Maria Paschalidou
Maria Paschalidou
Position: Associate Professor
Academic field: Visual Arts and Moving Image
ΦΕΚ Γ’ 633/22-03-2021
Email: mpaschalidou@uth.gr
Tel.: +30 24210 93049
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Research Interests:
Audiovisual Media – Performativity – Installation – Intermediate art – Politics and Aesthetics
Maria Paschalidou is a visual artist and researcher. Her artistic practice focus on the expanded uses of the photographic medium, video as a practice of post-production, and the politics of visibility and imagination through image, text, and processes of public engagement.
She holds a PhD in Lens-based Media from De Montfort University, UK, where her theoretical and practice-based doctoral research examined the performativity of audiovisual media and the formation of phantasmagoric subjects in public and participatory environments. She also holds an MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago, USA, where her research focused on optical systems of medical monitoring of the human body, while her undergraduate studies were in Economics at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki. As a fellow of the Greek State Scholarships Foundation, she conducted postdoctoral research at the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University, focusing on political loss and the manifestations of public trauma.
She has curated international exhibitions and artistic projects, including Ekecheiria and The Art of Artist Statement (co-curated) in Chicago, as well as the public collective performances Visibility and The Bankorgs in Athens. As academic lead and curator, she also organized Projections in the City, a cultural event that brought audiovisual works and digital art into the public space of Volos through projections onto walls, building façades, projection screens, and other urban surfaces.
Her artwork has been presented in Europe, the United States, Canada, Russia, Australia, and Asia. Her writing includes contributions to Greek and international publications, among others Routledge and Ekkremes. She is also the author of the Greek-language monograph Contextuality and the Politics of Imagination: Aspects of Artistic Research in the Field of Audiovisual Arts (Συγκειμενικότητα και πολιτικές της φαντασίας. Όψεις της καλλιτεχνικής έρευνας στο πεδίο των οπτικοακουστικών τεχνών), published by Disigma in 2025. She is Associate Professor in Visual Arts and Audiovisual Media and Director of the Laboratory of Culture and Digital Media at the Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries, University of Thessaly.
