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'''Manos Saklas''' (b. 1998, Athens) artist working across visual art and electro-acoustic music, examining the entanglements of sound, materiality, and technological mediation. Rooted in his studies at the Xenakis CMRC in Athens and EMS Stockholm, Saklas engages with cultural artifacts, and methodologies drawn from fields as diverse as conceptual art, greek mythology, modernist compositional developments, psychoacoustics, and warfare technologies—an approach that underscores their latent sociopolitical resonances.
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'''Manos Saklas''' (b. 1998, Athens) is an artist working across contemporary art, radio production and electro-acoustic music. His practice engages with cultural artifacts and compositional methodologies drawn from fields as diverse as acoustic ecology, conceptual art, greek mythology, film-essay, and weather-sensing technologies—underscoring their sociopolitical resonances.
  
In solo exhibition contexts, he often creates listening spaces that evoke a sense of introspection, combining rigorous methodologies with poetic sensibilities. Far from merely interpreting auditory nuances, his visual works feed into the audible part and are somewhat sonorous themselves. They do not only challenge sensory hierarchies; but intensify the listening experience itself, that is often situated at the thresholds of perception, where cognitive processes are being modulated, felt and observed.
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In solo exhibition contexts, he often creates listening spaces with an emphasis to both environmental sound matter and synthetic material agencies. Far from merely interpreting the sonic, his visual works and writings feed into the audible part and are somewhat sonorous themselves. His artworks are often situated at the thresholds of perception, where both formal nuances and sensory processes are being modulated, felt and observed.
  
Saklas' artistic practice seeks to catch a glimpse of the unseen, not to exhaust and actualize it, like science, or purely conceptualize it, like philosophy, but by employing aesthetics to embrace the oscillations, flows, and atmospheres of the cosmos as incubators of possibility. [https://strumandiodine.com/artist/manos-saklas/]
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Saklas work has been featured internationally in a wide range of settings, including galleries and museums, cultural and academic institutions, concert halls and music festivals, films and fashion, radio and public spaces. He studied visual art at Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, Royal Institute of Art, and Athens School of Fine Arts as well as electro-acoustic music and sound studies at Xenakis KSYME-CMRC and EMS Elektronmusikstudion.
  
 
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* [https://detach.live/podcasts/otoliths-in-flux Otoliths in Flux], radio show on stegi.radio
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* [https://kaput-mag.com/stories_en/manos-saklas-im-not-sure-if-i-am-interested-in-music-journalism/ Interview 2024]
* [https://kaput-mag.com/stories_en/manos-saklas-im-not-sure-if-i-am-interested-in-music-journalism/ Interview], 2024
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* [https://stegi.radio/podcasts/otoliths-in-flux/ Otoliths in Flux]
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* [https://vektorathens.org/exhibition-imagine-you-wake-up-and-there-is-no-internet/ Selected Participations]
 
* [https://instagram.com/manos_saklas/ Instagram]
 
* [https://instagram.com/manos_saklas/ Instagram]
* [[Mastodon::https://mastodon.social/@manossaklas|Mastodon]]
 
  
 
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[[Series: Contemporary Art, Electroacoustic Composition, Radio art, Sound Studies]]
[[Series: Contemporary Art, Sound Studies, Electroacoustic Music]]
 
 
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Latest revision as of 21:35, 5 September 2025

Manos Saklas (b. 1998, Athens) is an artist working across contemporary art, radio production and electro-acoustic music. His practice engages with cultural artifacts and compositional methodologies drawn from fields as diverse as acoustic ecology, conceptual art, greek mythology, film-essay, and weather-sensing technologies—underscoring their sociopolitical resonances.

In solo exhibition contexts, he often creates listening spaces with an emphasis to both environmental sound matter and synthetic material agencies. Far from merely interpreting the sonic, his visual works and writings feed into the audible part and are somewhat sonorous themselves. His artworks are often situated at the thresholds of perception, where both formal nuances and sensory processes are being modulated, felt and observed.

Saklas work has been featured internationally in a wide range of settings, including galleries and museums, cultural and academic institutions, concert halls and music festivals, films and fashion, radio and public spaces. He studied visual art at Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, Royal Institute of Art, and Athens School of Fine Arts as well as electro-acoustic music and sound studies at Xenakis KSYME-CMRC and EMS Elektronmusikstudion.

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