Antonis Danos
Associate Professor
antonis.danos@cut.ac.cy
25002553
Dr. Antonis Danos has a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy (Southeast Missouri State University), a Post-graduate Diplora in the History of Art and Architecture (University of East Anglia), and a Master’s and a PhD in the History and Theory of Art, both from the University of Essex. Between 2002 and 2007, he worked in Cypriot higher education institutions, and from 2007, at Cyprus University of Technology, teaching and researching in History and Theory of Art.
He is a member of the following academic bodies: Association for Art History (UK), Modern Greek Studies Association (USA), College Art Association (USA), AICA Hellas, Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (UK), Mediterranean Studies Association (USA), and the Association of Greek Art Historians [EEIT] (Greece).
His research has focused on Nationalism and [Post]Colonialism, on the ideological and aesthetic constructions of collective identities, on Modern Greek art and Contemporary Cypriot art, on art criticism and historiography, as well as on aspects of gender and sexuality in art. He has published in the areas of Modern Greek and Contemporary Cypriot art and culture in general, in academic journals, in edited volumes, a two-volume book, texts in several monographs on Cypriot artists, as well as the experimental documentary Christoforos Savva, 1924-1968 (2011). He has designed and curated exhibitions on modern and contemporary Cypriot art, in Cyprus, Greece, the UK, and Turkey. More recently, his research and publications focus on the Mediterranean as a cultural and ideological 'space', against hegemonic, neo-colonial discourses.
Research
Art History and Theory Research Lab:
The main aim of the Art History and Theory Research Lab is the establishment and maintenance of an environment that encourages encounters, debates and the formulation of research proposals and theoretical exchanges, and which constitutes a framework within to produce bibliographical and other material, in relation to research-theoretical fields, as detailed below.
The lab’s activity centres on research for the production of text-based and audio-visual material, which concerns:
modern and contemporary Cypriot culture, focusing on the arts.
theoretical discourses on contemporary arts.
theories of nationalism, post-colonialism and globalization, focusing on the place of the arts in the globalised environment, and on the role of the arts in the formation or subversion of national and other collective, as well as individual, identities.
the Mediterranean, as physical and symbolic space of/for anti-hegemonic discourse and praxis.
The lab’s production includes, among others, the completion of doctoral dissertations, as well as the development of collaborations, including the attraction of funding from sources outside the university, with the aim of multimedia work production.
Research Programmes:
CDCD – Contested Desires: Constructive Dialogues creative space for democratic conversations about the heritage of colonialism. 2024-2026
European Education and Culture Executive Agency. Associate Partner (Art History & Theory Research Lab)
Popular University in Community Psychology: well-being through art. 2017-2019
Erasmus+ programme – Adult Education (via the State Scholarships Foundation [IKY], Greece). Representative of partner organization (Dept. of Fine Arts – Cyprus Univ. of Technology)
RESTORE: Computer-Based Restoration of Faces Appearing in Icons. 2011-2013
Funded by the National Research Promotion Foundation [Cyprus] and by the European Structural Funds. Member of the Research Team. Consortium: Dept. of Multimedia and Graphic Arts, Cyprus University of Technology
Publications
International Journals and Edited Volumes (refereed):
Antonis Danos, “Andreas Karayan's pioneering, queer counter-discourse in 20th-century Cypriot art”. WhatEver: A Transdisciplinary Journal of Theories and Studies, Vol. 7, n. 1 (2024):203-226. https://whatever.cirque.unipi.it/index.php/journal/article/view/216/109
Antonis Danos, “The oeuvre of Georgios Pol. Georgiou: eclecticism, native 'primitivism', and cosmopolitanism in the 'periphery' as 'other' modernism” [in Greek]. In Areti Adamopoulou, Lia Yioka, Konstantinos I. Stephanis, eds, Istoria tis Technis: Issues of History, Methodology, and Historiography (Athens: Association of Greek Art Historians / Gutenberg, 2019): 441-459.
Antonis Danos, “Mediterranean Modernisms: The art of Cypriot Artist Christoforos Savva”. In Yasser Elhariry and Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, eds, Critically Mediterranean: Temporalities, Aesthetics, and Deployments of a Sea in Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018): 77-110.
Antonis Danos, “Idealist ‘grand visions’, from Nikolaos Gyzis to Konstantinos Parthenis: the unacknowledged symbolist roots of Greek modernism”, in Michelle Facos and Thor Mednick eds., Reassessing the Symbolist Roots of Modernism (Ashgate, 2015): 11-22.
Klitsa Antoniou and Antonis Danos, “'Writing Trauma:' Giving Voice to a Wound that Seems to Defy Representation, in Contemporary Cypriot Art”. intervalla:platform for intellectual exchange 2, "Trauma, Abstraction, and Creativity" (2014): 34-54. http://www.fus.edu/intervalla/volume-2-trauma-abstraction-and-creativity/34
Antonis Danos, “Hybrid Landscapes and Soundscapes, and the Ideologies of Borders”, in Denise Robinson, ed., Through the Roadblocks: Realities in Raw Motion (Limassol, 2014):187-194.
Antonis Danos, “Twentieth-Century Greek Cypriot Art: An 'Other' Modernism on the Periphery”. Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 32, n. 2 (October 2014):217-252. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2014.0050
Antonis Danos, “The Little Black Fish: Experiencing Place, Homeland, and Identity in an Exhibition of Contemporary Cypriot art”. Kunapipi [Journal of Postcolonial Writing & Culture], vol. 33, nos 1-2 (2011):247-266. [https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1502&context=kunapipi]
Antonis Danos, “Nikolaos Gyzis’s The Secret School and an Ongoing National Discourse”. Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, vol. 1, n. 2 (Autumn 2002): http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/index.php/autumn02/258-nikolaos-gyziss-the-secret-school-and-an-ongoing-national-discourse.
Antonis Danos, “The culmination of aesthetic and artistic discourse in 19th-century Greece: Periklis Yannopoulos and Nikolaos Gyzis”. Journal of Modern Greek Studies, vol. 20, n. 1 (May 2002):75-112 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2002.0005].
Books – Monographs & Chapters:
Antonis Danos, “The Bitter Lemons of Cyprus: Lawrence Durrell’s poetic-imperialist musings in the (colonial) Mediterranean” [in Greek]. In Nikos Daskalothanasis, ed., History and Theory of Art: In Honour of Niki Loizide (Athens: futura Publications, in collaboration with the Dept. of Fine Arts, Cyprus Univ. of Technology, 2019): 245-260.
Antonis Danos, Cypriot Artists: the second generation. Vol. 1 (Nicosia: The Marfin Laiki Bank Cultural Centre, 2009).
Tonia Loizou, Antonis Danos, Cypriot Artists: the second generation. Vol. 2. Edited by Antonis Danos (Nicosia: The Cultural Centre of the Marfin Laiki Bank, 2009).
Audio-Visual Material:
Antonis Danos, research and script, Yannis Yapanis, photography direction–cinematography, Christoforos Savva 1924–1968 [documentary] (Cyprus University of Technology and The Ministry of Education and Culture, Cyprus, 2011).
Exhibition Catalogues – Artists’ Monographs – Art Magazines (selection):
Antonis Danos, “The Mediterranean as Anti-Hegemonic Heterotopia”. In Hesperia Iliadou de Subplajo-Suppiej, ed., Maleth / Haven / Port: Heterotopias of Evocation (Arts Council Malta & Mousse Publishing, 2019): 40-47.
Antonis Danos, editor–texts, The Times of Cyprus [Limassol: ΕΚΑΤΕ, Ministry of Education and Culture, and Cyprus University of Technology, 2010].
Antonis Danos, “Rebellious bodies: their destruction, and the influence of their lives and deaths”, in The Little Land Fish [Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture] (Istanbul: EMAA, 2010):18-23.
Antonis Danos, “Klitsa Antoniou: Mine Face”, in TempusArti: route actuele kunst (Overwinden: Tempus Art – Drieluik vzw, 2009), n. pag.
Antonis Danos, “Klitsa Antoniou: Demining”, in Personal-Political: biennale 2 [Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art] (Thessaloniki: State Museum of Contemporary Art, 2009):40-41.
Antonis Danos, editor and text (:4-7), Elena Kouma: ‘Heliogony’ (Nicosia, 2009).
Antonis Danos, “The anxieties of the body: spirituality and eroticism in Nicholas Panayi’s painting”, in Nicholas Panayi: White Light O + Ω [11th International Cairo Biennale, 20 December 2008-20 February 2009] (Nicosia: Ministry of Education and Culture, 2008).
Antonis Danos, editor and main text, Renos Stefani: ‘Acrobats’ (Nicosia: Pantheon Publishing, 2008).
Antonis Danos, “The Panagies tis Omorfias by Lefteris Olympios: women-archetypes and the power of the gaze”, (:36-37) in Lefteris Olympios: ‘Panagies tis Omorfias’ (Athens: NEMECIS, 2007).
Antonis Danos, “Contesting spaces and identities: Klitsa Antoniou’s All This Is MINE”, I Linguaggi del Mediterraneo: La Parola Come Segno (Torino: EnPleinAir, 2007), n. pag.
Antonis Danos, “Screens: telling stories”, Artion, no. 2 (Nicosia: ΕΚΑΤΕ, 2007):10-13
Antonis Danos, “Dimitris Constantinou”, Artion, no. 2 (Nicosia: ΕΚΑΤΕ, 2007):42-45
Antonis Danos, editor and texts, Screens: telling stories (Limassol: Limassol Municipality, 2006).
Antonis Danos, “Archetype and agent of tradition, formalist element and material presence in space: the female figure in works by Adamantios Diamantis, Christoforos Savva and Dimitris Constantinou”, Artion, no. 1 (Nicosia: ΕΚΑΤΕ, 2006):20-22
Antonis Danos, “Tassos Stephanides (1917-1996)”, Artion, no. 1 (Nicosia: ΕΚΑΤΕ, 2006):40-42
Antonis Danos, “Kakia Catselli Trachoniti–Foam Birth”. Open9 [9th International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations] (Venice: Arte Communications, 2006):28, 122-23.
