Panagiotis Tomaras

Photo: Birk Kromann

Panagiotis Tomaras is a multimedia artist who uses various analogue and digital media to further explore the visual experience through video projections, light installations and photography.

He was born in 1985 in Athens, where he took his degree in Photography and his MA in Digital Artforms at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Based in the Hague in recent years, he has pursued additional postgraduate studies at the city’s Royal Conservatory. His main tutors have been Thanasis Rentzis, Joost Rekveld and Edwin van der Heide.

His collaborators to date have included the choreographer Russell Maliphant, the opera director Francesco Micheli and the multimedia researcher Chris Slater, while since 2013 he has been responsible for the visual design of the legendary electronic music group Clock DVA, along with Adi Newton and Tez Maurizio Martinucci.

Tomaras has produced visual design for the theatre, opera, dance and advertisements and has taken part in and won a number of competitions, including the Athens International Film Festival and the prize for best visual design at the Incubate Festival in Holland. Selected photographic material of his is included in the collection of the Photography Museum.