Kirsten Swensen is a digital media artist based in Amsterdam, exploring the intersection of consciousness, nature, and technology. Her immersive works—ranging from generative art to mixed reality installations—draw on themes of impermanence, introspection, and non-dualism. Shaped by a childhood immersed in games and computers, she works with code, data, game mechanics, and field recordings—using them both as input and inspiration for her generative and mixed reality installations. Her approach is shaped by the continuous flow of motion, reimagined through digital processes that create a connection between the figurative and the abstract often resulting in dreamlike ethereal realms. Using generative algorithms she creates shifting digital systems that mirror the complexities of the natural world. Drawing inspiration from her experiences with Vipassana meditation, she seeks to translate those contemplative qualities into her digital work—spaces that invite pause, reflection, and reconnection with self.
Rather than seeing technology as something that pulls us away from ourselves, Kirsten treats it as a tool for spiritual reconnection—building bridges between inner and outer worlds.
Her work has been performed and exhibited at institutions worldwide, including Nxt Museum, Rosewood Hotels, the Van Abbemuseum, MMMAD Festival, Sedition Art, Blinc Festival, Adelaide Festival, GLOW, Dutch Design Week, STRP Festival, DEMO Festival, and more.
Kirsten Swensen is a digital media artist based in Amsterdam, exploring the intersection of consciousness, nature, and technology. Her immersive works—ranging from generative art to mixed reality installations—draw on themes of impermanence, introspection, and non-dualism. Shaped by a childhood immersed in games and computers, she works with code, data, game mechanics, and field recordings—using them both as input and inspiration for her generative and mixed reality installations. Her approach is shaped by the continuous flow of motion, reimagined through digital processes that create a connection between the figurative and the abstract often resulting in dreamlike ethereal realms. Using generative algorithms she creates shifting digital systems that mirror the complexities of the natural world. Drawing inspiration from her experiences with Vipassana meditation, she seeks to translate those contemplative qualities into her digital work—spaces that invite pause, reflection, and reconnection with self.
Rather than seeing technology as something that pulls us away from ourselves, Kirsten treats it as a tool for spiritual reconnection—building bridges between inner and outer worlds.
Her work has been performed and exhibited at institutions worldwide, including Nxt Museum, Rosewood Hotels, the Van Abbemuseum, MMMAD Festival, Sedition Art, Blinc Festival, Adelaide Festival, GLOW, Dutch Design Week, STRP Festival, DEMO Festival, and more.