1976, Born in Athens
Lives and works in London

 

Masters degree in Narrative Environments (Central Saint Martins)

Studied at the Fine Arts University of Athens in Installation Art and New Media (BA - MA)

My specialisation is 3D, Concept Design, and visualisation.

Software : 3ds Max, Maya, Combustion, Photoshop, Vectorworks, Premiere, After Effects, Illustrator, Avid. (Game Engines as 3D designer: Qube, Renderware, OGRE 3D, Director 3D. )

 

Worked for Near Global as a senior 3D designer, designing the virtual west end of London. Worked both on detail and technical design, 2009

Worked for Ralph Appelbaum Associates as a 3D and experiential designer / visualiser. Designing museums, interactives and flythroughs. (National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh - Natural sciences galleries, Bahrain National Monument , Concept development and visualizations for the Cambridge Interfaith museum, Russian Jewish Museum in Moscow.)   2007 -2009

Worked in collaboration with Cambridge University, Goldsmiths and BT for the “Arts and Business” project with the project Pink Tank, part of the London Design Festival 2007 at Queen Elisabeth Hall.

Carried out the technical and exhibition design, and was part of the organizing committee of the festival Medi@terra “Gaming Realities” (October 2006)  selectparks.net or turbulence.org

Was the Co-Director of the Company Personal Cinema (Athens  - Brussels  - New York)  from 2002 to 2006 organising 12 exhibitions and roundtable discussions across Europe,  Funded by Goethe Institute, Cultural Olympiad 2004.

3D visualisation for the architecture company AKKM Athens.  2004 -2005

Head Designer for Ilias Papailiakis' work  "The image and its meaning" 3d anaglyph Prints, La biennale di Venezia, Plateu of Humankind 2001

European Media Arts Festival (EMAF) - 2005
1st prize for the project “The making of Balkan wars: The game”, an art video game/documentary which hosted videos, documentaries and artworks from 52 artists across the Balkans and the rest of world. I did the concept design, and organisation and was the lead artist of the project.    
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• Central Saint Martins, London, “Gaming Realities, narrative and play under the same roof “ (2006)
• Medi@terra Gaming Realities, Athens “Democratization of Virtual Environments”, (2006)
• City University, London, “Homo Ludens and Personal Cinema”  (2006)
• Academy of Fine Arts, Madrid, Round table discussion. Speech on video game design in-and visual arts (2004)
• City Museum of Skopje, Round table discussion. “New media in periphery/re-imagining the cyber Balkans” (2004)

“Democratization of Virtual Environments” in Gaming Realities, M. Santorineos (ed.), Melani, Athens (2006)

“On Personal Cinema, Media, and Homo Ludens”, Third Text, Routledge, London (2007)

 

• “Hidden love songs” Group project for the Royal Festival Hall in London (2006)
• "The Machine" Video installation -  Ironclad Averof museum, Athens (2003)
• "Electric Chair" for the Breeder magazine, Presented in Tate Modern, London (2001)
• “The Machine”  271 Gothic Gallery London. Curator Gulsen Bal (2001)

 

• Presentation at the exhibition “In the Gorges of the Balkans. A report” Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, Germany  (2004)
• MediaLab Madrid, Spain. Supported by Media Lab Madrid and Cultural Olympiad (2004)
• Art Athena, Athens (2004)
• Skopje City museum, Supported by Fridericianum Museum Kassel Germany (2004)
• Netherlands Media art Institute, MonteVideo, Amsterdam (2004)
• Casa Transit, Kluj, Romania, Supported By Goethe Institute (2004)
• Rex Museum, Belgrade, Serbia - Supported By Goethe Institute (2004)
• Synch Festival, Athens, (2005)
• Going Public exhibition, Larissa’s institute of contemporary art, (2005)