Luna Maurer

Luna Maurer is a multi-facetted designer and artist.Throughout her career she focuses on digital technologies and their impact on our daily lives. These insights she translates into various media, such as installations, performances, web experiences and films. Her work often combines the digital and physicality in search for human characteristics. Her work often flourishes through developing rigid structures that showcase what doesn’t fit within. In 2012 Luna co-founded the well known studio Moniker together with Roel Wouters and Jonathan Puckey with the same focus. With Moniker (2012-2023) she developed many participatory projects (online and offline), as well as other web projects, films and performances. Clients and commissioners are mostly cultural institutions such as Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, M+ Museum Hong Kong, Fondation Beyeler Basel and technology oriented companies, such as Mozilla Foundation, Unity 3D, Google and Google Arts & Culture. Luna is currently developing a new outlook and perspective on digital technology, sparked by recent rapid developments in the field. She co-authored the Designing Friction manifesto, a call for friction in digital culture, that serves as a new basis for self-initiated projects. In 2010 Luna also authored the Conditional Design Manifesto (together with Edo Paulus, Jonathan Puckey and Roel Wouters) that has still world wide impact. Conditional Design focuses on the notion of designing conditions and rules of play that invite collaboration within a 'regulated' process towards an unpredictable design or result. Meanwhile the manifesto has been embraced by design educators around the world. In 2013 the Conditional Design Workbook, including several articles and many workshops, was published by Valiz and quickly sold out. Now is available again in a digital edition. Originally from Stuttgart (Germany) she completed her studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. Luna Maurer has been teaching media courses at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, the Sandberg Institute, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, HfG Karlsruhe and at Yale University School of Art and giving workshops and lectures internationally. Her work has received many awards and nominations under which 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.