Stavros Didakis

Stavros Didakis is an academic, researcher, and artist whose work speculates on technological futures through architectural augmentation and inhabitant personalization. His research and practice explore sensorial interfaces, responsive ecologies, and computational frameworks as extensions of human environments. He has exhibited internationally at institutions and festivals such as Ars Electronica, Chronus Art Center, and TANK Shanghai, receiving commissions, grants, and awards in creative technologies. Didakis has published extensively in conferences, journals, and edited volumes, and currently serves as Associate Arts Professor in Interactive Media Arts at New York University Shanghai.

Select Publications

• Didakis, S. (2023). XENOFORMS: Computational Autonomy & Hybrid Architectures. In Proceedings of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS’23), Pittsburgh, USA, pp. 64–68.
• Didakis, S. (2021). Ubiquitous Colonies: Computational Parasites, Sentiment, & the Architectural Space. In Sentimental Machines 2021, IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (RCA, UK).
• Didakis, S. & Beloff, L. (2018). Beyond Digital Towards Biological. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA2018), Durban, South Africa.
• Didakis, S. (2016). Spatializing Invisible Matter; Atoms and Sensor Technologies. In Leonardo, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
• Didakis, S. & Phillips, M. (2013). Objects of Affect: The Domestication of Ubiquity. In Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 11(3), 307–317.

Education

• PhD, Media Arts & Technology
  University of Plymouth
• PG-MEd, Academic Practice
  Higher Education Academy
• MA, Sonic Arts
  Queen's University
• BSc, Music Technology & Audio Systems
  London Metropolitan University