Amalia Foka is an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at the University of the Peloponnese. Her research interests focus on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, and Robotics, as well as their creative applications. She has an interdisciplinary background that bridges Computer Science with artistic research and practice, developing work that ranges from publishing scientific results to producing computational art. Her works and publications have been presented in leading scientific journals, international conferences, and artistic platforms (ECCV, Leonardo/MIT Press, WRO Media Art Biennale, ISEA). Her work has received international recognition, with numerous citations, and she has also been awarded the Arte Laguna Special Prize for her artistic practice. She holds a PhD in Robotics from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Crete and a degree in Computer Engineering (BEng, MSc) from UMIST, United Kingdom.
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Generative Artificial Intelligence (Generative AI), Computational Creativity, Digital Art History, Robotics and Autonomous Navigation, Art Games, Digital Humanities.
Foka, A. (2026). Experiments in the relationship between art history and text-to-image models. In K. Brown (Ed.), Artificial intelligence and art history: Looking at pictures in an algorithmic culture (Proceedings of the British Academy). The British Academy.
Foka, A. (2025). She Works, He Works: Critical explorations of gender in AI-generated representations. In Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2025), Seoul, Republic of Korea (May 23–29, 2025).
Foka, A. (2025). Interwoven ecosystems: Generative AI landscapes for ecological advocacy. In Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2025), Seoul, Republic of Korea (May 23–29, 2025).
Foka, A. (2025). Generating Virtual Landscapes and Environmental Narratives with StyleGAN2. In: Machado, P., Johnson, C., Santos, I. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design. EvoMUSART 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15611. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-90167-6_22
Foka, A. (2024). A Framework for Critical Evaluation of Text-to-Image Models: Integrating Art Historical Analysis, Artistic Exploration, and Critical Prompt Engineering. In Computer Vision – ECCV 2024 Workshops: Milan, Italy, September 29–October 4, 2024, Proceedings, Part XXII. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 128–143. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-92089-9_9
Foka, A. (2023). Forging emotions: A deep learning experiment on emotions and art. Artnodes, (31), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.7238/artnodes.v0i31.402397
Foka, A. (2022). Constructing an artworld influencers network by mining social media. Leonardo, 55(1), 24–29. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02094
Foka, A. (2022). Forging emotions: A deep learning experiment on emotions and art. In Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2022), Barcelona, Spain (June 10–16, 2022).
Foka, A. (2021). Computer vision applications for art history: Reflections and paradigms for future research. In Proceedings of the International Electronic Visualisation & the Arts (EVA London) Conference (pp. 73–80). https://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.12
Tsekoura, K., & Foka, A. (2020). Classification of EEG signals produced by musical notes as stimuli. Expert Systems with Applications, 159, Article 113507. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113507
Foka, A. (2018). An artist ranking system based on social media mining. Information Retrieval Journal, 21(5), 410–448. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10791-018-9328-z
