I am a researcher and educator specialising in sound and voice, from the standpoint of fugitivity.
About
I was Reader in Digital Culture and Sonic Arts at the Royal College of Art until September 2024, where I ran Fugitive Voices—a series of conversations with guest artists and theorists, such as Banu Cennetoğlu, Elizabeth Price, Hypatia Vourloumis, Season Butler, Lee Gamble and Jenna Sutela, airing monthly on Stegi Radio. I relocated to Athens in 2025 and took on a new post in Sound Studies and Sound Art at the fine art school of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Some of my latest collaborative projects include The Passing, a site-specific sound installation at the castle of Ioannina, drawing on Epirotic laments to compose a generative and continuously changing piece; and Future Chorus, a vinyl album based on a collection of sound and spoken word combined with machine learning processes, featuring sound works by AGF, Chino Amobi, Lafawndah & Trustfall, Harrga, and Savvas Metaxas. For this project I co-founded MAENADS, a growing collective and platform for sonic, visual, performative and text-based projects. As member of the art group AUDINT, I co-edited the anthology Unsound: Undead (Urbanomic 2019) and produced a series of exhibitions under the same name. I am founder and co-editor of the Media Philosophy Series (Rowman & Littlefield) and author of the monograph The Rhythmic Event: Art, Media and the Sonic (The MIT Press 2014).
My work has been presented, performed and exhibited at media art festivals, such as CTM Berlin, Unsound Krakow, Tate Modern London, Mira Festival Barcelona, Bristol New Music, Abandon Normal Devices UK, and art centres such as the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London, Somerset House London, Arebyte Gallery London, Spike Island Bristol, and Onassis Stegi Athens. I have taught, delivered papers and keynotes at Harvard University, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, The New Centre for Research & Practice New York, Oxford University, Sandberg Instituut, University of Glasgow, Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, University of Washington and others, now more than ever, in the hope of sharing tools with students and colleagues on how to resist Western dominant narratives and speak with/ listen to other voices.
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Reader in Digital Culture and Sonic Arts/ Senior Tutor (Research), Royal College of Art, 2018-2025
Visiting Lecturer, Centre for Cultural Studies and MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, 2017-2018
Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication, Kingston University, 2010-2018
Visiting Lecturer in Critical Code, Digital Media Arts, London South Bank University, 2009-2010
Visiting Lecturer in Technoculture, University for the Creative Arts, Epsom , 2008-2010
Visiting Lecturer in Communications & New Technologies, London Metropolitan, 2007-2008
Visiting Lecturer in Digital Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London, 2004-2010
Projects
Live performance with Aliki Leftherioti and Maria Sideri, MOMus, “Stereoma”, Thessaloniki
Publications
Ikoniadou, E., "Microsonic sensibility: phantoms of affects to come" (2006), Yproductions Library, ed Jaron Rowan, Barcelona
Talks
A Chorus (01.06.2022), keynote for Anthropology and Kinetic Arts, University of Thessaly, Greece
Sound-Rhythm-Fiction (17.06.2016), keynote for Bau College of Design, Barcelona