Biography
Pandelis Diamantides is an Athenian-born interdisciplinary artist, electronic music composer, and researcher working at the intersection of sound, moving image, and digital technology. Dividing his practice between Amsterdam, Athens, and Nicosia, he develops immersive installations, audiovisual environments, sound compositions, and expanded media performances exploring perception, embodiment, participation, and technological mediation.
His work has been presented internationally at museums, institutions, and festivals including Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Pioneer Works, MoMA PS1, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (MACRO), EYE Filmmuseum, FOAM, Benaki Museum, V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Ars Electronica Garden, and NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, as well as at festivals and platforms such as SXSW, Art Rotterdam, i Light Singapore, GOGBOT Festival, TodaysArt Festival, Athens Digital Arts Festival, MMMAD Festival, and Bright Festival.
Selected works include Go Back to Hiding in the Shadows (2019), Quickly Photographed and Released Unharmed (2020), Παλμός (2023), Beautiful Is a Filter (2025) and Ground Studies for Pilots (2025)
Collaborative projects include Mutual Wave Machine (2013–present), developed with creative coder Matthias Oostrik and neuroscientist Suzanne Dikker; plplpl.pl (2016–present), with Matthias Oostrik; Anima (2016), with Nick Verstand; Polaris (2016), with Nick Verstand, Nikki Hock, and Children of the Light; Drowning (2021), with MAOTIK; Refractions (2022), a research project initiated by Rosa Menkman; the ongoing series TOPIA (2019–present), with Zalán Szakács; and Bluets (2025), with soprano Kristia Michael.
Diamantides has lectured internationally at the China Academy of Art (Hangzhou, China), the University of the Andes(Bogotá, Colombia), and the University of Peloponnese. From 2017 to 2019, he served as Lecturer in Multimedia Programming at the Cyprus University of Technology. He subsequently worked as a Research Associate at the CYENS Centre of Excellence in Nicosia, Cyprus, and the ATHENA Research Center in Athens, Greece.
He is based between Amsterdam and Athens.
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
Nicosia International Festival, Cyprus, 2025
Fengaros Festival, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2025
Eufònic Festival, Catalonia, Spain, 2025
Patchlab Festival, Kraków, Poland, 2024
Centraal Museum × Uncloud Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2024
Rialto Theatre, Limassol, Cyprus, 2023
Studio/K × NEDA × Amsterdam Dance Event, The Netherlands, 2023
International Short Film Festival of Cyprus, Limassol, 2023
Animafest, Paphos, Cyprus, 2023
The Gathering, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2023
Conflux Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2023
The Island Club × Rialto Theatre, Limassol, Cyprus, 2022
International Short Film Festival of Cyprus, Limassol, 2022
Planetario de Madrid, Spain, 2021
The Grey Space, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2021
Athens Digital Arts Festival (Online), Greece, 2020
Supervoid (Online), Oakland, California, USA, 2020
Eugenides Foundation Planetarium, Athens, Greece, 2019
POCHEN, Chemnitz, Germany, 2019
Voltaje Festival, Bogotá, Colombia, 2019
RADAR Festival Beyond Music, Varna, Bulgaria, 2019
BOC Cultural Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019
Trippen Concept Store, Berlin, Germany, 2019
Fotonica Festival, Rome, Italy, 2018
Patchlab Festival, Kraków, Poland, 2018
Oddstream Festival, Arnhem, The Netherlands, 2018
Retune Festival, Berlin, Germany, 2018
LOOS, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2018
Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece, 2018
AVnode, Istanbul, Turkey, 2018
International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2018
FIBER Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2017
Thkio Ppalies Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2017
Patchlab Festival, Kraków, Poland, 2017
Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece, 2017
The Shelter, Shanghai, China, 2016
China Academy of Art, Shanghai, China, 2016
SPEKTRUM, Berlin, Germany, 2016
International Short Film Festival Cyprus, Limassol, 2016
Incubate Festival, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2016
Mirage Festival, Lyon, France, 2016
Tec Art Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2016
TodaysArt Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2015
GOGBOT Festival, Enschede, The Netherlands, 2015
FIBER Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2015
