Luna Maurer

Luna Maurer is a mixed media designer and artist, lecturer, and author with a focus on digital technologies’ impact on daily life. She explores human characteristics through installations, performances, web experiences, and films, often blending digital and physical elements. Co-founding studio Moniker in 2012 with a similar focus, her clients include cultural institutions like Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, M+ Museum Hong Kong and technology companies like Google and Mozilla Foundation.

Currently, she’s redefining perspectives on digital technology, co-authoring the Designing Friction manifesto advocating friction in digital culture. Her Conditional Design Manifesto, authored in 2010, continues to have global influence. Maurer has taught at various institutions internationally and has won numerous awards, including several Dutch Design Awards, a Webby, the Amsterdam Prize for the Arts oeuvre award, and most recently, the Golden Calf (the Dutch equivalent of an Oscar) for her outstanding performance.

Luna will speak at the Forward Festival Berlin in August. Next to her, you will be able to hear Creatives like Sarah Boris, Chris Kore and many more.