Elpida Karaba

Elpida Karaba is an art theorist and curator. Her work and publication record focus on art history and theory, feminist theory, performance, activist, new media and research based practices and theories concerning institutional practices and discourse around them and creative industries. She works at the intersection of public art, critical theory, the relationship of art to systems of knowledge and emerging political manifestations in the public sphere. She has participated in research projects, organized contemporary art exhibitions and independent art education programs. She is the head of research of the Center for New Media and Feminist Public Practices (www.centrefeministmedia.arch.uth) which is dedicated to art, feminism and technology and founder of the Temporary Academy of Arts (www. temporaryacademy.org), a hybrid of artistic, curatorial and theoretical practice that focuses on issues of labor, education and institutional critique with the aim of exploring the boundaries, permeabilities and contradictions implicit in public discourses and spaces in relation to issues of art, politics and education.