Bio
Sofia Paraskeva is an artist who experiments with interactive media, film, video and sound. She explores sound and visuals in the context of leading edge technology, developing computer vision installations and interactive performance instruments such as musical gloves, and bodysuits. Paraskeva has a background in visual art and design, and media communication. Her work spans across interactive art and design, filmmaking, video production, visual effects, graphics and experimental sound. Her passion is creating meaningful ways of communication through the merging of image, sound and performance. Through art and technology she seeks to expand and enhance the human experience. She enjoys analyzing, interpreting and mapping visual and multi-dimensional data in uniquely meaningful ways that draw inventive connections between human expression and communication.
Paraskeva has won a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Communities Artist Award for participating and co-curating the Op On Screen Interactive Festival, October 2009 at the New York Public Library – Hamilton Fish Park. Her interactive project Rainbow Resonance, a computer vision musical interface, was exhibited at the New York Hall of Science in October 2008 and February to April 2009. Rainbow Resonance was also presented at Harvestworks, New York, and was exhibited at X-Dream Arts Festival at ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus in November 2010. She is a graduate of the Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University 2009.