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Clay
A simple, portable paste extruder of my own design, built to print clay on any machine. The research became BinaryCeramics.
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Artist / Maker
Athens --:--
Yiannis Vogdanis
I build the machines
that make the work.
Computational ceramics, custom clay printers, kinetic light and interactive objects, made between craft, design and science. Founder of BinaryCeramics.
01 Studio
Athens · porcelain & stoneware · since the first clay print in 2018
BinaryCeramics
Forms shaped by algorithm, made real in clay. BinaryCeramics is my studio in Athens. I design ceramic forms as systems of rules, and I design and build the printers and extruders that make them.
“Binary” is the zero and one behind the code, and also the tension the work lives in: digital and physical, machine precision and material plasticity, control and emergence.
- 01 Limited editions & one-offs
- 10 Self-built clay printers & extruders
- 11 Commissions for interiors & hospitality
Tornado
Rotation, warm and cold air, a simple rule that becomes a storm.
Wave
A record of waves, each set slightly different from the last.
Dash
How much complexity can a few simple rules produce?
Intersect
One continuous line that crosses itself into separate volumes.
Frequency
Sound, analysed and encoded into a ceramic surface.
10 Work
Work
00010
Playball
64 suspended spheres, each a wireless module with collision detection and light. When one ball hits another, the light is passed on.
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00011
Eyes
Images of an eye, hidden in the spinning platter of a hard disk. They appear only when you stand at the right distance.
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00100
Dystopian Places
A mask that restricts your breathing to match the oxygen levels of real hypoxic "dead zones" in the world's waters.
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00101
Plotter
A drawing machine whose mechanism hides behind dark glass. Only the paper and a magnetic pen head that dances across it are visible.
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00110
Obsession
An interactive sculpture that balances on a single point and rotates freely, with its sensors and microcontroller hidden inside the body.
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pyDrum
A capacitive MIDI controller in oak and copper. Eight domes sense the touch of a hand, and it is small enough to travel with.
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01000
Wheel
Copper discs etched with dense concentric patterns. One sector of each is left out of the pattern and treated differently.
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01001
Modules
Triangular copper containers that connect with magnets and recombine into flat bands, open stars or interlocking volumes.
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01010
Bronze
A torso cast in bronze with the lost-wax process, then finished again and again in a series of patinas.
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01011
Scrap
Small works made from workshop leftovers, including offcuts of steel and aluminium, steel wool, rusted sheet and resin.
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01100
Balance
Four pairs of metallic elements, held in balance by magnets. Without an external force they would keep balancing forever.
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01101
Bird
An outdoor sculpture in balancing steel. A curved arm on a single point turns with the wind and aligns itself with its direction.
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01110
Inks
Macro photographs of ink dropped into water, unfolding into plumes and veils before it dissolves.
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Drops
High-speed photographs of falling water, including the crown, the column and the splash.
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Exsnia
Light, rust and collapse inside an abandoned factory in Rome.
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After the Stars
Night skies, canyons and waterfalls from a road trip through Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, Horseshoe Bend and Big Sur.
View project- 16.02.2024 Athens Voice Γιάννης Βογδάνης: Κεραμικά από ένα -άμεσο- μέλλονCeramics from an immediate future
- 09.05.2023 LiFO Κεραμικά και 3D printing, η νέα τάσηCeramics and 3D printing, the new trend
- 11.01.2023 Shoutout Miami Meet Yiannis Vogdanis — Multidisciplinary Artist
- 19.12.2022 Adorno Binary Simplicity in the Dash Collection
