Writing, theory, practice, education, research in sound and voice from the standpoint of fugitivity.
About
Until September 2024, I was Reader in Digital Culture and Sonic Arts at the Royal College of Art, in London, where, alongside postgraduate teaching, I ran the seminar ‘Fugitive Voices’ —a series of conversations with guest artists and theorists, such as Banu Cennetoğlu, Elizabeth Price, Hypatia Vourloumis, Season Butler, Abbas Zahedi, Lee Gamble, Jenna Sutela, and others—airing monthly on Stegi Radio. Since December 2024, I am Assistant Professor in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts, at the School of Fine Art/ Music Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Some of my latest projects include The Passing, a site-specific sound installation drawing on the tradition of lamentation to compose a generative piece; and Future Chorus, a vinyl album based on a collection of sound and spoken word combined with machine learning processes, featuring mixes 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 created and toured a series of exhibitions under the same name. I am founder and co-editor of the Media Philosophy Series (Bloomsbury) and author of the monograph The Rhythmic Event: Art, Media and the Sonic (The MIT Press 2014).
My work has been presented, taught, performed and exhibited at sound and media art festivals, such as Sonic Acts, CTM , Unsound, Mira, Bristol New Music festival, Abandon Normal Devices, and art centres such as Tate Modern , the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London, Somerset House , Arebyte Gallery , Spike Island Bristol, and Onassis Stegi Athens, and academic institutions, such as 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, among others, in the hope of sharing tools and methods with which to resist dominant narratives and speak with/ listen to other voices.
Work
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
Witness Record — Sound installation as MAENADS (Saber Rider and Eleni Ikoniadou), MOMus, 2nd Electroacoustic Music and Audiovisual Arts Festival ‘Stereoma’, Thessaloniki, Greece, 20 Sep –27 Oct 2024
Practice
Witness Record — Live performance with Aliki Leftherioti and Maria Sideri, MOMus, “Stereoma”, Thessaloniki
The Passing —Site-specific sound installation as MAENADS, Plásmata II, Onassis Stegi, Ioannina, Greece, 16 June–9 July 2023
Future Chorus — Vinyl album by Hypermedium/MAENADS, funded by the EPSRC Human-Data Interaction Network Plus, Jan 2023
Lamenters — Performance with Viki Steiri, Sound Quests II, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, 8 Nov 2022
Translations and Mobilities in Sound — Artist-in-residence, postgraduate programme, Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly, Pilion, Greece, 27–29 Aug 2022
Hydrapolivocals — Sound installation with MAENADS, Weaving Worlds, Deree – The American College of Greece, Athens, 20 May–25 June 2022
The Lamenters — Audio essay with Viki Steiri, Wake Words, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, Austria, 1 Oct–7 Nov 2021
Polyphonic Lament — Film-performance collaboration with Carolin Schurrer, Theatrum Mundi, Siobhan Davies Studios, London, Nov 2020
The Ungoverned — Radio work with AUDINT, curated by A—Z (Anne Duffau), Wysing Polyphonic Festival, UK, 5 Sep 2020
Code Omega — Audio essay collaboration with Savvas Metaxas, The Sonic Continuum, Nottingham Contemporary journal, April 2020
Unsound: Undead — Installation and live performance with AUDINT, MIRA Festival, Barcelona, Oct 2019
It Sings — Audio essay, New Suns Feminist Literary Festival, Barbican Centre, London, 5 Oct 2019
Unsound: Undead — AUDINT book launch event, Tate Lates, Tate Modern, London, 26 July 2019
Unsound: Undead — AUDINT exhibition, Arebyte Gallery, London, 24 May–15 June 2019
Her Voice — Animated film in collaboration with Katerina Athanasopoulou and Savvas Metaxas, Arebyte Gallery, London.
Her Voice — Live event and discussion panel curated by Eleni Ikoniadou, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, 11 April 2019
Unsound: Undead — AUDINT exhibition, screenings, performances and public discourse programme, Spike Island, Bristol, 20–22 April 2018
Unsound Methods — AUDINT performance, Unsound Festival, Kraków, Poland, Oct 2018
Her Voice — Live performance with Demelza Toy Toy, Post-Cyber Feminism, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 18 Nov 2017
Undercurrency Vault — AUDINT performance event, Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival, Speedwell Cavern, Castleton, UK, 22–23 Sep 2017
Upload=Delphic Panaceas — AUDINT exhibition and performance, SONAR, Zorlu Performing Arts Centre, Istanbul, Turkey, 9 March–20 April 2017
Publications
‘Microsonic sensibility: phantoms of affects to come’ for Yproductions Library (2006), ed Jaron Rowan, Barcelona
Talks
‘A Chorus’ (1/6/22), keynote for Anthropology and Kinetic Arts, University of Thessaly, Greece
Sound-Rhythm-Fiction (17.06.2016), keynote for Bau College of Design, Barcelona