I created a photography book that allows the viewer to discover the city of Athens through street art. The work showcases the way that a colorful pop of color tells stories that are political, comedic, etc.
This project reimagines the traditional calendar by featuring delightful scenes of Athens, including 2024's key dates. Users can color handmade outlines of the displayed images, promoting joy and tranquility. Inspired by Ansel Adams' nature photography and Henri-Cartier Bresson's street captures, it offers diverse images from flowers and landscapes to buildings and pretty finds. Minimal doodles offer a creative, calming coloring activity, letting users "color Athens" themselves. The calendar includes cutting marks, allowing users to preserve the pictures and doodles as an interactive "picture book" after use.
As the camera lens zooms in on the bustling streets of Athens, one comes face to face with distinct, coexisting elements of the centuries-old Greek tradition. Modern and traditional structures, vast highways and scenic alleyways, grandiose architecture, and apartment complexes make up a city of contrasts. However, this duality is not only evident in Athens’ beauty but also in its less glamorous aspects. In the beautifully paved streets and adjacent to the monumental architecture and imposing statues, one can view the less fortunate side of the city. Athens, then as another Janus, embodies two contrasting faces, each reflecting a complex narrative of grandeur and tribulation.
My creative project is an audio piece where I play a Brazilian rhythm using kitchen equipment. As a music major, my aim for this project was to incorporate my love for music into the course subject and make it into something fun. I drew inspiration for this project from Prof. Amarildo Costa, whom I had the chance to meet while studying abroad. He was the leader of the Brazilian Percussion ensemble, and he would always tell us in class that his passion for percussion burned so bright that when he was little, he would use pots and spoons in his house to try to make music.
In this short graphic novel, I present how a woman in the 50s makes the most out of her role as a housewife. With this project I highlight how women might have strived for personal agency through their role in the house and as mothers, at a time when opportunities to speak their mind were rather limited.
The project portrays how culture and lifestyle affect the consumption of food. It reflects financial issues, gender expectations, eating disorders, and food waste. The project is two mirroring houses with families that have different socioeconomic status, food needs, relationship with food, available resources, eating behavior and habits, problems, and expectations.
This project entails the design of a specialized Large Language Model (LLM) platform aimed to be ultimately used for enhancing satellite data management and decision-making processes in satellite communications. This project is a subset of the Deree R&D initiative, "SATELLITE NETWORK OF EXPERTS V," which aims to exploit the potential of LLM’s for revolutionizing the processing, interpretation, and capitalization of satellite data. The platform includes a user interface that is interactive in supporting the prompting, augmenting, and testing of the LLMs developed by the Deree R&D initiative. Furthermore, the platform uses a vector-based database to incorporate additional context enhancements to the fine-tuned models.
My project is a diptych containing of a 50x35 cm and a 24x18 cm work, made of acrylics, oil pastels and acrylic markers on canvases. In my work, I reflected on the concept of sisterhood, as portrayed in Sophocles’ (441 BC) tragedy Antigone, between Antigone and Ismene. Essentially, the relationship of Antigone and Ismene poses an excellent example of the complexity of sisterly connection, which also interrelates with the notions of motherhood and womanhood. Therefore, I aimed at portraying the intensity of this family dynamic that is represented in Antigone, by employing visual arts practices.
This project explores some different aspects of the means by which the image and identity of Greece has been projected and gradually developed both internally and externally; particularly through the means of attracting tourist activity in the period of 1945-1990. This project was created as the final assessment of the course PUBLIC HISTORY via the History Department of the American College of Greece during the Spring semester of 2024. It is composed of the following themes: The Government's Role, the Xenia Project, the Local Communities, the Nation Branding through the Eyes of the Greek-American Diaspora and the Greece: Through the Lens of Foreign Film.
In this short animated film, I explore how modern women might find pieces of their everyday life reflected in the story of Antigone, thus becoming an Antigone themselves. I wanted to highlight how carving the path you want to follow is not always easy and dilemmas often come up between what one “has” to do and what they actually want. In that case, the mere act of self-determination can sometimes be rebellious.
