Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges

Vasiliki Manouilidou is a graduate of the Department of Audio Visual Arts at the Ionian University and a postgraduate student in the same department's Master's Program, "Audiovisual Arts in the Digital Age." Simultaneously, she is enrolled in the Distance Learning Program of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens titled "Special Education and Training: Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Counseling Approaches," aiming to bridge the fields of art, education, and social inclusion. Her undergraduate thesis, entitled "Photography as Therapy: Exploring and Representing Emotions through a Multimodal Photographic Exhibition," focuses on the role of therapeutic photography. Within this framework, she created an accessible exhibition for people with disabilities, utilizing multimodal elements such as sound, narration, and tactile experiences, promoting empathy, inclusion, and the active participation of vulnerable social groups in the artistic process. She has been working professionally as a photographer based in Corfu, since 2018. She also holds diplomas in Byzantine Music, Vocal Performance, Harmony, Keyboard, and Dictee, reflecting her multifaceted artistic background.