Studio Above&Below is a London-based art and technology practice founded by Daria Jelonek (DE) and Perry-James Sugden (UK) after graduating from the Royal College of Art (London, UK). Their work combines digital art, data and XR in order to draw together unseen connections between humans, machines and the environment.
Believing in research-based projects, Studio Above&Below often works with scientists, technologists, brands, and communities to push the boundaries of digital media for future living. Over the last years the duo has created groundbreaking and innovative artworks using immersive technologies and data in order to make the invisible visible and to give our environment a voice to express itself.
Their work has been shown internationally at institutions and festivals including the Royal Academy of Arts, Tate Modern, Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK), Nottingham Contemporary (UK), PhotoPhore during the Venice Biennale (IT), HeK Basel (CH), MEET | Digital Culture Center (Milan, Italy), NRW Forum (Düsseldorf, DE), UCCA Shanghai (CN), Today Art Museum (Beijing, CN), WRO Biennale (Wrocław, PL), WIRED Japan, and Sónar+D (Barcelona, ES). Previous prizes and fundings include Lumen Prize (shortlisted), Bloomberg Bursary, the Battersea Sculpture Prize, Factory Berlin x Sonar+D Artist in Residency and the S+T+Arts x Nesta Italia City of the Future prize. Their work has been published in magazines including The New York Times, MAXON, Arte and It’s Nice That.