Sophia Drakopoulou
Middlesex University / Cybersalon

Sophia Drakopoulou is a lecturer at Middlesex University, her teaching interests include; digital media and critical theory. Currently she's a PhD candidate in the Centre for Cultural Studies Goldsmiths College London. Her research analyses the cultural significance of the private, virtual communicational spaces being created by the mobile phone and other radio based technologies.

In particular her research is exploring Instantaneous Mobile Messaging as a social space and as a subversive practice. Sophia has been a member of the Cybersalon team since 1998 and has helped to organise and generate themes for Cybersalon events.

In May 2003 she was the curator for the Legacy 03 exhibition at the ICA, a retrospective exhibition of work from the MA in Hypermedia Westminster University. Sophia's article 'Kino Phone Location Autonomy and Broadcast' will appear in the Southern review journal special issue 'Mobile Histories' in January 2006.

Legacy 03 retrospective exhibition of work by graduates of the MA in Hypermedia
http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/legacy/

Media Culture and Communication department School of Arts Middlesex University
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/subjects/mcc/

Sophia Drakopoulou's vision