL WAVES -  Pandelis Diamantides   1ª SESSÃO | 1st SESSION

IMAGE PLAY ► International Video Art Festival - III Edition 2021 (Funchal, Madeira - Portugal)

CREDITS:

Pandelis Diamantides  (author) 

+ Produced by Machteld Jacques (producer) for Studio Pandelis Diamantides (distributor)

+ A remix of '2511' by Flora P |  From the album & audiovisual performance 'False Awakenings' by Microseq.

SYNOPSIS:

SYMMETRY OF GRAVEL WAVE: False awakenings is a blend of abstract rhythmical patterns, evolving ambient landscapes and detailed sound design. Audible generative structures provide the canvas for a visual interpretation of time - motion and memory. As a measure of disorder an immersive audiovisual world is created, a temporal construct of bass, light and colour.

TÍTULO - TITLE                              DURAÇÃO - TIME              ANO - YEAR             PAÍS - COUNTRY                FORMATO - FORMAT

OWNS NOTHING TO                                 03'14''                             2019                   (Grécia- Greece)                                16:9            THE LIGHT OF DAY

4-2S  OWNS NOTHING TO THE LIGHT OF DAY   - Pandelis Diamantides  2ª SESSÃO | 2nd SESSION

IMAGE PLAY ► International Video Art Festival - III Edition 2021 (Funchal, Madeira - Portugal)

CREDITS:

Pandelis Diamantides (author)

+ Produced by Machteld Jacques (producer) for Studio Pandelis Diamantides (distributor)

SYNOPSIS:

OWNS NOTHING TO THE LIGHT OF DAY: is part of the Go Back to Hiding in the Shadows collection of generative audiovisual works by Pandelis Diamantides. Derived from a performance of the same name, Go Back to Hiding in the Shadows is a digital granary of processed instrumental and electronic sounds, field recordings, rock formations, plants, animals and swarms unfolds a narrative of becoming.

The prime source material of the work consists of deconstructed human voices, physical instruments and field recordings dissolved in an imagery of photographs, videos and processed visual material collected around the Troodos mountain range on the island of Cyprus.

Diamantides worked with custom software to algorithmically process the source material, generatively creating configurations of visuals and sound; a collaboration between human and algorithm, the work constitutes an audiovisual 'narrative of becoming' and questions the relationship between the digital and the organic.

The collection also seeks to explore place and identity as mutually defining forces whose interactions cannot be simplified or easily represented. "While creating the narrative of the performance I wanted to discover for myself what it is that connects me with the region (Cyprus, Eastern Mediterranean) where I grew up and developed the foundation of my personality and view of the world. I realised that what we people accept as place of origin, is what the establishment imposes on us which is usually the fabricated idea of nation and country. I visited the area again and again trying to understand what it means to me; nothing more than an introvert way of living, the experience of my reality, not a poor representation of it.