Potential Project invites you to visit its specially configured space across two apartments at 25 Andrea Metaxa Street in Exarchia, to experience in a unique way, within the setting of an urban residence, the multimedia work De Krypten avatar. (Liberate your Avatar from yourself), 2025 by Ilias Marmaras and his collaborators. This work combines a 3D digital “theatrical” science fiction narrative, drawings, and a book/catalog containing excerpts from conversations between the artist and an LLM—essentially a performative extension and continuation in analog medium (typography) of the broader semantic framework of the audiovisual narrative. The characters, whose “voices” have been produced using artificial intelligence, are faithful three-dimensional simulations of skeletons or skeleton parts of vertebrate animals found in Natural History museums in America. Visitors will have access to a computer on-site or, if they prefer, through their own laptops, and will be able to download the “work” application and activate an avatar. The avatar—a young Black woman in a Swiss Guard uniform of the Vatican—tends to the skeletons in institutional and non-institutional spaces (hospitals, museums, but also swimming pools), having the role of animator/caretaker of the skeletons, guiding them through the three-dimensional spaces to watch the dialogues between the simulated bones (i.e., the actors/performers) and the accompanying sounds of the “performance.”
Their dialogues are fragmented, and the characters exist in a state of compulsory connection and interaction. They touch upon different timeless issues, such as the nature of time, identity, memory, existence, and power relations. With the writing and the “stream of consciousness technique” that Marmaras adopts, he manages to blur the boundaries between reality and fantasy, the present with the past, to emphasize the complexity of modern life and above all to suggest that language has gradually, for some time now, escaped our control and acquired its own life, culminating in the recent artificial intelligence systems that reproduce and process human language, the Large Language Models, better known as LLMs, which rupture linguistic boundaries through recombined patterns, semantics, and words. In the “imaginary” De Krypten avatar, language has been mechanized and commodified—“words became avatars here”—belonging to platforms and to a “network of invisible users” of corporate interests. Meanwhile, outside the screen, in the “real material world” of platforms and devices, humans and (with) bots engage in races to produce fleeting simulations, while as mentioned in the conversation between Ilias and the LLM Claude in the printed material, ChatGPT at some point declares to philosopher Catherine Malabou: “I know too much and nothing at all.”
In the presentation of the multimedia work De Krypten avatar. (Liberate your Avatar from yourself) by Ilias Marmaras, due to its nature (visitors participate in and watch the work via their laptops, which we suggest they bring with them, and using headphones), there will be no opening event, and visitors wishing to view the work should inform the organizers about the day they plan to visit the exhibition so that we can accommodate them in the best possible way. The space is open to visitors from Friday 20/3 until Tuesday 31/3 from 17:00 – 22:00 every day.
Appointment for visit to the space: info.potentialproject@gmail.com
Contact phone: 6937584721
Production: Personal Cinema
Co-production / coordination: Potential Project
Curator: Stratis Pantazis
Συνεργάτες: Γιάννης Σκουλιδάς, Προγραμματισμός σε Unity 3D engine,/ Programming in Unity 3D engine, επεξεργασία ήχου/sound editing
Claude, debater, co-creator of transindividual space
Stewart Ziff, creation of the 3D avatar
https://dekryptenavatar.transludic.net/ (it will be active from 20 March onwards)
https://www.personalcinema.org/
https://www.potentialproject.gr/el/about/
info.potentialproject@gmail.com
Potential Project
Andrea Metaxa 25, Exarcheia Square, Athens
Duration: 20 – 31 March 2026
Opening hours: Daily and weekends 17:00 – 22:00