Luna Maurer
Cross-disciplinary designer and artist Luna Maurer blends digital technologies with physicality to explore the characteristics of being human. She co-founded Moniker, known for participatory and web-based experiences, and co-authored the influential manifestos Conditional Design and, more recently, Designing Friction. Currently, she is exploring how AI can contribute to the experience of dancing.
Selected for the 2025-2026 Netherlands Film Festival Fellowship for research in new technologies and storytelling with Dance Out of Pattern
Upcoming
Dance Out of Pattern — Rehearsing Research, presentation at NFF, Utrecht
DEEP SOUP — selected for the Golden Calf competition at NFF
Works
Dance Out of Pattern — counter-dance-movement, ongoing research
What makes us human — Performance-lecture
DEEP SOUP — A participatory sci-fi short film by Luna Maurer and Roel Wouters
TalkDance Gathering — Participatory performance/gathering
Emoticons Don’t Have Wrinkles — Performance
Designing Friction — Statement
Friction Circus — An international endeavour focussing on our digital future
Moniker 2012-2023 — Interactive design studio researching the social effects of technology
Moniker Shop — Get the Conditional Design Workbook
Conditional Design — Manifesto, archive of workshops & workbook
Poly-Luna 2001-2012 — Archive of works by Luna Maurer
Recent
Dance Out of Pattern — performance and talk at Public Spaces Conference, Amsterdam
Interviews & Podcasts
Tim Rodenbröker Creative Coding — Luna Maurer on Designing Friction
Branch Magazine — A Just and Sustainable Internet for All: Embracing friction: A conversation with Luna Maurer and Roel Wouters
Public Spaces interview — Friction, boredom and imperfection: Luna Maurer advocates more humanity in technology
Mr Motley, De kunst is lang — Podcast with Luna Maurer and Roel Wouters
Design Alchemy podcast — Designing Friction with Luna Maurer and Roel Wouters
Archives at Risk — podcast with Moniker, Luna Maurer and Roel Wouters elaborate about the end of Moniker
Contact
Studio:
Tweede Leeghwaterstraat 7M
1018 RA Amsterdam