Artist, maker, machine builder.

A professor once described me as “an unusual hybrid of design, craft and science”. It's still the most accurate description I have.

I studied fine arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, where I built my first 3D printer from a kit in 2012. I've since lived and worked in San Francisco, Berlin and Barcelona, for universities, research projects and tech startups. I designed circuits for Italy's National Research Council, worked on 3D technologies at Standard Cyborg in San Francisco, and developed robotics for the EU research project ROMI with Fab Lab Barcelona. Alongside that I kept making my own work: kinetic sculpture, light installations, instruments, drawing machines.

During my master's in Advanced Interaction at IAAC in 2018 I started printing clay. Clay brought a resistance that purely digital processes never had. It slumps, shrinks, cracks and surprises you. That tension between the system and the material became the centre of my practice, and the reason I opened my own studio, BinaryCeramics, back home in Athens.

I design and build most of the tools I work with, including printers, extruders, electronics and software. When you build the machine yourself, you understand it at a level that lets you push its limits. Every object starts as a rule, whether a line, a dataset or a sound, and ends as fired clay.

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