Afroditi Psarra

Afroditi Psarra was born in 1982 in Athens, where she now lives and works, after a seven-year stay in Madrid. She is a visual artist and a PhD candidate at the School of Fine Arts in Madrid. Her academic research “Cyberpunk and New Media Art” focuses on the relationship between science fiction, performance and digital art, and offers a philosophical, sociological and aesthetic analysis of the influence of new technologies on art. Her artistic interest focuses on concepts such as the body as an interface, the identity crisis, folk tradition and the role of women in contemporary culture. Her artworks include a wide variety of media and techniques that extend from embroidery, soft circuits, hacking and programming, to interactive installation and performances. She has attended numerous workshops with some of the pioneers in new media such as; Stelarc, Sandy Stone, Ricardo Dominguez, Dmitry Gelfand and Evelyna Domnitch, Heath Bunting, and she has collaborated with Shu Lea Cheang in her project UKI. Lately, she has been exploring e-textiles and sound, and has tutored workshops on the LilyPad Arduino microprocessor.