Thalia Raftopoulou (b. 1980), is an artist and researcher based in Athens, Greece, working on the intersections of contemporary art and sonic cultural study. Her creative process unfolds with different mediums like drawing, lectures, video and installations and is concerned with matters of public space, of the in-between art and everyday life. She pays attention to sound affectivities in the everyday, how we “listen”, how we talk about “what we listen and feel”, of response-ability- as the ability to respond, into entries of noise and silence in different contexts, affectivities within orality and matter, vibrations and vocalisation.
With Fonés/Voices (2011- 2016), a group of scientists and artists, they explored ways in which sounds emitted by living bodies become matter for thought and art making.
She studied visual arts in the Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece, 2006, was trained in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, MFA, in the Bauhaus University- Weimar, 2010 supported by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation, and has received a PhD on “Sound and listening in the Athenian apartment building” from the Department of Theory and Art History in the Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece, 2011- 2021, supported by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation and Onassis Foundation.