Papachristou Dana
Academic Scholar
Personal Webpages: https://akooocollective.wordpress.com/, https://danapapachristou.blogspot.com/
Research interests: Sculpture – Installations – Aesthetics and politics of materials – Art and public space – Economy and production techniques of the material object
Art theorist and sound artist focusing on the combination of arts with the use of new media and interactivity. Her studies include music, musicology, and media studies. She holds a PhD from Paris 8-Vincennes-St. Denis and the Ionian University on Aesthetics of New Media Arts. She has been involved in interdisciplinary research projects on contemporary music, sound composition and the relationship between sound and other artistic forms, and has participated in many visual, sound and geo-locative projects. She is a founding member of Akoo.o artistic team, in which she works on the composition of sound/audio walks using new geo-locative media technologies. She is also the director of the research centre To Aesthate, which operates as a platform for artistic production and creation. She is currently teaching in the dept. of Culture, Creative media and Industries at the University of Thessaly, and was a visiting scholar at the California Institute of Arts, CalArts in the academic year 2021-22. She is post doctoral researcher at the Ionian University, in the PEARL Research Lab, focusing on performance, body and machine interaction through motion sensors and live coding.
