STAVROULA ZOI
Government Gazette issue announcing the appointment: ΦΕΚ 267/ΝΠΔΔ/03.11.2004
Stavroula Zoi, Laboratory Teaching Staff (LT Staff), Dr. Software Engineering, specialised in Interactive Multimedia, eXtended Reality and Creative Technologies.
Dr. Stavroula Zoi is a computer scientist and transdisciplinary researcher specialising in creative technologies. Since 2004, she has served as Laboratory Teaching Staff (LT Staff) at the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA), where she has been actively engaged in scientific and educational work at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her teaching and research activities are centered around the Multimedia Studio(2004–present), the Greek-French Master’s programme Art, Virtual Reality and Multiuser Systems of Artistic Expression (ASFA – Paris 8 University, 2012–2020), and ASFA’s Master’s programme in Digital Arts (2004–2013).
She has played a key role in organising and implementing a wide range of international educational initiatives in collaboration with European art schools. These include Erasmus Intensive Programmes, Summer Universities, and Erasmus+ projects.
Beyond her educational contributions, Dr. Zoi has conducted extensive interdisciplinary research through collaborative research programmes. Her work has been presented at international conferences, exhibitions, and events, often in the form of interactive real-time demos with audience participation. She has also been involved in interdisciplinary artistic productions such as theatrical works, interactive installations, and digital games.
She holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Ioannina (1997) and a PhD in Interactive Multimedia from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA, 2003). From 1998 to 2004, she conducted research on a wide range of interactive multimedia applications at NTUA and contributed to the organisation of technology transfer workshops in Jordan, Egypt, and Tunisia.
Since February 2023, Dr. Zoi has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean, focusing on Intelligent Extended Reality Environments as Creative Spaces. She is also affiliated with the Fournos Center for Digital Culture and is an active member of its experimental research unit, Fournos Lab.
Email: vzoi@asfa.gr
Experimental reenactment of works by Pantelis Xagoraris, simultaneously in physical and virtual space, through the multiuser platform @postasis. January 2020, New Library of ASFA. Presented as part of the 5th Multiplier Event of the Erasmus+ program @postasis: Virtual Artistic Laboratory. The experimental action and exhibition were developed in collaboration with Stamatis Schizakis, Curator of New Media and Photography at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST), Zafos Xagoraris, professor at ASFA, and Manthos Santorineos, professor at ASFA and scientific coordinator of the program. The relevant ebook can be found at the online link http://apostasis.eu/EDUCATIONAL-MATERIALS.
The project is developed in collaboration with Manthos Santorineos. It utilizes the space of the total land area of the Earth, as recorded through satellite scanning, and through Geolocated Augmented Reality, it explores ways to shape the earthly expanse as an exhibition space. Experimental actions have been developed at the following locations: Tinos, Festival Koinono, 2017 (Latitude: 37°36'6.55"N, Longitude: 25°13'51.79"E), Belgrade, International Conference STRAND Going Digital, 2018 (Latitude 44°48'59.77"N, Longitude 20°27'16.24"E), China, Ocean Flower Island, Exhibition "Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis – in the Belt of Change", as part of the exhibition "The Tides of the Century", 2020 (Latitude: 19°39'5.0034"N, Longitude: 19°39'5.0034"E). For more information, visit https://globalearthartproject.wordpress.com/.
Ongoing Postdoctoral Research entitled: “Enhancing Human Creativity in Intelligent Extended Reality Environments”, in collaboration with the University of the Aegean and the Intelligent Interaction Research Group. Preliminary findings have been accepted for publication at the international conferences EuroXR 2024, ACM Creativity & Cognition 2025, and ACM CHIGreece 2025.