the true method of knowledge is experiment

- William Blake

My practice explores perception as a mutable ecology, a living system that connects technological, environmental, and psychological worlds.
Earlier works examined how observation through cameras, satellites, and algorithms reshapes our understanding of the natural world. This research into external perception is gradually turning inward, toward the perceptual architectures of dreams, memory, and altered consciousness.
Drawing on personal experiences of sleepwalking and lucid dreaming, I use virtual reality, live audiovisual performance, and hybrid analog-digital processes to translate inner landscapes into shared, immersive environments. These spaces function as perceptual laboratories, where images behave like living organisms: unstable, responsive, and emotionally charged.
Across installation, moving image, and material research, I work to expose the fragile ethics of seeing _ how every act of perception alters what is perceived. By treating perception itself as material, my practice proposes a form of sustainable awareness, one that recognizes vision as both an ecological and psychological responsibility.
education

BA (Hons) Game Art and Animation, Hertfordshire University, UK 2025
BA Interactive Animation, SAE Institute Netherlands, NL  2014
Filmmaking, London Film Academy, UK  2012 - 2013

residencies

AI Ecologies - Flash Residency
Artphy
Groningen, NL 2025

CINE:MACA Residency
MACA
Amsterdam, NL 2025

Artist Residency
Studio Goppo
Santiniketan, India 2024

Tech fellowship
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten
Amsterdam, NL 2022

performance

AV Performance -  ADE -  Plantage  Dok
Amsterdam, NL 2025

AV Performance with Marko Ivic - Studio 150 Bethlehemkerk
Amsterdam, NL 2025

Audio Visual Istallation - MACA Immersive Showcase
Amsterdam, NL 2024

Visual Performance with Honingbeer - Uncloud Festival
Utrecht, NL 2023

Audio Visual Performance with NoPlexus - ADE - MACA
Amsterdam, NL 2022

Audio Visual installation with Show Pony - REWIRE Festival
Amsterdam, NL 2021

Visual Interactive Performance - NDSM Treehouse
Amsterdam, NL 2021

Audio Visual Performance with MeraLabel
Online, PT 2020

Audio Visual Performance Noise Pole - OT301
Amsterdam, NL 2017

Interactive Fashion Show - Immaterialicious
Pakhuis De Zwijger Amsterdam Fashion Week
Amsterdam, NL 2016

selected exhibitions
solo

Fragments - Residency Show, Studio Goppo, India 2024

BorderLess,  Aircord Studio + The Shift Tokyo, Japan 2021

NEOShibuyaTV, NMA, Tokyo, Japan 2021

group

(upcoming) De HOOPening Festival, MAAKgemeenschap De Hoop, Zaandam, NL 2026

MACA Residency Show, Contact, Amsterdam, NL 2025

AI Ecologies, Residency Show, Artphy, Groningen, NL 2025

MACA Immersive Showcase, Installation, Amsterdam, NL 2024

Seeing Quintuple, with Tatiana Rosa, VR Installation, 4bid Gallery, NL 2024

Open Studios, Tech Fellowship Presentation, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam NL 2024

AI, NDSM Fuse, Amsterdam NL  2022 - 2023

Future of Art Making, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam NL 2022

Retweet, NDSM Fuse, Amsterdam NL 2021 - 2022

Wunderkamer, NDSM Fuse, Amsterdam NL 2021

Open Ateliers, Amsterdam NL 2021

Creative Code Showcase, Lightbox NYC, USA 2020

Creative Code Visual Art Showcase, Sansar, Online 2020

awards / grants

Art and Science - Winner
Crqlr Awards
Tokyo, Japan
2024

AFK - Cultuur Makers
Doka 107 - studio
2024


publications / talks

Panel Speaker, Local Talent, Desina Festival, Napoli, IT 2025

Future Materials Bank, Jan van Eyck Akademie, NL 2023

Talk + presentation, Jan van Eyck Akademie, NL 2023

Publication, Curator’s Choice, Dutch Digital Design, NL 2023

Talk + presentation, Future of Art Making, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, NL 2022

Talk, Women & Tech,  Amsterdam Art Week, NL 2022

Lecture, Analog Club Amsterdam, MK24, NL 2022

employment

2024 – present: Employed at SAE Institute Amsterdam as Head of Department

2023 – present: Employed at Mile 80 (US) as Visual Effects Artist

2023 – 2024: Art Director at Capitola Digital, Amsterdam NL

2019 – 2023: Video and Mixed Reality Technician at Indyvideo, Amsterdam NL

2021 – 2022: VFX Lecturer at United POP, Amsterdam NL

2018 – 2021: VR Manager at Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam NL

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