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Theo Triantafyllidis

Theo Triantafyllidis builds performative systems where natural and synthetic intelligences coexist. Working with games, live simulations, performances and installations, he creates volatile arrangements presented as darkly playful worlds — using the logic of play and simulation to approach phenomena too vast to narrate: ecological collapse, social entanglement and networked desire. At the centre of his practice is the body: primal, sexual, comedic and often overwhelmed, caught between ancient instincts and the accelerating systems we inhabit. His characters — human, animal, monster or machine — teeter between control and surrender, humour and dread, intimacy and spectacle, searching for a tender, hormonal core in an overstimulated world. Triantafyllidis holds an MFA from UCLA, Design Media Arts, and a Diploma of Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens, and has shown work at the Whitney Museum, Centre Pompidou, House of Electronic Arts and NRW Forum, among others, as well as the 2017 Venice Biennale, Sundance New Frontier 2020 and Athens Biennale 2021.

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Theo Triantafyllidis

Theo Triantafyllidis builds performative systems where natural and synthetic intelligences coexist. Working with games, live simulations, performances and installations, he creates volatile arrangements presented as darkly playful worlds — using the logic of play and simulation to approach phenomena too vast to narrate: ecological collapse, social entanglement and networked desire. At the centre of his practice is the body: primal, sexual, comedic and often overwhelmed, caught between ancient instincts and the accelerating systems we inhabit. His characters — human, animal, monster or machine — teeter between control and surrender, humour and dread, intimacy and spectacle, searching for a tender, hormonal core in an overstimulated world. Triantafyllidis holds an MFA from UCLA, Design Media Arts, and a Diploma of Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens, and has shown work at the Whitney Museum, Centre Pompidou, House of Electronic Arts and NRW Forum, among others, as well as the 2017 Venice Biennale, Sundance New Frontier 2020 and Athens Biennale 2021.