https://mariliakaisar.com Marilia Kaisar Mon, 09 Jun 2025 23:36:04 +0000 https://mariliakaisar.com en http://mariliakaisar.com/Old-films Mon, 09 Jun 2025 23:36:04 +0000 Marilia Kaisar 457094 http://mariliakaisar.com/Teaching Mon, 09 Jun 2025 22:44:13 +0000 Marilia Kaisar 457093  More  Teaching + Pedagogy thingsss I have experience teaching media studies, digital culture, and practice-based courses.&nbsp;Teaching is an opportunity to create inclusive and equitable learning experiences, with the syllabus as the roadmap. My teaching philosophy highlights my commitment to creativity and independence as cultivators of critical thinking.Can we think, theorize, participate, and engage while making? <img width="2789" height="1046" width_o="2789" height_o="1046" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/09839d6b271cefdd3ec2588aac75333fbcf4be297f7be5ec86fd182ea6ec8b4d/teachingactive.jpg" data-mid="1410144" border="0" />Through carefully structured assignments, curriculums, and activities, I provide students with this space for freedom to become leaders in their learning.&nbsp; I employ a variety of assessment methods: written essays, practice-bases media projects, filmmaking, media analysis, peer reviews, and weekly reflections. I offer opportunities for revising projects and incorporating feedback. Final assignments often take the form of longer scholarly essays, creative portfolios, or final revised projects accompanied by artist statements, emphasizing depth of engagement over memorization.&nbsp;I integrate structured peer review processes, encouraging students to exchange feedback and learn from one another. Through activities like guest speaker research and interviews, I mentored students in conducting independent research and building confidence as scholars. I view mentorship as a way to foster community, critical thought, and independence among learners. Some courses I have taught before are :&nbsp; Introduction to Media TheoryHow can we think about and with different forms of media and communication technologies? This introductory course in media theory is designed to offer&nbsp; a foundation in media theory by exploring different media and their effects, both through theory and practice. The course is organized thematically, focusing on different media each week.&nbsp; Experimenting with Small File MediaThis workshop-style production class, experiments with the concept of small file media. Massive files and digital trash fill up our hard drives and the data clouds. What are environmental impacts of media consumption ? How can we create with less space, smaller resolutions and less data ? This class offers the opportunity to experiment with making films and media works that can travel light on the Internet. Leave your giant hard drives at home and let’s experiment with the politics and aesthetics of low resolutions. The course focuses on developing a film and supporting materials to submit in a film festibal while exploring the aesthetics, politics, and environmental ethics of small media films.Humans and Machines, A HistoryThis course explores how humans and machines have interacted, become intertwined, and opposed one another throughout history, from the Paleolithic era to the present. Through a variety of texts (theory, philosophy, theater, visual art, instruction manuals, films, advertisements, and podcasts), we discuss how machines can enable, inhibit, and control their users in a variety of contexts. Students also have the chance to apply historically grounded knowledge to propose technological solutions to contemporary problems. Co-designed with faculty and grads from UCSC for the Humanizing Technology certificate. Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Designed in Summer 2022, Implemented in Academic year 2022-2023 &nbsp; Pedagogy in Film and Digital Media &nbsp;This course prepares graduates students for teaching assistantships and instructor roles in the Film and Digital Media Department. The structure of the class considers how/when you will encounter different elements of teaching and grading throughout the academic quarters. Throughout the quarter we will dive deeper intoequitable and inclusive teaching practices, active learning practices for classrooms that can be online, in-person, or hybrid, and how to transition from one to another smoothly. Other topics include designing inclusive course syllabi and lesson plans, teaching technologies, and classroom environment.Some