Medea Electronique

The Onassis Stegi-Athens and “Soundscapes Landscapes” create a nexus of stories in the city. Artists who work in sound and images explore a new form of digital art-mapping in downtown Athens neighbourhoods and invite us on a real-time stroll through Gazi, Kerameikos and Metaxourgeio.

Kerameikos, along with Metaxourgeio, has a special intensity. It has been a living, meaningful space since antiquity that seems to weave and encapsulate the entire course of Athens through time: the cemetery, the train lines, the factory at Gazi, Kerameikos, Iera Odos and its night clubs, the edges of Metaxourgeio, multiculturalism, the development and gentrification of the area, immigrants, artists, night venues and clubs, alternative cultural spaces, tourists, and the Acropolis’ rock overlooking the area.

Cosmopolitanism and localism, national and European identity, pockets of resistance, modern Greeks and immigrants, tradition and modernity, an industrial area, and a working-class neighbourhood.

The project “Soundscapes Landscapes / Rhizome ΙΙ” reveals the stories that take place on the city's surface as well as those that are hidden away or underground or in its past. Put in your earphones, download the app onto your smartphone or tablet, and navigate the city.

A project at the intersection of art, technology, audio research and field recording which also provides a gateway into the anthropology and sociology of the city through its interviews and real-life stories, soundscapes, compositions and poetry.

Create your own walks in the Online App

Credits

Production management
Manolis Manousakis
Curator & texts
Angeliki Poulou
App Design
Tim Ward
Sound Artists
Manolis Manousakis, Tim Ward, Costas Bokos, Vassilis Kontouris ((Studio 19st), Alexandros Drymonitis, Marinos Koutsomichalis
Video Artists
Panagiotis Goumpouros, Cleopatra Korai, Michael Tebinka
Virtual Reality Programming
Vicky Bisbiki, Michael Tebinka, Panagiotis Goumpouros, Cleopatra Korai
3D Visual Art
Vicky Bisbiki
PD Programming
Alexandros Drymonitis
Graphic Design
Yannis Lolis
Recitation
Sara Bislanis, Nadia Deligianni, Stavros Loukeris, Gregory Patrick Karr, Giorgos Antonopoulos
Translation
Memi Katsoni, Anna Papaeti
A project by
Medea Electronique, 2016-2017
Produced by
Onassis Stegi
Powered by
Cosmote
App by
ZKM
The app is developed in partnership with
the Onassis Stegi and Medea Electronique as part of the Interfaces Project
Co-funded by
the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union
Guest Artists
John Van Aitken, Jane Brake, Iris Garrelfs, Emilia Izquierdo, Tassos Karadedos, Conor McCafferty, Matilde Meirelles, Evi Nakou, Alfredo Pechuan Roca, Marilee Pizarro
Τhe following academics’ and researchers’ scientific contribution has been important
Myrto Dimitropoulou (Historian, Researcher), Giannis Kozatsas (Dr. οf Philosophy, Archaeologist), Eugenia Bournova (Historian, Associate Professor, University of Athens), Elena Patatouka (Architect, PhD Candidate), Haris Tsavdaroglou (Dr. Urban Planner), Menelaos Charalampidis (Historian, Dr. οf Modern Greek History)
We also thank the poets who gave us permission to both use and record poems of theirs
Zissis Ainalis, Kostis Gardikis, Thomas Kiaos, Yiannis Stigas