Antonis Danos, The Human Figure in Modern Cypriot Art – the first generations (Nicosia: Evagoras and Kathleen Lanitis Foundation & the Ministry of Education and Culture, 2006).
Antonis Danos, editor and introductory text (:8-11), Somatópia: Mapping Sites, Siting Bodies (Nicosia: Ministry of Education and Culture, 2005).
Antonis Danos, Gender Explorations (Nicosia: Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies, 2004).
Antonis Danos, Klitsa Antoniou: ‘Mare Nostrum: Visions of a Mermaid’ (Nicosia, 2004).
Antonis Danos, editor and text (:34-39), Evgenia Vasiloude: ‘Hymn to Demeter’ (Nicosia: En Tipis, 2004).
Antonis Danos, Andros Efstathiou: ‘Four Touches’ (Nicosia: En Tipis, 2004).
Antonis Danos, text in Elena Kouma: ‘Panspermia’ (Nicosia: En Tipis, 2004):6-9
Antonis Danos, editor and main text (:8-15), The Languages of Gender (Nicosia: University of Cyprus, 2003).
Antonis Danos, “Water-colour in modern and contemporary Cypriot art: a brief overview,” in Kyriacos Lyras: Water-colours (Nicosia, 2003):12-15.
Antonis Danos, text in Zenon Jepras: ‘The Colour of Memory’ (Nicosia: En Tipis, 2003):4-5.
Antonis Danos, text in Argyris Constantinou: ‘Memories of Innocence’ (Nicosia: En Tipis, 2003):4-11.
Antonis Danos, text in Maria Koudouna: ‘Free Entrance’ (Nicosia: En Tipis, 2003):4-7.
Teaching
FAR 140 _ Art History Methodologies and Research Methods
FAR 141 _ Fundamental Concepts in the History of Visual Arts and Cultures
FAR 240 _ Issues in Contemporary Art I: Modernism
FAR 550 _ Theory and Critical Analysis I (Postgraduate Programme in Art History and Theory)
FAR 551 _ Theory and Critical Analysis II (Postgraduate Programme in Art History and Theory)
Theses Supervision
POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH – SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR
Christos Panayiotou: «Encountering the Other from beyond: A study of the intercultural dynamics in Ottoman Cyprus through tombstone narratives». Post-Doctoral Programme, Cyprus University of Technology, 2024-2025.
DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS – MAIN SUPERVISOR
Persia Panayiotou: “Temporality as an Organisational Method in early 20th-century Art Music” [working title – in progress], Cyprus University of Technology.
Edouardos Georgiou: “Stage Design in Cyprus, 1960-2000” [working title – in progress], Cyprus University of Technology.
Klitsa Antoniou: “Contemporary Cypriot Art: Loss, Trauma, Affect and the Material that passes into Sensation”. Awarded, June 2014, Cyprus University of Technology.
Ellada Evangelou: “Greek-Cypriot Historical Plays and Contemporary Identity and Culture”. Awarded, June 2014, Cyprus University of Technology.
DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS – MEMBER OF SUPERVISING COMMITTEES
Karolina Lambrou: “Ethics and Politics in Performance Art: Reclaining the Function of Art in Society”. Awarded, 2020, University of Cyprus.
Georgia Spanou: “Cultural administration and politics in Cyprus” [in Greek]. Awarded, 2017, Open University of Cyprus.
Theoktisti Missirloglou: “Art Collections in Greece, from the late 19th century to the interwar period” [in Greek]. Awarded, 2017, University of Ioannina.
MASTER'S THESES – MAIN SUPERVISOR
POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ART HISTORY AND THEORY– DEPT. OF FINE ARTS [CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY]
Antonia Nerantzi, “Feminism and/in Art: Women's creations and gaze” [in Greek]. June 2025
Mary Argyrou, “American Artist Mary Cassatt in the Framework of Impressionism” [in Greek]. June 2025
Kyriakos Orthodoxou, “German Romanticism and Nationalism: Wagner's Musical Nationalism in relation to Beethoven's work” [in Greek]. June 2025
Antigone Sartzeti, “Art and Politics during Europe's Interwar Period, in the German-Speaking World: Expressionism, Bauhaus, New Objectivity, Critical Realism” [in Greek]. June 2025
Maria Demetriou, “Socialist Realism: Art and Propaganda” [in Greek]. December 2024
Stelios Americanos, “Yorgos Skotinos (1937-2022): Militancy and Modernism in 20th-c Cypriot Art” [in Greek]. June 2024
Eleni Georgiou, “Neo-Impressionism and Anarchy” [in Greek]. June 2024
Minas Skordis, “Memory, Masculinity and National Identity: Public Monuments in Greece, during 1912-1922” [in Greek]. June 2024
Christos Aloneftis, “Funerary Customs in Magna Grecia: Tomba del Tuffadore” [in Greek]. June 2024
Giannis Nikolaou, “German Expressionism and 'NewObjectivity'” [in Greek]. June 2024
Iryna Sigkitova, “Influence of Ukrainian Ethnic Culture on Russian Futurism”. June 2024
Alexandra Anastasiou, “Art Under Dictatorship: the Case of Maria Karavela (1938-2012)” [in Greek]. Co-supervision: Dr. Maria Moschou. June 2024
Chrysoulla Sorokou, “Nationalism and Art in Europe: From the French Revolution to the First World War” [in Greek]. June 2023
Maria Klavarioti, “The Representaion of Uran Life and the Image of Women in 19th c. Paris, in the Art of Impressionism” [in Greek]. June 2023
Christos Panayiotou, “Death and the Sea as boundaries and as openings to the Cultural Other” [in Greek]. June 2023
Christina Andreou, “Representing Migration in the Mediterranean: Films from Contemporary Italian and Greek Cinema” [in Greek]. December 2022
Alexandros Papantoniou, “The Greek Urban Rebetiko as a Case of Mediterranean Modernism” [in Greek]. June 2022
Korina Konstanti, “'National' (Cypriot) Identity and 'Greekness' in the work of Solon Michaelides” [in Greek]. June 2022.
Demetris Gregoriou, “Memory and Lethe in the Public Space and in Art: the Case of the First Cemetery of Athens” [in Greek]. June 2022.
Stella Evangelidou, “The Mediterranean, Colonialism, and Modern Cypriot Architecture” [in Greek]. December 2021.
Georgia Michaelidou, “The Mediterranean in Orhan Pamouk’s novels: The White Castle and My Name is Red” [in Greek]. December 2021.
Katerina Gklinavou, “The Aesthetics of the Grotesque and Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” [in Greek]. December 2021.
Charoula Neophytou, “Modernism and Literature in the Mediterranean: Constantine Cavafy, Fererico Garcia Lorca and Orhan Pamouk” [in Greek]. June 2021.
Despoina Demetriou, “Nationalism and 'National' Identity in the (Modern) Greek State: the 'Asia Minor Catastrophe' and 'Greekness' in literary works by Elias Venezis, Stratis Myrivilis and Dido Soteriou” [in Greek]. June 2021.
Paraskevas Mavroudes: “The cinema of Theodoros Angelopoulos: anti-hegemonic modernity and modernism in the Mediterranean” [in Greek]. December 2020.
Melanie Varnavidou: “Anti-canonical modernity in the Mediterranean: the Greek modernism of Karolos Koun and Rallou Manou” [in Greek]. December 2020.
Margarita Kounnafi: “Art criticism in Cyprus, 1878-1974” [in Greek]. December 2020.
Marina Kyriakou: “The iconography of the Revolution and the formation of Modern Greek Identity” [in Greek]. December 2020.
Panayiota Gregoriou: “Woman as ‘East’ and as (Primitive) ‘Other’: The Female Form in the Art of Orientalism and Primitivism” [in Greek]. June 2020.
Georgia Constantinidou: “The Myth of the ‘Femme Fatale’ at Fin-de-Siècle: The Case of Salome” [in Greek]. June 2020.
Maria Athanasiou: “The Mediterranean and Literature: Modernism, Cosmopolitanism, and Hybridity” [in Greek]. June 2020.
Yiannakou Aliki: “Cypriot Identity and Art in the Twentieth Century” [in Greek]. June 2020.
Angela Panayiotou: “Napoleon’s France: Art and Propaganda” [in Greek]. June 2020.
Christina Parmaxi: “Mediterranean Modernity: Architectural Modernism in the Mediterranean” [in Greek]. June 2020.
Christiana Charalambous: “Union des Artistes Modernes (UAM): French Modernism in the Interwar Era” [in Greek]. June 2020.
Demetra Christodoulidou: “Vienna and Modernism” [in Greek]. June 2020.
Ioanna Fikardou: “Turkish Architecture between Ottomanism and Modernism, 1870-1930: in Search of a National, Architectural Identity” [in Greek]. June 2018.
Ero Farmaka: “ Paul Klee, from Italy to Tunisia: Formal[ist] Displacements in the Mediterranean [in Greek]. June 2017.
Eleftheria Tzirki: “Modernisms in the Mediterranean: Decoration as an Alternative Aspect of Modern Art” [in Greek]. June 2017.
POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA – DEPT. OF MULTIMEDIA AND GRAPHIC ARTS [CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY]
Yannis Yapanis: “Professione Reporter by Michelangelo Antonioni: the creation of a 'non-existent' story” [in Greek]. December 2014.
Giorgos Lazoglou: “New Media and Theatre: from Interactive Multimedia to Virtual Theatre” [in Greek]. December 2012.
