Penesta Dika studied Art History at the University of Vienna and obtained her PhD in Interface Culture and History of Media Art at the Linz University of Art. Her master’s thesis on ’The Computer Art of Herbert W. Franke’ (Die Computerkunst Herbert W. Frankes) was published in book form in 2007, in honour of Herbert W. Franke’s 80th birthday. The results of her scientific research have been published in books (e.g. Transcript), magazines (e.g. Interscience) and conferences (e.g. MediArtHistories). Her practical experience with interactive digital art (‘Shape, Color & Sound’ – an interactive artwork) and her PhD thesis were presented in 2006 and 2007 at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz.

Also the artistic research "Food Cultures, Co-Design" developed in collaboration with Eveline Wandl-Vogt and Jose Luis Preza Diaz from the Academy of Sciences in Austria and with Katja Berger (freelance artist) is presented in Ars Electronica Festival "ERROR" of 2018 and in the "Europian Researchers' Night" 2018 in Vienna.

Penesta Dika works as a free-lance curator in Vienna and lectures at the University of Art in Linz (Austria) and at the University for Business and Technology in Prishtina (Kosovo). She is the founder of the Association SciTechArt in Vienna. The purpose of the association is education, promotion and research in scientific and technological art.

Penesta Dika is the author of the book ‘Interactive Digital Art. Visual Motifs and their Meaning’, published by Logos in Berlin in 2017.