Foteini Valeonti Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London Area, United Kingdom

A social entrepreneurship venture, reGEN (http://regenCurates.org) has raised over $600,000 for medical charities to date. ReGEN is a curatorial initiative I co-founded and I am co-curating (alongside Alex Estorick) bringing together generative artists to fight degenerative diseases. Participant artists have raised over £240,000 for Cure Parkinson’s Trust.

Right Click Save is a leading online magazine for crypto art, NFTs and culture founded by ClubNFT. My first article as a Scholar in Residence, “Are NFTs a real solution for museums?”, was published in April. https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/are-nfts-a-real-solution-for-museums

London, England, United Kingdom

Founded UCL spin-out USEUM Collectibles (research-driven consultancy on NFTs & culture) with funding from Research England's HEI Fund. Clients include:Natural History Museum, London — Commissioned to explore NFTs as a potential fundraising medium for the institution, assessing the technology environmentally, as well as commercially, identifying.

Honoured to be invited to become a member of EBA's NFT Working Group, where we are looking to make an impact (educational, policy-related or otherwise) on how NFTs are perceived and leveraged in Europe, helping EBA's overarching mission to empower the European Blockchain ecosystem.The European Blockchain Association (EBA) is in collaboration with the.

London, United Kingdom

I was awarded an AHRC Leadership Fellowship for Early Career Researchers under the strand “Creative and Digital Economy Innovation Leadership Fellows”.In collaboration with the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, this project explores ways museums can utilise emerging technologies to generate revenue from their digitised collections, in order to address one.

London, United Kingdom

I was awarded the title of Honorary Researcher from the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) for my PhD project, USEUM, and its impact beyond academia.

London, United Kingdom

Art theorist André Malraux was the first to envision "Le musée imaginaire", "the museum without walls" as it was translated that exhibits the world's greatest art all under one roof, free of georgraphical constraints. A realisation of Malraux's imaginary museum is USEUM, a virtual museum that democratises art. USEUM exhibits 84,000 paintings, illustrations.

London, England, United Kingdom

Museums Computer Group is a vivid community of thousands of museum professionals, whilst MCG’s annual conference is amongst the leading conferences in Digital Humanities in the UK and internationally. As a Committee Member I lead the group's Website Team.

I was invited by the AHRC to review grant proposals for a Digital Humanities call for funding.

London, United Kingdom

Sole responsible for the maintenance (fixes and improvements) and the development of new features for the iPhone and iPad apps of Artlogic.

London, United Kingdom

Designed and taught the "Communication and Visualisation" unit for the BA (Hons) Sound Design course and the "Mobile application development" unit for the BA (Hons) Product Design course. Also delivered a series of hands-on workshops for the college's post-graduate students covering Objective-C programming and Augmented Reality software development.

London, United Kingdom

Software Developer of the mobile applications of the Museum of BMW in Munich, Germany. The project was delivered using PhoneGap and Sencha Touch frameworks, following the directive of the managers. More information on the project: http://red-badger.com/our-work/case-study/bmw/

London, United Kingdom

Augmentarium aimed to become the “Photoshop” of AR; seamless and inexpensive design and implementation of Augmented Reality applications.Conducted the business plan based on the feedback of personal contacts from London’s AR industry, whilst the other co-founder developed the prototype. Augmentarium as a business plan was accepted to be incubated by UCL’s.

Athens, Greece

Prepared and delivered presentations and workshops for Microsoft technologies, contributed in the setup of events both offline across Greece & online in the StudentGuru.gr community and delivered duties of web & commercial designer.

In-situ photo-montage for proximity marketing installations in Ejekt and Synch music festivals.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Digital Humanities

I did my PhD (part-time), titled "USEUM: Making art accessible with crowdsourcing and gamification", at the UCL Bartlett Centre for.

Mfa, Interactive Digital Media, Distinction (Dissertation Marked With A+)

My first-year MFA thesis titled "The Augmented Reality Suite for Cultural Institutions" was awarded an A+. Video demonstration can be.

Bsc Hons, Computer Science

My BSc Thesis was titled "The design and development of a rich interactive application for the artistic archive of the National Theatre of.