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Item Metadata only An-amnesia of an oneiric city(MA Bibliothèque, 2017-07) Themistokleous, GeorgeItem Open Access Autoscopic Space: Re-thinking the Limits Between Self and Self-Image(The Interior Design - Interior Architecture Educators Association, 2017-11-15) Themistokleous, GeorgeAn experimental installation project of my own making, the diplorasis, aims to re-think the human sensorium by considering the bodily perceptual boundaries that are induced by visual media processes. Within the installation space the participant will, unexpectedly, encounter stereoscopic projections of himself/herself from previous instances and multiple perspectives. The photographic cameras within the device that are attached to sensors have been programmed to capture different views of the moving participant, and then to digitally split (and in some cases manipulate) the images before sending them to screens that project the image for the participant’s view. These stereoscopic images induce an illusionistic three-dimensional projection of the subject. The reduplicated, projected, and three-dimensionally simulated self in the diplorasis begins to trigger a questioning of how the body is understood within visual media. During the visual experience one has a solipsistic perception of oneself. The participant views himself both from outside and inside his body. The out-of-body experience of observing oneself from the multiple points of view of another (as a simulated object) is somehow countered to the embodied operation of the physical binocular eyes. The uncanny closeness of a neutral image “out there” (e.g. of a house) evoked by the original stereoscopes is now subverted, as the digitization of the stereoscope allows for unexpected self projections of the viewer. The diplorasis brings to the fore a particular reading of a sensory body that veers between, on the one hand, a projected image generated by electronic information, and on the other, the embodied response to this projected spectral other. As electronic processes are changing the perceptual and cognitive limits of the body, how do these shift our understanding of inside/outside?Item Metadata only Between the Self and the Digital Self-Image(2018-12) Themistokleous, GeorgeItem Metadata only Constructing a Machinic Visuality(2017-04-06) Themistokleous, GeorgeItem Metadata only De-territorializing bi-communal divisions in Nicosia(2021-11-11) Themistokleous, GeorgeThe Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Cyprus has recently placed an 11km razor fence along the Buffer zone in the district of Nicosia. Whilst the minister claims the purpose of installing the fence is to stop illegal migrants, it is really part of a number of deliberate attempts to make the buffer zone a hard border. This divisive strategy is apparent with the closing of the checkpoint crossings that started on Feb. 28, 2020. Ever since then an expanding range of ‘pandemic’ measures have reinforced the hard border, even though international flights have been ongoing. In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari explain how the State apparatus ‘proceeds by a One-Two, distributes binary distinctions, and forms a milieu of interiority. It is a double articulation that makes the State apparatus into a stratum’ (2010, 3). In terms of space itself Deleuze and Guattari use chess and Go to articulate how the state territorializes, and becomes de-territorialized by counter-forces. According to the authors ‘chess pieces are coded; they have an internal nature and intrinsic properties from which their movements, situations, and confrontations derive’ (2010, 4). On the other hand, Go pieces are ‘pellets, disks, simple arithmetic units, and have only an anonymous, collective, or third-person function’ (2010, 5). Hence grassroots movements, such as WsDame, that have protested the State’s divisive strategies by meeting at different parts of the border wall reveal how these communal subjectivities that are de-centred or pushed to the regions, can mobilize, spring-up and deterritorialize. In a similar way as to Go where ‘it is a question of arraying oneself in an open space, of holding space, of maintaining the possibility of springing up at any point: the movement is not from one point to another, but becomes perpetual, without aim or destination, without departure or arrival’ (2010, 5).Item Open Access De-territorializing bi-communal divisions in Nicosia(Routledge, 2022) Themistokleous, GeorgeThe Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Cyprus has recently placed an 11km razor fence along the Buffer zone in the district of Nicosia. Whilst the minister claims the purpose of installing the fence is to stop illegal migrants, it is really part of a number of deliberate attempts to make the buffer zone a hard border. This divisive strategy is apparent with the closing of the checkpoint crossings that started on Feb. 28, 2020. Ever since then an expanding range of ‘pandemic’ measures have reinforced the hard border, even though international flights have been ongoing. In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari explain