Digital producer, curator and researcher
Ioanna is a digital producer, curator and researcher on digital and networked cultures.
Her PhD was a collaborative research between Tate and London South Bank University; an embedded ethnography at Tate exploring the contemporary art museum’s understanding(s) of digital and network culture. Her PhD research was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Centre for Media and Culture Research at LSBU, the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) as well as the A.G. Leventis Foundation. Ioanna also holds a BA (Hons) in Media and Culture from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and an MA in Digital Culture and Technology from the department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London (funded by an IKY scholarship).
Ioanna has previously worked as a digital producer and content curator at The Photographers’ Gallery in London (2016-2019); as a research assistant and administrator at The Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (2016-2018); as well as a digital asset manager at The Royal National Theatre (2011-2013). Ioanna has been a visiting lecturer at London South Bank University teaching modules on cultural studies, new media and photography (2014-2018). She has also worked as a research assistant in the research projects: ‘Cultural Value and the Digital: Practice, Policy and Theory’ (a collaboration between the Royal College of Art, Tate and London South Bank University) as well as in the ‘Digital publication as a site for learning, teaching, and disseminating cross-discipline collaborative practices’ at London South Bank University.
She is currently working as an associate researcher in the post-doctorate research project, Centre of New Media & Feminist Public Practices based in the School of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Greece (funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation). She is also the editor of Unthinking.Photography, the online platform of The Photographers’ Gallery digital programme.