Matt Szczerek, Sean Burns and Jack Foster will introduce audiences to the digital world not as something abstract or intimidating, but as a creative playground where art, movement, music and technology meet.

Using EKO Project as a live case study, they will demonstrate how a simple webcam and accessible tools like TouchDesigner and MediaPipe can transform everyday movement into immersive visuals and responsive sound. By showing how 21 hand-tracking points, or even full-body motion capture, can generate evolving imagery and music in real time, they make visible what often feels invisible in digital technology: the human input behind the machine. This helps audiences understand that digital systems are not “magic” or exclusive: they are built from creative decisions, experimentation, and curiosity.

They will also demystify the ideology around the digital world by reframing technology as a medium, not a replacement for human creativity.

• Sean will speak about 3D design and how digital tools extend traditional artistic practices rather than replace them
• Jack will demonstrate how motion data becomes sound, revealing how code and composition can coexist
• Matt will explore how movement, something deeply human and embodied, becomes the bridge between physical and digital space.

Together, they will show audiences that the digital world is not separate from the real world; it is shaped by it.

By sharing insights from projects like Matt & Hat and EKO, they will emphasise accessibility, experimentation, and cross-disciplinary collaboration, encouraging audiences to see technology as something they can shape, question, and play with, rather than something that controls them.

About the Artists

Mateusz Szczerek is a Dublin based dance artist and professional member of Dance Ireland and ISACS. Matt is an artistic director for Irish based company Human Collective and choreographer for International Circus/Dance company Kundle Cru.  Matt’s work at The Civic Theatre includes Matt & Hat, a Civic Theatre Digital Commission 2023 using animation, dance and VR technology at Dublin Fringe Festival 2023.

Matt also founded and curates Dance2Connect LAB (D2C), a 5-day development programme for dancers with International mentors in partnership with Dance Ireland and Luail. Recent works include Birds by Kundle Cru, presented at the Civic Theatre as part of Dublin Fringe Festival 2025. Kundle Cru’s first work Blame Game also had a short Irish tour in October 2025. He has also been Artist in Residence at Draoícht Blanchardstown for the last few years, developing new dance piece Monsters for young audiences which has been touring to Dublin 15 schools in November 2025.

Matt is also the recent awardee of an Activating Archive residency from Luail. He has recently been selected for a new international dance residency exchange partnership led by Dance Ireland and TROIS C-L | Maison pour la danse Luxembourg with dance artist Saeed Hani (Luxembourg; FABLE for Dublin Fringe Festival nominated for best ensemble award 2018. He has performed for CoisCeim Dance Theatre, performing in both The Wolf and Peter and Palimpsest. He also toured Ireland with over 50 performances of Up-Close in 2022 choreographed by Monica Munoz. In 2017 he was selected by Far From The Norm dance company as a lead Irish artist in international production UNION BLACK, funded by Creative Europe touring UK, France, Sweden, Ireland.

In 2026 & 2027 he will present new circus and dance outdoors works Dead Men Tell No Tales at Rosorcas Festival and Cairde Sligo Arts Festival.