BACHELOR'S THESES – MAIN SUPERVISOR
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN MULTIMEDIA AND GRAPHIC ARTS – DEPT. OF MULTIMEDIA AND GRAPHIC ARTS [CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY]
Main supervisor of twelve [12] degree theses, in the History and Theory of Art, between 2011 and 2014.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions Design – Curation:
Through the Roadblocks [12 international artists-theorists collaborations]. Co-curated with Helene Black. Organised by the non-governmental organisation NeMe and the School of Fine and Applied Arts, Cyprus University of Technology, with the support of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Cyprus. Limassol, 24/11-17/12/2012.
‘Looking Awry’: Views of an Anniversary [Cypriot contemporary art for the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Republic of Cyprus]. Organised by the Cyprus Chamber of Fine Arts [EKATE]; sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Culture; supported by the Cyprus University of Technology. Limassol, 17/11-17/12/2010.
The Little Land Fish [Cypriot contemporary art]. Co-curated with Zeynep Yasa Yaman. Organised by the European-Mediterranean Art Association [EMAA] and the Cyprus Chamber of Fine Arts [EKATE]. Part of the Portable Art Project of Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture. Istanbul, 19/06-19/07/2010.
Limassolian artists of the first generation of Modern Cypriot art. Organised by the Limassol Municipality and Patras 2006–European Capital of Culture. Patras, 15/09-13/10/06 & Limassol, 15/11-1/12/2006.
Screens: Telling Stories [contemporary Cypriot film and video art]. Organised by the Limassol Municipality and Patras 2006–European Capital of Culture. Patras, 16/09-13/10/06 & Limassol, 1-26/11/06.
Kakia Catselli Trachoniti–Foam Birth. Open9 [9th International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations]. Venice – Lido, 30/08-1/10/06.
The Human Figure in Modern Cypriot Art – the first generations. Organised by the Evagoras and Kathleen Lanitis Foundation & the Ministry of Education and Culture. Limassol, 10/05-11/06/2006.
Somatópia: Mapping Sites, Siting Bodies [Cypriot contemporary art]. Organised by the Ministry of Education and Culture (Cyprus). London, 27/09-21/10/05.
Gender Explorations [Cypriot contemporary art]. Organised by the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies and the Department of Design, Intercollege. Nicosia, 5-11/03/2004.
The Languages of Gender. Organised by the University of Cyprus. Nicosia, 15/05-6/06/2003.
Klitsa Antoniou
Professor
klitsa.antoniou@cut.ac.cy
25002089
https://www.klitsa-antoniou.com/
Klitsa Antoniou is a Professor of Fine Arts in the Fine Arts Department of the Cyprus University of Technology. She studied at Wimbledon School of Art and Saint Martin's School of Art and Design [B.F.A.] in London, at Pratt Institute [Master in Fine Arts] and New York University [D.A.] in New York. Since 2014 she holds a PhD in Theory and Philosophy of Art (Dissertation title: Contemporary Cypriot Art: Loss, Trauma, Affect and the Material that Passes into Sensation) from The Cyprus University of Technology.
She is an artist and researcher with interdisciplinary practice. She attended [...]
As an artist, she has exhibited in major museums, galleries and art institutions worldwide. Her work has been exhibited in Herzliya Museum, Israel; Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid; Palais du Rhin/Drac Alsace, Strasbourg; Arte Contemporanea Pinerolo, Torino; Sandström Andersson Gallery, Sweden; Exhibit Gallery, London; Antrepo, Istanbul; Espace Commines Paris; Pulchri Studio, Hague; Macedonian Museum, Thessaloniki; Wonderland Lotte Square, Quanzhou, China; Bozar Expo, Belgium; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo; Skånes konstförening, Malmö, Sweden; Petach Tikva Museum, Israel; Museum of Nanjing University of the Art, China; and The Museum of the Arts of the 20th and 21st Century, St Petersburg, Russia; De Skyddssökande, Ostgotateatern Theatre, Norrkoping, Sweden; Norrköping City Museum, Sweden; Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, Jonh Jay, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, Greece.
In 2019 she represented Malta at the Venice Biennale with the work Atlantropa-X.
Links
For her participation in Venice Art Biennale visit:
https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2019/national-participations/malta
For her activity as Director of Cut Contemporary Fine Arts Lab visit
http://www.cutcontemporaryfineartslab.com/
For her personal website, complete cv and portfolio work visit
https://www.klitsa-antoniou.com/
Teaching
FAR 220 _ Sculpture Applications: Methods, Process-based approaches and techniques
FAR 221 _ Content and Context in 3d Visual Practices: Materials and their Applications
FAR 461 _ Creative Studio Art Practice IV: Final Year Project and Exhibition
FAR 490 _ Contextualizing Art Practice I
Efi Kyprianidou
Associate Professor
efi.kyprianidou@cut.ac.cy
25002083
https://cut.academia.edu/EfiKyprianidou
Research Areas
Areas of Specialization:
Aesthetics (esp. Art and Emotion, Aesthetic Experience, Empathetic Imagination in Understanding Art, Art and Morality), Philosophy and Theory of Art, Philosophy of Perception, McDowell.
Areas of Competence:
Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind.
Publications
Edited Collections
Bantinaki, K., Kyprianidou, E.,Vassiliou, F. (2025) (eds. & introduction). Empathy and the Aesthetic Mind. London, New York: Bloomsbury
[Contributors: Thomas Petraschka, Jonathan Gilmore, Julia Langkau, Christopher Bartel, Maria José Alcaraz León, Joel Smith, Jonna Vuoskoski, Anne Tüscher, Sarah Robinson, Amy Kind, Cain Todd, Íngrid Vendrell Ferran, Tzachi Zamir, Carl Plantinga, Panos Paris].
Kyprianidou, Ε. (2019) (ed. & introduction). The Art of Compassion. Athens: Nissos Publications.
[Contributors: Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck University), Eleni Filippachi (Hellenic Open University), Kostas Ioannides (Athens School of Fine Arts), Efi Kyprianidou (Open University of Cyprus), Amber J. Porter (University of Calgary), Samantha Mitschke (Holocaust Educational Trust), Aris Sarafianos (University of Ioannina), Dimitra Makriniotis (National Kapodistrian University of Athens)].
Kyprianidou, E. (2017) (ed. & introduction). Weaving Culture in Europe. Athens: Nissos Publications.
[Contributors: Ruby Blondell (University of Washington), Jacob Lund (Aarhus University), Diana Wood Conroy (University of Wollongong), Janis Jefferies (Goldsmith’s University), Alexandra Kokoli (Middlesex University), Myrto Voreakou (National Technical University of Athens)].
Articles / Book Chapters
Kyprianidou, E. (forthcoming, 2025). “On Moral Disgust in Art: Imaginative Resistance and Empathetic Engagement”. In K. Bantinaki (ed.) Art and Aesthetic Experience. Heraklion: Crete University Press. (in Greek) / “Για την Ηθική Αηδία στην Τέχνη: Φαντασιακή Αντίσταση και Ενσυναισθητική Εμπλοκή”. Στο Κ. Μπαντινάκη (επιμ.), Τέχνη και Αισθητική Εμπειρία. Ηράκλειο: Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης.
Kyprianidou, E. (forthcoming, 2025). “On the Road to Virtuousness: Empathy for Rough Heroines”, In Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics. Vol.16.
Kyprianidou, E. (2024). “Sympathy (and tea) for Rough Heroines in Fiction”, In A. Papadima (ed.), Gender Issues in Arts. Nicosia: Hippasus. (in Greek). / “Τσάι και Συμπάθεια για τις Σκληρές Ηρωίδες της Μυθοπλασίας”, στο Α. Παπαδήμα (επιμ.), Έμφυλες Προσεγγίσεις στις Τέχνες. Λευκωσία: Hippasus.
Kyprianidou, E. (2023). “Moral Disgust and Imaginative Resistance”, Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics. Vol.15. 316-327.
Κυπριανίδου, E. (2023). “Ζακ Ντεριντά: Η αποδόμηση του θεμελιωτισμού”. Στο Μπαλτάς, A., Δημητράκος, Θ. (επιμ.), Φιλοσοφία και Επιστήμες στον Εικοστό Αιώνα (Τόμος Β’), Κοινωνικές Επιστήμες και Επιστήμες του Ανθρώπου: Ο Γαλλικός Δρόμος της Έννοιας. Ηράκλειο: Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης.
Κyprianidou, Ε. (2019). “On Empathy: Art and Illness,”. In Kyprianidou, E. (ed.) The Art of Compassion, Athens: Nissos Publications.
Κυπριανίδου, E. (2019). “Το πορτραίτο στην κυπριακή κουλτούρα”. Στο Ιωάννου, Γ. (επιμ.) Χρονικό, No. 51. σ.σ 4-22.
Κυπριανίδου, E., Παπαδάκη, E. (2019). “Το Ψηφιακό Μάρκετινγκ σε Μουσεία Τέχνης και Οργανισμούς Παραστατικών Τεχνών ”. Στο Θεοδοσίου, Σ., Παπαδάκη, E. (Επιμ.), Πολιτιστικές Βιομηχανίες και Τεχνοπολιτισμός. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Νήσος.
Kyprianidou, E. (2018). “Πολιτισμικοί Πόλεμοι. Λογοκρισία και Τέχνες στην Κύπρο”. Στο Ιωάννου, Γ. (επιμ.) Χρονικό, No. 51. σ.σ 4-22.
Kyprianidou, E. (2017). “Empathy for the Depicted”. Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics. vol.9, 2017. Ratiu D.E, Vaughan, C. (eds), pp. 305-333.
Kyprianidou, E. (2017). “Weaving Cultural Identities”. In Kyprianidou, E. (ed). Weaving Culture in Europe. Athens: Nissos Publications. pp. 11-23.
