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


Generation Loss
Stanford, CA
Tape Degredation Exercises Prompted by Paul DeMarinis, I decided to revisit an ambient song from an EP of mine entitled ‘The Fourth Way’, & use it to investigate how tape degrades after multiple replications. I started by recording the song onto tape, then I recorded the initial recording onto another tape, & repeated the process until I had ten tapes, each with more generation loss than the last. The result was a series of tapes, each more distortedthan the last. For cassette inserts, I cut up hazy oulines of images created by laying on pieces of photographic paper. Each section of photographic paper includes a different proportion of white and black space, and they are arranged according to degredation of the tapes. This experiment was recorded & released on Spotify, & was added to an editorial playlist of ambient music.

[Listen to Generation Loss]
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