Final
Exposition
T.T. Neveritaweg 55-57, 1033 WB Amsterdam
Treehouse.NDSM
16.01.2026
17.00 – 20.00
Students of the minor Immersive Environments (CMD, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) will showcase their work at a unique location in Amsterdam Noord.
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immersive
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T.T. Neveritaweg 55-57, 1033 WB Amsterdam
Treehouse.NDSM
16.01.2026
17.00 – 20.00
Interactive installations, created for project partners, will be on display at Treehouse NDSM. The students collaborated with partners such as Max Cooper, Another Kind of Blue, Watermuseum, Despace, the Faculty of Technology, research group Digital Life and Halina Rice x Thunderboom Records. This minor focuses on interactive installations that merge the digital and physical worlds. Throughout the semester, students explored light, sensors, audio, and projection techniques.
They now conclude their minor with a final exhibition — an ode to creativity. In addition to the partner projects, over 25 personal projects will also be presented. The students have grown into true creative technologists—ready to take the next step into their internships.
Location and date
Location
Treehouse NDSM
T.T. Neveritaweg 55-57,
1033 WB Amsterdam
Another kind of blue
Group Project by Julian, Lisa, Koen & Ece
This interactive art piece uses body tracking and projection to create live silhouettes of participants interacting with a virtual object in motion. Developed in partnership with the dance studio Another Kind of Blue, the work explores movement, connection, and shared physical interaction within a projected space. The piece is themed around heartbreak and letting go, while also emphasizing a sense of togetherness formed through collective participation.
Faculty of Technology
Client Project by Harriet
Reroute is an immersive cycling tour that reveals the hidden stories of technology across Amsterdam. Through an app interface with narrated prompts via headphones, users explore abstract public spaces linked to real student innovations from the Faculty of Technology at AUAS. Through GPS-triggered audio, XR features, and reflective prompts, users can listen, learn, and record their own thoughts at each stop. These reflections form a growing archive of voices, connecting participants to one another. The experience encourages curiosity, surprise, and playful engagement with the city. Reroute transforms movement into meaning, where every turn becomes a chance to discover, reflect, and connect.
Group Project by Naömi, Öykü, Kateryna
EunSeo & Jiaai
Our idea is to extend Despace into the natural environment. In the modern city, natural elements can relax your mind and body, creating a contrast with the surrounding world, and able to blend into the natural environment with different placement.
So we create this space focusing on expressing the atmosphere, and help our audience to understand our goal. Showing the experience of how a user enters the Pod to feel in this small world that combines interaction and nature.
Halina Rice X Thunderboom
Group Project by Luca, Izaira, Melissa & Alia
Endless is an immersive installation created i
n collaboration with Halina Rice. A dancer, captured through Gaussian splatting, unfolds across time as a fluid digital presence.
Set to Endless, produced by Halina Rice, the work imagines an otherworldly future where movement is endless and the body exists as data, perception, and flow.
Digital Life
Group Project by Livia, Jazzmine & Alyssa
CoRelax is an interactive environment that invites two users to relax and practice deep breathing through biofeedback visualizations of their heart rate variability. Using a set of wearable sensors, the users’ real-time heart rate variability data jointly drive the evolving visual and auditory stimuli, shaping a shared relaxation experience.
Kateryna Bandolko
Desert of Signals
“Desert of Signals” refers to a micro-landscape where tiny movements, lights, and projections act like silent messages in an empty desert
As the viewer approaches, the desert ‘responds,’ revealing the hidden communication between physical motion and digital presence.
Douwe Kiebert
The Wood Mechanism
The Wood Mechanism is an object that focuses on the complexity of the system to make a simple flowing movement. It uses a rotating cylinder with different positioned circles of wood to cause metal pistons with a wood base to move in a flowing motion which causes the shapes on top to move. The main aspects that I wanted to focus on when building this contraption were the movement and the intricacy of the mechanism. Movement can be quite fascinating depening on howsomethings gets caused to move.
Georgia Seward
Subsea
This wire craft installation explores the gentle movement of a manta ray within an underwater environment. The manta ray is created as a three dimensional wire form, giving it volume and a sense of life as it appears to glide through space. The work functions as kinetic art, where physical movement is an essential part of the artwork.
