Alexia Achilleos

Alexia Achilleos is a Finnish-Cypriot artist, researcher and lecturer, with a background in fine art, archaeology and cultural studies. Her work explores the power dynamics shaping technology, with reference to history, culture and geopolitics. With a current focus on artificial intelligence (AI), Alexia examines its impact from a local perspective. Her work re-interprets dominant narratives and questions biases found within history and society, but also within AI technology itself, particularly challenging the idea of technology as universal and objective.

Alexia’s work has been presented at institutions and conferences such as Ars Electronica festival, Civic Creative Base Tokyo, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design, and World Intellectual Property Organisation. She is a PhD Fellow at CYENS Centre of Excellence, undertaking practice-based research on colonialism and AI, as well as a Research Associate at the Media Art & Design Research Lab (MADLab) at Cyprus University of Technology.