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Introduction
Associate Professor in Art History, Open University of Cyprus.
UNESCO Chairholder on Visual Anticipation and Futures Literacy towards Visual Literacy.
Mellon Distinguished Visitor-in-Residence in the Fine Arts at Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN, in 2014.
Research focuses include visuality and visual literacy; cultural and national identities; cultural and national identities; cultural and national memory and commemoration.
More @ https://www.ouc.ac.cy/index.php/en/profiles/vicky-karaiskou
Current institution
Additional affiliations
July 2022 - July 2026
Position
- Chairholder
Description
- The research project “Visual Anticipation and Futures Literacy towards Visual Literacy” investigates and questions our thought patterns, and provides tools for emancipated, empowered and critical visual thinking and acting. More @ https://ouc.ac.cy/unesco-chair
September 2007 - present
Education
September 1997 - June 2001
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Fine Arts, Department of Applied and Fine Arts
Field of study
- Art History
Publications
Publications (50)
Political memorials and memorial locations in Cyprus function as “figures of memory” that regulate political rhetoric, detect (hi)story-telling, and shape identities, both on a collective as well as on an individual level. Although they seem to go unnoticed in the citizens’ daily routines, they exert profound influence in Greek Cypriot society wher...
https://www.amazon.com/Heritage-Divided-Cities-Issues-Cultural/dp/113862487X
https://books.google.gr/books/about/Heritage_and_Sustainable_Urban_Transform.html?id=GtxEwQEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y
The chapter focuses on Greece, Cyprus and Turkey and discusses how affective narratives in public space create “memory landscapes” that determine perceptions of historical past and regulate attitudes in the present time. Since the nineteenth century, reiterations of visual and verbal narratives on loss in public discourse among the three countries...
The paper will focus on the commemorative sculpture in the Republic of Cyprus and comment the role attributed to individual actors in the process of narrating and preserving collective memory. The busts, statues and architectural complexes erected since 1960, when the country gained its independence, are consecrated to the dead and missing during t...
Maria Ioannou and Maria Kyriakidou (eds.)
Public sculptures and ceremonial behaviors in the public sphere: Cyprus as a case study
Cyprus is an exemplary case of emotionally and historically charged site. The sculptures situated in its public spaces preserve a strong visual narrative element and militaristic character and reflect to a high degree social notions and political behaviors. The...
In M. Rossetto, M. Tsianikas, G. Couvalis, M. Palaktsoglou (eds.) Greek Research in Australia. Proceedings of the Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies, Flinders University July 2009, Adelaide: Flinders University Department of language Studies – Modern Greek, pp. 618-632.
