Date and Time: 11/05/2025 (21:00)
Location: Ionian University, City Hall Sq
Dialekti Valsamou-Stanislawski
The Empathy Automaton is an interactive piece that responds to the viewer’s emotions using only their video feed as input. The automaton "feels" and reflects emotional states through sound, color, text, and emoji-like expressions. The screen becomes a distorted mirror, stacking digital sensations until it reaches a point of oversaturation. With humor and exaggeration, the piece playfully critiques the reversed dynamic: how much emotion a human viewer absorbs from digital stimuli.
Dialekti Valsamou-Stanislawski
Dialekti Valsamou-Stanislawski is an artist and researcher exploring the relationship between humans and technology through digital arts, speculative design, and participatory practices. With a background in artificial intelligence and research, her work integrates sound, video, installations, and interactive elements to create multidimensional narratives. She focuses on hybridity, temporality, and cultural storytelling, examining the intersections of memory, computation, and mythology. Her practice navigates the useful, the obsolete, and the repurposed, questioning identity, transformation, and the boundaries between the organic and the synthetic. Having worked extensively in research and innovation, she brings a critical yet hands-on approach to creation. She holds a PhD in Computer Science, a Master's from ENSCI–Les Ateliers, and is currently pursuing an MA in Digital Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts, merging research with artistic practice.
