Summary
Stratos Bichakis is a media artist and embedded software engineer based in Berlin, blending a background in chemical engineering with over a decade of creative collaborations on performances and exhibitions. He brings 20+ years in the event industry and 13 years of technical experience, specializing in automation, sound, and lighting systems, and has led full-cycle product development and codebase unification for interactive art installations. As a former core developer in an artist-led studio and senior firmware engineer at Dreadbox, he bridges artistic practice with rigorous engineering, introducing new tooling and testing practices to creative products. Currently tutoring Experimental Film and Media Art while pursuing a Masters, he combines hands-on teaching with production-grade firmware expertise—an uncommon fusion that helps artists realize technically ambitious works.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree, Chemical Engineering, Engineer’s Degree, Chemical Engineering at National Technical University of Athens
Sound Synthesis and Electronic Music, Sound Synthesis and Electronic Music at Contemporary Music Research Center, (ΚΣΥΜΕ) Athens