Stamatis Hamouzas is a Balkan artist-investigator with a background in environmental toxicology and media arts currently pursuing his MFA at UCLA’s Design|Media Arts program. His focus is on scrutinizing the propensity within human culture to exert dominance over that which we view as ‘Other’, whether the working class, the environment, or machines. His current work focuses on U.S. Superfund sites, reconstructing them in immersive 360° environments and analyzing the communication strategies used regarding environmental hazards. His investigations seek to unravel the tangled web of interests and language that perpetuate systems such as the military industrial complex, disaster capitalism, and extractivism. Additionally researching various forms of non-human intelligence in the ecological and technological worlds. Ultimately to shed light on our mindset towards the environment and shift away from a human centric ideology. He seeks to reformulate these issues to make them more comprehensible in the hopes to empower and advocate for affected entities.