"Sabina Oțelea (they/she) is a critical designer and researcher specialising in sound-driven interactive experiences. Their work focuses on topics of ecology and environments, reflecting on the present and speculating on the future of these elements. With a transdisciplinary process activated through experimentation and exploration, Sabina is fascinated with collective embodied experiences – their practice explores non-anthropocentric futures and feminist technoecologies through poetic storytelling and affective world-building. Sabina’s work manifests through the mediums of sonic compositions, interactive audio-visual installations, new media, films, design fictioning and writing – it is through these mediums that Sabina investigates the entanglement between fiction and digital technologies, and the interactive imaginaries this brings about through collective praxis. Their practice advocates for pluriversality as a prerequisite for designing with and for more-than-human worlds, being rooted in concepts of sympoiesis, stewardship, relationality, and reciprocity. Through their design process, Sabina furthers their audiences’, as well as their own, enmeshment with nature, theory and fiction. Their work has been exhibited at the Science Gallery (London, UK) and at Ars Electronica (Linz, AT). Outside of their design and academic practice, Sabina enjoys reading Weird Fiction, writing (maybe too much) about their design findings, and walking around their local North-East London wetlands."
sabina's website: https://sabinaotelea.com/
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