Kyprianidou, E. (2017). “The World as Meditation: Curating an art exhibition”. In Kyprianidou, E. (ed.). Weaving Culture in Europe. Athens: Nissos Publications. pp. 115-118.
Kyprianidou, Ε. (2014): “Between East and West: Aspects of the First Generation of Cypriot Artists” [online]. Virtual Museum of Modern and Contemporary Cypriot Art. Available at <http://virtualartmuseumcy.com/istoria/ageniakyprionkallitexnon/>.
Kyprianidou, Ε. (2013). “Ο ύπνος της λογικής παράγει τέρατα. Αισθητική και Ηθική στο Έργο Τέχνης”. Στο Νικοδήμου, E. (επιμ.) Documentary, Λευκωσία: Εκδόσεις Αιγαίον.
Kyprianidou, E. (2011). “Memory and the Abyss of Communication: Philosophers’ Collective Memory, Citation and Meaning Attribution”, Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, 2 (2): 181-194.
Books
Kyprianidou, Ε. (2011): A philosophical Inquiry of Linguistic Communication (Dissertation). National & Kapodistrian University of Athens & National Technical University of Athens. Published on the online platform https://www.didaktorika.gr/ (in Greek).
Essays in exhibition/museum catalogues
Kyprianidou, Ε. (2018). “Portraiture in Cypriot Culture”. In Kyprianidou, Ε. (ed.) Portraits: Αura of Life and Death. Nicosia: Cultural Council of Cyprus & Evagoras and Kathleen Lanitis Cultural Center. pp. 12-39.
Kyprianidou, E., Rogakos, M. (2018). “Sublimating Sexuality and the Dubious Normality of Being into Art”. In Art is a Way Out of Sexual Problems. Saint Petersburg: Freud’s Dream Museum. pp. 11-14.
Kyprianidou, Ε. (2014). From Greece to Cyprus: 23 Young Cypriot Artists. Nicosia: EnTypois Publications. (in Greek).
Catalogue Texts
“Chimera”, essay in exhibition catalogue, ‘Penny Monogiou: Chimera’, Greskewitz-Kleinitz Galerie, Hamburg, 2016.
“The Great Journey”, essay in exhibition catalogue, “Christos Avraam: The Great Journey”, Gloria Gallery, Nicosia, 2016.
“Supernova”, essay in exhibition catalogue, “Ignatios Mitrofanous: Invisible Worlds”, Camden image Gallery, London, 2015.
“Social Contract”, essay in exhibition catalogue, ‘Christos Avraam: Social Contract’. Alpha Gallery, Nicosia, 2013.
“Through the Eyes of the Soul”, essay in exhibition catalogue, ‘Eleni Menelaou: Retrospective’. EKATE, Nicosia, 2013.
“Not quite a Memory”, essay in exhibition catalogue, ‘Zenon Jepras’. Alpha Gallery, Nicosia, 2012.
“Apostolos Yayannos and the Flowers of Virtue”, essay in exhibition catalogue, ‘Flowers. Only’. Titanium Gallery, Athens, 2012.
“Photography and Environmental Perception”, essay in exhibition catalogue, ‘Yannis Tzortzis: Photography”, AnniArt 798, Beijing, 2010.
“From the Silk Road to Natural Gas Road”, essay in exhibition catalogue, ‘Yannis Tzortzis: Green Project in Asia”, Manifactura Gallery, Athens, 2009.
Postdoctoral Research
2016-2018
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of History & Philosophy of Science, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. Title: “Illness-related art and the development of empathy”.
Education
Teaching
FAR 250 _ Philosophy of Art Ι
FAR 251 _ Philosophy of Art ΙΙ
FAR 350 _ Art theory and criticism
FAR 570 _ History of Aesthetic Theories (Postgraduate Programme in Art History and Theory)
FAR 572 _ Special Topics (Postgraduate Programme in Art History and Theory)
Exhibitions Curation
2018 Portraits: Αura of Life and Death. Evagoras and Kathleen Lanitis Cultural Center, Limassol. [38 participant artists from Cyprus]. Available at <http://www.lanitisfoundation.org/en/events/exhibition-–-portraits-aura- of-life-and-death>
2018 Die Kunst ist ein Ausweg bei sexuellen Problemen. (with Megaklis Rogakos and Ioannis Arxontakis). Sigmund Freud Dream Museum. St. Petersburg, Russia. [41 participant artists from Greece and Cyprus].
2018 Weaving Europe / Weaving Balkans. Biennale of Western Balkans. Ioannina. Available at <https://bowb.org/?p=6001> [8 participant artists from Greece, Cyprus, North Macedonia, USA].
2017 Weaving Europe: The World as Meditation. Pafos EU Capital of Culture 2017. Available at <http://www.pafos2017.eu/en/event/weaving-europe-the-world-as-meditation/>
[Participant Artists: Kimsooja, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Eva Borner, Loukia Alavanou, Anne Wilson, Janis Jefferis, Johan Grimonprez, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Francesca Fini, Diane Wood Conroy, Yannis Sakellis, Kyriacos Kousoulides, Nikos Gyftakis, Eleni Nikodemou, Erato Hadjisavva, Christos Avraam, Anastasia Mina, Christina Lucas ].
2016-2017 Scientific consultant and member of the team that prepared the opening ceremony of the Paphos2017 Cultural Capital of Europe in cooperation with Walk the Plank. Available at <http://walktheplank.co.uk/project/pafos-european-capital-culture-2017-opening- ceremony/>
2016 The Waiting Room. Art-Athina International Contemporary Art Fair. Athens. [Participant artists: Nikos Gyftakis, Christos Avraam, Penny Monogiou, Kyriakos Kousoulides].
2015 Compassion: On the phenomenology of being ill, Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Berlin.
[Participant artists: Ulay, Gunter Brus, Enrique Fuentes, Sylvia Hense, Alexandros Psychoulis, Nikos Gyftakis, Yiannis Diamantis, Penny Monogiou, Christos Avraam, Kyriacos Kousoulides, Michalis Papamichael]. Available at <https://www.facebook.com/Compassion-On-the-phenomenology-of-being- ill-412404625614918/>
2014 Anasystasi. Embassy of Greece in Cyprus & Greek Presidency of the EU Council. Nicosia. [22 participant artists from Cyprus]
2013-2014 Head Curator of the Virtual Art Museum of Modern and Contemporary Cypriot Art, The Cyprus Chamber of Fine Arts & Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus. Available at <www.virtualartmuseumcy.com>.
2009 Green Project in Asia, (with Thanasis Moutsopoulos), Athens Photo Festival, Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Sports Complex. Athens.
Vicky Pericleous
Assistant Professor
vicky.pericleous@cut.ac.cy
25002627
Vicky Pericleous is a visual artist and assistant professor at Cyprus University of Technology, Department of Fine Arts. She has studied at Manchester Metropolitan University, Wimbledon School of Art, London, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Pericleous’ work investigates her interest in examining and producing images where environments, gestures and encounters oscillate between the familiar and the alien, the ruin and the model, and notions of the near and far, in respect to post and neo-colonial situations and geographical and cultural imaginaries. The idea of the fragment as well as spatiotemporal proximities and speculations are negotiated throughout her artistic oeuvre.
Her work has shown in exhibitions at various international venues including Espace Commines, Paris, Hasselblad Foundation in Gothenburg, Zahoor Ul Akhlaq Gallery of the National College of Arts, Lahore, Multiplied Art Fair, Christie’s, London as well as in various private galleries abroad. She has also exhibited in Evagoras Lanitis Centre, Limassol, and NiMAC –Municipal Art Centre, Omikron Gallery, Art Seen, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, amongst others, all in Nicosia. Pericleous exhibited in Monodrome, the 3rd Athens Biennale, and at Sanat Limani, as part of the European Capital of Culture Istanbul 2010. She has initiated and participated in the international visual-research project “Uncovered: Nicosia International Airport,” 2010-13. She has been an active member of the Noise of Coincidence Art Group, (2001-2007), an international art group / platform that has organised several exhibitions, actions, happenings and talks in Cyprus and abroad. Over the years, she has collaborated with and has been represented by Omikron Gallery, Nicosia (2010–2013) and Art Seen Gallery, Nicosia (2015–now).
Pericleous has served in the Academia from 2001 from various positions, including her current position at CUT, as well as from the position of assistant professor and lecturer at Frederick University, Department of Arts and Communication -Former Department of Fine and Applied Arts-, (2008-2022), as a visiting lecturer at Frederick Institute of Technology, Department of Fine and Applied Arts (2003-2008, adjunct lecturer), and adjunct lecturer (2001), at Intercollege, Nicosia, Department of Fine and Applied Arts.
Her work has been published and presented in many acclaimed books, art catalogues and press, including book publications by the Valand Academy of the Gothenburg University in collaboration with the Hasselblad Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden, 2022 and The University of Columbia Press, Sept. 2019. Her work has been featured and presented in international Art & Theory Magazines. Amongst them the research platform Perambuation, 2022, Daily Lazy International, 2020, Art Daily Newspaper International, 2020 and Art Forum, Critic’s Picks Column, 2018.
She has presented her work in many conferences, seminars, lectures and talks both locally and internationally. Pericleous has contributed in the development of many Art Research Funded Programmes. Currently she is co-coordinating the Artistic and Creative Expression, (package 3) of the Creative Europe Programme: EMPACT (Empathy and Sustainability: The Art of Thinking like a Mountain), coordinated by the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT).
