about

Hi, I'm Angelos.

I'm an architect and educator based in Athens and Corfu. My subject is public space, and what technology does to the line between private and public life. I make interactive installations, and I work only with open-source tools.

I teach interactive installation and physical computing at the Ionian University, and in Digital Art Forms, a master's degree program at the Athens School of Fine Arts. In 2024 I returned to ITP at NYU as an affiliated researcher, more than twenty years after finishing my master's there. Since 2023 I have been Head of Academic Collaborations at the Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF).

Most of my time goes into other people's work. I have supervised two completed PhDs, more master's theses than I have kept count of, and years of physical computing workshops and courses at the Ionian University Center of Training and Lifelong Learning — for students, and for anyone else who turned up. Read together, those projects turn out to share something I never asked for: almost none of them lets the viewer stay a viewer. You are handed a torch. Your shadow completes the image. You have to step on the work in order to see it. What they choose to make has quietly become part of my own research.

My own installations do the same thing, which is probably where they got it. You look into an aquarium and find your own face in the water; you stand between two sensors and the balance they produce is made by your body, not by the system. I am not interested in an audience that watches. I am interested in the moment someone realizes they are already inside the thing.

I have designed interactive applications for museums and cultural institutions in Greece — among them the Acropolis Museum, the National Archaeological Museum, the Gennadius Library, and eight projects for Athos Digital Heritage, developed with the monastic communities of Mount Athos. My own work has been shown at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, ZKM Karlsruhe, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, and most recently in Santa Barbara and New York.

The open-source tools are not a preference. They are cheap and they are documented, which means the work can be rebuilt by someone who was not there — by a student, in another country, with a different subject. A piece that only I can make is not a finding.

I've stayed with technology because it won't sit still. Every few years the ground shifts, the field feels fresh again, and so does the work.

People usually meet the smile before my ideas and my work. The enthusiasm hasn't worn off either.

Angelos Floros