Skotomini
Christophoros Makris/Lefteris Xenakis
Skotomini is a night with no moon. This word is also used to show a dark state of mind. Nowadays that the rhythms are fast, the quality of life is low, stress became our “guardian Angel” and personal time is less than none, the person breaks down. Personality can not be developed by the person’s desires, aims and ideals. Outer influences like TV, marketing, advertisements, fashion, “development”, “security” and more decide about the thoughts and desires of the individual. Massive disinformation creates an amorphous personality that it’s only purpose in life is to end a day and to begin a new same day.
This daily routine promotes the systematic lack of objectives and interests by functioning with a particularly contradictory way. The personality of individual becomes a mass with those of other while simultaneously it is split in many individual personalities that they are differ and collide to each other. This internal fight is muffled by the lack of personal time and is accumulated systematically in depths of soul. The compaction of contradictions and conflicts leads many times to serious mental disturbances as the crises of panic and the depression are.
Skotomini is night without moon. Figuratively it is used to show certain a dark mental situation. Figuratively we use this title as well in order to present this situation. We want the viewer to dedicate little time and look at the himself in a "mirror of introspection". This mirror is a projection of the picture of the spectator that is presented in a lot of grouped and parallel independent copies. Thus, the viewer interacts with the work and therefore with his own self. The video with its turn is checked by the sound that accompanies the projection. In this way we achieve a dialogue between a video - sound - person - machine, expecting to bring the individual in a situation of a dialogue with himself.
Skotomini is night without moon. Figuratively it is used to show certain a dark mental situation.
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TechNoLogic team is an artistic team focused at developing and promoting human-machine interactivity. The team is composed by Xenakis Lefteris and Makris Christoforos.
Lefteris Xenakis (1982) studied at A.T.E.I. of Crete music technology and acoustics with Tzedaki Katerina and Diamantopoulos Taxiarhis. He programs his own algorithms for interactive installations with MaxMSP and VVVV. He composes electronic music and sound design for movies.
Makris Christoforos (1981) is undergraduate at A.T.E.I. of Crete at department of Music Technology and Acoustics. He studied Byzantine music for 5 years and is a member of Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association (HELMCA). He composes electroacoustic music for live electronics. He programs his own algorithms for interactive installations and live electronics with MaxMSP and VVVV.