RESEARCH AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Assistant professor Vicky Pericleous’ practice-let research work, investigates her long interest in the Production of Space and Perceptions of Place, in respect to Post and Neo-Colonial Situations, extending into ideas and plausibilities of Meta-Geographical Relations and Cultural Imaginaries. Her work moves within interdisciplinary areas and diverse media. It includes site-specific installations, happenings and performances in off gallery venues, involving the urban and socio-political landscape. It encompasses a variety of means and mediums, such as collages, drawing, installations, site-specific interventions, mixed media, performace and video. In both her research and practice, a variety of media, agents and mechanisms are being employed to examine how different modes of production, affect the image’s perceptions and its reading(s). These creative processes distant themselves from traditional art disciplines, while establishing critical proximities and reflections in relation to them, in errant manners. The idea of the fragment as well as notions around spatio-temporal speculations are negotiated throughout her artistic oeuvre. An open and ongoing interrelationship of her practice as an artist and as an academic in the pedagogy of the Arts has determined, informed and shaped her critical and creative input in both areas for the past twenty years. Through this interconnected relation she has pushed forward over the years, imaginative exchange of ideas, concepts, knowledge production -and their dissemination-, bringing forth synergies between students, cultural producers and cultural bodies; implementing expertise, as well as develop imaginative positions on an array of relevant academic, administrative and socially engaged contexts.She has acted out as the first co-ordinator of the MA Contemporary Art Practices Program of the Fine & Appied Arts Department of Frederick University.
Vicky Pericleous has been an active member of multiple artistic and academic bodies, art-led research communities and has been actively engaged in artistic platforms, art collectives and art associations, both locally and internationally.
To expand on the most significant, she has been a member of the Noise of Coincidence Group, an active art platform for Exhibitions, Theory & Discussions, and Collaborations. Noise of Coincidence Group has acted out as a diverse cultural network of artists from different countries (Cyprus, France, Serbia, Netherlands, Greece etc). Its intense research and art practice has been mainly focused in producing a pluralistic cultural body and space from artists to artists in and beyond the Mediterranean. Several exhibitions, actions, happenings, symposiums, presentations and talks took place in Cyprus, the Netherlands, Serbia and Iceland, Mexico thus, developing strong art and critical (resistance) network across communities of artists and cultural bodies. Pericleous initiated the international research project UNCOVERED (2010-2013), curated by Basak Senova and Pavlina Paraskevaidou, -the project included site-specific research/exhibition/book publication/seminar/panel discussion, activating art & theory cultural synergies and collaborations amongst highly established cultural producers of the international art scene, from various countries and cultural foundations. The project was presented in important cultural institutions such as Salt, Istanbul and Sharjah Biennale and was supported by cultural institutions The Open Society Foundation, Faros Trust Foundation. (please refer to http://basaksenova.com/pdf/UNCOVERED.pdf), bringing forth critical cultural proximities. Pericleous has been engaged in the development of European Funded Programs, (includingHorizon and Creative Europe programs, closely collaborating in inter-institutional manners with professionals, academics, cultural bodies and communities. Currently she is the coordinator of work package 3, Artistic and Creative Expression. Creative Europe: EMPACT (Empathy and Sustainability: The Art of Thinking like a Mountain), coordinated by the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). She has also been involved in the Drone Vision: Warfare, Surveillance, Protest, a two-year research project (2017–2019) [Exhibition/Publication], curated by Sarah Tuck and Louise Wolthers, Yiannis Toumazis and Imran Ahmad and hosted by The Hasselblad Centre, Gothenburg & Valand Academy of the Gothenburg University, Sweden, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan & the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Cyprus. The project was funded by The Hasselblad Centre, Gothenburg & Valand Academy of the Gothenburg University, Sweden. She has been an active member of the international project UNACCOMPANIED – In the context of a three year program integrated the dissemination activities of the European Cultural Learning Network (ECLN), in collaboration with "Hope For Children". UNCRC Policy Center (ECLN partner organisation in Cyprus). Funded by ECLN and hosted by “Hope For Children” UNCRC Policy Center and supported The Cyprus Library and the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Cyprus Republic . Pericleous co-founded and, co-organised and co-run the Visual Arts Lab of the Arts and Communication Department, Frederick University (2008-2022). Currently she has developed an academic synergy and collaboration between her taught units in the Fine Art Department of CUT University, and the Painting Studio of the Fine Art Academy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in collaboration with the head of the Studio and assistant professor Vasilis Zografos.
Teaching
FAR 360 _ Creative Studio Art Practice I
FAR 361 _ Creative Studio Art Practice II
FAR 460 _ Creative Studio Art Practice III
FAR 461 _ Creative Studio Art Practice IV: Final Year Project and Exhibition
Nicos Synnos
Associate Professor - Department Chair
nicos.synnos@cut.ac.cy
2500 2495
http://sumaracnina.wixsite.com/nicossynnos
Biography
Nicos Synnos is an Associate Professor at the Department of Fine Arts, at the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts of the Cyprus University of Technology. He holds the MA and PgDip titles in Visual Communication with specializations in Animation and Cartoon Imagery from Birmingham City University (UK) and a BA (Hons) in Visual Communication with specialization in Graphic Communication from the University of Wolverhampton (UK) and the California State University in Long Beach (USA).
He has worked for several years on animation, TV and Internet animation productions in New York, London and Cyprus. He participated and earned awards at international animation and film festivals, and video art exhibitions.
He founded the experimental animation workshop "toonachunks" in Limassol, and he is a founding member and member of the organizational and artistic committee of Animafest International, founding member of ASIFA Cyprus, founding member of NeMe and president of the Limassol Film Club.
He has been teaching animation, photography and design in Cypriot higher education since 2001.
His research interests focuses on experimental cinema with emphasis on animation, filmic time and space, and frame by frame animation applications, and the production of experimental moving images in virtual spaces and new media.
Teaching
FAR 130 _ Photography and Digital Media I
FAR 131 _ Photography and Digital Media II
FAR 230 _ Animation I: Theory and Practice
FAR 231 _ Animation II: Experimental Moving Image
Yiannis Christidis
Associate Professor
yiannis.christidis@cut.ac.cy
2500 2215
https://buskingsounds.wordpress.com
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Yiannis Christidis is an academic and artist. Having studied Cultural Technology and Communication at the University of the Aegean, he holds an MSc in Sound Design from the University of Edinburgh, and a PhD in Social Anthropology of Sound from Cyprus University of Technology. His research focuses on the cultural aspect of sound, its functionality in everyday life and the relationship between the listeners and their place, while he is also interested in the ways the above can be communicated through visual and audio recordings. He is a documentary filmmaker, and he has designed sound and music for numerous audiovisual and radio productions, and performances.
Research
His research focuses on the cultural aspect of sound, and its functionality in everyday life and the relationship between the listeners and their place. He has designed sound and music for audiovisual and radio productions, web applications, and theatrical activities.
Publications
Christidis, Y., Gazi, A. (2017). ‘Soundmarks of conflict in the city centre of divided Nicosia’. In Vaia Doudaki and Nico Carpentier(ed.) Cyprus and its Conflicts. Representations, materialities and cultures. Berghan.
Christidis, Y., Carpentier, N. (2017) Translating an Academic Text into Sound Art: An Experiment with a Communication Studies’ Text on Participation, in Simone Tosoni, Nico Carpentier, Maria Francesca Murru, Richard Kilborn, Leif Kramp, Risto Kunelius, Anthony Mcnicholas, Tobias Olsson, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt (eds.) Present Scenarios of Media Production and Engagement. Bremen: edition lumière, pp. 207-224.
Gazi, A., Rizopoulos, Ch., Christidis, Y. (2016). Localizing emotions: Soundscape representations through Smartphone Use. Psychology, 22(4)
Christidis, Y., Quinton M. (2016). Exploring the Urban Mediterranean Soundscapes in Cyprus and Malta: A comparative study, Interference, Spring Issue, 103-120.
Christidis, Y. (2015). Listening to the Place of Cyprus: The everyday acoustic experience in an intercultural island. International Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences , 3 (9), 84-90.
Carpentier, N., Doudaki, V. and Christidis, Y. (2015). ‘Technological Struggles in Community Media’. In Chris Atton (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media. (pp 483-493). Oxon and New York: Routledge
Christidis, Y. (2014). Soundmarks in Place: the Case of the Divided City Centre of Nicosia. Invisible Places. Viseu: Jardins Efémeros. 392-402.
Studies
Teaching
FAR 330 _ New Media Fundamentals Ι: Audiovisual Culture
FAR 331 _ New Media Fundamentals ΙΙ: Society and the Everyday
FAR 332 _ Introduction to Sound Art
FAR 333 _ Introduction to Video Art
Sound Design
Work bits regarding his artistic/production based activity can be found here {https://buskingsounds.wordpress.com/}
Georgios E. Markou
Assistant Professor
georgios.markou@cut.ac.cy
25002507
Georgios E. Markou studied Archaeology and History of Art at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens before pursuing an MA on ‘Venice and Its Legacies’ at the University of Warwick. In 2018, he completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge and subsequently held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton University and the British School at Rome. From September 2021 to December 2023, Georgios was based at the University of Cambridge as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of History of Art. Building upon - but also transcending – its basis in micro-history, his project “Art and Exile: Biographies of displacement in the early modern Mediterranean” offers an alternative cultural panorama, by moving beyond generalizations to capture a highly connected world where artistic exchange was fundamentally mediated by the complex biographies of the individual artists who circulated within it.
Focusing on the example of Venetian Cyprus and the hitherto unrecognized artistic and cultural patronage of the island’s elite families, Georgios's first monograph challenges previously held assumptions about a culturally and confessionally rigid Greek Orthodox community. Through the integration of textual and material evidence, his inaugural book-length study will offer novel insights that refine concepts of fluid identity, wherein individuals projected cultural characteristics traditionally thought of as oppositional. Concurrently, Georgios is in the process of preparing a monograph on the Melian painter Antonio Vassilacchi, known as L’ Aliense. Grounded in the examination of unpublished documentary sources, this forthcoming volume is poised to provide illuminating insights into the life and contributions of this historically overlooked Greek master.
