DROWNING
A Fulldome Audiovisual Composition & Performance by Pandelis Diamantides & MAOTIK
DROWNING
A Fulldome Audiovisual Composition & Performance by Pandelis Diamantides &
MAOTIK
“What does it mean to be submerged in a world of infinite motion, data, and environmental collapse?”
Submerged in data, motion, and rising tides, DROWNING asks what it means to feel, perceive, and survive within systems of crisis. Through cymatics, generative visuals, and spatial sound, the dome becomes a vessel of resonance, where ecological anxiety meets sensory overload, and immersion becomes reckoning.
DROWNING is an immersive 360° audiovisual experience that envelops the viewer in the overwhelming sensation of being adrift at sea—alone, suspended, and submerged in a living architecture of sound and image. Created by new media artists Pandelis Diamantides and MAOTIK, the work conjures a space where the boundaries between perception and environment dissolve, and the dome becomes both vessel and vortex.
Developed during a residency at the Eugenides Planetarium in Athens, in collaboration with the Athens Digital Arts Festival, DROWNING submerges its audience in a planetary condition, an ocean of data, disturbance, and disorientation. Here, immersion is not escape but confrontation: with rising tides, shifting climates, and the limits of perception itself. Drawing on cymatics, spatial sound design, and generative visuals, the work evokes the ocean not merely as metaphor but as a medium of resonance, a liquid network of signal and sensation. Frequencies ripple through the space like invisible tides, while sculptural visuals rise and fall with the pressure of sonic depth, immersing the audience in a choreography of vibration.
The narrative is nonlinear but visceral, structured around descending layers of immersion. Each level deepens the audience’s entanglement with the audiovisual environment, what begins as observation becomes absorption, then saturation. You don’t watch DROWNING so much as sink into it.
More than a sensory spectacle, DROWNING questions the politics of immersion in the age of planetary crisis. What are the ethics of feeling in a time of ecological disintegration? How do systems of surveillance, control, and media saturation shape our bodies and consciousness? The dome, once a symbol of cosmic wonder, becomes a pressure chamber, exposing the beauty and terror of life within complex, often invisible infrastructures.
DROWNING is not a passive experience. It is an embodied one, an algorithmic storm that pulses through skin and sensorium alike. As digital waves crash against perceptual limits, the audience is left suspended in a state of sonic ecstasy and existential reflection.
Developed in 2019 during the Extending Reality | CoExistence: Art, Science & Technology residency at the Eugenides Foundation Planetarium in Athens, DROWNING was created in collaboration with the Athens Digital Arts Festival and French digital artist Mathieu Le Sourd (MAOTIK), based on a concept by Pandelis Diamantides.
Selected Performances
• Live at Patchlab Digital Art Festival – Chromosphere, Kraków, 2024
• Planetario de Madrid, Spain, 2021
• Eugenides Foundation Planetarium, Athens, Greece, 2019
DROWNING
A Fulldome Audiovisual Composition & Performance by Pandelis Diamantides & MAOTIK
DROWNING
A Fulldome Audiovisual Composition & Performance by Pandelis Diamantides &
MAOTIK
“What does it mean to be submerged in a world of infinite motion, data, and environmental collapse?”
Submerged in data, motion, and rising tides, DROWNING asks what it means to feel, perceive, and survive within systems of crisis. Through cymatics, generative visuals, and spatial sound, the dome becomes a vessel of resonance, where ecological anxiety meets sensory overload, and immersion becomes reckoning.
DROWNING is an immersive 360° audiovisual experience that envelops the viewer in the overwhelming sensation of being adrift at sea—alone, suspended, and submerged in a living architecture of sound and image. Created by new media artists Pandelis Diamantides and MAOTIK, the work conjures a space where the boundaries between perception and environment dissolve, and the dome becomes both vessel and vortex.
Developed during a residency at the Eugenides Planetarium in Athens, in collaboration with the Athens Digital Arts Festival, DROWNING submerges its audience in a planetary condition, an ocean of data, disturbance, and disorientation. Here, immersion is not escape but confrontation: with rising tides, shifting climates, and the limits of perception itself. Drawing on cymatics, spatial sound design, and generative visuals, the work evokes the ocean not merely as metaphor but as a medium of resonance, a liquid network of signal and sensation. Frequencies ripple through the space like invisible tides, while sculptural visuals rise and fall with the pressure of sonic depth, immersing the audience in a choreography of vibration.
The narrative is nonlinear but visceral, structured around descending layers of immersion. Each level deepens the audience’s entanglement with the audiovisual environment, what begins as observation becomes absorption, then saturation. You don’t watch DROWNING so much as sink into it.
More than a sensory spectacle, DROWNING questions the politics of immersion in the age of planetary crisis. What are the ethics of feeling in a time of ecological disintegration? How do systems of surveillance, control, and media saturation shape our bodies and consciousness? The dome, once a symbol of cosmic wonder, becomes a pressure chamber, exposing the beauty and terror of life within complex, often invisible infrastructures.
DROWNING is not a passive experience. It is an embodied one, an algorithmic storm that pulses through skin and sensorium alike. As digital waves crash against perceptual limits, the audience is left suspended in a state of sonic ecstasy and existential reflection.
Developed in 2019 during the Extending Reality | CoExistence: Art, Science & Technology residency at the Eugenides Foundation Planetarium in Athens, DROWNING was created in collaboration with the Athens Digital Arts Festival and French digital artist Mathieu Le Sourd (MAOTIK), based on a concept by Pandelis Diamantides.
Selected Performances
• Live at Patchlab Digital Art Festival – Chromosphere, Kraków, 2024
• Planetario de Madrid, Spain, 2021
• Eugenides Foundation Planetarium, Athens, Greece, 2019