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'''Manos Saklas''' (1998, Athens) is an artist working across visual art, computer music and sound installations. His work concerns the multimodal nature of listening, visual manifestations of oscillatory phenomena and process-based composition. The psychoacoustic and the physical properties of synthetic sound, along with themes related to notions such as noise, materiality and temporality constitute the core of his interest. In his artistic practice he merges a plethora of territories, constructing listening spaces where individual entities coexist: visual works, sculptural installations, text and auditory objects form an ecosystem that evokes strong yet subtle sensations, unforeseen associations and a sense of introspection. [https://strumandiodine.com/artist/manos-saklas/]
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'''Manos Saklas'''(b. 1998, Athens) is an artist whose practice unfolds 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, ancient greek mythology, modernist compositional developments, psychoacoustics, and warfare technologies—an approach that underscores their latent sociopolitical resonances. Since 2020, he has been actively hosting discussions and artists talks bringing together visual artists, philosophers, composers, and art theorists.
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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, often taking place at the thresholds of perception, where cognitive processes are being modulated, heard and felt.
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Saklas' 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 oscillations, flows, and atmospheres as incubators of possibility. [https://strumandiodine.com/artist/manos-saklas/]
  
 
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* [https://pixelfed.social/manos_saklas PixelFed]
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Manos Saklas(b. 1998, Athens) is an artist whose practice unfolds 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, ancient greek mythology, modernist compositional developments, psychoacoustics, and warfare technologies—an approach that underscores their latent sociopolitical resonances. Since 2020, he has been actively hosting discussions and artists talks bringing together visual artists, philosophers, composers, and art theorists.

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, often taking place at the thresholds of perception, where cognitive processes are being modulated, heard and felt.

Saklas' 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 oscillations, flows, and atmospheres as incubators of possibility. [1]

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