The MARes in Hybrid Arts program of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University, cordially invites all interested parties to attend the public defense of the following Master's thesis:
Thesis Title: Cyborg Balsamine 2.0
Candidate: Tatiana Yfanti
Supervisor: Maria Chalkou
Date & Time: Tuesday, 3 March 2026 — 19:00 (Athens time)
Join via Zoom: https://ionio-gr.zoom.us/j/99849856125?pwd=BQe9b3UgZFhNalbFusXlNZDWNV8bT9.1
Examination Committee
• Maria Chalkou — Assistant Professor, Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University (Supervisor)
• Daphne Dragona — Academic Scholar, Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University
• Dalila Honorato — Professor, Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University
About the Thesis
Cyborg Balsamine 2.0, inspired by Hannah Höch’s photomontages and Donna Haraway’s feminist theory, examines posthuman identity in the 21st century through a practice-based exploration of glitch aesthetics, digital montage, and archival research. Decades before Haraway developed her theory in A Cyborg Manifesto, Hannah Höch — the only female member of Berlin Dada — produced photomontages in postwar Germany that bear striking correspondences to later conceptions of the cyborg as a hybrid of human and machine. Influenced by Raoul Hausmann’s idea that human identity is socially constructed and transformable, Höch anticipates the cyborg figure that Haraway would later articulate in the 1980s as a liberatory symbol: a fictional construct that unsettles hierarchies, gender binaries, and anthropocentric narratives. Revisiting this genealogy, the thesis explores how fragmented, hybrid bodies challenge white patriarchal systems of power within contemporary digital culture.
About the Candidate
Tatiana Yfanti was born and raised in Athens. Alongside her degree in Business Administration from the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), she studied Visual Arts. Her artistic practice focuses on video art, editing, mixed media, and montage, exploring the fluid nature of boundaries, the passage of time, and the complexities of identity and self-perception.
Attendance
The defense is open to the public. Students, researchers, artists, and all interested individuals are welcome to attend.
MARes in Hybrid Arts
https://avarts.ionio.gr/mares/
