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Zenovia Toloudi, D.Des., is an architect, artist and Associate Professor of Architecure (with tenure) at Studio Art, Dartmouth College. Her work, situated at the intersection of art and architecture, addresses the increasing disconnection of people from nature and from each other and suggests alternatives to restore lost connections. Using digital and organic media, Zenovia proposes innovative architectures that promote inclusion of, and interaction with human participants. Her work asks how installations, typically conceived as short-lived interventions, affect established traditions and norms, and how proposed paradigms trigger new and unexpected activities. Zenovia has exhibited art installations in 30+ exhibitions in the US and Europe in venues such as the Biennale in Venice, the Center for Architecture in New York, the Athens Byzantine Museum, Le Lieu Unique in Nantes, and the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens, and she won commissions from Illuminus Boston, and The Lab at Harvard. Her work belongs to permanent collections at Aristotle University and the Thracian Pinacotheca. In addition, Zenovia has authored more than 20 academic articles and book chapters that focused on art and architecture installations in publications such as The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture, Technoetic Arts Journal of Speculative Research, Palgrave Macmillan's Ludics—Play as Humanistic Inquiry edited volume, and MAS Context's issue on the Ordinary. Research Fellow at Art, Culture, and Technology Program at MIT, and a Fulbright Fellow, Zenovia received her doctorate from Harvard's GSD, a M.Arch. from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and a diploma in Architectural Engineering from Aristotle University. Raised at a periphery of Greece, Zenovia works in the Mediterranean and in North America and her fascination with borders is reflected in art that ranges in reference and material across the boundaries of biology, society, and technology.
Studio Art
Toloudi, Z. Technoutopias exhibition catalogue, Dartmouth College, 2019
Toloudi, Z. Technoecologies: The Interplay of Space and its Perception, Ludics: Toys, Games and Play from Antiquity to Present, ed. Vassiliki Rapti and Eric Gordon (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2021) p. 95-123 LINK (book chapter)
Toloudi, Z. Architecture and Living Matter(s): From Art/Architectural Installations to Metabolic Aesthetics, The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture, ed. Charissa Terranova and Meredith Tromble (Routledge Press, 2016) p. 197-217 LINK (book chapter)
Toloudi, Z. Building a Language on the Interrogative Form, Interrogative Design, ed. Ian Wojtowicz, MIT Press (forthcoming)
EXHIBITIONS
Architectures of Hiding, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (public space), 2021
Times Structures, Milis, Sardinia (public space), 2021
Technoutopias, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (solo) 2019
Tomorrows. Urban Fictions for Possible Futures, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France, 2019
metamaquettes: Between the Lab and the Site, McCormick gallery, Boston Architectural College (BAC), Boston, MA (solo) 2018
Technoecologies, Design Building Gallery, UMass Amherst , Amherst, MA (solo) 2018
Future of History. A Group Exhibition of Art and Technology, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, MA, 2018
Dartmouth Influence, Big Town Gallery, Rochester, VT, 2018
Technoecologies, Storrs Gallery, UNCC, Charlotte, NC (solo), 2018
A Temporary Museum of Ideas in the Making, Strauss Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (curatorial), 2018
Tomorrows, Diplareios School (Onassis Cultural Centre/Stegi), Athens, Greece, 2017
Speak! Listen! Act!, Strauss Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (also curatorial) 2016
Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College (art collection) 2016
Illuminus Boston, HUBweek, Fenway, Boston, MA (public space) 2015
Optotopia, New College of Optometry (NECO), Boston, MA (solo) 2015
metamaquette, Strauss Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (solo) 2014
MC Redux, Thessaloniki, Greece , 2014
Designing for Free Speech, Theatrum Mundi, AIA New York, Center for Architecture, New York, NY , 2014
Threcian Pinacotheca, Alexandroupolis, Greece (art collection) 2014
Industry Lab, Cambridge, MA (solo) 2013
Stata Building, MIT, Cambridge, MA (public space) , 2012
Garden Lab, Brant Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA, 2012
Made in Greece Plus, Museum of Science, Boston, MA (curatorial) 2012
Made in Greece, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA (curatorial) 2011
13.3 Percent, Los Angeles, CA , 2010
The Lab at Harvard 2010/11 Opening Celebration, Cambridge, MA, 2010
Artrages: Surrealestate Exhibition, East Boston, MA 2010,
SWANDAY 2010 [Support Women Artists Now], Cambridge, MA, 2010
Video Art Festival Miden 2009: Urban [R]evolutions, Kalamata, Greece, 2009
Un-built, The Athens Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens, Greece, 2008
1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art: Other places, Thessaloniki, Greece arch.city.art, Chicago, IL, 2007
Venice Biennale 2006: Cities. Architecture & Society, Venice, Italy, 2006
Vagabond: Art in Action, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2004
Amour Amour: Oktana, the utopian city, Technopolis – Gazi, Athens, Greece, 2001
Big Torino 2000, Biennale Arte Emergente, Torino, Italy Aristotle, 2000
University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece (public space), 2000