Flowers

2024, simulation, prints, embroidery

Flowers is a digital simulation that blends images of nature into a seamless, infinite loop.
Utilizing state-of-the-art technologies like algorithmic face tracking and optical flow interpolation, the work explores the ephemeral beauty of digital metamorphosis.
In Ancient Greek philosophy, the concept of physis (nature) was seen as a process of continuous becoming—an interplay between growth, decay, and renewal.
Flowers can be viewed as a digital echo of this idea, where pixels dissolve and re-form in an endless cycle.
Flowers invites viewers to reflect on the interplay of order and chaos in the digital realm.

A project by Maria Paneta featuring embroidery by Aliki Pavli

Side Hustle

2024-ongoing vr game, installation

“Side Hustle” is an immersive VR game that explores the evolution of labor and fair work standards, challenging traditional ideas about work and examining alternative, equitable models beyond capitalism. In the game, players step into a futuristic scenario where ideal candidates for future work are selected through a series of choices. Each scenario highlights real-world issues surrounding labor, pushing players to confront the complexities of modern employment.

Through interactive tasks, players face dilemmas ranging from conventional to surreal, each decision exposing their underlying values. With each choice—community-centered or individualistic—players carve out a distinct narrative path. Collective choices lead to a vision of a vibrant, tech-integrated world defined by harmony, while individualist choices reveal an isolating, monotonous landscape. In the final moments, the game proposes an alternative path, encouraging players to imagine a future focused on balance, community, and environmental sustainability.

Team︎︎︎
Esto Association, Markela Bgiala, Maria Paneta, Konstantinos Doumpenidis, Yiannis Mantzaris, Lydia Markaki, Niki Danai Chania

Developers︎︎︎
Elena Dimopoulou, Giannis Kapasakalis, Dan Paschin

How to live in invisible spaces

21-22 May 2022, workshop

‘How to live in invisible spaces’ workshop explores how augmented reality & wearable tech reform the way we perceive space. Esto Association hosted and documented the workshop.

A team of designers, artists, technologists, an archaeologist and curious minds inhabited an invisible sculpture and created living narratives with the use of wearable technology. 
The created artworks are exhibited as part of Athens Digital Arts Festival 2022 in building complex of former notoshome.

Photo Esto Association

Sarotis

2016, wearable

Sarotis began with the question, how could technology change the way we see and interact with the world around us?
Sarotis delves into intimate wearable technology futures, where advanced vision systems and other sensor technologies are
connected directly to body through softer interfaces.

Team︎︎︎
Ava Aghakouchak, Maria Paneta

Interactive Architecture Lab The Bartlett UCL

Hybirds

2024, AR Installation

A visionary collective creates ‘Hybirds’ to store digital memories of the Earth’s substance and manufactured artefacts. ‘Hybirds’ are digital vestiges preserved for the post-Anthropocene and used as a material data bank.

Artists︎︎︎
Maria Paneta, Yiouli Tsatsopoulou

Sound︎︎︎
Uliversal

‘Hybirds’ are objects found during the year 2000-2023: rock, seashell, flower, electronics board, bent metal, clip, yellow wig part, broccoli, plastic, arnica cream and glass container with lid, coloured glass, plactic cube, white and yellow velcro, onion roots, metal string and ball of dried clay.

‘Hybrids’ are photographed, retouched, digitally archived in a digital cache. A video compiles their flow in a unified cluster. The soundscape is a ten minute improvisation piece, using various hardware equipment.

‘Hybirds’ are an archaeology of the future, accessed through digital media. They represent the effort to leave a lasting legacy and ensure that our knowledge, culture, and history can be understood and appreciated by future beings, whether they are our descendants, other intelligent species, or extraterrestrial visitors.

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