Research Areas
Early Modern Mediterranean
Renaissance Venice
Cultural exchange
Exilic art
Artist biographies
Publications
Markou, G. E., “The testament and household inventory of the painter Baldassare d’Anna”, in E. Mavromichali and I. Assimakopoulou eds, Proceedings of the Thomas Puttfarken Workshop I&II (Thessaloniki: University Studio Press), pp.121-33.
Markou, G. E., “Titian’s ‘Allegory of Prudence’ and Philip II”, The Burlington Magazine 165 (2023), pp.258-67.
Markou, G. E., “A drawing of Giambattista Albanese by Antonio Vassilacchi, called Aliense”, Master Drawings 60 (2022), pp.311-20.
Markou, G. E., “Jacopo Tintoretto, his heirs and the family enterprise”, The Burlington Magazine 163 (2021), pp.718-23.
Markou, G. E., “An early owner of a Virgin and Child by Giovanni Bellini: the testament of Hieremia Voltera”, Arte Veneta 77 (2021), pp.228-31.
Markou, G. E., “Taddeo Zuccaro and the Pucci Chapel in Santissima Trinità dei Monti, Rome”, Source: Notes in the History of Art 39 (2020), pp.241-51.
Markou, G. E., “The inventory of the Sadeler Venetian Printing shop”, Print Quarterly 36 (2019), pp.379-89.
Markou, G. E., “Negotiating Identity and Status: The silverware of the Cypriot nobles in Renaissance Venice”, in M. Olympios and M. Parani eds, The art and archaeology of Lusignan and Venetian Cyprus (1192-1571): Recent research and new discoveries (Turnhout: Brepols, 2019), pp.301-20.
Markou, G. E., “Bonifacio de’ Pitati’s ‘Triumphs of Petrarch’ and their Cypriot Patron”, The Burlington Magazine 159 (2017), pp.600-9.
In press
Markou, G. E., “Review of ΄El Greco: Un pittore nel labirinto’”, The Burlington Magazine (February 2024).
Markou, G. E., “Caterina Tarabotti Unveiled”, Tracey Cooper ed., Women Artists and Artisans in Venice and the Veneto, 1400-1750: Uncovering the Female Presence, sponsored by Save Venice Foundation, (Amsterdam University Press).
Markou, G. E., “The Massacre of the Innocents and the image of pathos in Venetian Cyprus”, Charlene Vella ed., Dynamics of artistic interaction (Malta: Midsea books).
Markou, G. E., “Carlo Crivelli’s Madonna of the Passion and the lost church of San Sebastiano, Venice”, Source: Notes in the History of Art.
Postdoctoral Research
September 2021 - December 2023
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Cambridge
September 2019 - December 2021
Rome Fellow, British School at Rome
September 2018 - July 2019
Hannah Seeger Davis Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University
Education
2013 - 2018
University of Cambridge, Department of History of Art
PhD in History of Art, Thesis title: “From Cyprus to Venice: Art, Exchange and Exile across the Renaissance Mediterranean”
2011 - 2012
University of Warwick, Department of History of Art
MA in History of Art, Course: “Venice and its Legacies”
2007 - 2011
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
BA in Archaeology and History of Art
Teaching
FAR 141 _ Fundamental Concepts in the History of Visual Arts and Cultures
FAR 540 _ Art historical Analysis Ι (Postgraduate Programme in Art History and Theory)
Andreas Savva
Assistant Professor
andreas.savva@cut.ac.cy
25002448
Biography
Education
2002-04 Postgraduate Program in Digital Art Forms. Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece.
1991-96 Bachelor of Fine Arts / Department of Painting. Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece.
Scholarship of the Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation.
Work Experience
2019- Special Education Staff, Department of Fine Arts, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus.
2018-19 Special Scientist, Department of Fine Arts, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus.
Research
Research
My research follows concrete and proven aesthetic principles.
I was never interested in a theoritisation of my work. My aesthetics are built
from my works in an experiential way, that is selecting my materials and choosing my social comments I create works of art, I construct situations
and this possibility is my aesthetic choice. It is not about abstract compositions which may take individual interpretations.
My works are constructed within the frame of thematic units which govern my thoughts about art.
The largest number of my works uses rope as its main material. This work, which began in 1993 and continues until the present day, has the title “Keroskopos” (“Opportunist”) as a general, indicative title.It is a fundamental unit of my work.
I have the same obsession with another series of works in which money plays the dominant role; I have named this unit Y€$ from the symbols of the three most powerful currencies in the 90s (nineties), the yen, the euro and the dollar.
One characteristic of my work is this obsession; every speculation is examined thus creating a bulk of work which can be autonomised. It is a constant process of research. Many units have emerged from this procedure.
They are prominent and they struggle with the space like every piece of sculpture. However, they are designed to reveal a particular theme and content. One can form the picture which interests him/her although one usually tends to follow the title of the work.
Teaching
FAR 100 _ Drawing Approaches: Observation and Representation
FAR 101 _ Mixed Media Approaches: Drawing, Painting and Collage
FAR 110 _ Painting Approaches: Fundamentals of Techniques and Media in Two-dimensional Creation
FAR 210 _ Painting, Drawing and Printmaking: Methods, Process-based approaches and techniques
FAR 211 _ Content and Context in 2d Visual Practices: Painting, Drawing and Printmaking
FAR 360 _ Creative Studio Art Practice Ι
FAR 361 _ Creative Studio Art Practice II
FAR 460 _ Creative Studio Art Practice III
FAR 461 _ Creative Studio Art Practice ΙV: Final Year Project and Exhibition
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2017 What a wonderful, wonderful world…, Art Wall, Athens, Greece
2013 Sleep Sliding Away, EDW, ReMap4, Athens, Greece
2012 Martyrium, gallery Françoise Heitsch, Munich, Germany
2012 1000 meters of Protection, La Soiree de Votanique, Athens, Greece
2009 Kapsel, gallery Françoise Heitsch, Munich, Germany
2005 Kosmos, Cork Vision Centre, Cork, Ireland
2004 Smoking seriously damages the country, Diaspro Art Center, Nicosia, Cyprus
2004 The view that I love, Siakolas Tower, Nicosia, Cyprus
2002 ¥€$, gallery a.antonopoulou, Athens, Greece
2002 Occupied, gallery Mylos, Thessaloniki, Greece
2001 x365, (currency change), 365art project, Athens, Greece
1999 Space-Eater, Diaspro Art Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus
1996 Graduate Show, National School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
Group Exhibitions
2018 Weaving Europe/Weaving Balkans, Biennale of West Balkans, Ioannina, Greece (cur.: Efi Kyprianidou)
2018 «DIE KUNST IST EIN AUSWEG BEI SEXUELLEN PROBLEMEN», Freud’s Dream Museum”, St. Petersburg, Russia (cur.: Efi Kyprianidou)
2018 10 Artists in the light of Caravaggio, Larnaka Municipal Art Gallery, Larnaka, Cyprus (cur.: Stratis Pantazis)
2018 Painting Notes, Art Seen, Nicosia, Cyprus (cur.: Maria Stathi)
2018 SHELL the politics of being, 15th high School, Kypseli, Athens, Greece (cur.: Kostas Prapoglou)
2018 Portraits: Aura of Life and Death, Lanitis Foundation, Limassol, Cyprus (cur.:Efi Kyprianidou)
2017 Fall 2017 Residency Exhibition, NARS Foundation, New York City, USA (cur.: Eriola Pira)
2017 So Close Yet So Far Away: Contemporary artists from Cyprus, Petah Tikva Museum of Art, Israel (cur.: Yiannis Toumazis)
2017 Removement Athens 2017, Kairi Arcade, Athens, Greece (cur.: Maria Vasariotou)
2017 Imaginary Spaces, House of Cyprus, Athens Greece (cur.: Stratis Pantazis)
2017 7th edition of CONTEXTS International Festival of Ephemeral Art, Sokolovsko, Poland (cur.: Malgorzata Sady)
2017 [un]known destinations, Kypseli, Athens, Greece (cur.: Kostas Prapoglou)
2017 2 decades +, Jannis Spyropoulos awards, Vorres Museum, Paiania, Attiki (cur.: Olga Daniylopoulou)
2017 Avlaia, Markideio Theatre, Pafos 2017 European Capital of Culture, Pafos, Cyprus (cur.: Yioula Hadjigeorgiou)
2016 Ars Moriendi, House of Cyprus, Athens, Greece (cur.: Niki Loizidi)
2016 Conjunctions, Peninsula Art Space, New York City, NY (cur.: Rachel Valinsky)
2016 Limassol, Post Growth and Development? Municipal social houses, Limassol,Cyprus (cur.: Maria Lianou, Alexandros Cristophinis)
2016 Scarecrow contemporary art exhibition, vineyard of Domaine Sigalas, Oia, Santorini, Greece (cur.: Maria Vasariotou)
2016 ‘3459’, Flux Factory, New York City, NY (cur.: Emireth Hererra)
2016 2016 Summer Exhibition, The Fields Sculpture Park, Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, New York (cur.: Nicole Hayes)
2016 Art-Athina, International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens, gallery Françoise Heitsch, Athens
2016 Devalue/Value/Surplus Value; between “work” and “art”, Contemporary Greek Art Institute, Athens, Greece (cur.: Charis Kanellopoulou)
2015 Epitopou 2015, Livadia, Andros, Greece (cur.: Stratis Pantazis)
2015 Art-Athina, International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens, gallery Françoise Heitsch, Athens
2014 Art Omi 2014 Residents, Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, New York (cur.: Moukhtar Kocache)
