Aristofanis Soulikias
Aristofanis Soulikias is a film animator, interested in setting into motion stories around the built environment and urbanity. He works mostly with under-camera techniques, which involve hand-made objects and silhouettes.
He is currently a PhD student at the School of Architecture of the Université de Montréal, pursuing an interdisciplinary research-creation study with the title: "Sensing the city: revealing urban realities and potentials through handmade film animation", which aims at examining the relationship between handmade film animation and the haptic city and how the practice of the handmade film can reveal sensory qualities of the built environment, informing thus designers but also ordinary citizens. His research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Sessions in which Aristofanis Soulikias attends
Wednesday 7 May, 2025
Room LB-207 Aaron Richmond and Tamar Tembeck (Post doctorial researcher, Concordia University / Artistic Director, OBORO Gallery, Montreal, Canada)Navigation Without a Compass - Reflections on Curating the WAYFINDERS exhibition We wish to present some critical reflections on the exhibition WAYFINDERS, to be presented at the MAI in April 2026. WAYFINDERS explores how we orient ourselves in our bodies, within the universe, and among...
Thursday 8 May, 2025
Elisabeth Tangerner √ (History (Medieval History), University of Salzburg, Austria)Sensing the Divine: Sensory Experience and Space in the Late Medieval Benedictine Abbey of Lambach (Austria)In the cloistered worlds of late medieval monastic life, sensory perception had a decisive inpact on the spiritual experience and communal identity of conventuals. This paper explores how sensory worlds were created, experienced and discussed in the Benedictine Abbey of Lambach (Upper...
Tamás Solymosi √ & Daishi Wakizono (Heritage Studies, University of Tsukuba, Japan)Sensory Cartographies: Multisensory Mapping as a Tool for Understanding Urban SpacesThis paper introduces a methodological approach to interpreting urban distinctiveness through multi-sensory experiences, addressing the challenges in an era of increasing placelessness and global homogenisation. Our study investigates how distinct sensory experiences give rise to place-specific networks...
KS Brewer (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)Fly Affinities: Sensing Ecstasy in Decay through Interspecies RelationsThis past spring, I cared for hundreds of flesh flies (sacrophaga bullata) in my apartment, and fed them my blood throughout their lives. I did so out of an interest in exploring the possibility of ecstatic decay—conceived as a vibrant material entanglement, post-death, that locates the transcendence of ecstasy in the body, rather than out of it (Bennett...
Friday 9 May, 2025
Abi Smith (Geography, University of Cambridge, UK)Fluvial Infrastructures, Embodied Evidence, and The Limits of Sensory GovernanceThe majority of England’s rivers are widely evidenced as toxic and harmful to health. The most recent ‘State of our Rivers’ report by The Rivers Trust (2024) found that no river or stretch of water in England can be categorised as in ‘good’ status. Whilst reports of slushy-coloured water and green algal blooms pervade descriptions of these spac...