courses I would loveeee to teach are:&nbsp; Techno-Intimacies: Desire, Technology and Affect Essay Film: Hybrid Forms and Media Critique Experimental Environmental MediaVirtual Unrealities: Virtuality, Embodiment and Presence&nbsp;Body-media&nbsp;Film and Architecture I &lt;3 being a teaching fellow and have done it many times:&nbsp; Summer GSI Pedagogy Peer Support Team Fellowship Description: supporting Graduate Instructors as they teach courses for the first time Teaching and Learning Center, UCSC ($2500), Summer 2024 Humanizing Technology Peer Mentor Fellowship Description: supporting Humanizing Technology fellows as they redesign course syllabi. The Humanities Institute, UCSC, ($2500 mentor award), Summer 2023 Graduate Pedagogy Fellowship, Description: participated in a quarter-long program to facilitating professional development for graduate student educators in my departments TLC( Teaching and Learning Center), UCSC, ($2000 award) Spring 2023 NEH Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellowship, Description: collaborated with faculty and graduate students to design the Humanizing Technology certificate, National Endowment for the Humanities, UCSC, ($5000 award and teaching a course), Summer 2022 I also got some $$$ to develop a mentoring program for graduate student teachers in my department: Program Lead and Facilitator, FDM Pedagogy Peer Mentoring Program, Description: established a peer mentoring program for Teaching Assistants in the department to gather and disseminate strategies for equitable teaching,Film and Digital Media Department, USCS, 2023-2024 The University of the Future Now! Grant, Arts Division DEI Funding ($3000 towards the development of the pedagogy peer mentoring program), Winter 2024 Small Pedagogy Grant, Teaching and Learning Center, UCSC ($5000 for the establishment of a the pedagogy peer mentoring program, 2023-2024 Certifications/ Trainings Ungrading Learning Community TLC (Teaching and Learning Center), UCSC, Winter 2025 Pedagogical Leadership Certificate, TLC( Teaching and Learning Center), UCSC, Spring 2023 Course Design and Delivery Certificate, CITL (Center of Innovation in Teaching and Learning), UCSC, Spring 2022 Teaching Disciplinary Writing Certificate, CITL (Center of Innovation in Teaching and Learning), UCSC, Winter 2021  More  Teaching + Pedagogy thingsss I have experience teaching media studies, digital culture, and practice-based courses.&nbsp;Teaching is an... http://mariliakaisar.com/What-s-new Tue, 07 Sep 2021 07:25:51 +0000 Marilia Kaisar 411518 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; More News+ Updates&nbsp; What am I working on right now ? My upcoming book project F*cking with the Virtual thinking about cybersex through &nbsp; teledildonics, sexting, dating apps, VR porn, and the erotic space of the computer room.Editing Image, Church, Island about the island of Tinos and the virtual image of Virgin Mary with coolaborators Pavlin Ploumbidi and Yiannis LefasEditing Becoming Cybersexual and sharing it widely in film festivals&nbsp;I am currently in the job market ! Hire me for your department :) Upcoming talks/workshops/art:&nbsp; Presenting “Cybersex as Embodied Media Practice” in 4S 2025 Reverbarations, in Seattle WA: Sept 3-6, 2025. Sponsored by NSF Travel Grant.&nbsp;...Coming soon... publications:&nbsp; Kaisar, Marilia. “An Interview with Ariane Cruz,” in Handbook of Adult Film and Media, eds. Peter Alilunas, Patrick Keilty, Darshana Mini, Intellect Press. Kaisar, Marilia. “A Monumental Slap,” in Women and Violence in Greek Cinema, ed. Tonia Kazakopoulou, Edinburgh University Press. Old News :I did an interview for the Scholar Spotlight on Humanities Network. Here you can read what I think about research, pedagogy, technology and more.&nbsp; Participated in the Flaherty Seminar as an Online Fellow, from June 16-23, 2023, sponsored by the UCSC Center for Documentary Arts and ResearchParticipated in the School of X and presenting my dissertation project “F*cking with the Virtual” at XCOAX 2023. In Weimar, Germany July 5, 2023 <img width="981" height="600" width_o="981" height_o="600" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/63c16c890daeec56b616027a48b7fb2d7904d0a9663f1c161990d8182f0b96c9/Picture-2.png" data-mid="1121536" border="0" /> <img