
Previously, she served as a researcher at the TUC TIE Lab in Greece, contributing to large-scale, nationally recognized projects. Her practice searches for the signals living systems already carry, the activity of brain organoids, the growth patterns of mycelium, and translates them into computational process: agent-based simulation, generative form, multisensory installation. The work moves across scales, from full-room environments down to material and object-level experiments, and she’s increasingly drawn to folding biological materials directly into her fabrication processes, letting the biological and the computational shape each other. She is an artist-in-residence at SBCAST (Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science & Technology). Her research has been published in venues including IJAC, IEEE VISAP, and SIGGRAPH, and her work has been exhibited at ISEA, Ars Electronica, the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, CURRENTS NEW MEDIA, IEEE VISAP, LOAD Gallery Barcelona, and the AI Art Biennale, with recognition from AI Art Magazine. She also serves as Co-Artistic Director and Lead for Urban Projection Mappings at Brave New Work, a conference featuring works by internationally recognized media artists in public spaces.
Exhibitions
2027
Invited solo gallery show with Metaesthetica (upcoming)
2026
Simulacra Naturae
2026
Simulacra Naturae
2026
Quantum Global Organoid Orchestra
2026
Quantum Global Organoid Orchestra, Simulacra Naturae
2026
Morphogenetic Ecologies, Simulacra Naturae
2026
Stochastic Jué (觉)
2025
Co-Artistic Director and Lead for Urban Projection Mappings
2025
Organoid Protonoesis II
2025
Simulacra Naturae
2025
Quantum Global Organoid Orchestra
2025
Quantum Global Organoid Orchestra
2025
Emotional Landscapes
2025
Nested Observer Window
2024
Microbial Mindscapes
2024
Microbial Mindscapes
2024
Organoid Protonoesis, Osmosis
2024
Organoid Protonoesis
2023
Synaptic Time Tunnel
2023
Synaptic Time Tunnel
2023
Synaptic Time Tunnel, Osmosis
2022
Alloplex BioAffective Worlds XR: Hydnum
2021
Desire for Freedom
Publications
2025
N. Manoudaki, M. Toka, I. Paterakis, D. Flatley. IEEE VISAP, Vienna
2025
N. Manoudaki, I. Paterakis, G. Wakefield, H. Ji, D. Flatley, R. Millett, W. Qiu, M. Novak. ISEA, Seoul
2025
S. Hyaju Ahn, N. Manoudaki, R. Millett, I. Paterakis, Y. Oh. ISEA, Seoul
2025
N. Manoudaki, I. Paterakis, D. Flatley, M. Novak. IJAC, SAGE Journals
2025
I. Paterakis, N. Manoudaki. IJAC, SAGE Journals
2024
I. Paterakis, N. Manoudaki. SIGraDi, Barcelona
2024
N. Manoudaki, I. Paterakis, D. Flatley, M. Novak. SIGraDi, Barcelona
2024
M. Christoulakis, N. Manoudaki, I. Paterakis, M. Liapi, K.A. Oungrinis. AMPS, Barcelona
Talks
2027
Invited speaker on computational architecture and urban environments (upcoming)
2026
Invited speaker on the Quantum Global Organoid Orchestra
2026
Invited speaker, Artificial Intelligence for Architectural Design and Practice
2024
Invited speaker, public talk on light and art
2022
Panelist with UCSB MAT transLAB
2022
Invited keynote speaker with UCSB MAT transLAB
2022
Invited speaker and workshop moderator: Animation, Body, Space
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