Ars Electronica Festival · 2019

Nike

by Theo Triantafyllidis

🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2019

Theo Triantafyllidis's “Nike” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2019, category Computer Animation. Theo Triantafyllidis has 1 more work in this atlas.

In this body of work, the *Ork Series*, Theo Triantafyllidis re-imagines the exhibition space as his own virtual studio. He embodies an Ork avatar, who uses digital tools to create 3D forms, which are then manifested physically as large-scale wood sculptures.

— Prix Ars Electronica Archive

About Theo Triantafyllidis

Theo Triantafyllidis (b. 1988, Athens, GR) is an artist who builds virtual spaces and the interfaces for the human body to inhabit them. He creates complex worlds and systems where the virtual and the physical merge in uncanny, absurd, and poetic ways.

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