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Digital Acropolis

This work explores contemporary media through historical architectural forms. In the past, temples, theatres, and bathhouses gathered people to exchange information, share sensory experiences, and form urban communities, functioning as a kind of proto-media. Today, however, media no longer remains in one physical place, but operates through digital platforms as something endlessly reproduced, dispersed, and fragmented.

The work reinterprets the Parthenon through the logic of contemporary media. Reconstructed in transparent epoxy, the temple reflects both industrial mass production and the fluid, immaterial condition of today’s media. Its transparent surfaces layer light and images, causing the content within to transform and drift away from its original meaning.

At the centre, a text-based digital video is played. Yet from the outside, it appears fragmented, blurred, and no longer legible. Through this, Digital Acropolis reflects on how media has shifted from gathering people into shared sensory experience to producing distortion, distance, and dispersion.

Format
Material
Dimensions
Year
Coordinate

Video sculpture
Epoxy, mixed media
170 x 360 x 93 mm
2024
(17, 12)