[abstract] Dependencies by Design: Cyprus, Big Tech and the Contest Over Digital Sovereignty in Education

 Abstract submitted to the OFA Symposium  Dependencies by Design: Cyprus, Big Tech and the Contest Over Digital Sovereignty in Education  This presentation critically examines Cyprus’s evolving digital diplomacy, focusing on recent collaborations with U.S.-based Big Tech firms such as Oracle and NVIDIA and their proposed involvement in the island’s education sector. Through this case study,… Continue reading [abstract] Dependencies by Design: Cyprus, Big Tech and the Contest Over Digital Sovereignty in Education

Loizidou, C. (2014) Commemoration Public Art and Memorial Politics in Cyprus (1901 – 2013) [PhD Thesis]

Abstract: The thesis uses a number of commemorative works to delve into questions aroundspatial politics, memory and its institutionalisation, as well as political communication inCyprus, at distinct historical moments in the twentieth century and to this day. It tells thestories of monuments which, when this project began, all stood a few meters away fromeach other… Continue reading Loizidou, C. (2014) Commemoration Public Art and Memorial Politics in Cyprus (1901 – 2013) [PhD Thesis]

Publication [visual essay]: Connective practices in community-integrated arts, nature- and tradition-based learning and care, across the divisions of Cyprus

Our spell for coming together (entitled: Connective practices in community-integrated arts, nature- and tradition-based learning and care, across the divisions of Cyprus --screenshot below) was published in the astonishing Artistic Connectivity Unfolding issue of the Artistic Research Caralogue. This is derivative of a forthcoming book chapter in Deep Commons, edited by Matt York and Marina Sitrin.… Continue reading Publication [visual essay]: Connective practices in community-integrated arts, nature- and tradition-based learning and care, across the divisions of Cyprus

“Responsibility for Our Naked Truth” – A Reflection on Releasing Fear, October 2024

I stepped into Sylvia and Miltos' retreat with the worst of the world and all kinds of worries weighing down on me, until I woke up to the realisation that, there, in fact, everything felt right. My mind was racing, but my heart and my body knew it was safe. The land of Miltos, who… Continue reading “Responsibility for Our Naked Truth” – A Reflection on Releasing Fear, October 2024

In lieu of an academic article entitled “When communities fall to international funding programmes”

Ah, the hackspace, the dreamspace,Of soldering smoke rising with whispered hopes,Tinkerers' hands weaving through wires and whispers,Six years a shimmer, a hive in its hum,Of silicon and synapses, Art's guest, brass gears turning—Not often, but often enough—Like clockwork hearts synced to the pulse of creation, Fueled by foukou offerings, homebrewed beer,Debates on freedom-respecting software,News of… Continue reading In lieu of an academic article entitled “When communities fall to international funding programmes”

Three publications on childcare

Loizidou, C. (May 2024) “Connective practices in community-integrated arts, nature- and tradition-based learning and care, across the divisions of Cyprus” [visual essay] https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1953710/2481537?c=11 In Artistic Connectivity Unfolding (2024) ed. Hübner, F. https://doi.org/10.22501/rc.1953710 Loizidou, C. and Moura, L. (2020) “Keep the Children in the Room:” On the Biopolitics of Single Mothering in the Time of Covid.… Continue reading Three publications on childcare

reaphrodite.org

This is a legacy landing page for reaphrodite.org, a decade-long conversation between Evanthia (Evi) Tselika and myself, Chrystalleni Loizidou, culminating in a series of rituals along with scholarly curatorial evocations in Cyprus and across the globe, at times including Athina Antoniadou, Elena Parpa, Christina Lambrou, Yiannis Christofides, Stephanos Stephanides Alkis Hadjiandreou, and Maria Petrides among… Continue reading reaphrodite.org