Optotopia I: Polyphymes’ Eye
Optotopia I: Polyphymes' Eye is part of Optotopia exhibition of architectural apparatuses that interplay with light, vision, architecture, perception, and space through camera obscura techinques. Optotopia installations observe the light diffusion and reflection deriving out of the skylights and intervene by reflecting the images of the skylights and surrounding spaces. Optotopia I: Polyphymes’ Eye explores refraction and reflection in relation to visual perception. In Optotopia I, the prisms through their reflections highlight the fragmentation and reconstruction of the image. Optotopia exhibition emphasizes the results of the existence of light; the characteristics of the relationships between light-materials, light-objects, light-space, light-human; and the cognition/perception of concepts, being realized through vision and evolving through cognitive/brain procedures. In Optotopia exhibition, vision and image, either natural or artificial (constructed through visual arts, fiction, fantasy), play significant role for the production of space through the interventions. With George Toloudis
* Photo credits: figures 1, 4 and 5 are from Nikolaos Vlavianos, 2, 6 and 10 from Sam Altieri, 3, 7 to 9, 14, 15 and top from Dimitris Papanikolaou,
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