This Saturday I respond to the most relevant local invitation for my academic work so far, and despite a little bit of pomp, I’m glad for it, especially at this moment in time, with the different kinds of extremism / danger solidifying around the place. It makes sense that these days there would be increased… Continue reading politics of memory in Cyprus / on talking about one’s work
Monumental Microhistories: Paradoxes in Cypriot commemorative art and their extensions
The below is a introduction to the why a t-shirt [insert image] is the most immediately complex art piece to come out of Cypriot politics, in the 21st century. Coming out of a larger study of Cypriot memorial politics and the Cypriot art and peace economy, this presentation isolates a series of anecdotal paradoxes in… Continue reading Monumental Microhistories: Paradoxes in Cypriot commemorative art and their extensions
on environmentalist conflict transformation / gamergate inspired cultural pluralism / #allonan
Japanese noise pop in Kaimakli
Link to video piece やさしいにっぽん人 (Hatsune Kaidan, 2013) + Kaimakli glitch (nee, 2015) This fetisthistic imposition on Hatsune Kaidan's “やさしいにっぽん人” [Track 2, Vacant World (2013)], was made by nee for ne'e jouissance: a brief digital-art love affair in Kaimakli, Cyprus, in September 2015. It uses Hijokaidan’s experiment with the Hatsune Miku vocaloid to avatar-ize a… Continue reading Japanese noise pop in Kaimakli
όποτε θέλω να σου μιλήσω, εν να γράφω έναν ποίημαν (!)
τούτον εν το πρώτον. τούτον εν το δεύτερον.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxxssdNYk9g
a friend, on a guy, on a book on a woman on a friend on other women on a friend on women on ASCII art
techno-cypriotism
epixeirimatologw oti i prwti grapti kodikopoiisi tis dialektou me maziki efarmogi, itan se ASCII. Oti itan apli xrisi enos standard, antimetopisi aplis anangis, alla esimenen & mian ekfrastikin anaviwsin pou epkiaen kyriws topon sto IRC (& prin pou touton sta early kinita, & fantazoumai & sta local newsgroups). & touton to idioman en zwntanos progonos… Continue reading techno-cypriotism
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