Very excited to announce that I’ve been awarded the ARTWORKS Grant 2025 for the production of a new live simulation work titled Resonant Forge. As part of this year’s cohort, I am very grateful to join a vibrant community of practitioners supported by ARTWORKS and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
From the Grant Announcement:
ARTWORKS Grants Program is designed to provide financial support to artists and curators, enabling them to bring to life thought-provoking works across the fields of visual arts, moving image, dance and curating. By fostering artistic experimentation, critical discourse, and cross-sector collaboration, the program affirms the role of contemporary art in shaping urgent cultural conversations.
By supporting projects that challenge conventions and engage diverse audiences, the program will facilitate artistic production in Greece, while amplifying its reach internationally. Open to mid-career artists and cultural practitioners who live and work in Greece, the program is dedicated to those committed to producing work with a strong personal vision, artistic merit and international relevance. In the long-term, ARTWORKS aims to forge partnerships with leading institutions, festivals, and networks worldwide in order to create new opportunities for visibility, exchange, and long-term development.
2025 ARTWORKS Grants Selection Committee:
Nadja Argyropoulou – Independent curator, art historian
Anastasios Koukoutas – Dramaturge, dance writer and theorist
Timon Koulmasis – Filmmaker, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture
Antonis Pittas – Visual artist, Tutor Professional International Program Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
Kostas Stasinopoulos – Curator, Live Programmes, Serpentine Galleries
Eva Stefani – Documentary Filmmaker, Visual artist, Poet
Alexandra Waierstall – Choreographer, Dance Artist
2025 ARTWORKS Grantees:
Danai Giannoglou & Κyveli Mavrokordopoulou, Sofia Dona, Navine G. Dossos, Panos Fourtoulakis, Athina Koubarouli, Pierre Magendie, Maria Sideri, Iris Touliatou, Theo Triantafyllidis, Alexandros Vardaxoglou, Neritan Zinxhiria, Yorgos Zois
The ARTWORKS Grants program is funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and other individual donors.
From the project proposal:
Resonant Forge is a live simulation and performative system that reveals the inaudible tectonics of our contemporary condition. Constructed as an endlessly shifting metallic landscape populated by animated debris, ores, screws, chains, and jewel-like industrial remnants, it sonifies the invisible forces shaping both planetary geology and extractive capitalism. Within this synthetic ecology, microparticles, magnets, and improbable constructs respond to hidden fields, gravity wells, magnetic pulses, and entropic tremors, colliding and spiraling into a granular, machinic music of the Anthropocene.
Conceived as a musical instrument that improvises its own collapse, Resonant Forge traces a speculative line from the seismic pressures of deep time to the polished surfaces of contemporary machine-learning hardware. Its procedural systems echo the logics of mining, sorting, and labor extraction, transforming abstract geopolitical and ecological forces into tangible simulation and reactive sound. As the simulation unfolds, a gray moth drifts silently among the debris, its fragile trajectory marking the impossible choreography of survival within a collapsing system.
Resonant Forge continues a trajectory evident in Theo Triantafyllidis’ recent work, such as BugSim, where closed systems become sites for staged resilience and speculative ecology. While BugSim depicted a delicate terrarium of ants, bees, and engineered microfauna in cycles of growth and collapse, Resonant Forge presents a post-natural landscape in which metal retains memory of both its geological origins and industrial destiny. Together, these works compose an evolving cosmology of artificial life and ecological contradiction, framed by the paradoxes of care, collapse, and control.