the AlgoRhythm Within
touch me where
I don't exist
WHAT KIND OF RHYTHMS GROW NATURALLY IN OUR BODIES?
"AlgoRhythm sits at the intersection of art, architecture, embodied cognition, and participatory experimentation, proposing that rhythm is not only something we hear or see, but something we live and continuously co-create."
concept
The AlgoRhythm Within is an artistic research project exploring how rhythm, movement, and material interaction shape perception, emotion, and thought. Through sensory experiments with textures, sound, and spatial improvisation, the project investigates how intuitive making reveals the subtle rhythms connecting body, mind, and matter.
During our investigations in AlgoRhythm Within, we are exploring design methodologies where the body is not separate from the visual output, but directly involved in shaping it. The movement, hesitation, resistance, rhythm, and friction of the body become part of the work itself.
We are interested in the in-between moments: the ambiguous states before something becomes clear, the traces of effort, the unfinished gestures, the moments when the body is “figuring it out” with material, image, space, and decision.
In a time when we are often encouraged to correct, optimize, and perfect everything — especially through AI models that smooth out mistakes and reduce friction — we choose to stay with the messy, the raw, and the unresolved.
This research is my first attempt to create a gamified improvised performance and a methodology for producing new choreographic material.
The first phase of the research was funded by Culture Moves Europe in collaboration with the Kulturverein Redsapate in Linz, Austria, with the support of the following research artists.
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Eleni Danesi (Mobile Scenography & Atmospheres, Movement, Visuals)
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Dina Danesi (Material Research, Scale Modeling )
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Lefteris Kastrinakis (Visuals)
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Jung In Lee (Movement)
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Athena Androulidaki (Movement)
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Julio Escudero (Costumes & Movement)
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Martin Hochreiter (Game Design)
I came to Linz with a question I had been carrying from my artistic practice at the quarry (see LatoMeio Project) in Leonidio: what happens when we give the making-of-a-work as much attention as the work we eventually show.
"During The AlgoRhythm Within, I became increasingly interested in the moments that are usually left out of a performance: someone testing the weight of a material; a movement changing because of the space around it; an idea taking shape before anyone knows what it is."
"My research into sensory preservation, embodied thinking and mobile scenographies became something we could experience together in real time. I want to keep exploring how people can enter that process with us, and how an encounter between bodies, materials and space can become the work itself."
Culture Moves Europe gave us time to stay with that question. Artists joining from Berlin, Greece and Leonidio met local artists and explored Linz with me. We spent time connecting with Ars Electronica and Mkrz Lab, and noticing how differently a city and a quarry invite the body to move, touch and pay attention. Bringing these places into conversation was also a way to bring LatoMeio Project and my previous artistic research beyond Greece, and relate the material research from a rural area in Greece, with the materiality of the river Danube, a neighbor building eaten by a hydraulic crushers, and an exoskeleton device that give a sensation of intimate human-machine co-existence, encountered in the city of Linz.
Second Body Lab: wearing an exoskeleton at Ars Electronica Museum, Linz AT
Field recordings: A machine as another exoskeleton, 'eats' down a neighbor building, Sonnenstein Loft , Linz, AT
eleni danesi
"Embodied design is not about arriving at a polished result. It is about allowing the result to emerge through the act of making, in real time."
A point cloud collage made from a collection of 3D scans generated as a daily archive of our experience during the residency. A cloud of digital dust as a symbolic representation of the universe of our mental representations of memories reminding us that we all come from a universe made of dust and particles. (video concept: Eleni Danesi, Conposition and editing: Lefteris Kastrinakis)
to BE continued...
we are currently working on the project to the direction of building the prototype into a long durational participatory performative installation....
