About Daria Jelonek

Daria Jelonek is an award-winning artist, designer, and researcher working at the intersection of multisensory environments, immersive technologies, AI, and data-driven art. Her practice explores how digital and physical spaces, bodies, perception, and technological systems intersect to shape new forms of collective experience and interaction.

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As co-founder and director of Studio Above&Below, she develops research-driven artistic works that engage with real-time data, XR, sensor-based systems, and generative technologies. Her work critically examines the relationship between humans, machines, and ecological systems, with a focus on how emerging technologies can be experienced as sensory, affective, and socially embedded environments.

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Her projects have been exhibited internationally at institutions including Tate Modern, V&A London, HeK Basel, Transmediale Berlin, and Noor Riyadh. She has collaborated with the European Commission, scientists, and cultural institutions on interdisciplinary projects addressing environmental and societal challenges. Her work has been recognised with awards such as the S+T+ARTS Future of the City Prize, the Bloomberg Bursary, and a Lumen Prize shortlist nomination.

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Jelonek is an experienced educator and speaker. She has taught and lectured internationally at institutions including the Royal College of Art, Folkwang University of the Arts, the University of Oxford, University of the Arts London and SIA Beijing, contributing to the development of experimental, practice-based teaching formats that bridge theory, technology, and artistic research.

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Her work combines experimental making with critical inquiry, advancing new approaches to emerging technologies and positioning multisensory environments as spaces for knowledge production, perception, and societal reflection across art, technology, performance, and science.