Hello,
I’m Heracles Papatheodorou, a maker, digital creative and licensed architect (dipl. School of Architecture, NTUA) based in Athens, and work in the fields of cultural production, design, media arts, architecture and web development. My current research interests encompass digital games, artistic practices and the relationship between the digital and society.
fickle spiderweb on thin cirrus anchored things change things break
You can contact me at email@heracl.es (PGP) or follow me on Twitter and Mastodon, but I don’t do Facebook. Most of the code I write rests in GitHub / Gist, occasional photos on Instagram, certain animated images are hosted on YouTube and noises echo in SoundCloud. You may also subscribe to my list of very —very— occasional updates in Greek with texts, images and links of what I do and what I read.
I work as Digital Development & Policy Coordinator at Onassis Stegi in Athens. I used to tell stories and craft interfaces at citytales.eu, sometimes rendered visualisations with weRender.eu, still scarcely write about videogames on LegendaryPKMN.net and lead R&D in DEBTRON.xyz.
Objects
/ubu24h
Algorithmic selection of short films from the Ubuweb collection.
/jackalope
Interactive app featuring Wikipedia terms related to Hybrid Arts.
/140
Οι κωπηλάτες μιας τριήρους σε ρέουσα κίνηση.
/prism
A DIY kit for a router at the year 2016.
/debtron
A start-up specializing in bespoke Hardware as a Service solutions for government administration.
/muzine
A prototype of personalized souvenirs for demanding museum goers.
/debtron-1.0
An essential apparatus aimed at all accredited, aspiring and industrious politicians and legislators.
/bisense
An apparatus responding to the need of the contemporary human being for affection, feeling of security and comfort.
/horizons
Competition entry for the Bamiyan Cultural centre.
/beep
Experiments with JavaScript and Web Audio on pattern generation.
/myorchid
Οπτική ταυτότητα για το Myorchid.gr / Η Ορχιδέα Μου
/livanotis
Competition entry in Athens Benchmark, organized by the Municipality of Athens.
Texts
instictive prose calls for n-gram weighted clichés + numerical averages
/hugo
Static site generators and the modern web.
/html
What a website in the modern web is, what it’s made of.
μέλλοντα μέλλοντα άνευ, άνευ μέλλοντα άνευ μέλους, μέλους αναπαραστάσεις αναπαραστάσεις μονοδιάστατες μονοδιάστατες τάχα, τάχα με προοπτική
/geary
How to run the Geary email client on Windows 10.
/tutorials
Vernacular learning and teaching on the internet.
/url
…or laments about the loss of autonomy on the web.
remembering
without a body
disembodied bodies
of dismembered
remembrances/reboot
Getting accustomed to the way things are, is surrendering to the equilibrium. In order to be, we have to produce disturbances.
/markdown
A tutorial on the workflow from Markdown texts to beautiful PDFs
/inquisitive
On the homologous nature of design and engineering, and habitual patterns versus the inquisitive nature of design.
/mydia
Δεν χρησιμοποιώ το Facebook. Όχι επειδή κρύβομαι από το internet, αλλά επειδή επιλέγω να το υπερασπίζομαι.
Opinions and thoughts;
words and codes;
pictures and imprints;
everything:
obsolete as time
flies by.