• Sound & New Media Researcher & Academic
• Artists
• andromachivr@gmail.com

Andromachi Vrakatseli specialises in sound and new media in art and cultural industries. She is a postdoctoral researcher on soundscapes in the Department of Music Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Her PhD thesis (University of the Aegean) is the first one in Greece in the field of sound studies. It focuses on the curation of sound art in exhibition space, investigating the relationships between sound, body, and space. In her postgraduate studies in Music Technology at the University of York she specialised in interactive art technologies using Max/Msp/Jitter as well as on the relationship between sound and image. Her scientific research and sound artworks have been presented at international conferences regarding sound (The Global Composition 2018, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Sounding out the space Conference, Dublin School of Creative Arts, Sonic Realities Conference, University of Aberdeen etc.), in cultural exhibitions and journals (Leonardo Electronic Almanac MIT Press, Seismograf etc.). She has academic experience in sound design and sound art at the Universities of Western Macedonia, the Aegean and Thessaly. She is the General Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Society for Acoustic Ecology and organizes educational programs in the field of sound, image and digital media (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Eugenides Foundation, etc.).