KERNEL – Petros Moris, Pegy Zali, Theodoros Giannakis, Inputs Loops and Anchors, 2013.
Installation view

Cascade, 2013.
Polypropylene safety netting, custom-designed aluminum hardware parts (detail)

Cascade, 2013.
Polypropylene safety netting, custom-designed aluminum hardware parts (detail)

Rim, 2013.
Polypropylene safety netting, polypropylene rope, custom-designed aluminum hardware parts

Rim, 2013.
Polypropylene safety netting, polypropylene rope, custom-designed aluminum hardware parts (detail)

Chain (Screw, Links), 2013.
Custom-designed aluminum hardware parts

Screw, Hook, 2013.
Custom-designed aluminum hardware parts

Logistics, 2013.
Polypropylene safety netting, polypropylene rope, custom-designed aluminum hardware parts

Reciting, 2013.
HD video with sound (16:48). Installation view

Reciting, 2013.
HD video with sound (16:48). Video still.

Reciting, 2013.
HD video with sound (16:48). Video still.

Reciting, 2013.
HD video with sound (16:48). Video still.

Reciting, 2013.
HD video with sound (16:48). Video still.

Inputs, Loops and Anchors is a project that develops around the design and production of three metallic hardware prototypes in collaboration with Athens-based metal formulation company CNC Solutions. Responding to a research report on contemporary economic, social and cultural phenomena, the three-part set is reinvented as a generic, functional and modular system, fabricated through rapid prototype production and published as a set of public-domain 3D models.

SPACE, London 2013

Skeleton (Idle), 2013
3D-printed alumide powder, etched cast aluminum, reinforcing steel rebars, steel nuts and bolts.

Skeleton (Idle), 2013
Detail

Skeleton, 2013

Skeleton, 2013
Detail

21 June – 26 July 2013
Project Native Informant

One could wait. But decoration was considered a crime because it slowed down human evolution, wasting labour, economic and material resources. Iconographies are however inevitably registered on surfaces. As remainders and as reminders.

It is generally doubtful whether an archaic technique can ever be rendered truly contemporary. Attitudes of synthesis, attempts to juxtapose and reconcile, the work needed in order to bring things together. Such practices have of course already been envisioned.

A common challenge in diverse activities is to find the ideal way to pack various shapes into a given space. The goal is maximum density, with no overlapping. A comparable (perhaps somewhat reverse) application of compression concerns the process in which a surface shrinks so much that it ends up becoming a line. Thus a skeleton contains all the information that is needed to reconstruct the body, either geometrical or physical, to which the skeleton is supposed to belong to.

Nevertheless, it is difficult to tell when something is still under the process of shaping and when it is plainly destroyed. A still frame from a recorded demolition scene looks the same either when the movie was being played normally or in reverse before it was paused.

Meanwhile, the rules of the game are set: always make something with what is within reach. Maintain habits. Find the pace between solving and producing problems. Improvisation seems however to be a myth. It is as difficult to achieve as to become specialists in an exhaustive number of practices. Simply, we end up using tools for other purposes than the ones for which they were originally invented. Not efficient, but justified!

Through the study of the various types of amnesia it became possible to approximate the way that memory works for a healthy brain. This includes encoding information from the external world by chemical and physical stimulation. Then, the preservation of the coded information for various time periods. Finally, the location and retrieval of the stored information. We cannot remember the present as we are likewise not able to recall the future.

Commons are things shared and commons are things ordinary. Like translation and transformation, invention and discovery, the global economy, time and observation, scales and forces. Unlocked potential. Distributed brain. Messy progress.

Book launch and installation at OMMU Distribution, Athens, December 2012.

…Meanwhile, the rules of the game are set: always make something with what is within reach. Maintain habits. Find the pace between solving and producing problems. Of course, our activity is finite. But heterogeneous as well. In reality, it doesn’t even concern what we could define as ‘the present’.

Procedural, Collection at OMMU, Athens 2012.

Procedural, Collection, 2012. Artist Book, printed by Pedia Press.

