Rift Memory
Rift Memory is a 3D animation that explores trauma, memory, and their digital imprint within a liminal, pseudo-dreamlike topography. A child’s corner transforms into a distorted, fragmented space-time, where the experience of loss unfolds between an image under construction and its ghost. Glitch operates not merely as an aesthetic tool, but as a narrative rupture; memory itself destabilizes as a shifting field of distorted potentialities. Time appears malleable, space becomes a mnemonic trap, and the image exists as a fragment between sensation and digitality. Through slow camera movements, elliptical transitions, and image decomposition, the work approaches trauma as a “rift” : a condition of suspension between dream and nightmare, childhood and adulthood, memory and oblivion. In the final sequence, six physical objects are revealed as remnants of a collapsing memory, just before the system terminates under the logic of an ERROR 404.
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+.