The environment is contained within a black box to enhance depth and focus. A wave patterned light mimics underwater currents, casting moving shadows that bring the scene to life, while minimal wire corals and rocks support the underwater setting.
Melissa Aksoy
Obscura
Inspired by underground dark fashion, this piece explores the contrast between an obscureexterior and the layered identity beneath it. The fractured reflections reveal that darkness can hold far more than it shows.
Lisa Luijkman
Taking Control
Taking Control is an interactive installation exploring agency, scale, and responsibility. A vast, star-like particle system floats in space, responding directly to the movement of a physical sphere held by the participant. Through small gestures, such as tilting and rotating, the audience influences the digital universe, revealing a clear connection between action and outcome. The work suggests that control begins with intention, even when the world feels immense or overwhelming.
Izaira Boots
Reflections In Motion
This kinetic artwork is made of CDs hanging from a rotating structure. The artwork can be turned by hand. When it moves, the CDs lightly touch each other and create soft sounds. Built-in lights shine on the CDs, causing colorful reflections to move through the space. The artwork shows how movement, light, and sound work together, and gives old digital materials a new life through interaction.
Öykü Özgüder
Dancing Particles
Drawing from my background as a dancer, I have long questioned how to merge the physical body with digital design. This project is an experimental response to that inquiry. It aims to unify two distinct disciplines, the tangible energy of dance and the boundless possibilities of digital art, creating a dialogue between the physical and the virtual.
Ida Pihlajamaa
Unia
Unia (meaning dreams in Finnish) is an immersive augmented reality artwork that animates the language of dreams. Created as a stop motion animated collage, the work unfolds beyond the physical world, drawing viewers into a space where imagination and perception intersect.
Jade van der Hoorn
App me als je thuis bent
“App me als je thuis bent” translates to “text me if you get home,” not when. That small difference shows the uncertainty of getting home at night.
This project shows an abstract textile map of Haarlem, brought to life with orange projections. The routes women take home, as well as the places they avoid after dark, are made visible. Referring to the UN’s Orange the World campaign, the work points to shared experiences, vulnerability, and the need for safer public spaces.
Ece Demir
When Silence Fails
When Silence Fails is an audio reactive visual project that turns overthinking into a shifting, unstable form. Sound and speech trigger a fluid mass that grows denser and more chaotic as audio intensifies, reflecting how thoughts multiply when silence breaks. Rather than showing thoughts themselves, the project expressestheir weight and pressure, where silence brings relief and sound pushes the form toward overwhelm.
Moving landscape with fabric
Jazzmine Pools
A layered artwork where texture, paint, and light merge. Textile is bonded to the canvas and painted over. Projection adds a living layer of movement, transforming the work anddissolving the line between the physical and digital.
Adonnah Caldwell
Bringing Art To Life
Bringing art to life. I want to make paintings come alive by letting parts of them come out of the frame oreven light up. I’ll use materials like clay, foam, cardboard, paint, LED lights, and simple tools to build the3D and glowing effects ect. My goal is to make the artworks feel like they’re stepping out of the picture and entering the real world.
Livia Goldenstern
Wait
I am fascinated by the concept of liminal spaces. An “in-between” space that serves only as a transition between two importantlocations. When we have no purpose or task, how do we behave? In previous decades, people would likely just be with their thoughts in a liminal space. In a hallway, parking lot, or waiting room they would often just be. No distractions, no stimulation but they would just simply wait. Since the invention of short-term stimulants like magazines, smartphones, iPads, etc we are very rarely just with ourthoughts. For this installation, I want to simulate a liminal space where people have to just sit and wait.
Naömi
A Shared Sky
In A Shared Sky, visitors create their own constellations by connecting stars in a digital night sky. Each drawing becomes part of a shared, ever-changing atmosphere, briefly floating alongside the constellations of others before fading away.
Alongside the visual work, a custom perfume—combining notes of vanilla and smoke—extends the installation into the sensory realm, offering a personal interpretation of outer space as something both vast and intimate.
