Dimitra Gounari

Supervisor: Agnes Papadopoulou

Members: Aikaterini Kabassi, Aggeliki Malakasioti

PhD research topic:

This PhD research attempts to explore and highlight the conceptual and the reflective approaches of the 'landscape' through the research and the experiential practices of the photographic image and its creative digital transformations. Exploring the human experience in relation to the natural environment this research seeks to explore environments and transitional landscapes, familiar and unfamiliar spaces, in order to highlight new readings and processes through artistic digital practice.

Dimitra Gounari is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sound and Image of the Ionian University, holds a Master of Arts in Image and Communication from Goldsmiths College-University London U.K., with a scholarship from the I.K.Y. State Scholarship Foundation, and is a graduate of the Department of Photography of the TEI of Athens. She has taught at the Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts of the University of West Attica, the Visual Arts course at the IB Diploma of Geitona Schools and is an IB DP Visual Arts examiner. In addition, she has worked in research projects at Panteion University and Athens School of Fine Arts on audiovisual material management, creativity, collective artistic and scientific action. Her artistic work has received distinctions and prizes from institutions and photography competitions, has been exhibited in Greece, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Italy, has been published in catalogs in the Greek and international press and is in private and public collections.