METAL_UPA is a designer, new media artist, and creative technologist working with light, sound, and signal as sensory material. Influenced by digital new materialism and choreographic thinking, she creates networked installations and kinetic systems that orchestrate light, air, and sound into performative ecologies.

Using tools like microcontrollers, motors, and modular control systems, her work brings focus to immaterial bodies and the invisible infrastructures of the internet. From AV performance setups to mechanical rituals, her practice explores speculative interface instruments, sculptural forms and collaborative performances with musicians.

Her recent work, Ambedo Field, translated an archive of rave energy into a sonic performance using mechanical noise machines, and was exhibited at the London Festival of Architecture and KIKK Festival in Belgium. She holds a Master of Architecture in Design for Performance and Interaction from The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

Contact: kimverlyn@metalupa.xyz / Instagram: @metal_upa