Mila Massaro
Layers of the Universe
Layers of the Universe transforms Crowley’s tarot card The Universe into a lightbox installation of layered paper cut-outs, each representing a different symbol from the card. The layers create depth and dimension, while motion-activated light brings the composition to life. A looping audio explanation, heard through headphones, shares the card’s meaning as described in The Crowley Tarot: The Handbook to the Cards (Crowley & Banzhaf, 2002). The card embodies wholeness, transformation, and the cycles of beginnings and endings, inviting viewers to approach tarot with curiosity and learn what it represents.
Luca Lam
Born From Envy
This work is inspired by the Japanese Oni mask, traditionally associated with women who, after death, transformed through extreme jealousy and emotional suffering. The mask symbolizes the boundary between human and demon, where suppressed emotions evolve into rage and distortion. The black canvas represents emptiness and loss, while the upward lighting emphasizes the subconscious and the dark origin of this transformation. The work invites the viewer to reflect on how intense human emotions can persist, even beyond death.
Alia van Ommen
A phonecall with your echo
Call your echo and watch how your voice creates soundswaves moving through the cave. Experiment with your voice.
Aaron Deacon Sanchez
Memory Box
I invite the viewer to put on the headphones and put their head in the box!
With this project I wanted to explore how to visualize memories and how we reflect on them. I chose to do so by taking avideo from a few years ago and putting it behind the window blinds seen in the video. This invites the viewer to peek into the past, reminiscent of the feeling of reflecting on memories.
Julian van Halteren
Bit Ascent
Personal project of learning unity, and making a basic platformer with the theme of working together in a single player format.
Harriet Thelander
Can I Hear You
Can I Hear You is a suspended installation inspired by the true story of a blue whale whose call at 52 hertz may go unheard by its kind. Iridescent blue and white organza forms the still silhouette of a whale, tethered to rippled blue PVC roofing that evokes the ocean’s surface through refracted light. A silver wired knit traces its underbody, shimmering like cartilage or memory. A fan below stirs the fabric into organic motion. Through a headset, visitors hear the narration of “The Loneliest Whale” and the whale’s reply followed by an invitation to call out. This work explores longing, presence, and the quiet hope of being heard.
Alyssa Teunissen
Sakura Spring
Witness the beauty of flower petals falling and flowing water everywhere. Let the essence of spring envelop you.
Jiaai Zhuang
How’s the Weather
This is a space that brings you and a goat to a rain, Audience can use plastic injection to control the goat,and the controller to change the environment. Intend to create the atmosphere of a dream, playing video game, but what you can control it’s a real object and real environment around you.
Hayato Shimizu
Desert of Signals
The piece consists of two mirrored forms that are manually operated. As they overlap, they create an illusion of motion. Try rotating the two layers in opposite directions.
Koen Janssen
PLANT
This art piece uses projection mapping to animate a plant, creating a surreal, trippy experience. Through shifting patterns and flowing motion, the work transforms the plant into an otherworldly presence, evoking a dreamlike sense and altered perception.
Colin Twisker
The Ritual of Presence
The work presents a silent, skeletal figure bound to a darkened structure. A ribcage of wire and bone-like material iscrowned with an ancient Asian-inspired mask with curved horns. It appears dormant, almost empty. The piece reveals itself only through proximity. To experience it, you must step closer. As you approach, light surfaces from within the body, hinting at something beneath the surface. The response is quiet and ambiguous, leaving it unclear whether the form is awakening, reflecting you, or reacting to intrusion, and whether coming closer has already been noticed.
EunSeo Yoo
The Hidden Web of Life
Micro-organisms are invisible, but they support life for humans, animals, and nature.
This work is inspired by their hidden systems that keep the world alive.
In a small space, I express their presence through unique colors and organic forms,
so we can feel them around us, even though we cannot see them.
Yaël Markus
The Cycle
The Cycle shows a small, stylized cabin surrounded by a forest, presented like a miniature model. The weather moves around the scene, creating a calm and repetitive rhythm that feels like a loop. The peaceful environment and soft lighting emphasize stillness and balance, as if time keeps repeating itself in the same place. Overall, the video gives the impressionof a quiet cycle of nature and routine, where everything stays familiar yet continues moving forward.