Angeliki Diakrousi

digitale technologie - geluid - gender - internet - publieke ruimte

Angeliki Diakrousi is an artist, and architect. She is currently involved in research projects that engage with public space, technology, computing, infrastructures and their languages. Her work examines the politics of public spheres and the potentialities of digital tools, spaces and networks through collective processes and knowledges. Angeliki is an Architecture graduate of the University of Patras in Greece and holds an MA from the Experimental Publishing Master at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. She is a former member of Varia, a space of collective approaches to everyday technology in Rotterdam, and has teached in Fine Arts and Social Practices in Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. She is currently working as a researcher for The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI).

Radio-active Monstrosities - This web-audio interface addresses ways of listening to certain female-sounding voices that are perceived as inappropriate - because of the quality of their sound, their gender, the medium's distortions but also stereotypes and collective memories that they often awake. These are verbal expressions that have been associated with forms of 'monstrosity' since ancient times. You are invited to record yourselves, expressing your thoughts and choose a type of distortion to participate in, forming new imaginaries around a technologically-mediated collective voice, which through its monstrosity can reveal other forms of speech. The interface for the performance "Radioactive Monstrosities", part of the event NL_CL #2 : FLESH : FLESH hosted by iii and Netherlands Coding Live. The voice samples will be part of this platform and future performances. Its conceptualization is an ongoing process related to the research project Let's Amplify Unspeakable Things and previous performances.

Hunting Mosquitos - The work started as an invitation in 2020 from the curator Linnea Semmerling and TENT, Rotterdam as a contribution to the group exhibition 'There is no party so noisy as the one you’re not invited to' in December 2022-March 2023. It examines the 'Mosquito', a technology used in public places in Rotterdam that emits high-frequency sounds, audible only to young people under 25 the most and experienced as unpleasant, to deter them from loitering in hangouts after complaints of noise by residents. Hunting Mosquitos installation at TENT made the divisions the device draws through the city conceivable to all by providing young people's descriptions of the sound and transposing it into variants that are perceptible to most people over 25. The public intervention at one of the Mosquito sites counters the device’s confrontational dynamic, offering visitors the opportunity to experience the location as a hang-out and a living environment, and questioning whether activating a Mosquito with a remote control or filing complaints via an app offers a socially meaningful solution. The work was supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL. (photo credits © Aad Hoogendoorn, TENT Rotterdam)