Based in Cyprus, Andreas Pieris is a contemporary Cypriot artist and consultant recognized for his profound, mixed-media paintings and rigorous conceptual investigations into identity as a systemic construct. Identity as Data and System Pieris's signature artistic project, "Systems of Self," treats identity not as a passive, linear story but as an AI-driven, post-human archive. This ongoing exploration views human memory and personal history as data / a collection of interconnected, glitching loops and computational processes. The very action of creation is seen as a disciplined, computational moment where physical impulses and visual imagination converge. His aesthetic realizes the notion that "IDENTITY IS NOT A STORY." He crafts rich, abstract compositions by fusing unconventional industrial materials as vehicles for formal exploration and provoked coincidence, reflecting the digital noise, systemic errors, and programmed decay inherent in contemporary self-perception. The Glitch Ritual The process itself functions as both a performative act and a personal spiritual ritual. Pieris transforms the traditional act of drawing and painting into a process of meditation—a vital, feedback-driven conversation between the medium (the 'code') and the artist (the 'processor'). This connection enables the visual output of the project to serve as a high-fidelity status report, where the mantra "DECAY IS A FORM OF TRUTH" is visibly executed. The "Systems of Self" project, therefore, is an archive that investigates the boundaries of the self using the logic of the machine, transforming personal experience into data and data into abstract, evocative art.