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Pixel Popadopoulos
Born Naxos, Greece, 1973. 
Studied Luton School of Art 1990-93.

Greek-born, New York-based video artist Popadopolous has forged an enviable international reputation for exploring "the tangled interstices of doubt at the core of cyberspace". Her work - which combines the complex symbiosis of video, computer and cybernetic practices - has been hailed as being "tantamount to a new technological gnosis".

Born on the Aegean island of Naxos, Popadopolous moved to England with her father, Nikos, a restaurateur, in 1977. While working in her father's fish and chip shop on Bournemouth sea-front in the late 1980s, the young Popadopolous noticed the mesmerising effect that pin-ball machines had on the local south coast youth who visited the shop after pub closing-time. Determined to explore what she saw as 'a new electronic Pygmalionism', she bought her first computer, "a steam-driven Atari" in 1983 when she was just twelve, on which she wrote a complex algorithm to calculate the regularity with which seagulls crapped on pensioners' heads.

Hailed by The Bournemouth Bugle as 'The Greek Goddess of the Micro Chip', Popadopolous left her adopted town in 1990 to undertake a degree in fine art and computer science at Luton School of Art, before moving to New York in 1995. In 1997, she took American citizenship and for the last two years has been artist in residence at the Pentagon. She is married to the linguist Per Linkegaard and moves between Washington and their home on Long Island Sound, which they share with their two cats, Babbage and Deckard.

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