PhD student spotlight - George Themistokleous | Architecture Research Group

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Mediated Visualities: Architectural Representation and the Digitised Body

George Themistokleous

Student: George Themistokleous
Director of Studies: Dr. Doreen Bernath
Second Supervisor: Dr. Lisa Stansbie
External Advisor: Dr. Teresa Stoppani

Project description

Linear perspective presupposes a division between body and space. Other representational devices, such as the stereoscope and the zoetrope, articulate a different body /space relationship. In this research the 'prosthetic' body becomes an intermediate term that is used to redefine the relationship between body and space, haptic and optic, representation and actual vision. The thesis critically re-thinks and re-conceives perspectival space and current forms of representation, i.e. digital media, and constructs custom-made supplementary representational devices. This approach combines an insight into current representational methods and their application in the process of design. In the process both the body and the tools for its conceptualization and represent must be redefined. In this sense if the body is already a place that correlates, via a technological interface, to other bodies, how is this extensity accounted for in visual representations?

student Biography

George Themistokleous (founder of para-sight) is an architectural designer and lecturer. His practice focuses on the changing relationship between visuality and space-time through emerging media that probe conventional limits between self and self-image, interior and exterior. The visual and written work has been presented, exhibited and published internationally in various platforms. He is co-editor with T. Stoppani and G. Ponzo of the book This Thing Called Theory (Routledge, 2016).