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DIMITRI KATSOULI
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Dimitri Katsouli (aka D.K.) is a Greek-Canadian based producer, composer,  sound engineer, acoustic ecologist and conceptual artist, with an interdisciplinary background in contemporary art, new media, sound design, culinary artistry, gastronomy, engineering, architecture, emerging digital technologies and the earth sciences. A techno rebel, massively influenced from Detroit's early sound, to London's underground rave scene. He draws inspiration from diverse fields of interest's, unique narratives, his global journeys into the tapestry of cultural geography and by his dynamic enthusiasm's in the art's, science's and humanities. Katsouli emigrated from Sparta, Greece in 1995, having attended briefly Sparta polytechnic, where  he yielded an active interest in mechanical engineering, electronics, circuit assemblies and pirate radio, an emblem of the Greek underground. Between, 1995-2000, Katsouli engaged the Canadian underground, by way of CBC stereo late night host, Patti Schmidt ( Brave new waves) when the publicly owned and government funded station, was not in question. In 2000, Katsouli attended the Sonic Design Institute, faculty of Art's and social sciences at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where he also studied classical composition, film and architecture. He fostered a friendship and mentorship with influential new media art innovator, futurist scholar-educator, and composer, Michael Bussier. Bussier supported Katsouli with his creative development on a SDI project for the Banff Centre for the Art's in Alberta, Canada, Bussier also acquainted Katsouli for the first time with one of the greatest Canadian thinkers, Media theorist and philosopher, Marshall Mcluhan. A collaboration with the Azrieli school of architecture(2000) materialized his first public installation(PURE) at the early Kosmic avant garde event's in Ottawa, visionary, as it demonstrated how new media technologies can be integrated as design parameters into surreal architecture. Kosmic was voted amongst one of the best underground parties by late night host, David Letterman. First government funded installation he contributed to, was a collaborative futuristic art piece for the Musee art de Montreal (Elements 2007) which involved engineered retrofits for 16 mm film projectors. Katsouli thereafter became critical of the corporate art scene. Katsouli is also a graduate of the prestigious culinary art's institute, Le Cordon Blue de Paris. Between 2005-2007 he also mentored under prominent chef's in Canada and abroad. He was part of the culinary team of the renaissance ball in the recreations of a renaissance dish for the 125th anniversary for the National gallery of  Canada, which was attended by distinguished patrons, partners, and sponsors. His focus shifted to documenting global street food, the politics associated with food security, additionally, involvement in ethical regenerative agriculture, radical methodologies and practice. One of his research interests, focused on bioacoustics and use of scientific tools, extending his involvement in the Acoustic ecology movement, resulting in a number of placements in research stations throughout south America and the Ecaudorian Amazon.  Currently, Katsouli is affiliated with Cornell university's K. Yang centre for conservation bioacoustics, developing acoustic metrics to assess biodiversity and ecosystem health, additionally,  the university of Essex(U.K), focused on advanced object-oriented design and programming.HIs personal interest as a creative remains in new aesthetics, hybrid forms, somewhere between the undercurrents, experimental music, new technologies, conceptual art, sounds, poetics, new media, improvised instrumentation, computation, modern analog and digital techniques. Humanist foremost and utopian, Katsouli remains committed to the field of creativity, the intersection between art, science, techonology and society, conscientious to the fundamental values of freedom, agency, autonomy, democracy, equality, dignity, sustainability and human rights. Modular sound and the SCAPE© label was established in the languid times of 2022.                
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