It has been convincingly shown that technology, experimental arts, (social) sciences, and design thinking can be successfully bridged by means of a mixed and multidisciplinary methodology. Following more than a decade of related research, this talk outlines an eclectic array of projects that are simultaneously relevant to research subareas in science, technology, humanities, and the arts (accordingly producing knowledge, ways of knowing, interaction schemata, multimodal experiences, and hybrid artefacts in miscellaneous situated contexts). Emphasis is put on technological innovation as seen from a critical, experimental, and sociotechnical perspective. The endeavours to be discussed concern computational creativity, physical computing, self-generative algorithms, electronic instruments, AI-generated image/text, data sonification and visualization, cultural geography, and archaeology of the contemporary world.
Marinos Koutsomichalis is a Lecturer in Creative Multimedia at the Cyprus University of Technology (Limassol, CY) where he co-directs the Media Arts and Design Research Lab. He has a PhD in Electronic Music and New Media (De Montfort University, UK) and a MA in Composition with Digital Media (University of York, UK). Dr Koutsomichalis is an artist, scholar, and creative technologist. He has exhibited or performed his work extensively and internationally and has held research or teaching positions in Greece, Italy, Norway, and the U.K.
