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Maria Paneta (b.1988, Athens) is an artist who works on the verge of art and architecture.
Creates interactive installations, prosthetic wearables, video and photography, exploring the ways machines communicate with living things. Creates spaces dealing with augmented life in non-human environments and the bodily interfaces of their inhabitants.
Holds an MArch from Bartlett School of Architecture UCL on interaction design and a Diploma of Architecture from University of Patras.
Has exhibited internationally with shows in Athens, London, Utrecht and Texas.
Was part of the 150th anniversary of Harpers Bazaar in MoCA Shanghai 2017. Has worked with leading cultural and research institutions including the Bartlett School of Architecture, the Victoria & Albert Museum London, Saudi Ministry of Culture where taught interaction design. Paneta is based in Athens.
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Exhibitions
2022 Futuretro, 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens GR
2021 From where I stand, Athens Digital Arts Festival & Katsigras Museum, Larissa GR
2021 Tactus, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens GR
2020
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, Unprocessed Realities, Athens GR
2020 16th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Online
2019 The Sound of One Computer Thinking, Impakt Festival, Utrecht NL
2017
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, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens GR
2017 BodyHack Con, Austin TX
2017 Memememe, Crypt Galley St Pancras, London UK
2016 Letters to the Mayor | T.A.F. & Storefront with Art & Architecture New York, Athens GR
2015 Volumes 2015 Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich DE
Awards
2020 1st Digital Image Award, Athens Digital Arts Festival
2018 Silver IoT Award, New Yord Design Awards
2016 Domus best of 2016 #design, Domusweb
Press
2022 Design Society online
2021
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2017 Pasajes Arquitettura #132
2016
Talks
2022 Critical Borderlands 22, University of Oviedo, Oviedo SP [online]
2022 Bodies I, Plasmata: Bodies, Dreams and Data, Onassis Foundation, Athens GR
2017 E-Stitches, Victoria & Albert Museum, London UK
2017 Wear Sustain, Theocharakis Foundation, Athens GR
2017 Resonate Festival, Belgrade RS
Workshops
2022 Interactive weaving workshop at INTERMIX residency by the Visual Arts and Fashion
Commissions of the Saudi Ministry of Culture, Rijadh SA
2022 How to live in invisible spaces, Esto Association, Athens GR
2018 Make your first interactive robot, Victoria & Albert Museum, London UK
2018 Introduction to Wearables, Victoria & Albert Museum, London UK
Events
2022 Spring Energia, From Athens to Brussels with Love, Athens GR
