Nikos Arvanitis (born 1979, Athens) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, the Athens School of Fine Arts in Athens, Greece, and completed an MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. His artistic and academic work focuses on topics related to the structures and possibilities of living in public spaces, aesthetic perception in today's society, the construction of collective identities, and the concept of globalized, spectacular, but also institutional mass culture. His works have been exhibited internationally, including at the 2nd Les Ateliers de Rennes - Biennial d'Art Contemporain in Rennes, the 2nd Athens Biennial in Athens, Locust Projects in Miami, Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art in Cairo, BWA Wroclaw Galeria Awangarda in Wroclaw, and Bâtiment d'Art Contemporain Le Commun in Geneva.

tap tap tap tæp tap krak is a pencil drawing that picks up on the typographic elements of the light box display on the façade of the Kunstraum Memphis as part of Nikos Arvanitis' solo exhibition “Fauna vs Flora.” Phonetic notation was used to represent the sounds caused by raindrops and breaking or falling branches. These sounds originate from a sound installation for which Arvanitis gathered a group of people in a studio to record their individual acoustic imitations of wild and tame animals, birds, natural phenomena, and elements of nature, as well as the sounds of their natural environment.

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