width="4075" height="6024" width_o="4075" height_o="6024" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/bf0d4a42ea2a211ab79224ef65daca608802bef905edb932861eaa3da04f8812/KelainoFlyer.jpg" data-mid="1121546" border="0" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/abb0cf6d91fa6f80ea9986ec49211b44d26aec5ea267a69c6f4ac859509d1b54/2022---Film-120----Summer-Session-Course-Flyer-Instagram-Post.jpeg" data-mid="1190753" border="0" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; More News+ Updates&nbsp; What am I... http://mariliakaisar.com/Ithaca Thu, 20 Sep 2018 11:32:08 +0000 Marilia Kaisar 289426 Ithaca Ithaca http://mariliakaisar.com/landscape Sat, 19 May 2018 20:09:21 +0000 Marilia Kaisar 271233 Architecture  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Projects&nbsp; Revive the stream&nbsp; AUTH Year: 2013 Supervisors: Ananiadou-Tzimopoulou M., Tratsela M. Collaborator: Eleni PapantoniouThis project aims to revive Hortatzis stream, in the center of Thessaloniki that extents between Sheikh Su and Ag.Dimitriou street. It is one of the remaining open streams of town, an active lung of the city and one of the last public spaces in the city. The distinctive rocky terrain and the difference between the natural and urban landscape were important elements that were preserved in the synthetic process. The dynamic element of the wall, a rigorous limit that ensures the ravishing nature of the stream and its anarchical growth from the integration of the city became really important to us and we decided to retain in through our design. During the design process a central element was a game between the limits of urban and natural landscape, which&nbsp; was established through the creation of transitional spaces that constantly transform, enabling a continuous game between the stream and the city, the natural and the urban, freedom and organization. <img width="1400" height="725" width_o="1400" height_o="725" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/48f05c1873cbec88dbcea3fb5a584a923f1e6558117d3df57e40e281d4056c82/1ba25b52258493.590a4d3d2ae6b.jpg" data-mid="449425" border="0" /> <img width="1400" height="990" width_o="1400" height_o="990" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/a317bb608be7dca059dbfaa4173786b9789372c91f9928880de525542ccb368c/b9df6452258493.590a4d3d2a345.png" data-mid="449424" border="0" /> <img width="1400" height="990" width_o="1400" height_o="990" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/c60ce56105d6a19ab0d1fe7f791b88a1c2c732ca5b741560d22c3d5b220d05ac/39efc352258493.590a4d3d2a80b.jpg" data-mid="449422" border="0" /><img width="1400" height="990" width_o="1400" height_o="990" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/c9f140e6cd3d493acbe4c12ae9ccfc17ae17e82fa04551ed9d72da3222af80e7/fbb6ce52258493.590a4d3d29918.jpg" data-mid="449426" border="0" /> <img width="1400" height="667" width_o="1400" height_o="667" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/d64b60de6c8d1daf7cb2c5a1bff93838ed488d1edab72c1444ce4ac3736ef55b/e4abf452258493.590a4d3d2abe7.jpg" data-mid="449423" border="0" /><img width="1400" height="292" width_o="1400" height_o="292" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/f346d2fec291e69e64187b9006f4deef1d225486a67c6df06945b1612e1566b5/6fb2b152258493.590a4d3d2a0c5.jpg" data-mid="449427" border="0" /> Architecture  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;... http://mariliakaisar.com/stairway-of-dramatic-movement Sat, 19 May 2018 20:09:07 +0000 Marilia Kaisar 271232 Architecture  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Projects&nbsp; Theater School_ A Stairway of dramatic movement&nbsp;AUTH Year: 2012-2013 Supervisors: Alexopoulou A., Martinidis P. Collaborators: Anastasia Tzioutziou Michaela Christou This project is&nbsp; a school of theater and performing arts thatincludes an experimental theater for the students and the general public.The area of the intervention is a small lot inside the citycenter of Thessaloniki, near one of the few empty urban spaces of the city. The design program required all educational facilities, anexperimental theater and&nbsp; other spaces to host different functions such as dance classes, offices etc. A fundamental choice for synthesis was not to fully cover the ground floor, but to maintain a patio, a gap in the center of the school, that will form a square for the neighborhooand the students. The functions of the school of drama arespread in the volumes that revolve around the atrium. <img width="1400" height="879" width_o="1400" height_o="879" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/1862c07bd5e856ea70bf04c672655fbd24c3ad9f0c1c68ee405b11db2f2b0d38/41feb652258741.590a4f579b40c.jpg" data-mid="449413" border="0" /><img