Dimitrios Moutafidis
Dimitrios is an architect pursuing a Master of Science in Architecture Studies (SMArchS AD) at MIT. He is interested in the interdisciplinary crossings of architectural design, media archaeology, video-art, material epistemology and history of science while investigates the capacities of ancient materialities to perform in space and time. His past research revolved around the chromatic materialities of Greek votive offerings as mediums for transforming caves into sites of transcendence. Dimitrios currently studies the tactile epistemologies of textures, the cultural and scientific history of natural magnets, and he experiments with expanded notions of materiality and energy in architectural design.
Projects
Selenographies
The project was exhibited in: “Unfiguring: Experiments in the Practice of Science and Art”, March 2024, Graduate Students Interdisciplinary Conference, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University.
An object of wonder and socio-political projection and embedded in mythic and supernatural networks, the moon has diachronically pluralized the imagination of humans while being mediated by physiological, technical and cultural energies. In Selenographies, I search for the moon’s materialities which I detect in the in traces of their plural relations and synchronizations with the Earth’s life rhythms: In the pulses, temporalities and vibrances of organisms in the nocturnal lands and oceanic-scapes; in the agency of the moon’s soft luminance to guide micro-organisms and affect coral spawn; in its mythogenic efficacies, its gravitational agency to animate the Earth’s crust and its agency to temporalize the cultural life of humans.
The project was exhibited in: “Unfiguring: Experiments in the Practice of Science and Art”, March 2024, Graduate Students Interdisciplinary Conference, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University.
An object of wonder and socio-political projection and embedded in mythic and supernatural networks, the moon has diachronically pluralized the imagination of humans while being mediated by physiological, technical and cultural energies. In Selenographies, I search for the moon’s materialities which I detect in the in traces of their plural relations and synchronizations with the Earth’s life rhythms: In the pulses, temporalities and vibrances of organisms in the nocturnal lands and oceanic-scapes; in the agency of the moon’s soft luminance to guide micro-organisms and affect coral spawn; in its mythogenic efficacies, its gravitational agency to animate the Earth’s crust and its agency to temporalize the cultural life of humans.
Publications
"Mythical Mediations: Material Transcriptions of Votive Offerings Dedicated to the Nymphs"
In the proceedings of the “3rd International Conference Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges: Interdisciplinary Creativity in Arts and Technology (DCAC 2021)
