People
Co-Directors
Dr Niki Sioki
Short Bio
Niki Sioki (PhD) is a researcher and educator in typography and graphic communication design. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Design & Multimedia at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. Niki combines professional and research expertise having worked for almost 20 years in the academic and medical Greek publishing sector. Her research work concentrates, primarily, on graphic design history, printing history, and print culture with a special interest in the typographic appearance of Greek language. She regularly serves as a member of conferences’ scientific committees, professional and scholarly societies, and journals’ editorial boards; she has also participated in European research programs with a focus on design’s role in social inclusivity, transcultural approaches, and the convergence of analogue and digital technologies. ORCID number: 0000-0002-1781-4866
Dr Evanthia Tselika
Short Bio
Evanthia (Evi) Tselika is an arts and culture researcher, writer, curator and educator. She is Assistant Professor at the University of Nicosia, where she is also currently acting as the Fine Art programme coordinator and Associate Head of Department of Design and Multimedia. Her current research concentrates on social practices and histories of art, with a particular focus on the environment, the commons and social art practices, as well as visual cultural histories of the nineteenth and twentieth century. She has collaborated with various art centres and museums locally and internationally and has participated in and coordinated European research programs. She publishes in and edits academic books and journals, as well as organizing and chairs academic conferences/symposia/workshops and creates exhibition and art education programs with a focus on collectivity, public space and the environment. https://evanthiatselika.com/
Research Members
Maria Hadjiathanasiou
Short Bio
Maria Hadjiathanasiou is a cultural historian. She holds a PhD in Modern History and an MA in Art History both from the University of Bristol (UK), and a BA in English Literature from the University of Essex (UK). Between 2019 and 2021 she was the recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions / Widening fellowship, funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme, researching cultural diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean (ID: 867425 ‘Power through Attraction: British, Greek and Turkish Cultural Diplomacy in Cyprus’). Maria’s monograph Propaganda and the Cyprus Revolt: Rebellion, Counter-Insurgency, and the Media, 1955-1959 was published by I.B. Tauris (2020). Her work has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals. She is involved in editorial work, serving as an Assistant Editor to the cyprological academic journal Cyprus Review, an Assistant Editor to the Eastern Mediterranean Affairs magazine, and a co-editor to the Scientific Yearbook of the Cypriot Society for Historical Studies. Her main research interests are in cultural diplomacy and policy, insurgency/counterinsurgency studies, and cultural history. Maria worked as a Research Fellow at GNOSIS | Mediterranean Institute for Management Science. Currently she is Postdoctoral Research Associate at the ERA Chair Mnemosyne, Digital Heritage Research Laboratory, Cyprus University of Technology.
Elena Parpa
Short Bio
Elena Parpa writes, teaches, and curates alongside the discipline of history of art. She holds a PHD from the Department of Art History Birkbeck College, University of London. Her research focuses on the ways in which artists, across the Cyprus divide, focus on the representation of landscape by negotiating the conditions of place as a contentious area. She has curated a number of exhibitions, including How to Make a Garden (2012), Exercises in Orientation (2013/15) and Planetes (2017). Her essays have appeared in catalogues and edited volumes, including the ‘Daybook’ of documenta 14 (2017), the edited collections Contemporary Art in Cyprus: Politics, Identity and Culture Across Borders (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Marianna Christofides: Days in Between (Hatje Cantz, 2021). She wrote the second book in the series of Next Spring (Atlas Projectos, 2018), edited by Laura Preston.
Postgraduate Student
Polymnia Tsinti
Short Bio
Polymnia Tsinti works in between audiovisual and installation art. Prior to focusing on filmmaking, she studied Fine Arts at the University of Nicosia, where she currently pursues a Master’s degree in Digital Art and Design. She is also affiliated with the publisher and music label ‘Crossdressing Diogenes’.