Quickly Photographed and Released Unharmed - Light Installation (2023 - 24)

"Quickly Photographed and Released Unharmed is all about our visually overstimulated world. The installation creates a direct experience with light and sound, using the screen as a medium. The screen becomes a source of light, playing with our perception and making us part of the artwork!"

Quickly Photographed and Released Unharmed is a light installation based on collection of generative audiovisual artworks by Pandelis Diamantides. The installation is part of Diamantides' ongoing research into the non-representational use of screens.

Quickly Photographed and Released Unharmed reflects on our visually overstimulated environment. Diamantides seeks to create a direct experience with light and sound, using the screen as a medium rather than a representational canvas. The screen becomes a light source, inducing after-images in the vision of the viewer through rapid successions of light and colour. The works in the collection affect the intake of newer information through overstimulation.

The artworks carefully deploy light as a medium; after-images from previous frames are superimposed over newer frames in the vision of the viewer. This optical layering means that light patterns perceived by the eye and brain complement to the visual material currently presented on screen. By exploiting the neural mechanisms underlying visual perception the viewer becomes an integral part of the artwork, simultaneously the observer and the creator.

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MOONARIS - 5-Channel Surround Audiovisual Installation (2023)

The title Moonaris refers to the Copernican idea of observing the sky, exploring outer space, and discovering the unknown. It also suggests – following the vision of the science fiction writer, Stanisław Lem – to imagine the seemingly unimaginable, for example: the future development of the surface of the Moon, which may actually become reality in our lifetime.

The artwork was commissioned by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw.

Concept and creation: Elwira Wojtunik & Popesz Csaba Láng [Elektro Moon Vision]
Music: Pandelis Diamantides
Production: Photon Foundation 2023

TOPIA - Audiovisual Installation (2021-22)

In collaboration w/ Zalán Szakács and Bob Roijen

Topia is a spatial experience that brings this underexposed history to the forefront. The installation invites the spectator into a ‘screenscape’, in which both its display and its architectural functions are referenced and performed. Light ‘screen’, a large light projection surface on haze in space, creates a perceptual wall. This new screen becomes an immaterial interface that is created through digital technologies but manifest in the physical environment.

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Al Wasl Dome (2020 - 22)

Immersive 360° surround audio music composition / fulldome video projection for the Al Wasl Dome at Expo 2020 Dubai.

The prime material of the music composition consists of deconstructed human voices, physical instruments and field recordings collected on the island of Cyprus.

With a domed trellis of 130 meters in diameter and a height of 67.5 meters, Al Wasl Dome is one of the largest 360° projection surfaces in the world featuring a unique 27. 1 channels 360° surround audio system. The fully immersive projection is driven by 16 different media servers, outputting to 252 projectors and 2530 LED lights.

The immersive 360° surround audio setup was simulated off side with bespoke software.

Made in collaboration with CYENS Centre of Excellence ITICA Multidisciplinary Research Group for the celebration of the national day of the Republic of Cyprus at Expo 2020 Dubai .

In Circles - Generative Audiovisual Installation (2017)

In collaboration w/ Machteld Jacques

"In Circles" is a generative audiovisual installation that reflects on our currently overstimulated environment by illustrating how technology is able to mediate our perception.

By creating a completely dark environment, the installation allows the audience to recapture their sensory self by placing them in an initial state of sensory deprivation. The deliberate perceptual isolation allows subjective perception to be reset and is subsequently altered by the use of light and sound. The visual system is deprived essential information necessary to interpret the dynamics of the space and turn it into its mental representation.

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plplpl.pl - Interactive Audiovisual Installation (2016-17)

In collaboration w/ Matthias Oostrik and Diederik Schoorl

PLPLPL.PL is an innovative tech-noir art installation that explores the relationship between technology and human behavior by using the latest surveillance technologies to interact and gather data from its audience. Visitors are encouraged to behave in unique and unexpected ways as their actions are shown, analyzed, and recontextualized, allowing the machine to constantly learn and evolve with each exhibition and interaction. PLPLPL.PL is a dynamic and ongoing project that pushes the boundaries of traditional art installations and offers a thought-provoking and engaging experience for audiences.

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Polaris - Interactive Audiovisual Installation (2016)

In collaboration w/ Nikki Hock, Children of the Light, Nick Verstand

Polaris is a large-scale art installation which researches our emotional response to music. Twenty participants in the audience volunteered to wear biosensors measuring their brainwaves, heart rate variability and galvanic skin response. These readings are interpreted using the Circumplex Model to indicate collective emotion, after which they are translated in real-time into light animations on the twelve meter diameter circular object. This process immerses the audience in their materialised collective emotional experience and allows them to co-create the piece together with the artists.

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Anima - Interactive Audiovisual Installation (2016)

In collaboration w/ Nick Verstand

Fluid, shimmering patterns flow on the surface of a luminescent orb suspended in space, tones oscillating, encompassing the room. Anima is an immersive installation that investigates the emotional relationship between humans and artificial entities, through the use of movement, texture, light and sound.

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Mutual Wave Machine - Interactive Neurofeedback Installation (2015)

In collaboration w/ Matthias Oostrik and Suzanne Dikker

The Mutual Wave Machine is an interactive neurofeedback installation that embodies the elusive notion of ‘being on the same wavelength’ with another person through brainwave synchronization. Enclosed by an intimate capsule and immersed in an audiovisual environment that responds and reflects their shared brain activity, two visitors can directly experience and manipulate their internal efforts to approach each other, or distance themselves from each other.  

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