Design projects & workshops

Where visual, tactile, spatial, interactive and performative aspects meet and merge over time

 Design projects & workshops

Where visual, tactile, spatial, interactive and performative aspects meet and merge over time
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Freelance Designer Artist (MFA) • Based in Copenhagen • Freelance since 1996 •  Part time Associate Professor at The Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design & Conservation • I design and deliver animation & motion graphics for online use & video projections for opera-, dance- and theatre performances • I do concept and spatial design for light festivals, scenography and exhibitions, as well as concept design for games • Also, I did some research and published some articles
Good you found me
Freelance Designer Artist (MFA) • Based in Copenhagen • Freelance since 1996 •  Part time Associate Professor at The Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design & Conservation • I design and deliver animation & motion graphics for online use & video projections for opera-, dance- and theatre performances • I do concept and spatial design for light festivals,  scenography and exhibitions, as well as concept design for games • Also, I did some research and published some articles
Recent projects

A-RE (Arti REspiratio)

An interactive luminous underwater creature at the Copenhagen Light Festival 2024

Breath here

Give breath to A-RE

A-RE receiving breath and changing colour

Arti Respiratio (A-RE), is an interactive luminous underwater creature, a kind of jellyfish. A-RE is not doing well in the cold Danish waters and needs the audience’s warm breath to get its colors and pulse back. The Gulf Stream has brought it here from its habitat, one of the world’s warm oceans.

A-RE is a tech-trash creature that has created itself by combining and assembling redundant and discarded electronics and technology that have been thrown into the oceans.

Idé and execution: Arthur Maria Steijn • Creative development: Frederik Lauenborg
Thank you for your support and help: Christianshavns Lokaludvalg, Copenhagen Light Festival, Poul Andersen, Simon Christensen, Theo Bjerg Steijn

A-RE alive underwater

Mother of Mermaids

Underwater Animated Light Installation for OPLYST festival in Hundested, Denmark

Mother tail in movement

Mermaid swimming away

Mother of Mermaids is an animated light installation located below the water surface in Hundested Harbour, with mythical maritime references to the time when sailors set sail on short and longer voyages. Adventurous journeys where the sight of the beautiful sea and beautiful skies were alternated with feelings of loneliness, lack of love and fantasies about what hidden beauty must be under the surface of the sea. The work is a tale of life and death, recreating the story of fantastic, beautiful, life-threatening and impossible love.

The installation expresses the fantastic in the form of light in motion that illuminates underwater as well as the fear of what actually hides beneath the surface of the water. The light is animated, and thus not constantly visible, so it is experienced as luminous and moving shapes that come into view in the evening in the dark water.

More on OPLYST can be found here …

In 2023 a smaller version was presented at the Kyndelmisse Køge Lysfest og Kulturnat 2023. See more here…


Mother tail in movement


Mermaid swimming away


Test setup in my garden


Mother in wilder waters

Midt om Natten

Animation & video graphics for large LED screen filling the background space behind the set-pieces.

For the musical based on Kim Larsens words and music – shows in Sweden, 2022 https://mittomnatten.se, after big succes and many shows in Denmark. See more here …

City Museum Exhibition Concept and Design

For Møntergården, the cultural history museum in Odense, Denmark

Concept art for a new exhibition for the cultural history museum in Odense, Denmark. Fantasy and mythology are explored through stories on past, present and future related to the power, technology and culture that is connected to the city of Odense.

In collaboration with Have Kommunication & PR and Jakob Ion Wille

Solur (Sundail)

In between sunlight and time

A unique sundial designed for just your place. Created for a geographical position, with exact longitude and latitude. These handmade and customized sundials are soon available for online sale in Denmark at www.solur.dk and in Holland at www.zonnewijzer-design.nl

FLASH-FORWARD: Storyworld, Interaction and Speculative Design

Artistic research project at the Royal Danish Academy

A 3-week workshop in storyword building, interaction and speculative design that resulted in interactive prototypes at an exhibition in November 2020.

For the project FLASH-FORWARD Graphical Communication Design (MA) students created spatial images of possible future worlds. What will the future look like in the light of present problems such as climate change, democratic crisis, sustainability, data control etc?

You can see more here, on the Royal Danish Academy’s website.

Idea and execution: Arthur Maria Steijn & Jakob Ion Wille
Guest speakers: Kirsten Astrup, Michael Valeur, Jakob Thorbek, Natalie Koerner, Martin Sønderlev Christensen, Mikael Fock, Oscar Stockholm

Methods and results of FLASH-FORWARD: Storyworld, Interaction and Speculative Design

are presented by Jakob Ion Wille & Arthur Steijn at:

IMAGINING THE IMPOSSIBLE

UTOPIA & DYSTOPIA CONFERENCE
Conference on the Fantastic in Media Entertainment, May 27-29, 2021 (Extended date)

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 video projections for performance
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3D projections for opera
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 video design for live music
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 spatial video work for exhibitions
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 spatial design for exhibitions
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 interaction design with projections
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3D animations
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computer game concept
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 info animations
Feel free to contact me for your: next animation, motion graphics or video design – upcoming exhibition –  hands-on or theoretical course

Video design for Reumert-Award rewarded "High School Musical 2"

We were extremely impressed with the design

Jake Capriotti, set designer, Queen Creek Performing Arts Center

Exhibition design for "430 Launched"

A beautiful and shaking exhibition

Elsinore Daily (Helsingør Dagblad)

Video design for "The Alchemist"

A universe of cartoons and theatre reality

***** (five stars) by Aarhus Portal

Video design for "Der Ring der Nibelungen"

The scenes slide into each other like a dream ...

*****' (six stars) by Nordjyske Paper

Set and video design for "In The Swan Lake"

Installations and video projections contribute to imaginatively engaging the audience

***** (five stars) by Terpchicord - dance and scene art

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Video design for Reumert-Award rewarded "High School Musical 2"

We were extremely impressed with the design

Jake Capriotti, set designer, Queen Creek Performing Arts Center

Exhibition design for "430 Launched"

A beautiful and shaking exhibition

Elsinore Daily (Helsingør Dagblad)

Video design for "The Alchemist"

A universe of cartoons and theatre reality

***** (five stars) by Aarhus Portal

Video design for "Der Ring der Nibelungen"

The scenes slide into each other like a dream ...

***** (six stars) by Nordjyske Paper

Set and video design for "In The Swan Lake"

Installations and video projections contribute to imaginatively engaging the audience

***** (five stars) by Terpchicord - dance and scene art

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