OT301, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2015
Loop Festival, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2014
Mediamatic Fabriek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2013
The Vortex, London, United Kingdom, 2013
Athens Festival, Athens, Greece, 2012
BOZAR / Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium, 2012
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 2012
TodaysArt Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2012
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Re.Light, Regensburg, Germany, 2026
Klanglicht, Graz, Austria, 2025
Bright Festival, Brussels, Belgium, 2024
Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece, 2023
FONLAD International Video Art & Performance Festival, Coimbra, Portugal, 2023
MMMAD Festival, Madrid, Spain, 2023
Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2021
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, 2020
Ars Electronica Garden, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2020
Voltaje – Salón de Arte y Tecnología, Bogotá, Colombia, 2019
MOTN Festival, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2019
Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (MACRO), Rome, Italy, 2018
iLight Singapore, Singapore, 2018
Beamlab Presents, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2018
GOGBOT Festival, Enschede, The Netherlands, 2018
Pioneer Works, New York, USA, 2017
GOGBOT Festival, Enschede, The Netherlands, 2017
Oddstream Festival, Arnhem, The Netherlands, 2017
FOAM × Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France, 2017
FOAM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2017
Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece, 2017
Leeds Digital Festival, Leeds, United Kingdom, 2017
SXSW Festival, Austin, USA, 2017
AS ONE — NEON & Marina Abramović Institute, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece, 2016
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2016
Van Gogh Museum × The Creators Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2016
TodaysArt Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2016
TETEM, Enschede, The Netherlands, 2016
NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2016
V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2016
FORMS Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2016
EUREKA, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2015
MoMA PS1, New York, USA, 2015
Lowlands Festival, Biddinghuizen, The Netherlands, 2015
Biography
Pandelis Diamantides is an Athenian-born interdisciplinary artist, electronic music composer, and researcher working at the intersection of sound, moving image, and digital technology. Dividing his practice between Amsterdam, Athens, and Nicosia, he develops immersive installations, audiovisual environments, sound compositions, and expanded media performances exploring perception, embodiment, participation, and technological mediation.
His work has been presented internationally at museums, institutions, and festivals including Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Pioneer Works, MoMA PS1, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (MACRO), EYE Filmmuseum, FOAM, Benaki Museum, V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Ars Electronica Garden, and NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, as well as at festivals and platforms such as SXSW, Art Rotterdam, i Light Singapore, GOGBOT Festival, TodaysArt Festival, Athens Digital Arts Festival, MMMAD Festival, and Bright Festival.
Selected works include Go Back to Hiding in the Shadows (2019), Quickly Photographed and Released Unharmed (2020), Παλμός (2023), Beautiful Is a Filter (2025) and Ground Studies for Pilots (2025)
Collaborative projects include Mutual Wave Machine (2013–present), developed with creative coder Matthias Oostrik and neuroscientist Suzanne Dikker; plplpl.pl (2016–present), with Matthias Oostrik; Anima (2016), with Nick Verstand; Polaris (2016), with Nick Verstand, Nikki Hock, and Children of the Light; Drowning (2021), with MAOTIK; Refractions (2022), a research project initiated by Rosa Menkman; the ongoing series TOPIA (2019–present), with Zalán Szakács; and Bluets (2025), with soprano Kristia Michael.
Diamantides has lectured internationally at the China Academy of Art (Hangzhou, China), the University of the Andes(Bogotá, Colombia), and the University of Peloponnese. From 2017 to 2019, he served as Lecturer in Multimedia Programming at the Cyprus University of Technology. He subsequently worked as a Research Associate at the CYENS Centre of Excellence in Nicosia, Cyprus, and the ATHENA Research Center in Athens, Greece.
