1976, born in Athens, lives and works in London

In 2011 worked for MET Studios, Real Studios, Cube arts as 3d designer/visualiser and as art director of StikiPixels. (National Maritime Museum, London; Natural History Museum, Shanghai; UAE pavilion 2012 and the very interesting and unique museum of environmental sciences, Guadalajara Mexico)

Worked for MET studios as lead visualiser for the Natural History Museum Shanghai. 2010

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 . visualizer. Designing museums, interactives and flythroughs.(National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh - Natural Sciences galleries, Bahrain National Monument, Concept design 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 Queens 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). A festival about the emerging Game Arts and Independent Game development featuring 35 installations and more than 100 talks.

Was the Co-Director of the Company Personal Cinema (Athens - Brussels - New York ) from 2002 to 2006 organizing 12 exhibitions and roundtable discussions across Europe, collaborating with artists , documentarists, writers and media people to create real-time 3D environments. Funded mainly by Goethe Institute and Cultural Olympiad 2004

3D Visualization for the AKKM architectural company in 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.

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 specialization is 3D, Concept Design, and visualization.

Software : 3D Studio Max, Maya, Zbrush, Unity3d, Mudbox, Photoshop, Vectorworks, Premier, Combustion, Avid, Illustrator.

Real Time : Unity3D, Qube, Renderware.

Illustrator : Charcoal only doesn't like pencils at all.

Programming (basic): JavaScript, Unity Javascript, Mel, MaxScript.

 

European Media Arts Festival (EMAF) - 2005

1st Prize for the project "The making of Balkan Wars :The game " an art 3D video game/ documentary which hosted videos, documentaries and artworks form 52 artists across the Balkans and the rest of the world . I did the concept design, and organisation and was the lead 3D artist in the project.

 

• Central Saint Martins, London, "Gaming Realities, narrative and play under the same roof" (2006)
• Medi@terra Gaming Realities, Athens " Democratisation of Virtual Environments" , (2006)
• City University, London, " Homo Ludens and Personal Cinema" (2006)
• Academy of Fine Arts, Madrid, 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)

• “On Personal Cinema, Media, and Homo Ludens”, Third Text, Routledge, London (2007).
• “Democratization of Virtual Environments” in Gaming Realities, M. Santorineos (ed.), Melani, Athens (2006).

• “Hidden love songs” Group project for the Royal Festival Hall in London (2006).
• "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).
• Netherlands Media Art Institute, MonteVideo, Amsterdam (2004).
• MediaLab Madrid, Spain. Supported by MediaLab Madrid and Cultural Olympiad (2004).
• Art Athena, Athens (2004).
• Skopje City museum. Supported by Fridericianum Museum Kassel Germany (2004).
• Casa Transit, Kluj, Romania. Supported By Goethe Institute (2004).
• Rex Museum, Belgrade, Serbia. Supported By Goethe Institute (2004).