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Andreas Karaoulanis
animator, media artist & creative technologist

Animation loops, music videos, live visuals and interactive pieces where sound, code and moving images meet.

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“windy days” — shorty, 2023

shorties — animation loops

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Available for commissioned art work — worldwide.

  • Animation & music videosHand-made and experimental animation, from short pieces to full-length films
  • Live visualsLive animation for concerts, performances and festivals
  • ShortiesCommissioned animation loops, licensing, and editions on objkt
  • UnpluggedGraffiti walls and original canvases on commission
  • Art installations & collaborationsWith composers, musicians and other artists

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Andreas Karaoulanis

Andreas Karaoulanis · Berlin · working as bestbefore since 2008.

/ Animation & Media Art

After studying Computer Science at the University of Wales (2001–2003), I moved into animation and video art. Since 2008 I have worked under the name bestbefore on animation, music videos, live visuals and audiovisual performances — shown at the Athens Concert Hall, the Akademie der Künste Berlin, the Moscow Biennale and on the London Underground screens, with commissions for IRCAM – Centre Pompidou and the Onassis Foundation.

/ Live & Large-Scale Projection

From live animation alongside musicians to large-scale formats: a 300 m² LED dome (Madatac, Madrid), a 10×10 m floor projection (Kühlhaus Berlin), concert tour visuals and video mapping for events (EVA Gold Award 2013). In the video department at Eidotech (2016–2018) I gained experience across all phases of a media production — from planning and setup to the show itself.

/ Interaction & Code

I’m interested in images that react — to people, to sound, to space. I build my own real-time tools for this: patches in Max/MSP Jitter that listen to music and turn it into movement, and small programs in Java and C++. The interactive table at BYOB Prague (2014), the animation experiments of Free Radicals with piano and electronics, and my live sets with musicians all come from the same idea: animation that is not fixed, but alive and responding in the moment. I enjoy the whole path — from a first sketch on paper to a working piece in the room.

/ Unplugged

Alongside animation I paint walls and canvases — the same playful, spontaneous approach to images, by hand and in large format.

/ Network

I collaborate with composers, musicians and artists worldwide. If your project needs images that move, play and surprise — let’s talk.

unplugged — graffiti & canvases

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canvas by Andreas Karaoulanis large painting by Andreas Karaoulanis

contact

Commissions, collaborations, performances — write me a message.