Associate Arts Professor of IMA (Interactive Media Arts)
Email
sd163@nyu.edu
Website
http://www.soniconlab.com
Stavros Didakis

Stavros Didakis (PhD, AFHEA, MA) is an academic, researcher, and artist whose work speculates on technological futures through architectural augmentation and inhabitant personalization. His research and practice explore sensorial interfaces, responsive ecologies, and computational frameworks as extensions of human environments. He has exhibited internationally at institutions and festivals such as Ars Electronica, Chronus Art Center, and TANK Shanghai, receiving commissions, grants, and awards in creative technologies. Didakis has published extensively in conferences, journals, and edited volumes, and currently serves as Associate Arts Professor in Interactive Media Arts at New York University Shanghai.

Research Interests
Architectural Augmentation, Sensorial Interfaces, Post-Human Dwelling, Responsive Environments, Agentic Machine Ecologies

Personal Websitehttps://soniconlab.com/

Selected Works

  1. [Conference] Didakis, S. (2025) Logico-Fantastic Machines & The Architecture of Divergence, Politics of the Machines, Distributed Sentience Track, Perth, Australia.
  2. [Publication] Didakis, S. (2023). XENOFORMS: Computational Autonomy & Hybrid Architectures. In Proceedings of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS’23), Pittsburgh, USA, pp. 64–68.
  3. [Exhibition] Didakis, S. (2023). Synthetic Cities [Solo exhibition]. Riverside Project Space, TANK Shanghai, China.
  4. [Commissioned artwork] Didakis, S. (2022). XENOFORMS, Commissioned by AMAN & Flexiv Robotics; exhibited during ART021, Shanghai, China.
  5. [Conference] Didakis, S. (2021). Ubiquitous Colonies: Computational Parasites, Sentiment, & the Architectural Space. In Sentimental Machines 2021, IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (RCA, UK)

Courses
Advanced Lab: Synthetic Media | Responsive Environments: Designing Interactive, Sentient, and Intelligent Spaces | Media Architecture | Extended Perception | Capstone I & II | Creative Coding | Communications Lab | Low-Res Thesis

Selected Courses Outputs

  1. “Weird Creatures”, Art Installation (Generative AI, VR), Honorary Mention @Ars Electronica [Course] Advanced Lab: Synthetic Media (S24) Link: https://soniconlab.com/portfolio-item/weird-creatures/
  2. “Invisible Cities”, Immersive Art Exhibition at Planet One, Awarded by Unity China [Course] Media Architecture (F21) Link: https://shanghai.nyu.edu/news/invisible-cities-exhibition-pulls-audience-captivating-immersive-worlds
  3. “Neo-Imaginaria”, Group Exhibition at Brownie Art Space [Course] Capstone Studio (S21) Link: https://events.shanghai.nyu.edu/#!view/event/event_id/5894 https://m.manamana.net/activityDetail/576#!zh
  4. “White Magnolia”, Media Façade Animations [Course] Media Architecture (F20) Link: https://shanghai.nyu.edu/news/students-light-shanghai-skyline