Selected Work - Installations — Constantinos Gallis

Constantinos Gallis
Cambridge, MA & Athens, GR

Hello, my name is Constantinos. I am a Greek-Swiss artist, musician & student based in Cambridge, MA & Athens, GR. I am currently pursuing a Master in City Planning & a Master of Architecture at MIT, & am a recipient of the Onassis Foundation Scholarship. I hold a BA in Urban Studies from Stanford University, where I graduated with departmental honors & distinction, & was awarded the Firestone Medal for Excellence in Research.
Through academic research, teaching, large-scale installations, performances, & audio-visual investigations, I have explored the effects of urban change on the natural environment & society. My work has been exhibited in Athens GR, Cambridge MA, Stanford CA & San Francisco CA.
I have honed my skills in planning & design at firms in London, GB, New York, NY & Athens, GR, working as an Architectural Assistant at Foster + Partners, an Urban Design Intern at WXY, a Neighborhood Strategies Intern at the NYCEDC, & as an Architectural Intern at Potiropoulos + Partners.
Alongside my partner, I develop work for Oo-PS, a collaborative research & design practice working across scales to produce narrative-driven artwork, writing, music & objects as ways of anticipating future socio-environmental challenges & designing theoretical methods to meet them.
I write, record, produce & occasionally perform music under the alias Shrinking Violet, a project that moves between ambient, dreampop & indie rock in an effort to create music about spaces, distance & uncertainty. Performing solo & alongside bandmates, I have opened for artists such as The Hellp, French Cassettes, & Illuminati Hotties.

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Site-Specific Sculptural & Ambient Work

ConfluenceSan Francisco, CA
[w/ E. Petersen, K. Han, A. Adriano, L. Laugharn]

A week-long ambient light installation atop the Salesforce Tower, designed for Jim Campbell's 11,000-fixture LED projection system that reaches across the Bay. Behaving as a hyperobject perceived as part of the city yet with no physical form, the work illuminated images of water, movement & organic life. The installation was paired with an original soundtrack I created entitled Atop This Weathered Tower [12:27], which follows the sequence of visuals.

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Murmuration of LightStanford, CA
An installation that manipulates sunlight through two interplaying patterns of blue translucent & yellow reflective acrylic squares, vulnerable to the elements & swaying in the wind. Following Brian Eno's advice to pursue gardening rather than architecture, the fluttering effect matters more than the structure itself. The work has remained installed across Stanford's campus, slowly discoloring, for the last four years.

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Memory PavilionStanford, CA
[w/ E. Petersen, K. Han]
Selected from nearly 100 projects for the 2023 Frost Arts & Music Festival, themed Sacred Spaces. Built from semi-translucent fabric panels and simple domestic artifacts, the pavilion explores ritual & memory through a woven enclosure, with each collaborator claiming a material tied to their own past: redwood for Marin, canvas for the Aegean, & Maine blueberries for the dye.

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The EphemeralStanford, CA
[w/ Twenty Collaborators]
A collaboration with twenty students that straddled architecture & structural engineering, using slender hardwood dowels & Amaike Super organza to create a membrane tensegrity system. Arranged as an archipelago responding to the natural oculus of the grove, & sited near Andy Goldsworthy's temporally affected work, the structure slowly degraded over the course of a week.

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