contact: peqpez@gmail.com

STATEMENT

My artistic work explores the intersecting areas of art and technology with the social and the environmental. I work with the creative, critical and ludic appropriation of technologies, found objects and narrative fragments. I reuse found objects and hack their inner workings to speculate alternative possibilities for humans and non-humans. I also repurpose narrative fragments (from archives, memories, interviews, internet sources) and insert them in new contexts to deconstruct dominant narratives or to articulate new plural ones. My artworks are phygital and draw inspiration from subjects such as everyday life, political actuality, technological mediation of social interactions, tradition, and personal/collective (her)stories. I support open and sustainable creative practices, such DIY/DIWO production, use of opensource software and hardware, and free knowledge sharing across communities. My artistic practice interacts with my research work, which deals with the materiality of digital art, focusing on critical, socially engaged and tactical media artworks.

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BIO

Caterina Antonopoulou (a.k.a peqpez) is a media artist, researcher, engineer and lecturer. Her artistic practice combines interactive installations and performances, D.I.Y. augmented objects, real-time audiovisual generation, algorithmic video, and urban interventions.
She is currently an adjunct lecturer of media art at the Department of Digital Arts & Cinema of the University of Athens. Formerly she was an adjunct lecturer of interactive art at the Master in Digital Arts of Athens School of Fine Arts and an invited lecturer at the Athens School of Architecture. Moreover, she is the instructor of several lectures and workshops in the intersection of art and technology.

Caterina co-curated the 11th and 12th editions of Athens Digital Arts Festival and co-founded the art and technology collective ‘Once upon a Byte’ and the B-planet creative workshop for children. Her professional collaborations include research labs and artistic groups such as ElectrOpera.tors, Nada & Co, amorphy.org, Loop Dance Lab, the research institute ‘CTI Diophantus’, the Image, Video & Multimedia Systems Lab of the National Technical University of Athens, the Phonos Foundation of the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona, the Multimedia, Hypermedia & VideoArt Lab of the Athens School of Fine Arts.

Caterina holds a Ph.D. on Digital Arts, from the School of Social Sciences of the University of the Aegean (2021). Her Ph.D. thesis investigates the materiality of digital art, focusing on the integration of everyday objects into critical, socially engaged and tactical media artworks. Moreover, Caterina holds a master’s degree in Digital Arts from the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona (2009) and a diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (2006). Her work has been exhibited at numerous exhibitions, while her research work has been presented and published at international conferences and journals.