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Nienke HUITENGA (The Netherlands) is an award-winning immersive director and producer. Her designs stem from a curiosity for how technology sharpens our understanding of being human. Operating from Utrecht, she heads Studio ZZZAP. At Studio ZZZAP, she blends an extended reality (XR) practice with digital art and experiential storytelling. Her creative career unfolds through captivating online transmedia work like Human Birdwings (2010) and The Modular Body (2015). That last production claimed the prestigious Golden Calf for pioneering interactivity in 2016. Partnering with the ingenious hacker James Bryan Graves, she birthed WINWIN (2021), a consensus-driven experience reshaping the landscape of democratic, polarised dialogue. Her practice is influenced by an interdisciplinary perspective on mediated experiences: technology is never the starting point in her work, yet it is an important tool for addressing societal, cultural and personal experiences. She debuted in virtual reality with the narrative work ROZSYPNE (2019), depicting in this VR experience the onset of the war in East Ukraine in 2014 and the downing of flight MH17. It premiered in competition in the prestigious IDFA DocLab program.

Filmography

(all installation) ROZSYPNE (2021), WINWIN (2021), DRIFT (2024), Lacuna (2024)

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