how the State apparatus ‘proceeds by a One-Two, distributes binary distinctions, and forms a milieu of interiority. It is a double articulation that makes the State apparatus into a stratum’ (2010, 3). In terms of space itself Deleuze and Guattari use chess and Go to articulate how the state territorializes, and becomes de-territorialized by counter-forces. According to the authors ‘chess pieces are coded; they have an internal nature and intrinsic properties from which their movements, situations, and confrontations derive’ (2010, 4). On the other hand, Go pieces are ‘pellets, disks, simple arithmetic units, and have only an anonymous, collective, or third-person function’ (2010, 5). Hence grassroots movements, such as WsDame, that have protested the State’s divisive strategies by meeting at different parts of the border wall reveal how these communal subjectivities that are de-centred or pushed to the regions, can mobilize, spring-up and deterritorialize. In a similar way as to Go where ‘it is a question of arraying oneself in an open space, of holding space, of maintaining the possibility of springing up at any point: the movement is not from one point to another, but becomes perpetual, without aim or destination, without departure or arrival’ (2010, 5).Item Embargo Digitally stitching stereoscopic vision(Intellect, 2020-06) Themistokleous, GeorgeItem Metadata only Digitized and Redoubled Bodily Images(2019-01-10) Themistokleous, GeorgeItem Open Access Digitized Bodies and the Crisis of Architectural Drawing(2018-04-12) Themistokleous, GeorgeItem Metadata only Item Embargo Diplorasis: The Other Side of Vision(Acadia Publishing Company, 2016) Themistokleous, GeorgeItem Metadata only Dismantling the Face(2018-07-20) Themistokleous, GeorgeItem Open Access Dismantling the face: Faciality and architectural space in the age of ‘control societies’(Taylor and Francis, 2022) Themistokleous, GeorgeIn the age of ‘control societies’ there is a need to re-situate understandings of the face in architecture. Historical readings of the face in architecture remain rooted in an anthropomorphism that fail to consider current forms of ‘simulated surveillance’ and the emerging non-human visualities that ensue from such a surveillance apparatus. The article considers the change from disciplinary surveillance, as observed in the Larkin building, to today’s simulated surveillance. By looking at readings of the face by Deleuze, Guattari and Cousins, it becomes possible to trace alternatives readings of facial codification. Towards this end, ‘The Eyes of the City’ exhibition (2020) and the media installation, the diplorasis, are used to consider affective readings of the face that enable yet-to-be determined relations between human and non-human visualities. The aim of this article is to speculate on reversing the one-way visual control of space via an overdetermined architectural programming of the human.Item Metadata only Diverging Doubles, Electronic Folds: Between the sensing body and its projected image(2017-11) Themistokleous, GeorgeItem Metadata only E-topia: Foucault’s Heterotopia and the Digitized Mirror(2018-11-17) Themistokleous, GeorgeItem Open Access E-topia: Utopia after the Mediated Body(Open Library of Humanities, 2018-10-05) Themistokleous, GeorgeA custom-made media installation, diplorasis, will be used to explore the body in digital media. This mediated body attempts to re-think how the Deleuzian time-image is translated from its cinematic confinement to the space of new media. In diplorasis the digitized time-image becomes more directly incorporated with-in the bodily schema. Consequently, the thinking of the virtual and actual space of the body in diplorasis enables a questioning of bodily space-time, and particularly the relation between self and digitized self-image. It is thus crucial to re-frame how this digitized mediated body is distinct from a conventional notion of a metric and habitual space—one that is reinforced by, for example, the medium of linear perspective. The articulation of the mediated body will be used to in-form and extend Elizabeth Grosz’s paradoxical reading of embodiment and utopia, by revisiting the notions of utopia as eu-topic/ou-topic. The spatio-temporality of the topos must be re-considered before utopia. Foucault’s analogy of the mirror will then serve to superimpose the dual and slippery relations between utopia and the heterotopic. The digitized mediated body will thus seek to explore emerging ways by which to consider the utopic by conflating embodiment, time and space within an electronic topos. It is argued that as the sensing and cognitive body becomes increasingly pliable in relation to technological mediations, our very understanding of space-time is changing.Item Metadata only Ejected Body Doubles: Beyond the grasp of digital control(2019-05-31) Themistokleous, GeorgeItem Metadata only Embodiment, Utopia and the Digitized Image(2019-09) Themistokleous, GeorgeItem Metadata only The face is a landscape. (Part of group exhibition).(2018-05) Themistokleous, GeorgeItem Open Access Folding and Doubling: Revisiting Freud’s Screen Memories(2015-09) Themistokleous, George