ON SOUND/IN SOUND
19-20/02/2020.
Sound installation.
AV-Lab, Department of Fine Arts and Art Sciences,
University of Ioannina.
THE ZONE by Volumetric Units is a large scale interactive sound installation for 4.0 surround system that was created by a team of students from the School of Fine Arts of the University of Ioannina. The team was formed during the Sound Design module at the University of Ioannina, which was taught by Dimitris Batsis. It was constructed and shown at the University of Ioannina campus at the AV-Lab and was open for the public for two days (19th and 20th of February of 2020 respectively). THE ZONE is a piece that raises the question of the invasion, imposition and expansion of technology in modern day life. Technology is imposed on man. Though at the same time it is partially controlled by him, as he is facing difficulty to filter the consequences of each of his actions in the technological milieu. The visitor enters the zone and experiences a situation of action-reaction in between him and an unfamiliar sound environment, where the flow of sound information depends on his interaction with space. The project invokes a sense of confusion of temporality. The space becomes a perpetually elusive present moment/situation, a glance to the hallucinatory dreamlike aspect of time where the visitor experiences the consequences of his actions.
Volumetric Units are: Stella Giannakoudi, Evangelia Exindara, Sofia Kotsoni, Ioanna Kourgiotou, Vereniki Kontodimou, Lina Geromichali, Charis Iasonidi, Hristos Maris, Maria Arapkoule, Lefteris Delimpasis, Michalis Kotaidis, Anna Pritsi, Renevi Polonyfi and Nikoletta Fakiridou.
THE ZONE was selected for inclusion in the 16th International Festival for Digital Arts of Greece, Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), 2020.
THE ZONE was included and archived in the video compilation 'Life Simulation' by the Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), 2020.
THE ZONE was selected for inclusion in the 5th Over The Real Video Art Festival in Lucca, 2020.
THE ZONE documentary was selected for inclusion in the 16th International Festival for Digital Arts of Greece, Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), 2020.
THE ZONE was included in the accompanying exhibitions of the 8th International Interdisciplinary Symposium on Art, Science, and Technology, MEDEA 2020.