Nicolas Kolonias
Professor of Art and Philosophy at Chiang Mai University
Nikolas Kolonias is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Multidisciplinary Studies Department, Faculty of Fine Art at Chiang Mai University in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He studied cybernetics, anthropology and eastern philosophy at School of Oriental and African studies (SOAS), University of London and philosophy of aesthetics at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He obtained his PhD from Amsterdam University and his dissertation was entitled ‘The Diagrammatic Strategies of Digital Machines’ it examined the optics of the digital image in relation to aesthetics, neuroscience and eastern philosophy of the mind.
He is the author of ‘Art in the Age of Cybernetic Machines’, (Chiang Mai University Press, 2021) and The Brain as a Screen – Deleuze and Contemporary Art in Thailand.’ (Chiang Mai 2019).