bio
Ioulia is a new media artist, designer and researcher. Her interests lie in the encounters across diverse fields, exploring unexpected connections between science, artistic practices, human tradition, and the hybrid forms of knowledge that they produce. She holds a PhD in Art Science from Ghent University, where her research focused on the transmission of embodied knowledge through immersive and interactive technologies. Her unique background enables her to transcend traditional disciplines, and she frequently engages in collaborations with both artists and scientists. Using data, computer graphics and scientific concepts, her work aims to reveal the imperceptible forces that shape our lives, forging a connection with the more-than-human world. In this context, she has been awarded several residencies that explore the realm between art, science and technology.
residencies & commissions
2025, Creative Technologist Research Residency, Academy for Theatre and Digitality, Dortmund, Germany (upcoming)
2024, Budapest Dance Hack, Central Europe Dance Theatre, Budapest, Hungary
2024, iArt Fivas, Commission for VR Artwork
2024, Art4Sea, Art Residency on Ocean Conservation and Climate Change, Alonissos, Greece
2023, Funken Summer Academy | Art & Science project, Chemnitz, Germany
2018, I&O Residency, Izmit, Turkey
exhibitions & performances
2024, BYOB - Mutation Festival, Wintercircus, Ghent, Belgium
2024, Ars Electronica Festival, POSTCITY, Linz, Austria
2024, Perplexity 2024 - Sonifications: a one-day festival on Microbes in Art and Science, de Krook, Ghent, Belgium
2023, Funken Academy Exhibition, Villa Rosenberg, Chemnitz, Germany
2023, DRHA Conference, Palazzo del Rettorato, Turin, Italy
2021-2024, Whatever the fuck you want, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Germany
2019, Das große Weihnachtslieder-Singen, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Germany
2018, I:O Art Residency I Kedi Art Gallery, Izmit, Turkey
2018, Now&After International Video Art Festival, Competition program
2014, Adhocracy : From making things to making the commons, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece
research
2025-present , Postdoctoral Researcher in Meaningful Play & Virtual Environments, LUCA School of Arts | KU Leuven
2021-2025, PhD in Art Science, Ghent University
education
2016-2017, MArch in Architectural Design | Design for performance and interaction, UCL
2009-2016, Integrated Master in Architectural Design, National Technical University of Athens
conferences
2024, Prague Quadrennial (PQ) Symposium: Technologies in theatre, performance, and exhibition design , Prague, Czechia
2024, Movement & Computing (MOCO) Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands
2023, IFTR, Intermediality in Theatre Group, Accra, Ghana
2023, Convergence Seminar on technological and somatic perspectives on interdisciplinary artistic practices, Antwerp, Belgium
2022, IFTR, Intermediality in Theatre Group, Reyjkavik, Iceland
2022, 2nd New Media Art Archiving Summit, ISEA, Barcelona, Spain
writings
Marouda, I., La Selva, A., & Maes, P.-J. (2024a). Assemblages of presence : ritual, gesture, and technologies in embodied archives. Conceição/Conception, 13. https://doi.org/10.20396/conce.v13i00.8678341
Marouda, I., La Selva, A., & Maes, P.-J. (2024b). Entangling Designer, System and Participant: An Interdisciplinary Methodological Account for Reimagining Embodied Knowledge in VR. DOCUMENTA: Journal for Theater, 42(1), 165–197. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.21825/documenta.93274
Marouda, I., La Selva, A., & Maes, P.-J. (2023). From capture to texture: affective environments for theatre training in XR. Theatre & Performance Design, 9(1+2). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/23322551.2023.2218185
La Selva, A., & Marouda, I. (2022). Practicing Odin Teatret’s Archives: virtual translations of embodied knowledge through archival practices. International Symposium on Electronic Art, 46–51. https://isea-archives.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ISEA2022_Proceedings-of-the-Second-Summit-on-New-Media-Art-Archiving.pdf
Maes, P.-J., van Kerrebroeck, B., Rosso, M., Marouda, I., & Leman, M. (2024). Extended reality (XR) in embodied musical art and science. In The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition (1st ed., pp. 143–155). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003322511-17
