Ioannis (John) Panagiotou
Thesis title: I am Creating with Transdisciplinary Practices, Narrating through Material Structures, Reducing hierarchy, Activating perception.
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Background
Ioannis Panagiotou is a Greek UK-based artist, composer and researcher. As an artist he explores transdisciplinarity by working with various media, materials and technologies and his artworks take the form of both performance and object works. He is the creator of transdisciplinary performances, installations, concert music and music for media (theatre, dance, animation, film).
Works of him have been commissioned by The New What Now, Dialogues Festival, PLUG Contemporary Music Festival, Greek National Opera, Audio Visual Arts Festival, Corfu's Museum of Asian Art, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, RCS Bridge Week, St Andrews University and the Days of Electroacoustic Music. He has also collaborated with contemporary ensembles such as Red Note, Decoda, Edinburgh Quartet, Plus-Minus Ensemble, Edinburgh Film Music Orchestra, Peter Nelson's Contemporary Ensemble, St Andrews New Music Ensemble, Rush Hour Ensemble and Portativ Ensemble.
Ioannis is a PhD candidate in Transdisciplinary Arts at the University of Edinburgh. He works as a Teaching Assistant in Sculpture at the Edinburgh College of Art. He is also a member of HELMCA (National Federation member of the CIME) and has worked as a researcher in Hybrid Arts at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, tutor in Composition and The Performing Arts at the Ionian University and has been a visiting artist/tutor at the University of the Aegean
STUDIES
Ioannis has received a Master of Arts in Composition from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and an Integrated Masters Degree from the Ionian University, where he studied Arts and Composition for Film, Theatre and the Performing Arts. He has studied Composition with Martin Parker, Simon Steen-Andersen, Juliana Hodkinson, Gareth Williams, David Fennessy, Oliver Searle, Dimitra Trypani, Vassilis Kitsos and Dimitris Maragopoulos, Sonic Arts and Interactive Composition with Alistair McDonald, Film Music with Yati Durant, Art with Kevin Dagg, Bill Psarras and Nikos Kokkalis and Byzantine Musicology with Dimitrios Giannelos.
Finally, he has participated in seminars with Marcus Stockhausen, Niels Rønsholdt, John McLeod, André Bellmont, Stelarc, Roy Ascott, Brian Eno, Keneth Hesketh, Judith Weir, Thomas Simaku, Ed Bennet and Stephen Goss among others.
Undergraduate teaching
Sculpture
Transdisciplinary Arts
Music Composition
Music and Art Theory
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
No
Research summary
Transdisciplinary Arts, Installation Art, Performance Art, Sculpture and Digital Media, Transmedia Philosophy and Semiotics, Art and Music Theory, Narration-Storytelling and Poetry, History of Art and Music, Contemporary Music (instrumental, electroacoustic, interactive), Music Composition for Media, Music Notation, Byzantine Musicology, Transdisciplinarity in the Theology of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Past project grants
PRE Fund
DRF Fund
RCS Bridge Week
RCS Equality and Diversity Fund