Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou

Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou (b.1993) lis a multidisciplinary artist from Greece, based in Los Angeles. Their work explores softness as a radical quality, an epistemology, and a political tool to foster queer storytelling, create hubs of togetherness, and reimagine relationships with humans, non-human entities, and machines. Engaging with softness as materiality, emotionality, and relationality, their practice includes participatory installations, XR performances, video works, robotics, poetry, and sculptural costumes.

Antigoni approaches softness as deviance—an often marginalized force capable of healing, fostering collectivity, resisting oppression, and celebrating subjectivities beyond heteropatriarchal norms. They are currently developing the concept of Soft Intelligences as a queer reimagining of robotics and AI, challenging rigid narratives of control and productivity.

A Ph.D. candidate in Media Arts and Practice at USC School of Cinematic Arts, Antigoni also holds an MFA in Media Arts from UCLA and a BFA in Sculpture from the Athens School of Fine Arts. Their work has been exhibited at venues such as the Arnolfini Center for Contemporary Arts, REDCAT, Gray Area, Honor Fraser Gallery, and the Athens Biennale. They have collaborated and worked with notable artists, including William Pope.L, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens.