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Hey! I'm Arden

Nice to make your acquaintance and welcome to my corner of this website (called dibs as I run it).

Here you will find some of my most recent projects, proudest moments, and my biggest inspirations.

This page also has links to the writing corner.

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CH; 1999
Ita, Eng, Deu

@ardentherat

Note: I love writing my thoughts in the margins, colorful tabs sticking out left and right, top and bottom.

This page offers a soundscape I recorded as a part of an art installation developed in 2022 at UZH in the context of intermedial translations

If you wish to experience it, start the player to the right.

This page also has other interactive elements, have fun!

Passeggiata LeopardianaA.B.

[what's been] on my mind.

Hermeneutics of Self

Fresh off my thesis in theoretical Philosophy at UZH, I am not done ruminating on Ricoeur's seminal work "Oneself as Another".

I still wonder about its relation to Wagoner's 1999 "Lost".

Disco Elysium

To say this is a masterpiece is to say all and nothing about this game. Insightful, I would rather not spoil it for those that still have not had the time to play it (I know there is a lot reading involved). If you have played it, let's chat!

Affordances

The concept in general is (af)fascinanting. Great jump off point to question what the symbolic, so everpresent in our language, adds functionally to the base program of things - and if and how this would speak for or against scientific reductionism.

[For fellow Arcane enjoyers, I suspect the fundamental approach that Viktor had to the arcane was inspired by MUI theory]

Be/Hold's New album

Ficticious soundtrack to an appalachian based horror scifi tabletop, the experimental notes of this work blend seamlessly into the folk typical of the region. I suggest a listen on a night drive.

[SOME RECENT PROJECTS]

aka what I have been up to.
Every project I develop, especially every costume I make, is a love letter to some aspect of my life, a journey of acceptance and gratitude. More on each can be found in the writing corner.

Emily

The corpse bride Victorian design

Sword of Samael

Warhammer 40k

Connecting in Poetry is meeting a stranger that is you.

Research paper on the relationship of poetics and reading UZH HS 23 [access writing corner.]

Megurine Luka

Racing 2017 Vocaloid

Passeggiata Leopardiana

Research paper on Intermedial transaltions, UZH HS22 Mixed media, canvas 100x100 Soundscape

Arcane: League of Legends

My hands are definitely less agile than they once were, which is bittersweet.

On the other hand, circumstance is teaching me to appreciate every step of creation, and I cannot say to have been a patient crafter in the past.

FUN FACT: I am a big fan of indie analog horror, fiction podcasts, and ARGs

bio

brief bio.

Coming from an artistically inclined patchwork family, I discovered cosmaking in 2013 and have been making things chaotically ever since.

Despite my deep love for theatre and musicals, I have found my voice in reading - and writing, which, some may argue, is just reading out.

You can find some of my scribbles in the writing corner. section of this website.

I attended HS at Liceo Cantonale di Locarno, where I did a bilingual Matura (ita/deu) specialising in Latin and Ancient Greek, but ended up writing my LaM in English (gothic) lit.

2024 I graduated UZH with Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and General and Comparative Literature, with a thesis in theoretical Philosophy on the concept of Personal Identity. I am currently attending a Master's program in the same fields.

awards.

Here is a selection of my proudest moments of the last few years.

You can find more on them in the competition catalogue!

TO THE CATALOGUE

contact.

I am usually pretty inactive on social media.

For queeries related to that please get into contact with Lemon (elenatsygourovamua@gmail.com).

For all other matters and questions feel free to reach out to arden.okonomicos@gmail.com

or write me an email directly