Ghost in the Apparatus
Ghost in the Apparatus engages with digital error as an inherent condition of the medium. Through 3D scanning of computational hardware, the apparatus is approached not as a tool, but as an extension of the subject: scanning does not represent, but inscribes, producing form through delay, malfunction, and residue. Within the work, scanned objects coexist with digital forms of the artist, forming an artificial ecosystem. Entities emerge through distortions, gaps, and discontinuities, where error operates as a field of generation. The body is absent as an image, yet persists as a technical trace. The apparatus appears as a mythological entity and a ghost of operation: a body without form, where a post-bodily presence is inscribed as intensity at the limits of the medium. The work remains deliberately static, as homeostasis, where error becomes form and memory, allowing the system to turn toward itself through feedback.
Gina Stavropoulou | GR
Gina Stavropoulou is an architect, musician, and audiovisual artist working across spatial practice, performance, and code. Her work explores the entanglements between media theory and spatial ontology through artistic research, extending from urban space to hybrid physical-digital environments. Drawing from music, electroacoustic practices, and spatial thinking, she composes performative systems where voice, sound, image, and code operate as evolving scores : looping, glitching, and reconfiguring in real time, often in site-responsive or installation-based forms. Technology is approached as a transparent yet unstable interface: a space of feedback, latency, and continuous presence. Her work traces micro-ecologies, rhythms, and fractures across environments where bodies, data, and space co-exist. Her work unfolds across exhibitions and artistic contexts, while her research extends into texts and publications that extend her practice, with participations in programmes and residencies such as ADAF, the G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation residency programme, and European initiatives including Digital on Stage and Erasmus+.