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, & 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.

I am curious about the effects of urban change on the natural environment & society, I have explored my interests through academic research, teaching, large scale installations, performances, audio-visual investigations, & practical work experience at firms in Athens, GR, New York, NY & London, GB. I have exhibited my work in Athens GR, Cambridge MA, Stanford CA & San Francisco CA.

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I am one half of Oo-PS, a collaborative research & design practice working across scales to produce narrative-driven artwork, writing, music & objects as ways of anticipating sets of future socio-environmental challenges & designing theoretical methods to meet them.

Oo-PS

I write, record, produce & occasionally perform music under the alias Shrinking Violet, a project that modulates between ambient, dreampop & indie rock in an effort to create music about spaces, distance & uncertainty.

Shrinking Violet


The Ephemeral
Stanford, CA
Sculptural Installation
[w/ A. Adriano, J. Broussard, D. Carlson, K. Chen, W. Crowell, D. Dunn, E. Ezralow, J. Gonzales, M. Green, K. Han, R. Lian, J. McDonald, A. Olasewere, E. Petersen, K. Rayle, N. Rucker, M. Santelices, T. Strauss, A. Strong, K. Wang & S. Xu]
 This project was created for CEE 32H: Responsive Structures taught by Beverly Choe and Jun Sato at Stanford, alongside twenty-one students, & it inhabited the grove outside the Anderson Collection. Straddling the disciplines of architecture & structural engineering, we created a membrane ‘tensegrity’ system to form the modules.

Using only slender hardwood dowels and Amaike Super organza fabric [which weighs just 5g per meter], we explored the spatial, organizational, & experiential potential of these materials, creating an archipelago of forms that responded to the natural oculus created by the grove.
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