Angeliki Malakasioti is an architect and academic living in Athens. After completing the March Architectural Design in Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL with distinction, and a Doctoral Thesis on the theme “Anatomy of the Digital Body - Spatial Aspects of the Self and the Immaterial on the Web” in the University of Thessaly with honors, she has worked as adjunct faculty in the Department of Architecture, University of THessaly, and in a joint postgraduate program of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is currently running a post-doctorate research in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on the theme of melancholy, space and video games. Her academic and artistic interests deal with digital experience, immaterial architecture, audiovisual representations. She has participated in multiple international conferences, art and film festivals and exhibitions and she has received prizes of experimental film making, photography and “art as research” contributions.

The research deals with the "spatiality" of the digital self. More specifically, it explores the spatial qualities that unfold when studying the concept of "self" in the digital environment. Digital self is understood as an aspect of individuality, or as one’s habitation of digital space. This research chooses internet as a focal point of the study, while underlining its relation to the term "cyberspace".
The research methodology is based on the conception of a metaphoric scheme which hosts the mental experience (collection and study of mental phenomena as they appear in sciences that deal with the concept of the self - psychiatry, psychology, neurology) and digital experience (mental phenomena as they are manifested in cyberspace theory), as the two fields of interest. The process of applying “material” from one field to the other, forms an attempt to describe the digital self in a systematic way, consolidating a new vocabulary and therefore a new point of view.
In this context, the research uses the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders, or otherwise, handbook of differential diagnosis DSM) in order to get the 'raw material' of its metaphoric text - namely the composition of a series of mental states which in the end will be interpreted through a process of "diagnosis of the digital". Through this diagnosis, there is an attempt to identify the mental symptoms that may correspond to the digital self and the spatial qualities that characterize them. The sum of spatial observations is organized in a theoretical formation, which, in the context of this study, is defined as the "digital body".
The thesis is organized in four chapters as follows:
The first chapter introduces the basic research questions and their context. In the second chapter, the methodological approach is analyzed. The third chapter develops the main part of the survey (per thematic adjacencies with respect to their content and the way they relate to the digital self and the space it suggests), which is organized as follows: the constellation of birth, the constellation of shadow, the constellation of breath, the constellation of desire, the constellation of reflection, the constellation of sleep, the constellation of voice. The fourth chapter briefly reflects on the research process and presents its conclusions.
 

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