Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges

Giorgos Nikopoulos is a PhD in Audio & Visual Arts from the Ionian University which was also his graduate University in 2009. His research topic was the connection between Shadow Theater and Animation from the animator’s / puppeteer’s point of view. In 2010 he started working with theatrical and film director Dimos Avdeliodis as an actor and director assistant. He has worked as a professor assistant during his PhD years teaching mainly two courses: “Direction and Acting Elements” and “Iconography of Sound”. In 2014 he founded his own enterprise called BAUBO Productions and completed his first animation short film “Butter Bunny and his Grape must Cookies”. In 2017 he completed his first feature animation film “THEOX”, a production which was also the main piece of art on which his research was based, and so far has been screened and awarded in various festivals worldwide. This film was the only greek animation feature film that has been participated in Thessaloniki International Film Festival National Competition category until its 57th edition. In November of 2018 the film was also announced as an official nominee by the European Animation Awards in the category of BEST Soundtrack, with 4 more European animation films. In 2018 he was awarded by the 1st SNF Artist Fellowship Program / ARTWORKS as one of 15 awarded young filmmakers in Greece. Since 2019 he has worked a lot as a script writer, director and 3D generalist in Virtual and Augmented reality applications with DOTSOFT company and various Universities (the project Smart Speech / collaborator University of Ioannina in 2020, the project Mouseion Topos / collaborator University of the Aegean in 2021).