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NeumaDasos

NeumaDasos immerses you in a multisensory world where technology and nature meet to awaken your perception of the living.
Through fabrics, interactive projections, and spatialized sounds, explore an animated forest evoking branches, roots, and mycelia.
Settle into an interactive chair blending tactile textures and mixed reality, where your movements and breath transform the space around you.

2025
Variable
All ages
n/a
Vancouver - Canada, Stockholm - Sweden, and Copenhagen - Denmark
Mixed Reality and Projection Mapped Textiles

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ARTISTs

Katerina R. Stepanova
Katerina R. Stepanova is an interdisciplinary postdoctoral researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. With a background in Cognitive Science and theater she designs interactive technologies for supporting felt connection.

John Desnoyers-Stewart
John Desnoyers-Stewart is a postdoctoral artist-researcher at the University of British Columbia. He creates interactive installations and performances to encourage new perspectives on reality, encouraging social connection and exploring positive applications of immersive technology.

Shamina Senaratne
Shamina Senaratne is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores how we witness and narrate our world; how we thread fragments of story together, edit, and revise, to create meaning and coherence. 

Vasiliki Tsaknaki
Vasiliki Tsaknaki is an Associate Professor at the HCI & Design Section, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research combines materials experiences, computational crafts and body-based design methods.

Ruby Singh
Ruby Singh is an award-winning performer, composer and producer residing on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, Canada). His creativity crosses the boundaries of music, poetry, photography and film engaging with mythos, ecology, justice and fantasy.

Katerina R. Stepanova Postdoctoral researcher
John Desnoyers-Stewart Postdoctoral artist-researcher
Shamina Senaratne interdisciplinary artist
Vasiliki Tsaknaki Associate Professor
Ruby Singh Performer, composer and producer

Awards

  • Nuit Blanche Kelowna 2025

Credits

Artistic Direction: Katerina R. Stepanova ■ Immersive Visuals: John Desnoyers-Stewart ■ Hanging Textiles: Shamina Senaratne ■ Material Experience and Body-Based Design: Vasiliki Tsaknaki ■ Sound Design and Composition: Ruby Singh