Biography
Pandelis Diamantides is an Athenian-born new media artist, electronic music composer, and academic 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, and human connection within technological landscapes.
His multidisciplinary practice spans contemporary art, performance, theatre, installation, and research-driven media experimentation. Diamantides’ work has been presented internationally at MoMA PS1 (New York), the Venice Biennale, Bozar (Brussels), Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), MACRO (Rome), the Benaki Museum (Athens), FOAM (Amsterdam), Athens Digital Arts Festival, TodaysArt Festival (The Hague), Amsterdam Dance Event, and venues throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia, South America, and the United States.
Selected works include Go Back to Hiding in the Shadows (2019), Quickly Photographed and Released Unharmed (2020), Παλμός (2023), Ground Studies for Pilots (2025), and Beautiful Is a Filter (2025).
Collaborative projects include Mutual Wave Machine (2015), developed with creative coder Matthias Oostrik and neuroscientist Suzanne Dikker; plplpl.pl (2016), with creative coder Matthias Oostrik; Anima (2016), with light artist Nick Verstand; Polaris (2016), with Nick Verstand, Nikki Hock, and Children of the Light; Drowning (2021), with digital artist MAOTIK; Refractions (2022), a research-driven project by artist and theorist Rosa Menkman; the ongoing series TOPIA (2019–present), with light artist Zalán Szakács; and Bluets (2025), with soprano Kristia Michael.
Recognised for his work bridging art, science, and emerging technologies, Diamantides has lectured internationally at the China Academy of Art (Hangzhou), the University of The Andes (Bogotá), and the University of Peloponnese (Greece). Between 2017 and 2019, he served as Lecturer in Programming Multimedia at the Cyprus University of Technology, later continuing as Research Associate at the CYENS Centre of Excellence (Cyprus) and the ATHENA Research Center (Greece).
Working fluidly across installation, media performance, sound composition, and research-based artistic practice, Diamantides develops projects that combine technological experimentation with emotionally driven approaches to perception, memory, and human presence.
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, Cyprus, 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, Cyprus, 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, Cyprus, 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
B32 Artspace, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2011
B.A.D. Foundation, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2011
Portgebouw, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2011
Pantheon Cultural Association, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2010
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
i Light 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
ERES Stiftung, Munich, Germany, 2017
Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece, 2017
Leeds Digital Festival, Leeds, United Kingdom, 2017
SXSW Festival, Austin, USA, 2017
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
3LD Art & Technology Center, New York, USA, 2016
Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece, 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
ZAAL 3, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2014
Registros de Audición, Mexico City, Mexico, 2014
Biography
Pandelis Diamantides is an Athenian-born new media artist, electronic music composer, and academic 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, and human connection within technological landscapes.
His multidisciplinary practice spans contemporary art, performance, theatre, installation, and research-driven media experimentation. Diamantides’ work has been presented internationally at MoMA PS1 (New York), the Venice Biennale, Bozar (Brussels), Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), MACRO (Rome), the Benaki Museum (Athens), FOAM (Amsterdam), Athens Digital Arts Festival, TodaysArt Festival (The Hague), Amsterdam Dance Event, and venues throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia, South America, and the United States.
Selected works include Go Back to Hiding in the Shadows (2019), Quickly Photographed and Released Unharmed (2020), Παλμός (2023), Ground Studies for Pilots (2025), and Beautiful Is a Filter (2025).
Collaborative projects include Mutual Wave Machine (2015), developed with creative coder Matthias Oostrik and neuroscientist Suzanne Dikker; plplpl.pl (2016), with creative coder Matthias Oostrik; Anima (2016), with light artist Nick Verstand; Polaris (2016), with Nick Verstand, Nikki Hock, and Children of the Light; Drowning (2021), with digital artist MAOTIK; Refractions (2022), a research-driven project by artist and theorist Rosa Menkman; the ongoing series TOPIA (2019–present), with light artist Zalán Szakács; and Bluets (2025), with soprano Kristia Michael.
Recognised for his work bridging art, science, and emerging technologies, Diamantides has lectured internationally at the China Academy of Art (Hangzhou), the University of The Andes (Bogotá), and the University of Peloponnese (Greece). Between 2017 and 2019, he served as Lecturer in Programming Multimedia at the Cyprus University of Technology, later continuing as Research Associate at the CYENS Centre of Excellence (Cyprus) and the ATHENA Research Center (Greece).
Working fluidly across installation, media performance, sound composition, and research-based artistic practice, Diamantides develops projects that combine technological experimentation with emotionally driven approaches to perception, memory, and human presence.
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, Cyprus, 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, Cyprus, 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, Cyprus, 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
B32 Artspace, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2011
B.A.D. Foundation, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2011
Portgebouw, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2011
Pantheon Cultural Association, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2010
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
i Light 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
ERES Stiftung, Munich, Germany, 2017
Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece, 2017
Leeds Digital Festival, Leeds, United Kingdom, 2017
SXSW Festival, Austin, USA, 2017
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
3LD Art & Technology Center, New York, USA, 2016
Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece, 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
ZAAL 3, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2014
Registros de Audición, Mexico City, Mexico, 2014