Collaborative project. Year: 2021 Length: 04:12 min, CGI 4K, Stereo sound Artists/Directors: Yorgos Papafigos, Kostis Spanopoulos. Animation: Yorgos Papafigos - Sound Design: Kostis Spanopoulos
The Post-Removal has been made entirely with a CPU system, 3D scanning data, dynamic simulations, and artificially designed sound recordings.
The artwork explores the idea of free will, society's role in violence, and the turmoil of a non-human entity seeking to atone. The detached hand symbolises a Deus-like device, freed from pain as it falls into a tank as an inanimate mass production object. However, it defies expectations by attempting to stay alive, only to ultimately perish. The work is a social-political commentary on contemporary society's post-human condition, presenting a bleak vision of a dystopian future. It challenges the concepts of human deification and the idealisation of objects in modern society while also reflecting on the role of new hybrid technologies in a capitalist world increasingly dominated by control. "The Post-Removal" invites the viewer to contemplate these themes and the implications for our society and future.
Exhibitions/Premiere:
(2022) The Root, Amphicar studio, Athens, curated by Foteini Vergidou (2021) 6th Supernova Digital Animation Festival, Denver, Colorado, US