Artist, Researcher, Designer, Technologist

Dialekti Valsamou-Stanislawski is a multidisciplinary person in search of truths and meaninglessness. Her work bridges the fields of digital arts, design, and technology. With a background spanning artificial intelligence, speculative design, and participatory practices, she explores the evolving relationship between humans, systems, and emerging technologies. Her practice is inherently hybrid, integrating sound, video, installation, and interactive elements to create immersive, thought-provoking experiences.

Her engagement with the arts started early, shaped by a broad exposure to visual arts, music, theater, and dance throughout her formative years. From choir performances and conservatory training to theater writing and directing, dance, and photography, she explored a range of creative expressions before her professional path led her into science, technology, and innovation. These experiences, while diverse, cultivated an enduring curiosity for storytelling, composition, and performativity, which continue to influence her artistic approach today.

Holding a PhD in Computer Science, she has worked extensively in artificial intelligence, research, and human-centered design, leading projects across startups, academia, and government innovation labs. This technical expertise continues to inform her artistic practice, allowing her to critically engage with themes of machine agency, social imaginaries, and the future of creativity in an age of automation.

Currently pursuing an MA in Digital Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts, she is expanding her focus on experimental media, speculative worldbuilding, and participatory methodologies. Her artistic research often engages with mythology, temporality, and cultural narratives, questioning how technology reshapes both collective and individual experience. Working across analog and digital techniques, she explores how fiction, memory, and computation converge in contemporary art-making.

A central axis of her work revolves around utility, exploring what is deemed useful, obsolete, or repurposed in both objects and knowledge systems. More recently, her practice has also turned toward the body as a site of re-materialization, fragmentation, and (re)assembly—a theme that aligns closely with the broader notion of hybridization. These inquiries carry a deeply existential dimension, informed by her personal path but also resonating with contemporary concerns about identity, transformation, and the shifting boundaries between the organic and the synthetic.

Having worked extensively in research, design, and technological innovation, she brings a critical yet hands-on approach to artistic creation. Her process is driven by an interest in rethinking tools, materials, and systems, often working at the intersection of speculative design, machine-assisted processes, and collective storytelling.

Now based in Athens after spending ~15 years in Paris, she remains engaged in both local and international creative communities, maintaining strong connections to the French artistic and research scene while actively contributing to the cultural landscape in Greece.