Maria Mavropoulou was born in 1989, she lives and works in Athens, Greece. She is a visual artist using mainly photography while her work expands to new forms of photographic images, such as VR and screen-captured images, GAN and AI-generated images. Her work and research focus on the new realities created by the connectible devices and the contradictions between the physical and the virtual spaces that we inhabit, addressing issues of technological mediation. Maria holds a Master’s in Fine Arts and a BA from the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her work is presented at König Gallery in Berlin and is part of private collections and Vontobel art collection. She has exhibited in institutions and museums in Greece and abroad.

The Sleight of the Machine (Trailer)

The Sleight of the Machine, crafts an evocative meditation on illusion, technology, and the shifting nature of perception. Blurring the line between traditional sleight-of-hand and computational trickery, this AI-generated short film transforms the simple gestures of magic into an eerie allegory for our algorithmically mediated reality. Both mesmerizing and disquieting, the film distills the existential tension of our time—the seduction of technology, the erosion of truth, and the uncanny beauty of a world where reality is no longer a fixed construct, but a performance.

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