Survival Apparatus: Τhe City as a Post-Digital Ruin
How can we re-approach the continuous becoming of the city, technology, the self, and our interpersonal relations? This audiovisual installation by Medea Electronique explores how collective realities emerge through a manifold system. The work operates as a machine that transforms participants’ subjective experiences into gradient fields structured by polar opposites. Audiovisual material—video, sound, and fragments of the urban environment—is gathered and processed within these fields, producing a dynamic set of relations rather than fixed narratives. Perspectives and viewpoints remain multiple, generating points of encounter, conflict, resonance, and reflection. Through dense layering, abstraction, and visual processing, the installation constructs a perceptual environment in which image, sound, and data continuously overlap and recombine. Rather than accumulating stories, the system differentiates them, foregrounding minor, local intensities over dominant representations. Through the Survival Apparatus, the city emerges as a continuously recomposed field—a post-digital ruin shaped by collective becomings and transversal connections.
Medea Electronique | GR
Medea Electronique, based in Athens, is an artistic collective founded in 2006. Known for exploring both traditional and contemporary forms of artistic expression—often mediated through digital technologies—the collective brings together artists, technologists, and researchers to investigate the intersections of sound, performance, immersive and interactive media, as well as participatory and community-based practices. The work of Medea Electronique explores and challenges the boundaries between the real and the imaginary, the analogue and the digital, and the individual and the collective, proposing hybrid forms of artistic experience. A central axis of the group’s practice is the annual Koumaria Residency, which focuses on in situ creation, digital media, and improvisational methodologies.