2014 Trauma and therapy, Cypriot antiquity and contemporary art, Paphos archaeological museum, Paphos (cur.: Niki Loizidi)
2013 No Words, Larnaca Municipal Gallery, Larnaca (cur.: Tonia Loizou)
2013 Medium as Narrative, CAMP Contemporary Art Meeting Point, Athens (cur.: Lina Tsikouta)
2013 Art-Athina, International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens, gallery Françoise Heitsch, Athens
2012 Terra Mediterranea – In Crisis, Nicosia Municipal Art Centre, Nicosia (cur.: Yiannis Toumazis)
2012 Contemporary Cypriot Sculpture, DOM UMENIA, Bratislava (cur.: Tonia Loizou)
2012 Mapping Cyprus, Contemporary Views, Bozar, Brussels (cur.: Andri Michael)
2012 Plus One, Cultural Centre “Leonidas Kanellopoulos”, Elefsina, Greece (cur.: Maria Maragou)
2012 Without, Palaia Ilectriki, Pafos, Cyprus (cur.: Yioula Hadjigeorgiou)
2011 The Location of Culture, Pulchri Studio, The Hague, Netherlands (cur.: Pavlina Paraskevaidou)
2011 UNCOVERED, Nicosia International Airport, Ledra Street Buffer zone, Nicosia (cur.: Pavlina Paraskevaidou, Basak Senova)
2011 The Roads of Hereafter, Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Rethymno (cur.: Maria Maragou)
2011 The Little Land Fish, EMAA Capital Art Center, Nicosia (Cur.: Antonis Danos and Yasa Yaman)
2011 Art-Athina, International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens, gallery Françoise Heitsch, Athens
2010 Chypre 2010, Lárt au present, Espace Commines, Paris (cur.: Yiannis Toumazis, Andri Michael)
2010 20 Years of the Jannis Spyropoulos Foundation, Benaki museum, Athens (cur.: Olga Daniylopoulou)
2010 Mona Hatoum Art Workshop, Villa Iris, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, Spain (cur.: Mona Hatoum)
2010 The Little Land Fish, Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture, Antrepo Exhibition Venue, Istanbul, Turkey (Cur.: Antonis Danos and Yasa Yaman)
2010 Looking Awry: Views of an anniversary, Evagoras Lanitis Centre Limassol, Cyprus (Cur.: Antonis Danos)
2010 Art is…, Marfin Laiki Bank Cultural Centre, Nicosia (Cur.: Marina Vryonidou)
2010 1974 – Landmark in Politics and Art, Famagusta Gate, Nicosia (Cur.: Marina Sxiza)
2009 Open 12, International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations, Venice Lido, Italy (cur.: Olga Daniylopoulou)
2009 The Roads of Hereafter, European Cultural Centre of Delphi (cur.: Maria Maragou)
2009 Art-Athina, International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens, gallery Françoise Heitsch, Athens
2009 The Creation of the Image – The Consumption of Emotions // The Consumption of the Image – The Creation of Emotions, 10 years after, House of Cyprus, Athens (cur.: Lina Tsikouta)
2008 Action Field Kodra, Artist in Residency programme of Forum European Cultural Exchanges, Thessalonica, Greece (cur.: Ruth Noack)
2008 Cypriots Contemporary Art, Paris & Action Field Kodra, Thessalonica (cur.: Andri Michael)
2008 No place – no space, zeon, Athens, & gallery Diatopos, Cyprus (cur.: Marilena Koskina)
2008 Waiting news from you, Gounaropoulos museum, Athens (cur.: Andri Michael)
2007 Grey (I had a dream Cyprus was a superpower), House of Cyprus, Athens & Rethymnon Centre for Contemporary Art, Crete, Greece (cur.: Maria Maragou)
2007 Crossings: A Contemporary View, Nicosia Municipal Art Centre, Nicosia (cur.: Yiannis Toumazis, Andri Michael)
2007 Meeting Europe – Cyprus, La Châtaigneraie – Centre Wallon d’ Art Contemporain, Liege, Belgium (cur.: Dimitri Konstantinidis)
2006 The Scarecrow, E. Averoff Museum, Metsovo, Greece (cur.: Olga Daniylopoulou)
2006 Meeting Europe – Cyprus, Palais du Rhin, Strasbourg, France (cur.: Dimitri Konstantinidis)
2005 Treason of Sculpture, Gallery Mario Sequeira, Braga, Portugal (cur.: David Baro, Agar Ledo)
2005 Accidental Meetings, Nicosia Municipal Art Centre, Nicosia (cur.: Yiannis Toumazis)
2005 Seducidos polo Accidente, Luis Seoane Foundation, Corunna, Spain (cur.: David Baro, Agar Ledo)
2004 Instant Europe, Villa Manin, Centre for Contemporary Art, Passariano, Italy (cur.: Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto)
2004 The joy of my dreams, BIACS 1st international Biennale of Contemporary Art of Seville, Spain (cur.: Harald Szeeman)
2004 Athena by art, Athens (cur.: Christina Petrinou)
2004 Fair ARCO, Gallery a.antonopoulou, Madrid. Spain, (cur.: Α. Αntonopoulou)
2004 MadridTwelve Positions in Contemporary Greek Art, European Patent Office Munich, Germany (cur.: Françoise Heitsch)
2004 ausderferne, ausdernähe, ausdermitte, Galerie Françoise Heitsch, Munich, Germany (cur.: Françoise Heitsch)
2003 EUROPE EXIST, Macedonian museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (cur.: Rosa Martinez & Harald Szeeman)
2003 Sketching out Tomorrow and Yesterday, Young Greek artists, tribute to the region of Yiannena, Macedonian museum of Contemporary art, Thessaloniki & Gazi, Athens (cur.: Lina Tsikouta)
2002 La Belle et la Bête, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bruxelles (cur.: Marina Vryonidou, Dimitri Konstantinidis)
2002 Sketching out Tomorrow and Yesterday, Young Greek artists, tribute to the region of Yiannena, E. Averoff museum, Metsovo (cur.: Lina Tsikouta)
2001 DestePrize 2001, Deste Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Athens (cur.: Katerina Gregos)
2001 La Belle et la Bête, Macedonian museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (cur.: Marina Vryonidou, Dimitris Konstantinidis)
2001 Work - Matter, Matter - Work, Vafopoulion Cultural Centre, Thessaloniki
(cur.: Dorothea Konteletzidou)
2001 La Belle et la Bête, Palais du Rhin, DRAC Alsace, Strasbourg (cur.: Marina Vryonidou, Dimitris Konstantinidis)
2001 La Belle et la Bête, FRAC Corse, Corde, Corsica (cur.: Marina Vryonidou, Dimitris Konstantinidis)
2001 La Belle et la Bête, Casteliotissa, Nicosia (cur.: Marina Vryonidou, Dimitris Konstantinidis)
2000 From Chisel to Amber – 100 Years of Contemporary Sculpture in Cyprus, National Gallery of Contemporary Cypriot Art & Casteliotissa, Nicosia (cur.: Eleni Nikita)
2000 Artists of the Spyropoulos Museum, The Foundation of the Hellenic World, Athens (cur.: Olga Daniylopoulou)
1999 Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Rome (cur.: Jannis Kounellis)
1998 Spyropoulos Foundation Awards, Jannis Spyropoulos Museum, Athens (cur.: Olga Daniylopoulou)
1998 Young Cypriot Artists, Palais des Nations, Geneva (cur.: Eleni Nikita)
1998 Time, House of Cyprus, Athens
1998 The Berlin Wall, Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia (cur.: Yiannis Toumazis)
1998 The Creation of the Image – The Consumption of Emotions/ / The Consumption of the Image – The Creation of Emotions, House of Cyprus, Athens (cur.: Lina Tsikouta)
1997 Class of ’96, the National Gallery, Athens (cur.: Lina Tsikouta & Triantafyllos Patraskidis)
1997 A Century of Visual Artistic Creation – Works from the National Collection of Contemporary Art, HELEXPO – Thessaloniki 1997 Cultural Capital of Europe, Thessaloniki (cur.: Eleni Nikita)
1997 advARTising – 50 Years of ADEL Saatchi & Saatchi, Pierides Gallery, Athens (cur.: Olga Daniylopoulou)
Kyriakos Kousoulides
Special Teaching Staff
kyriacos.kousoulides@cut.ac.cy
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BIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY
Kyriacos is a Visual and media artist with a background in philosophy and computer science.
His work has been exhibited internationally in more than 30 prominent exhibition spaces and galleries alongside artists like Günter Brus, Ulay, Kimsooja, Anne Wilson, Christina Lucas, Diana Wood Conroy and many more. In 2017 he was selected by "Walk the Plank" team to do the visuals for the highly acclaimed Pafos17 opening ceremony.
He has extensive experience in Creative Computation and large scale software development. Deep knowledge of C++ and proficient in ObjVc, Processing, 3D Visuals, JavaScript and many other technologies.
He is also an Open Frameworks Contributor. His open sourced work on the Apple Remote Integration has been selected for the Artic Vault Software code preservation initiative. He Speaks English and Greek fluently.
SCHOLARSHIPS
2011 - 2012 Cyprus State Graduate Scholarship for academic excellence (MSc).
2005 - 2010 Cyprus State Scholarship for academic excellence (BA).
EDUCATION
2010 B.A , Visual Arts, Athens School of Fine Arts Studied 3d Visuals, Multimedia, Architecture and Philosophy
2011 Awarded Postgraduate Equivalent Certificate by Cyprus Council for the Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications
2012 MA., Masters Of Art with Marit in Computational Arts, Creative Computing, by Goldsmiths University of London Studied C++, Processing, Java, Objective-C, Robotics, Urbi Script, Micro-controllers, Arduino, Raspberry-pi
AREA OF RESEARCH
Advanced Video Editing
3d Visualizations
Painting
Printmaking
Interactive Environments
Photography/Video Recording
Installations
Video Art
A.I Computer Vision
Software Development
TEACHING
2024-Today Special Education Staff, Department of Fine Arts, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus.
2020-2024 Special Scientist, Department of Fine Arts, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus.
