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Greek and World Theatre: Drama, Performance, Education

POULOU ANGELIKI

ANGELIKI POULOU

Assistant Professor

Contemporary Art & New Media • Performance • Digital Arts • Art & Technology

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Angeliki Poulou is Assistant Professor at the Department of Digital Arts and Cinema of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, specialising in the “History and Theory of Contemporary Art and New Media”.

Her theoretical and curatorial work lies at the intersection of contemporary art, the philosophy of art and technology, and emerging forms of performance.

Contemporary ArtNew MediaDigital ArtsPerformanceArt & TechnologyDramaturgyCuratorial Practice
Academic Education
  • PhD from the Doctoral School Arts and Media of Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Department of Theatre Studies, NKUA.
  • Master’s degree in Performing Arts from Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III.
  • BA from the Department of Communication and Media Studies, NKUA.
Research and Theoretical Focus
Her theoretical work focuses on the relationship between:
  • Contemporary art and technology
  • Philosophy of art and new media
  • Digital art and performance
  • Theatre and digital cultures
  • Dramaturgy and intermedial practice
Medea Electronique

She has been a member of the artistic collective Medea Electronique since 2011.

Within the collective, she works as a curator and dramaturg, with a particular focus on interdisciplinary practice, new media and digital art.

Ancient Drama and Interdisciplinary Approaches
From 2017 to 2019, she was academic curator of the European programme

Ancient Drama: Inter-artistic and Interdisciplinary Approaches

at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation.
Research Networks and Platforms
  • Member of the European Network for Research and Documentation of Performances of Ancient Drama (ArcNet) .
  • Founding collaborator of the Greek Play Project, a platform dedicated to contemporary Greek dramaturgy.
Curatorial and Dramaturgical Practice
As a curator and dramaturg, she has collaborated with independent artists and cultural institutions in Greece and France.

Selected collaborations include:

  • National Theatre of Greece
  • Onassis Stegi
  • French Institute of Greece
  • MIRfestival
  • documenta 14
  • Bouchra Khalili
  • Les Gens d’Uterpan
  • Point Éphémère
Municipal Theatre of Piraeus
During 2021-2022, she served as Head of the

Dramaturgy Department of the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus.

Interdisciplinary and International Collaborations
Her curatorial and dramaturgical work moves across:
  • Theatre
  • Performance
  • New media
  • Digital art
  • Visual arts
  • Interdisciplinary artistic practices
Recent Academic Publications
  1. George Rodosthenous & Angeliki Poulou (2021). Greek Tragedy and the Digital. London: Bloomsbury.
  2. Angeliki Poulou & Eric Lewis (2021). From Fruit to Root: Medea Electronique’s Interactive Archive of New Media Art . Onassis Stegi, with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Canada – Athens.
  3. Angeliki Poulou (2022). “Contester le Projet”. Revue Agôn, Dossier No. 9 “Rater”, edited by E. Baudou, A. Coulon & Q. Riual, Paris.