Daphne Dragona

Daphne Dragona is a media arts curator and researcher based in Athens, Greece. She has collaborated for exhibitions, workshops and media art events with well known centers, museums and festivals in Greece and abroad. Her main fields of interest are game based art, networked art and creativity related to the digital commons. Among her collaborations are the exhibition “Homo Ludens Ludens” in LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre (Gijon, 2008), the symposium and exhibition “Gaming Realities” of Mediaterra festival (Athens 2006), the online exhibitions “Tag Ties and Affective Spies” and “Esse, Nosse, Posse: Common Wealth for Common People” for the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Athens 2009, 2010), the “Right to exit” panel for Transmediale 2011, the exhibition Data Bodies Networked Portraits in Fundacion Telefonica (Lima, 2011) and the interdisciplinary workshops “Mapping the Commons Athens” and “Codes of Disobedience and Disfunctionality” (Athens 2010, 2011). She has participated with lectures and presentations in different conferences and festivals and articles of hers have been published in books and magazines of different countries. She is a contributor for Neural Magazine (Italy) and a member of the Personal Cinema collective (Greece). She is also PhD candidate in the Faculty of Communication & Media Studies of the University of Athens, undertaking a research on the “Role of Play in the Social Web”.