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Artist in Residence
I began my artist in residence at Thinker Maker Space by researching instrument mechanics, materiality design and sound. Having in mind a body-sculpture instrument as my core project, I experimented with a variety of digital & traditional fabrication techniques as well as explored different materials. This led to the development…
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Face Forward …into my home
In an attempt to give a platform to the nationalities and cultures living in Nicosia, Nicosia International Festival collaborates with the ΕΜΣΤ | National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens for the Face Forward …into my home program. As part of this inclusion program, contemporary art acts as both a catalyst and a compass. Participants…
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Interview with Nicolina Stylianou
In the international alumni interview series Christy Ma interviews Nicolina Stylianou, a performer with a strong background in visual arts and design. Dear readers, Following on the blog post about the insights we’ve gained from the Boost Your Future event, Elle and I are motivated to get to know more…
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Sound as Social Practice in Art Omi
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Waves, Body, and Disturbing Overtones
Waves, Body, and Disturbing Overtones was a multidisciplinary event exploring the relationship between sensory perception, the human body, and technological instruments. The programme examined how sound operates beyond its expected boundaries, emerging as a physical force that can enhance, disturb, or reshape bodily experience. By focusing on the co-dependence between…
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True Pass
True Pass is about floating ungrounded as part of aural dimensions of electricity – on a threshold of being its organismic creator and mediator. The performance draws an ecstatic schematic diagram of embedded systems through the sense of hearing on focus – and yet remaining unfinished and inadequate. Practice is…
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Akusmata
AKUSMATA POLYPHONIC is an intensive sound art and electronic music event at Vuotalo Cultural Centre in Helsinki. Invited musicians, composers and sound artists are offering for the audience a wide spectrum of new sonic expression from the fields of experimental electronic music, sound art, noise and ambient. The program includes…
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Microtonal Music Studios
photo: @kamila_sladowska
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Inflated Liquidities: Prosthetics, Body sculptures, and Inflatables
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Make a Crystal – This is Not a Giant Crystal
Make a Crystal – This is Not a Giant Crystal9.10.2021 14:00 – 17:00 at Katariinankatu 4, Helsinkia hands-on workshop with Nicolina Stylianou at Quantum Critic 2021. “Make a Crystal – This is Not a Giant Crystal” was a two-part hands-on workshop on how to make homegrown piezoelectric crystals, so as…
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Conjoined Fugues
Conjoined Fugues is the second part of a happening which imagines Nietzsche’s breakdown and creates a narrative where Nietzsche (the audience) visits his mental breakdown once again under an indeterminate derealised state, a state of mind where reality ruptures. Through Nietzsche’s imagined breakdown, the four body-sculptures emerge and take agency…
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Feature at Politis Newspaper at the section: Parathyro
Το «Inflated Liquidity» είναι ένα όργανο σώματος/γλυπτό στην πρωτότυπη μορφή του που αναπτύχθηκε από την εικαστικό Νικολίνα Στυλιανού κατά τη διάρκεια του προγράμματος φιλοξενίας καλλιτεχνών στο Thinker Maker Space του CYENS Center of Excellence. Το έργο «Inflated Liquidity – πρωτότυπο 01» αποτελείται από δύο φυσούνες, ένα κουτί ήχου και οκτώ σωλήνες.…
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Chorus in “Data as Common Ground”
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Short Review at WIRE Magazine – December 2021 (Issue 454)
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Interview with Kathimerini Newspaper Cyprus
Στο πλαίσιο του Beuys100, το Ινστιτούτο Γκαίτε Κύπρου παρουσίασε το πρότζεκτ Social Sculptures: μια σειρά εκδηλώσεων που επιμελήθηκε η Μαρίνα Χριστοδουλίδου. Στην «Κ» μίλησε η Νικολίνα Στυλιανού για το έργο που παρουσίασε «Layers of Skin» με αφορμή τα 100 χρόνια ζωής του καλλιτέχνη Joseph Beuys Source: Το κοινό ως ενεργό…
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Interview at Madame Figaro Cyprus
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Quantum Critic 2021
Dates and Venues:8 October – 12 November 2021 at Myymälä2 pop up gallery, Helsinki15 October – 31 October 2021 at Masters art school, St.Petersburg Avajaiset / Открытие / Vernissage8 October 2021 from 18:00 to 20:00 FIN Quantum Critic 2021 on nykytaiteen näyttely, joka on samanaikaisesti kahdessa eri paikassa: Myymälä2 pop-up-galleriassa Helsingin…
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Social Sculptures – Beuys100
Within the framework of Beuys100, the Goethe-Institut Cyprus presents the project Social Sculptures: a series of events curated by Marina Christodoulidou. The events programme includes an exhibition, which resulted from a workshop with local artists, guided tours, film screenings, an online discussion with art historian Rhea Thönges-Stringaris, and a round-table…