Steve Zafeiriou (b. 1998, Thessaloniki, GR) is a New Media Artist, Technologist, and Founder of Saphire Labs. His practice investigates how technology can influence, shape, and occasionally distort the ways individuals perceive the external world. By employing generative algorithms, electronic circuits, and interactive installations, he examines human behavior in relation to the illusory qualities of perceived reality, inviting observers to reconsider their assumptions and interpretations.

Audiovisual performance titled Qualia, cover image showing 3 people partying with digital AI effects

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Art-Tech Intelligence

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Insights on cultural data, artist trajectories, and the intelligence tools shaping the future of collections and curation.

This category introduces INDEX, Steve Zafeiriou’s cultural intelligence dashboard, and explores how data can enhance curatorial decisions, research processes, and market understanding without reducing art to metrics.

Technology and Mental Health: How Modern Technology Affects Mental Health – Insights through Art

Bonded Studio grew from years of artistic research into attention, intimacy, behavior, and the "connected but disconnected" generation paradox.

Answer the 4-minute anonymous survey I'm running through Bonded Research Lab. No account, no result about you, no pitch. Just questions about how connection actually works.

Technology should help us become more present, not more performative.