About
First piano lessons, ballet lessons and first year in school happened simultaneously in 1980. I remember a beloved dance teacher, good music, my piano diploma in January 1991 and a Harold Pinter play at the Municipal Theatre in Patras. Since my early school time I had the firm belief that I was a painter and that I was going to study under the wing of N. Kessanlis at the School of Fine Arts in Athens and then move to Berlin, which I actually did.
Kessanlis' Studio closed in 1998 and I got the IKY Greek State Scholarship, then the Onassis Scholarship and started my MA at the UdK in Berlin. Back to Athens in 2004 for my composition diploma and the start of my PhD research at the University of Athens on Total Artwork. In 2008 I moved to Zurich, started a research in haptics (merging analogue technology with innovative tech platforms) at the ICST.
I presented my PhD thesis in 2012 in Athens and moved to London for an artistic collaboration with the EAVI team at Goldsmiths. In 2014 I was the first European artist to receive the Fulbright Schuman funding, introducing a new concept of the artist as engineer/scientist. While working as a postdoc, on how the brain triggers different stimuli via our senses and the way our senses interconnect at the University of Michigan, I had a joyful collaboration with R. Esslinger and C. McRae: together we created Loompianola!, a hybrid instrument.
Then in 2014 in Copenhagen (haptic diary project), 2015 in Istanbul (Archaeoacoustics), 2016 in Helsinki (Lighting design project and solo exhibition), 2017-18 in Athens (lecturing Arts and Anthropology at the Athens School of Fine Arts) and 2019 in Marseille for Escales, a sound permanent installation at the Galleries Lafayette / Prado. 2020 back in Athens, working on Through the Looking Sound project, a kaleidoscopic score for a solo pianist, performed by Jana Lukst in N.Y. and Toronto.
Contact
30wanderers@gmail.com