State Of Affairs by Karnampatides Nichoalos, developed as a postgraduate diploma thesis in 2020-2021 under the supervision of Zannos Ioannis, explores how perception and memory shape the encounter with a work of art. The visual field presents layered, saturated colors from electric blues to warm oranges and reds that form horizontal planes and painterly textures while also recalling digital distortion and glitch.

As a live audiovisual performance, sound interferes with the image in real time. Using live processing and algorithmic transformations, acoustic information is mapped onto visual parameters so that frequencies and amplitudes become displacements, fragmentation and recombination of color fields. The piece unfolds through a feedback-driven system that produces momentary ruptures and reassemblies of the image, prompting the observer into an active recognition process.

The conceptual core rests on the notion that recognizing relationships between shapes and colors triggers memory and promotes the formation of new neural synapses. The performance takes advantage of this: perception is not passive but a creative force, as attention and listening influence the visual outcome and open space for new cognitive connections.

Approach the work ready to experience its temporality and controlled unpredictability. The interest of the piece is in the fragile balance between algorithmic control and chance, between human recollection and the machine translation of sound into image.