Think.gif, 2011. Sandblasting on marble

Arrows, 2011. Marble inlay

Knot/Unknot, 2011. Sandblasting on marble

KERNEL – Petros Moris, Pegy Zali, Theodoros Giannakis, Mirrors (Scale025), 2012
19”/45U server-rack steel frames, rack-mount server computer, digitally printed silk crepe de chine textiles.

Mirrors (Scale021, 027), 2012
19”/45U server-rack steel frames, rack-mount server computer, digitally printed silk crepe de chine textiles.

Mirrors (Scale025), 2012
19”/45U server-rack steel frames, rack-mount server computer, digitally printed silk crepe de chine textiles.

Mirrors (Scale021, 027), 2012
19”/45U server-rack steel frames, rack-mount server computer, digitally printed silk crepe de chine textiles.

SIM has been a curatorial project by Stephan Tanbin Sastrawidjaja, Natasha Isaacs and Petros Moris.
London/Berlin/Athens 2012-2015

Documentation

KERNEL – Petros Moris, Pegy Zali, Theodoros Giannakis, Word of Mouth, installation view at the 3rd Athens Biennale

Installation detail of LuckyPDF’s Athens-based studio dedicated to the production of FREE GALAXIAS, 2011

LuckyPDF, FREE GALAXIAS, video still, 2011

THE PUBLIC SCHOOL in Athens, poster at AB3, 2011.

RECREATIONAL DATA (Ben Vickers) presenting Possible Currency Zones of the Future… for THE PUBLIC SCHOOL in Athens at AB3, 2011.

Phaedrus Pron staging sketch by Paul Chan, 2011

Badlands Unlimited presenting Paul Chan, Phaedrus Pron, performance at AB3, 2011

Yota Ioannidou & María Díaz Nerio, AULA INTERGALACTICA, performance at AB3, 2011

Angelo Plessas, Fantasy Plot Generator, performance at AB3, 2011

Angelo Plessas, Fantasy Plot Generator, performance at AB3, 2011

Oliver Laric, Versions, installation view at AB3, 2011

Floater Magazine, Athens Audiograms, installation view at AB3, 2011

Phrixos, Passage d’animaux sauvages, installation view at AB3, 2011

Aristides Antonas, The pending text, 2011

Aristides Antonas, The pending text, installation view at AB3, 2011

For the curatorial project Word of Mouth in the 3rd Athens Biennale 2011, KERNEL invited a group of art collectives

and artists whose creative practices respond, in various ways, to the contemporary terms of production, distribution and experience of the cultural product.

Reflecting on the current socioeconomic and cultural condition, Word of Mouth suggests the idea of a new “oral culture” of the network age that brought about original modes of cultural and political operation. Word of Mouth investigates these processes of distribution of the creative gesture, the more situational processes of knowledge production and the formation of hybrid communities.

Word of Mouth combines a programme of online-based projects, live events and installations that are being produced through a network of collaborations and presented during the 3rd Athens Biennale.

Participants and projects:

Aristide Antonas, Badlands Unlimited presenting Phaedrus Pron by Paul Chan, Yota Ioannidou & Teresa Diaz Nerio, Oliver Laric, LuckyPDF, Metahaven, Angelo Plessas, Phrixos, Tank.tv, Floater Magazine, THE PUBLIC SCHOOL in Athens

Selection of digital crafts created by Patrick Armstrong, Petros Moris, Billy Rennekamp, Micah Schippa, John Transue

KERNEL – Petros Moris, Pegy Zali, Theodoros Giannakis, Full/Operational/Toolbox, installation view

Full/Operational/Toolbox, installation view

Index of Potential, www.indexofpotential.net

Full/Operational/Toolbox looked at a set of contemporary art practices that negotiate the artwork as a hybrid object, as a flow of multiple manifestations and possibilities, involving processes of (re)production that point towards an alternative economy of creativity.

Artists:
Otto von Busch, Forms of Melancholy curated by Chris Coy, Aleksandra Domanovic, Seth Price, Let’s Remake, Dexter Sinister, Damon Zucconi

procedural

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