BRAINRINTH (video) seeks a poetic mapping of the human brain and attempts – through technology – to approach brain-related functions of memory, drawing on material from personal experience of α body in crisis. The title BRAINRINTH –from the words Brain and Labyrinth – is a play on the intractable riddle of an archetypal Greek structure (the labyrinth) and the labyrinthine processes of the human brain. Due to the shock of trauma, our understanding of the functioning of the body, and of nature itself –which we are trying to dominate – seems desperate and full of anxiety. Taking this into account, if we adopt a position in which we keep a distance of aesthetic neutrality, perhaps this reality begins to look less frightening.
NIKOS KOKKALIS Born in Corfu in 1966, he studied at the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1984-1989). In 1993, and for two years thereafter, he was a postgraduate intern of the State Scholarship Foundation, with Professor Nikos Kessanlis. In 2016, he graduated as a PhD student of the Ionian University's Department of Audio & Visual Arts, the title of his thesis being: "LIGHT AND INSTALLATIONS - The use of minimal natural light sources in interactive video installations". In 2006, with Marilena Koskinas, he set up the OKKO Group to raise citizens' awareness through Art. Since 2017 he has been working in the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University as a member of the Special Teaching Staff. He has had 8 solo exhibitions and has created over 25 stage designs.