width="1400" height="1020" width_o="1400" height_o="1020" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/92fe5459cbcc5027abde99124ebd10f388ef584585fbf94489647e4e6c3c6657/1d152152258741.590a4f579bea8.jpg" data-mid="449412" border="0" /><img width="1400" height="1121" width_o="1400" height_o="1121" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/4d5cecb50cf2eadcd73b175655f678fc50069d2b49c6af066448b0d0bafce865/9a6f0352258741.590a4f5799835.jpg" data-mid="449409" border="0" /><img width="1200" height="576" width_o="1200" height_o="576" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/18b21e2520dfc075834dcc6fe28d9a156d76460cdd5dacb385b884f3376bf292/81191752258741.590a4f579aec5.jpg" data-mid="449410" border="0" /><img width="1400" height="927" width_o="1400" height_o="927" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/16ddaf165e4be371c946af8c8076e01c10d73a3cf958cf533ef669ab957d39f7/0c336f52258741.590a4f579a66a.jpg" data-mid="449414" border="0" /> Architecture  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;... http://mariliakaisar.com/escape-in-free-space Sat, 19 May 2018 20:08:51 +0000 Marilia Kaisar 271231 Architecture  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Projects&nbsp; Escape in free space&nbsp; AUTH Year : 2013 Supervisors: Spyridonidis K., Moras A. Collaborator: Angelina Christoforidou This urban planning project is trying to create a new way of communal living, based in the organization of smaller neighborhood communities and the support of the resident’s familiarization with public space. Through design gestures the residents are infuenced to perform their main leisure activities in the central open space of the new neighborhood. The residential buildingsare organized in front of the roads, but at the same time in a circular arrangement creating a hug that defines the public space in the center of neighborhood. Then public space is being bisected by the central&nbsp; pedestrian ways that determine the individual neighborhoods. Organically designed routes define the difference between public space functions such as workplaces, game, culture, leisure. The space is definedand reinforced with blocks placed in a way to resemble cellular structures,hosting the functions of the public space and making the space easier and friendlier to use. <img width="1400" height="1125" width_o="1400" height_o="1125" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/a348b170d50ce0bb287e36c1eec5fca381220ed55c2f377017218e55bdbc87c4/545e6452258385.590a4c5c4bbdb.jpg" data-mid="449434" border="0" /><img width="1400" height="2044" width_o="1400" height_o="2044" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/23e47acc2fc8907a7d14a2e01bb3638f801fc6b7c4465b59517ee4c4b52c1473/4a14ca52258385.590a4c5c4f148.jpg" data-mid="449432" border="0" /><img width="1400" height="381" width_o="1400" height_o="381" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/a62b404f8147d92188483139a1db9637a92dfc466bdd79321edf90d7f6cdce15/b570e752258385.590a4c5c4d0a5.jpg" data-mid="449435" border="0" /><img width="1400" height="1050" width_o="1400" height_o="1050" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/f92cfa083f76d2a5fa729fa9f370c395a6c73ba958f53502f7c24cf416a0cce1/3eb91152258385.590a4c5c4c8c7.jpg" data-mid="449430" border="0" /><img width="1400" height="1467" width_o="1400" height_o="1467" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/43d2c154b0536250683f0f87c9fb23827d747d50a74edcdb1d2ee8d0c8873a18/9ef3ca52258385.590a4c5c4c250.jpg" data-mid="449433" border="0" /><img width="1400" height="1787" width_o="1400" height_o="1787" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/aa66c1781d419493014a95b7afb8f277dff59a6bb5b8b957de71a8570ce7716b/4c74ab52258385.590a4c5c4e808.jpg" data-mid="449431" border="0" /> Architecture  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;... http://mariliakaisar.com/Erotic-Environments Sat, 19 May 2018 20:08:35 +0000 Marilia Kaisar 271230 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; More Erotic Environments (2015) This project was developed as my final design diploma project during my architectural studies.