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Sofia Paraskeva is an artist who experiments with interactive media, film, video and sound. She explores sound and visuals in the context of leading edge technology, developing computer vision installations and interactive performance instruments such as musical gloves, and bodysuits. Sofia has a background in visual art and design, and media communication. Her work spans across interactive art and design, filmmaking, video production, visual effects, graphics and experimental sound.
She graduated from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University in 2009, where she sought new ways of communication through art, science and technology. She explores communication interfaces that allow for personal narratives to evolve through the merging of image, sound and performance. She is interested in the capacity of interactive art to involve the audience in time and space, calling the traditional roles of audience, participator and artist into question. Through technology and art she seeks to expand and enhance the human experience. She enjoys analyzing, interpreting and mapping visual and multi-dimensional data in uniquely meaningful ways that draw inventive connections between human expression and communication.
Paraskeva has won a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Communities Artist Award for participating and co-curating the Op On Screen Interactive Festival in October 2009 at the New York Public Library – Hamilton Fish Park. The performances/installations included Lesley Flanigan’s Voices for Speakers, Arleen Schloss’ and Emma Zakarevicius’ Echolations, Rainbow Resonance, and The Trickster by Elodie Lauten, Sofia Paraskeva and Khoi Bao Le. Her interactive project Rainbow Resonance, a computer vision musical interface, was exhibited at the New York Hall of Science in October 2008 and February to April 2009. Rainbow Resonance was also presented at Harvestworks, New York, and was exhibited at ARTos Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus in the fall of 2010.
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