Stratos Bichakis (b. 1984) is a transdisciplinary artist, composer, engineer and former member of the Athenian underground music scene. In his work, he crosses the horizon between art and science, abstraction and story telling, fusing synthetic and organic qualities into his productions. He uses hybrid software and hardware platforms along with self-developed code to explore the emotional potential and transcendence possibilities of sound, light and motion.

He is a member of Contemporary Music Research Center (KSYME-CMRC). He co-founded the creative hub Ubique, in Athens in 2018, and led a series of yearly seminars on experimental music practice. His work has been presented at festivals and exhibitions in Europe, North America and Asia. He is currently based in Berlin, studying Art and Media in UdK.

His engineering work developing kinetic light systems for artists Michela Pelusio (IT) and Christopher Bauder (DE) has been featured in acclaimed audiovisual performances and exhibitions.

“Over the years I have been working with different materials and ever changing modalities and practices of artistic creation, education, and product development.

Inquiries of psychoacoustics, auditory, visual, spatial and temporal perception inform my approach and extend to the creation and adaptation of tools or instruments and fabrication of experiences.

A big advocate of co-creation and participatory processes, I invite different perspectives and materials in dialogue, anticipating the diffusion of ideas and osmotic exchange between territories and narratives, providing time and space for exchange, reflection and exploration.

I consider art and especially sound and light as mediums to probe into the unconscious and the cognitive nonconscious agencies, shared between humans, non-humans and the technical assemblages. I find joy in the interplay of asymmetries, irregularities, chaos and emergent behavior. I embrace complexity seeking to unveil elegance.”