&nbsp; Is there such a thing as an erotic space? Can a spatial gesture influence or support erotic action? Why do erotic environments occur impromptu without being designed ? Erotic Environments is an investigation on how eroticism and space intersect and meet one another.The erotic experience is based equally on all senses. A malleable impermanent structure, an inflatable installation moves and turns between the columns, creating a sensual route. The design re-appropriates an abandoned concrete structure that was initially designed to be a hospital and has been left as an empty and incomplete frame. Architectural design is used as a storytelling device, setting up a sequence of sensory experiences. The aim of this playful and highly performative bodily experience is loss of control, misperception of reality, sensual awakening and playful release in order to be set vulnerable in this new erotic space. <img width="1181" height="709" width_o="1181" height_o="709" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/32bd634717b1b41824dd508e6c7a3f1a31f978f393576bc222fd375cf6cc74f0/13.jpg" data-mid="449724" border="0" />Part 1_The eroticism of the senses The erotic experience is based on the senses. Within the erotic we rediscover the senses we have the tendency to forget our optical world. The eroticism of the senses is hosted in an abandoned building inside the Aristotl University of Thessaloniki, an abandoned hospital that was never finished and remains a huge concrete ghost building till today. The idea of the eroticism of the senses transforms into a soft inflatable installation, that could be moved anywhere in the world, a soft and sensual space that moves ad turns between the concrete columns of the cold existing building, creating a sensual route inside it. The visitor will discover a bodily experience inside space, lose control and perception of the reality, awaken his senses, and free from all the stereotypes and social misconceptions, he will be set vulnerable in this new erotic space. Through strongly opposed experiences and an unexpected route in an uncommon environment, he will be set freefrom his misconceptions and discover a new perception.Walking through a range of spaces that aim to energize his senses, he will discover the new erotic. At the same time h will be experiencing the city and his surroundings through the prism of the inflatable red installation. The magic of abandonment and the sense of despotism and cruel nature of the building, convert it into a startlingscene where a sensual experience can take place. By placing, a red inflatavle installation in such a building, a new experience is created for the visitor, while the ghost buildingtransforms from a haunted skeleton in an interesting element of the city. <img width="1301" height="1159" width_o="1301" height_o="1159" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/c774655a9e4003b435c1c094f2007318d6a57d6c241f6718c439f137081b0c35/9.jpg" data-mid="449727" border="0" /><img width="5906" height="1181" width_o="5906" height_o="1181" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/ebcdcc0b13e10ba432ab24ed5ec9a65a5dce548577639ef9a83efd03824f8435/category2section2-2.jpg" data-mid="449753" border="0" /><img width="1260" height="261" width_o="1260" height_o="261" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/8771deef69f657e7dd0b650522862429bf3af25e86870d229acc400b58d63906/sensestomi1.jpg" data-mid="449764" border="0" /><img width="1181" height="292" width_o="1181" height_o="292" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/991c46b454e02f820bfcfb41444d34062023ab011c9ad44afb76015dabc554ee/category3insideinstallation2.jpg" data-mid="449759" border="0" /><img width="1181" height="291" width_o="1181" height_o="291" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/808962309f304b25977dabc3bb2235ba5ff1678974427351f6e0beb62b86cb01/sensesprooptiko1.jpg" data-mid="449768" border="0" /> <img width="768" height="600" width_o="768" height_o="600" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/9a748be0a8e5ba60f58b9fd47f1396e3f3f173e1d42aea31cfa0e0eae4b7e476/11.jpg" data-mid="449722" border="0" /> Part2_The eroticism of the mask and the veil as a game of hide and seek <img width="1181" height="835" width_o="1181" height_o="835" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/d7e0c133c82868a3c980342ad67052ad9caddd7f6792ce05cdf31209f88993db/eroticismofthemaskillustration.jpg" data-mid="449749" border="0" /> The eroticism of the mask and the veil was placed at the former erotic hotel Ariston. In the grounds of an old sex hotel takes place a vertical route, that aims to the gradual release to the pleasures of eroticism. Among veils and shadows, behind