He is based between Amsterdam and Athens.
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
Nicosia International Festival, Cyprus, 2025
Fengaros Festival, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2025
Eufònic Festival, Catalonia, Spain, 2025
Patchlab Festival, Kraków, Poland, 2024
Centraal Museum × Uncloud Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2024
Rialto Theatre, Limassol, Cyprus, 2023
Studio/K × NEDA × Amsterdam Dance Event, The Netherlands, 2023
International Short Film Festival of Cyprus, Limassol, 2023
Animafest, Paphos, Cyprus, 2023
The Gathering, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2023
Conflux Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2023
The Island Club × Rialto Theatre, Limassol, Cyprus, 2022
International Short Film Festival of Cyprus, Limassol, 2022
Planetario de Madrid, Spain, 2021
The Grey Space, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2021
Athens Digital Arts Festival (Online), Greece, 2020
Supervoid (Online), Oakland, California, USA, 2020
Eugenides Foundation Planetarium, Athens, Greece, 2019
POCHEN, Chemnitz, Germany, 2019
Voltaje Festival, Bogotá, Colombia, 2019
RADAR Festival Beyond Music, Varna, Bulgaria, 2019
BOC Cultural Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019
Trippen Concept Store, Berlin, Germany, 2019
Fotonica Festival, Rome, Italy, 2018
Patchlab Festival, Kraków, Poland, 2018
Oddstream Festival, Arnhem, The Netherlands, 2018
Retune Festival, Berlin, Germany, 2018
LOOS, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2018
Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece, 2018
AVnode, Istanbul, Turkey, 2018
International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2018
FIBER Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2017
Thkio Ppalies Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2017
Patchlab Festival, Kraków, Poland, 2017
Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece, 2017
The Shelter, Shanghai, China, 2016
China Academy of Art, Shanghai, China, 2016
SPEKTRUM, Berlin, Germany, 2016
International Short Film Festival Cyprus, Limassol, 2016
Incubate Festival, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2016
Mirage Festival, Lyon, France, 2016
Tec Art Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2016
TodaysArt Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2015
GOGBOT Festival, Enschede, The Netherlands, 2015
FIBER Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2015
OT301, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2015
Loop Festival, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2014
Mediamatic Fabriek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2013
The Vortex, London, United Kingdom, 2013
Athens Festival, Athens, Greece, 2012
BOZAR / Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium, 2012
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 2012
TodaysArt Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2012
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Re.Light, Regensburg, Germany, 2026
Klanglicht, Graz, Austria, 2025
Bright Festival, Brussels, Belgium, 2024
Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece, 2023
FONLAD International Video Art & Performance Festival, Coimbra, Portugal, 2023
MMMAD Festival, Madrid, Spain, 2023
Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2021
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, 2020
Ars Electronica Garden, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2020
Voltaje – Salón de Arte y Tecnología, Bogotá, Colombia, 2019
MOTN Festival, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2019
Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (MACRO), Rome, Italy, 2018
iLight Singapore, Singapore, 2018
Beamlab Presents, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2018
GOGBOT Festival, Enschede, The Netherlands, 2018
Pioneer Works, New York, USA, 2017
GOGBOT Festival, Enschede, The Netherlands, 2017
Oddstream Festival, Arnhem, The Netherlands, 2017
FOAM × Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France, 2017
FOAM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2017
Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece, 2017
Leeds Digital Festival, Leeds, United Kingdom, 2017
SXSW Festival, Austin, USA, 2017
AS ONE — NEON & Marina Abramović Institute, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece, 2016
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2016
Van Gogh Museum × The Creators Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2016
TodaysArt Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2016
TETEM, Enschede, The Netherlands, 2016
NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2016
V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2016
FORMS Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2016
EUREKA, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2015
MoMA PS1, New York, USA, 2015
Lowlands Festival, Biddinghuizen, The Netherlands, 2015