Ismini Gatou lives and works in Athens. Her practice lies at the intersection between art and research, addressing issues of spatiality and inhabitation as seen through the digital condition. In her work, she adopts theoretical/methodological “tools” from sound and media studies, anthropology of space and the senses, as well as multimodal and sensory ethnography. She experiments with various materials, media and forms: field/voice recordings, sound composition, interactive audio-mapping and sound-based locative media. Currently, she is completing her PhD in Cultural Technology and Communication at the University of the Aegean with the support of the State Scholarship Foundation in Greece. She holds a MSc in Cultural Informatics also from the University of the Aegean, completed under a Leventis Foundation scholarship; a MA from the Department of Communication, Media and Culture of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences and a BA in Communication and Media from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has participated with solo/group works in several exhibitions and festivals in Greece and abroad, including: Athens Digital Art Festival (2015),Urban Emptiness Project | NeMe Arts Centre (Limassol, 2017), Ethnokino Film Festival (Bern, 2019), Data-stories Confestival (Volos, 2019), Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival (Sharjah, 2020), and Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (2021). She has collaborated with cultural organizations and participated in artistic projects held internationally. Some examples: Art Athina, Onassis Cultural Centre, MUSA Cultural Center (Göttingen, Germany), Hellenic Children’s Museum, Orasi Art organization (Bologna, Italy), and the program Actors of Urban Change ran by MitOst organization in collaboration with the Robert Bosch Foundation. Between 2017 and 2019, she was a member of NACUSSO (Natural & Cultural Soundscape and Storytelling Organisation). She has been selected to participate in Robert Bosch Foundation’s START program (2015) and in the 6th NEON Curatorial Exchange (Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2017). She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).