the mirrors, the visitor undresses from social constraints and becomes someone else as if wearing a mask to rediscover himself inside a new experience. The erotic experience at the Hotel Ariston will be set up within the open floor plans, within a route of thematic elevation, with the help of the ladder, through which a variety of spaces will lead to sexual freedom. Through a series of transitional spaces, which allow the elimination of stress, loss of control, play, etc., visitors are prepared mentally and physically to experience the erotic acts, which takes place on the top floors of the hotel. The visitor experiences a rise in order to find release, through the different spaces on his way. <img width="1400" height="2096" width_o="1400" height_o="2096" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/68927562b275fd1c3396cbbad471db736ff2f4963921296ce692eb58386e4e7d/16.jpg" data-mid="449726" border="0" /><img width="1400" height="2734" width_o="1400" height_o="2734" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/7c99116b8dd5fb9ea88c86b40242a318b4c4bef43b39b791a8c9b04dbf268f40/15.jpg" data-mid="449730" border="0" /><img width="1792" height="737" width_o="1792" height_o="737" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/31444c0c57bcc5d2d0d1366c952257f9c45ab19f5261a73c8044ec9eccb34cec/ariston.jpg" data-mid="449743" border="0" /> Part3_The eroticism of nature <img width="1181" height="835" width_o="1181" height_o="835" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/7a95f6448593c18d9912657e29f5addbfc25267ef5ac848195be4bae30dfcb00/eroticismofnature.jpg" data-mid="449755" border="0" /> The eroticism of the nature or the garden of hedonism was an extensive conceptual research. The worship of nature (as a deity), has always been associated with Dionysian ceremonies that lead to sexual orgies. Our very nature (as animals) is the one that leads us to reproduction. Eroticism is a result of the need to reproduce, while in turn the nature is characterized by a love magic, balance and serenity. Nature enchants the senses and awakens the eroticism with her simplicity. After extensive research, the concept of the labyrinth was chosen because of the special and interesting semiotics that characterizes it since antiquity. The research process resulted in some preliminary design investigations for a garden of pleasures that would take the form of a labyrinth in the forest of Sheikh Sou, inspired by medieval labyrinths of love and the legend of the Minotaur. The labyrinth research and design investigations were also applied in the two previous categories. <img width="1772" height="633" width_o="1772" height_o="633" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/10c308b948aba7895acbc2d0b76ac722e466f03750e7fd1d309db26a5d94d999/category1thelabyrinth.jpg" data-mid="449747" border="0" /> <img width="1142" height="583" width_o="1142" height_o="583" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/012af10960bca575018f2094fffa9979e5a967174e2bd144a968aa220dd02c21/category1thelabyrinth2.jpg" data-mid="449744" border="0" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; More Erotic Environments (2015) ... http://mariliakaisar.com/Contact Wed, 16 May 2018 00:00:17 +0000 Marilia Kaisar 270643 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; More  Contact&nbsp; If you want to ask a question don’t hesitate to email me at&nbsp; kaisarmarilia(at)gmail.com You can find my resume here&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Thanks for stopping by !&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; More  Contact&nbsp; If you... http://mariliakaisar.com/Starter-page Tue, 15 May 2018 22:01:16 +0000 Marilia Kaisar 270629 News&nbsp; More Contact Dr. Marilia Kaisar is a scholar and filmmaker from Greece. She holds a PhD in Film and Digital Media with a designated emphasis in Visual Studies from UC Santa Cruz. In her previous lives she has been a film critic, an architect, a sex collumnist and a ballerina. Her experimental research practice focuses on desire, technology, affect and virtuality, using the body as a nexus point. &nbsp; She also holds a Diploma of Architecture (2015) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and a Master’s in Media Studies from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (2018).    &nbsp; News&nbsp; More Contact Dr. Marilia Kaisar is a scholar and filmmaker from Greece. She holds a PhD in Film and Digital Media with a designated emphasis in...