About me

Biography

Kirsten Swensen is an Amsterdam based digital media artist whose work delves into themes such as existentialism and transience combined with mixed realities experiences, code and data. Her process often begins with a question or feeling, transformed into dynamic video art, immersive installations, and detailed generative compositions. Swensen’s creative process is deeply influenced by the fluidity of natural phenomena and the concept of 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 in institutions worldwide including Van Abbemuseum, MMMAD Festival, Sedition Art, Blinc Festival, Adelaide Festival, Glow, Dutch Design Week, STRP Festival, DEMO Festival and more. 

Exhibitions

2023 Sedition Art, NFT Collection Launch, UK
2023 MMMAD Festival, Group Exhibition, ES
2022 DEMO Festival, Group Exhibition, NL
2022 Sedition Art, NFT Collection Launch, UK
2015 Adelaide Festival, Group Exhibition, AU
2015 B-Seite Festival, AV Performance & Exhibition, DE
2015 LPM Festival, AV Performance, NL
2014 Dutch Design Week, Group Exhibition, NL
2014 Van Abbe Museum, Group Exhibition, NL
2014 GLOW, Group Exhibition, NL
2014 LPM Festival, AV Performance, NL
2014 STRP Festival, AV Performance & Exhibition, NL

Collaborators & Representations

Talks

TEDx Eindhoven

Talk

2017

TEDx Eindhoven

Talk

2017

TEDx Eindhoven

Talk

2017

Van Abbe Museum

Talk & Exhibition

2017

Van Abbe Museum

Talk & Exhibition

2017

Van Abbe Museum

Talk & Exhibition

2017