Demetrios Kargotis is Assistant Professor in the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts at the Cyprus University of Technology (TEPAK). His work is disseminated internationally through exhibitions, education, and socially engaged design projects. With over 16 years of experience in higher education, he has written and led postgraduate programmes that foreground experimental, interdisciplinary, and practice-led approaches to art and design, with a strong focus on public engagement and social and political responsiveness.
His practice operates collaboratively at the intersection of design, social engagement, and civic performance. Through co-creation, public making, and collective storytelling, he explores how design can challenge dominant systems and support collective imagination. Working primarily through the artist collectives Post Workers Theatre and Dash N’ Dem, their projects span objects, events, performances, and film. They have been presented internationally, including at the 2022 Luleå Biennial for Craft & Art, Tate Liverpool, and Gothenburg University, as well as through commissions and exhibitions by institutions such as the V&A, Barbican, ARS Electronica Festival, Vivid Projects, South London Gallery, Helsinki Art Museum, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Maidstone Museum, Baltic Circle International Theatre Festival, and the 4th Athens Biennial.
Recent work includes The Birdie Dance Macabre, developed during a 2023–24 residency at IASPIS in Stockholm, which explored the politics of food systems and precarious labour through folk horror performance. His ongoing research and collaborative practice examine how design can act as a tool for collective agency, political engagement, and cultural resistance.