Making the friction between bodies and systems physically felt, from cities to circuits.
How do bodies move through and act on systems they can't fully perceive? How do systems act back? Technology is one of those systems. Built by humans, not necessarily for them. Making that friction felt, through installation, spatial design, and digital systems, is the practice.
Arina Kapitanova is a creative technologist, systems designer, and researcher based in Berlin. With over ten years of experience bringing complex systems to life, from a ship-based public museum to parts of major cities, she works across interactive installation, spatial design, and digital infrastructure.
Her practice moves between making and thinking without separating them, physical objects that sense and respond, systems that put bodies in direct contact with forces they cannot fully perceive. She has coordinated multi-stakeholder R&D projects across 10+ organisations as readily as she has built the hardware herself.
Her work has been exhibited at Ars Electronica Garden Utrecht, Dutch Design Week Eindhoven, Semibreve Festival Portugal, and Oyoun Berlin, and has been featured in CLOT Magazine.
Coordinated° received the Edigma Semibreve Award 2022 and was nominated for the Lumen Prize Interactive/3D Award 2022.