Sophia Lycouris
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Born: Athens, Greece
Lives: Edinburgh, Scotland, Europe
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PhD in the Improvised Performance in Dance, University of Surrey, 1996
MA in Dance Studies University of Surrey, 1991
BA (with major in dance), American College of Greece, 1984
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Installations
The Moment of Dance (silent multi-monitor video installation developed in response to movement improvisations by dancer Dr Vida Midgelow as part of the Choreographic Lab of the University of Northampton), 25 June - 7 July 2007, group exhibition accompanying the Experiential Knowledge Conference 2007, University of Hertfordshire, UK.
Threads (multi-monitor audio-visual installation developed for a disused lace factory currently converted in to flats) 26 April � 26 May 2006, �Stitched� group exhibition, Stroud House Gallery, Stroud, UK, 21-28 April 2006, �Art� group exhibition, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, 28 - 29 May 2005, Arts at Home festival, Draycott, Derbyshire, UK
BODYSIGHT (audio-visual installation in collaboration with digital artist Konstantinos Papakostas, contribution as director, choreographer and producer), 2 November 2001 (premiere), London: The Place Theatre
� Touring in 2002: Birmingham, UK: Ikon Gallery; Cambridge, UK: The Junction; Sheffield, UK: MAXIS festival; Nottingham, UK: NOTTdance; Brescia and Riccione, Italy; Cologne, Germany: SK Foundation; Warsaw, Poland; Barcelona, Spain: Mostra Video Dansa; Trodheim, Norway: Minimalen festival; Hamburg, Germany: Word and Image conference: Monaco: Monaco Dance Forum (http://streams.vet-broadband.org.uk/asx/bodysight-l.asx, http://streams.vet-broadband.org.uk/asx/bodysight-m.asx, http://streams.vet-broadband.org.uk/asx/bodysight-h.asx
� Touring in 2004-2005: 10 December 2004 � 23 January 2005, Walsall, UK: New Art Gallery Walsall (http://www.portlandgreen.com/captureinstallations/works.html)
E-motions in Urban Networks, 14 February 2004, as part of Digi-lounge, Chelmsford, UK: essexdance dance development agency (single screen animation film based on motion-capture data in collaboration with architect Thomas Kitazawa, http://www.igloo.org.uk/Hacienda/)
Rite of Spring as part of Security Bytes Conference, Lancaster: Lancaster University, 18 July 2004, (visual paper)
BridgeWAVES, Dublin, Ireland: Rejoyce Festival, 10-24 June 2004, (photographic installation on Grattan Bridge as part of the Wandering Rocks Revolving Doors international collaborative project created for the Joyce Centenary, http://www.ddda.ie/cold_fusion/news/press_releases/press_releases2.cfm?counter=102)
PLANTS. London: eel@291 Gallery, 29 August 2002, (site-specific single monitor outdoors video installation in three parts)
ROOMS as part of Domestically Spaced exhibition, London: Space Station Sixty-Five Gallery, 24 June � 12 July 2002 and 13-28 July 2002, (site-specific single monitor video installation followed by miniature single monitor installation as part of group exhibition)
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AHRB fellowship in Creative and Performing Arts (2000-2003)
Capture Award (2001)
Stimulating Innovation for Success award (2006)
Designing for the 21st century award (2007)
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� Choreography of Social Movement (April 2006 � present), pilot interdisciplinary project, which uses choreographic techniques to explore how older people use (and perceive) the built environment in deprived areas of Nottingham, UK, in collaboration with Government Office East Midlands, co-directed with public health specialist Dr Kevin Love (Nottingham Trent University) and funded by a Stimulating Innovation for Success (SIS) scheme.
� The Snake project (January 2006 - present), collaborative project focusing on the development of a choreographic interactive sculpture which responds to the movement of the audience. The collaborative team includes artificial intelligence specialist Philip Breedon and product designers Jamie Billing and Tracy Cordingley. This project is funded by an EPSRC/AHRC Designing for 21st century grant as part of a portfolio of projects exploring relationships between performance and design, which is led by Professor Mick Wallis at the University of Leeds under the title �Emergent Objects� (http://www.design21.dundee.ac.uk/ and http://www.emergentobjects.co.uk/)
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Book Chapters
LYCOURIS, S., 2001. Internet-based live performance work, in Smith, B (ed) Creating Digital Performance Resources: A Guide to Good Practice, Performing Arts Data Service, Oxford: The Information Press. ISBN 1 84217 022 8 (This text is also available at http://ahds.ac.uk/creating/guides/performing-resources/section3-2.htm [accessed on 28 March 2006])
B. Journal articles
JOHNSON, J., LYCOURIS, S. & ROBERTSON, A. (2007) �An approach to the design of interactive environments, with reference to choreography, architecture, 4D design and the science of complex systems� in International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (special issue on Complexity), Bristol, UK.
BILLING, J., BREEDON, P., CORDINGLEY, T. & LYCOURIS, S. (2007) �The Snake Project: an Interdisciplinary Framework of Discussion� in Scope: Contemporary Research Topics (Art), Dunedin, New Zealand.
KUPPERS, P. and LYCOURIS, S., 2003. Meeting Content: A Performance Research Collaboration (collaborative documentation paper on performance project 'Body Provisional'). Contemporary Theatre Review (practice-based research special issue)
C. Conference Proceedings
LYCOURIS, S., 2002. Performance/Installation STRING: a case study towards a definition of internet-based live performance work with dance elements [on line], 1eres Rencontres Internationales, Arts, Sciences et Technologies, La Rochelle, France, 22-24 November 2000, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Societe de l'Universite de La Rochelle in collaboration avec le Ballet Atlantique Regine Chopinot available at http://www.univ-lr.fr/recherche/mshs/axe2recherche/art_science/colloque/publications/LYCOURIS.pdf
[accessed 28 March 2006]
LYCOURIS, S., 2001 Interdisciplinary Choreographic Explorations, MTAC2001, California, Irvine, 2-4 November 2001, New Jersey: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc, pp 164-168
LYCOURIS, S., 2000 �Improvisational Performance in Dance as Discourse: a case study in the application of new history methodologies in the study of postmodern dance�, Proceedings of Dance History Conference, European Association of Dance Historians, pp 131-144, ISBN 0-9534942-1-7
LYCOURIS, S., 2000 �Reconsidering the medium, composition and the space: movement-based live performance work incorporating webcast elements�, TRANS electronic journal, no 9, http://www.inst.at/trans/9Nr/inhalt9.htm [accessed 28 March 2006]
LYCOURIS, S., 2000 �The Documentation Of Practice: Framing Traces�, Research Into Practice Conference On-Line Proceedings, http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/research/papers/wpades/vol1/lycouris1.html [accessed 28 March 2006]
LYCOURIS, S., 2000 �The theatre of mixed-means in the age of information technology�, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics, Systems Research in the Arts, vol II, Music, Environmental Design & the Choreography of Space, Ontario, Canada: The International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, 2000, pp 67-72 (co-authored with Michael Kosmides), ISBN 0-921836-90-2
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