FAR 333 [Studio & Theory] Introduction to Video Art
FAR 460 [Studio] Creative Studio Art Practice III
FAR 320 Laboratory Practice and Theory 14: 3D Creation (Digital Art)
FAR 232 "Laboratory Practice and Theory 13: Digital Image-Audio Applications"
FAR 321 "Lab Practice and Theory 15: 3D Creation (Digital Art)"
FAR 410 Laboratory Practice and Theory 16: Two-dimensional creation (Video/Interactive/Multimedia)”
FAR 420 "Lab Practice and Theory 16: 3D Creation (Video/Interactive/Multimedia)"
FAR 232 "Laboratory Practice and Theory 13: digital audio image applications"
FAR 311 "Lab Practice and Theory 15: two-dimensional creation (Video/ Interactive)"
FAR_320 "Lab Practice and theory 14: 3D creation Video/Interactive"
FAR_420 "Lab Practice and theory 16: Video/Interactive/Multimedia"
FAR 311 "Lab Practice and Theory 15: two-dimensional creation (Interactive Art/Animation/Digital Art"
EXHIBITIONS
CAREER AND RECOGNITION
SELECTED (CURATED) LIST OF EXHIBITIONS
2023 – "Sredets Gallery” Sofia / (Curator Steve Pantazis)
2023 – "Camp!” Athens / (Curator Steve Pantazis)
2022 – "Reflections” Cyprus / MAMA (Curator Steve Pantazis)
2022 – "Resillience Compassion” . Municipal Gallery of Athens. (Curator Katerina Koskina , Efi Kyprianidou)
2021 – "From East To East” . Ningbo Cultural Center. China. (Curator Assadour Markarov)
2020 – "We Can Never Go Back” . Forest Park Hotel. Cyprus.(Curator Klitsa Antoniou)
2018 – "Weaving Europe / Weaving Balkans” . Biennale of Western Balkans. (Curator Efi Kyprianidou)
2018 – "Portraits” : Αura of Life and Death. Evagoras and Kathleen Lanitis Cultural Center, Limassol. (Curator Efi Kyprianidou)
2017 "Weaving Europe: The World as Meditation” . (Curator Efi Kyprianidou)
[Participant Artists: Kimsooja, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Eva Borner, Loukia Alavanou, Anne Wilson, Janis Jefferis, Johan Grimonprez, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Francesca Fini, Diane Wood Conroy, Yannis Sakellis, Nikos Gyftakis, Eleni Nikodemou, Erato Hadjisavva, Christos Avraam, Anastasia Mina, Christina Lucas ].
2017 - Pafos17, Pafos EU Capital of Culture 2017 Opening Ceremony, Building 3d Projection Mapping. Led by "Walk The Plank Theater Company”
2016 - Theatro Dentro, (interactive visuals) - "aorato” Dance Performance by Marina Poyiaji
2016 - Nicosia Dance Festival, (interactive visuals) - "temenos” Dance Performance by Marina Poyiaji[2]
2015 - Art Athina, "The Waiting Room.” Athens
2015 - Compassion: On the phenomenology of being ill, (Curator Efi Kyprianidou) Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Berlin.
2014 - Anasystasi. Embassy of Greece in Cyprus & Greek Presidency of the EU Council. Nicosia.
2014 - Atticon Cultural Center Othellos Rebirth, Cyprus (Curator Efi Kyprianidou)
2014 – "Introducing” , Athens
2013 - Camp!, (Curator Tassos Stylianou) Athens
2013 - Athens Concert Hall , Athens (Curator Yiannis Psychopedis)
2012 – "Consolation” Interactive Street Performance, London
2012 - Hatcham Church Show, London
2012 – V&A Museum, London (Curator Irine Papademitriou)
2011 - Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Athens
2011 - Tinshed Gallery, London
2010 - ISNOT Gallery, Cyprus
2010 - Breeder Gallery, Athens
2009 - Meat Market Show - Large Scale Collective Creative initiative, Athens
2009 - Cyprus Culture Center Exarchia - "Emvolima” (Curator Eleni Sevasti)
Special Scientists
Charis Pellapaisiotis
Special Scientist
pelapaissiotis.h@unic.ac.cy
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Haris Pellapaisiotis, PhD, is an artist working primarily with photography, video, text, and walking as an aesthetic practice. He is an academic with over 30 years of university lecturing experience. In addition to lecturing at the University of Technology, Cyprus, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nicosia where he lectures in Photography, Studio Art Practice, and Art Theory. Between 1991-2001, he lectured in Photography at Goldsmiths, University of London, and has exhibited and published internationally and in Cyprus.
Yioula Hatzigeorgiou
Special Scientist
yioula.hatzigeorgiou@cut.ac.cy
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Youla Hadjigeorgiou studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA). She graduated in 1999. She holds a Master's degree in Painting and has also attended the Printmaking and Stage Design workshops at the same school. She studied at the National Theatre of Athens from 1984 to 1987.
She has participated in numerous educational research programs(residencies/Erasmus) as well as artistic seminars and programs. She is a founding member of the non-profit cultural organization M.A.M.A. Contemporary, based in Paphos, Cyprus, from 2021 to the present.
She has been teaching as a Special Scientist at the Department of Fine Arts of the Cyprus University of Technology since 2020.
She has held a large number of solo and group exhibitions in museums, galleries, and organizations. Her work has been showcased both in Cyprus and internationally, including:
53rd Venice Biennale, 25th São Paulo Biennale, Brazil, 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale, 25th Alexandria Biennale, Egypt, 12th Cairo Biennale, Egypt, Western Balkans Biennale, Ioannina, Greece, 16th Biennale Internacional del Deporte en el Arte, Seville, Spain, Ostgotateatern Theatre, Norrkoping, Östergotland, Sweden, 2nd Tashkent Biennale, Uzbekistan, Ocean Flower Island Museum, Hainan, China, National Gallery, Athens, Greece, National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens, Bozar Expo, Brussels, Belgium, National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., USA, Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall, Greece, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece, Norrkoping City Museum, Sweden, Museum of Modern Greek Culture, Athens, Greece, CINE XIII THEATER, Paris, France, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece, Onassis Stegi, Athens, Greece, Cicaf International Festival, Hangzhou, China, 6th International Sculpture Exhibition, Lido, Venice, Antrepo Exhibition Venue, Istanbul, Turkey, Gallery FLAT I, Vienna, Austria, Opening Gallery, New York, USA, Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, John Jay, New York, USA, Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens, Greece, ZADEN Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany, Nikki Diana Marquardt Gallery, Paris, France, Diatopos Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Efstratios Pantazis
Special Scientist
efstratios.pantazis@cut.ac.cy
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He holds an MA in Museum Studies from Seton Hall University (USA) and a PhD in Art History from the University of Manchester (UK). His doctoral dissertation focuses on the work of Jannis Kounellis.
Since 2020, he teaches Art History courses at the Technological University of Cyprus. He has published articles, reviews and interviews in various magazines and newspapers in Greece and abroad. He has also curated solo and group exhibitions in Greece, Cyprus, Austria, the United States and Bulgaria.
Rafaella Constantinou
Special Scientist
r.constantinou@cut.ac.cy
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Rafaella Constantinou is an artist and lecturer. Constantinou holds a BA Fine Arts at Athens School of Fine Arts and an MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Germany. Her practice is focused in Art in public space and the sociopolitical engagements of sites. Her work delves into a range of dipoles as presence-absence, appropriation-reappropriation, construction-deconstruction; creating in situ works where the stimuli are deriving from the philosophical understanding of spaces and their politics. She had solo shows in Germany and Cyprus and has participated in various group exhibitions in Cyprus, Greece, Germany, UK and Luxembourg.
Kyriakos Kallis
Special Scientist
kyriakos.kallis@cut.ac.cy
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Konstantinos Argianas
Special Scientist
k.argianas@cut.ac.cy
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Konstantinos Argianas holds a PhD in the History of Art from the University of Vienna. Additionally, he holds an MA in Art History from the University of Crete and a BA in History from the Ionian University (Greece). He currently serves as an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Fine Arts, Cyprus University of Technology, where he teaches history and theory of art.
Spyridon Potamias
Special Scientist
spotamias@yahoo.gr
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Spyros Potamias holds a Phd in Sociology (Panteion University of Athens), a Master’s degree in History of Philosophy (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) and made interdisciplinary studies on Balkan societies. He also studied Music - Composition and Piano. He has published a monograph with the title Economy and Society: Young Lukács’ marxism as a critique of capitalism (2022) and articles on issues of social theory, theory and sociology of art. Currently, he prepares a monograph in the field of Sociology of Art on the work of A.Schönberg
Simoni Philippou
Special Scientist
simone.philippou@cut.ac.cy
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Simone Philippou is a visual artist and printmaker. She obtained postgraduate degrees from the Tokyo University of the Arts in Printmaking and the London University of the Arts in Camberwell in Visual Arts. Simone specializes in traditional printmaking processes and is an active member of the artist and academic community both on a local and international level.
Dimitrios Savva
Special Scientist
dimitrios.savva@cut.ac.cy
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Dimitris Savva is an electroacoustic music composer, live-electronics performer, researcher, and educator. His artistic work includes electroacoustic music, compositions for multimedia works, documentaries, dance and theater performances, as well as individual and collective works of live electronic music with interactive media. His electroacoustic music works have been presented since 2011 at 95 international music festivals, including The Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2024, Matera 2024-ARTESCIENZA 2024, In Sonic 2017: Immersive Future [ZKM], ICMC 2014 [Athens], and New York Electroacoustic Music Festival 2021. Some of these works have won awards in prestigious competitions, such as Metamorphoses 2012, 2014, 2018, and Iannis Xenakis 2018. Ten of his works have been published on significant collective records, such as Metamorphoses and CIME 2020.