Echorroes
With the utilisation of Artificial Intelligence and interactive technologies, Echorroes creates an experiential learning environment, providing fun and personalized education, mostly through sound and music. The program offers a first contact, awareness and familiarization with the tools that introduce us to the magical world of AI. The interactive installations incorporate interactive music and lighting into specially designed sets and costumes, emerging us into a world full of live unique sounds and entertainment.
Phoebus-Angelos Kollias
Phoebus-Angelos Kollias is a composer-programmer of interactive music with a PhD in Composition from Paris VIII University, applying Cognitive Sciences to Music Composition. He studied Classical Composition in Cambridge, London, and Paris with the support of the Onassis Foundation, the Athens Concert Hall, the Greek Composers’ Union, and the Leventis Foundation. Kollias is based in Berlin and writes interactive music for musical performances, virtual reality (VR) installations, and interactive games. He has received nine awards and nine nominations in international competitions, including the recent Excellence in Sound Design Award at the Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories Competition in Toronto and one of the Musicworks Electronic Music Competition awards. The collaborative projects he has participated in have won twelve awards and distinctions, including Apple TV Game of the Year and the Gamescom Indie Award, and have twice been featured in Forbes top lists. He has collaborated with various international organizations such as ZKM (Karlsruhe), the German Music Council, Musikfonds (Berlin), Dell Computers (USA), and Transmediale (Berlin). His music has been performed by international ensembles in over twenty countries worldwide in more than seventy concerts. He has given lectures on music at international conferences such as ACM (Tokyo), the Xenakis International Colloquium (London), the Europe-China Cultural Forum vol.1 & 2 (Brussels and Beijing), EMS (Paris and Leicester), SMC (Berlin), and more. His scores are published by BabelScores in Paris. Phoebus-Angelos Kollias is a composer-programmer of interactive music with a PhD in Composition from Paris VIII University, applying Cognitive Sciences to Music Composition. He studied Classical Composition in Cambridge, London, and Paris with the support of the Onassis Foundation, the Athens Concert Hall, the Greek Composers’ Union, and the Leventis Foundation. Kollias is based in Berlin and writes interactive music for musical performances, virtual reality (VR) installations, and interactive games. He has received nine awards and nine nominations in international competitions, including the recent Excellence in Sound Design Award at the Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories Competition in Toronto and one of the Musicworks Electronic Music Competition awards. The collaborative projects he has participated in have won twelve awards and distinctions, including Apple TV Game of the Year and the Gamescom Indie Award, and have twice been featured in Forbes top lists. He has collaborated with various international organizations such as ZKM (Karlsruhe), the German Music Council, Musikfonds (Berlin), Dell Computers (USA), and Transmediale (Berlin). His music has been performed by international ensembles in over twenty countries worldwide in more than seventy concerts. He has given lectures on music at international conferences such as ACM (Tokyo), the Xenakis International Colloquium (London), the Europe-China Cultural Forum vol.1 & 2 (Brussels and Beijing), EMS (Paris and Leicester), SMC (Berlin), and more. His scores are published by BabelScores in Paris.
Christina Stouraiti
Christina Stouraiti is an applied theatre educator (theatre in education and community), facilitator, and performer with a Master’s degree in Applied Theatre (MA Applied Theatre – C.S.S.D., London) and 17 years of experience in theatre in education and community settings. She is a coordinating member of the National Network for Theatre in Education. She has extensive experience in educational programs and workshops focused on theatre in education, theatre pedagogy, and applied theatre across various contexts, including festivals, educational and cultural institutions, social and therapeutic spaces, and theatres. She has collaborated with Argyri-Laimou Schools, researching sensory and open-ended materials, serving as a pedagogical consultant in the free play observation lab, which she introduced and coordinated. Music and singing are central tools in her pedagogy, as well as in her work with the Karabola Puppet Theatre group, where she has been creating interactive musical performances for children for the past decade.
Niki Psychogiou
Niki Psychogiou is a costume and set designer with extensive professional experience in the theatre industry. After completing her undergraduate studies in History and Archaeology at the University of Athens, she pursued studies at the University of the Arts London, specializing in Performance Design. Upon returning to Greece, she furthered her education in fashion design, pattern making, and styling. She approaches theatre as a field for exploring the possibilities of artistic creation, continuously blending traditional and contemporary methods of costume and set design while considering their interaction with the audience. She has collaborated with some of Greece’s most prestigious theatre institutions, including the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the Art Theatre, the National Theatre of Greece, the Greek National Opera, the Onassis Stegi, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. Notably, she has a keen interest in youth theatre, having worked on productions such as A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Faust, and Antigone, as well as experimental theatre, with projects like The Ridiculous Darkness at the National Theatre’s Experimental Stage.
Anna Smpokou
Anna Smpokou studied at Bartlett UCL (MSc Light & Lighting) and Goldsmiths (Theatre Production) in London, where she worked on theatre, dance, and opera productions, festivals, interactive installations, and site-specific performances for the past 15 years. She has collaborated with local and international teams in London, Edinburgh, New York, Los Angeles, Mexico, India, and Athens. In 2009, she was awarded “Young Lighter of the Year” by the Society of Light & Lighting (SLL), and in 2016, she was included in the “40 Under 40” list of emerging lighting designers worldwide (Lighting Design Awards 2016). She has also taught in the Lighting Master’s program at UNAM in Mexico City, served as Workshop Head for the Lights in Alingsås 2015 Student Workshop in Sweden, and was part of the organizing team for the Virtual Reality Theatre Workshop at The Space in London. Since 2006, she has also been involved in architectural and museum lighting, has participated as a speaker at international conferences, and served as a Board Member of the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) from 2014 to 2019.