Talks
Konstantinos is an experienced public speaker and lecturer comfortable with audiences ranging from small groups to thousands. Recent talks and lectures include a keynote address to the Australian Lighting Association in 2016, panel discussions at the Media Architecture Biennale 2016, Vivid Ideas, Arup Summer event 2015, Onedotzero, and Pecha Kucha where he presented to an audience of over 1200 people. Through previous collaborations also talks and presentations at UC San Diego, UC Irvine, and Sci-Arc in Los Angeles.
Keynote Address - Sparc Design Series Sydney 2016
A talk about work with Moritz Behrens and 'Sentiment Architectures' the ideas which form the inspiration behind the Sentiment Cocoon projects and also what drives and inspires the work in urban scale lighting projects.
Artist Talk - Arup's Vivid Light Walk2016
In situ talk and presentation to Arup engineers and guests at the Sentiment Cocoon installation site during Vivid 2016. Demonstrated the functioning of the installation while discussing the collaboration with Arup
Panel Discussion - Media Architecture Biennale 2016
A four member panel discussion about digital art and urban space at the Media Architecture conference 'MAB16'. In the talk views on the possibilities of digitally driven urban scale artworks creating s sense of presence in various ways was discussed. The ambition to either visualise / manifest the rhythms of nature, such as in the work 'Ebb and Flow' or human nature, such as in 'The Sentiment Cocoon' projects was also discussed.
Talk/Lecture -Vivid Ideas 2016
Extensive presentation on work with with Urban Visuals and Mortiz Behrens. Main topic- 'how can digitally driven installations augment the urban environment'. The notion of 'Sentiment Architectures' was introduced as a design method which is influenced and inspired by how we already experience architecture cognitively. Further discussion on how urban scale digital media installations should be approached as a designer, and what role lighting can play in that.