Constantinos Gallis
Cambridge, MA & Athens, GR

Hello, my name is Constantinos, & I am a Greek-Swiss artist, musician & student based in Cambridge, MA & Athens, GR. I am currently a dual degree student at MIT, pursuing a Master in City Planning & a Master of Architecture, & I hold a BA in Urban Studies from Stanford University, where I graduated with departmental honors & distinction. I am curious about the effects of urban change on the natural environment & society, I have explored my interests through academic research, teaching, large scale installations, performances, audio-visual investigations, & practical work experience at firms in Athens. GR, New York, NY & London, GB.

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I am one half of Oo-PS, a collaborative research & design practice working across scales to produce narrative-driven artwork, writing, music & objects as ways of anticipating sets of future socio-environmental challenges & designing theoretical methods to meet them.

Oo-PS

I write, record, produce & occasionally perform music under the alias Shrinking Violet, a project that modulates between ambient, dreampop & indie rock in an effort to create music about memory, distance & uncertainty.

Shrinking Violet


Experiences In A Changing City
Athens, GR
An Inquiry Into 10 Neighborhoods Experiences in a Changing City: an Inquiry into Ten Neighborhoods of Greater Athens is my debut album which captures two years of urban explorations in Athens. After long discussions with dozens of Athenians from ten distinct neighborhoods,

I collected impressions from each place, took photographs, & composed a piece of music inspired by each experience. The result of this inquiry was a full-length album, with each song corresponding to a different place, distinct in mood & instrumentation, with lyrics based on [or in moments entirely lifted from] the conversational interviews I conducted & the time I spent in each place.

The album was packaged as a CD & book, which gathered accounts from the ten neighborhoods that were examined & paired them with corresponding drawings. At the launch of this album, over €2000 was raised in support of a local children’s charity.

[Listen to Experiences in a Changing City]
[Read the Popaganda Proflie]
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