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


Stair to Forever
Cambridge, MA
Folding & Enveloping Given just three weeks to respond to the riddle a stair to there, a stair to nowhere, I set out to create a staircase out of one continuous surface, that perpetually loops around itself. I made initial concept models out of folded sheets of paper, creating various related structures that were achieved only by scoring & folding single sheets.

When considering how to move forward with the concept of one fell swoop, I experimented with concrete casting, & created a mold that allowed me to cast my form in one single pour, without the need to create multiple components. The final object is made entirely of concrete, & treats the mass as a two-dimensional surface, emulating the angles & gaps of folded & scored card.

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