TRACES;

TRACES;

TRACES; EXPO

SEPTEMBER 2026

WHAT

WHERE

WHEN

WHO

TRACES; EXPO

FAAM (VECHTCLUB)

SEPTEMBER 2026

LUCAS DEKKER
DEWI MAC DONALD
TIJN MARIA
SIRE MANE

TRACES;

Wij zijn TRACES; een collectief van recent afgestudeerde makers, ontstaan vanuit de behoefte om ons werk zichtbaar te maken, onze artistieke ontwikkeling te delen en een eigen podium te creëren.

The Artists

Dewi Mac Donald

I’m a media artist exploring technical and social systems through kinetic sculptures, experimental machines, and installations combining hardware, software, light, and sound. Interaction is central to my practice; by coding, fabricating, and assembling electronics, I work to understand systems from the inside out and make them visible.

Transparency and translation guide my work. I expose mechanisms and use clear materials to invite viewers into the logic of each piece, reinterpreting ideas through mechanics, image, text, and sound. By revealing how technologies function or fail, I aim to demystify them and open space for new ways of understanding and imagining the systems that shape our daily lives.

Lucas Dekker

I’m an immersive media artist based in the Netherlands, working across VR, AR, film, photography, and 3D. I graduated from the University of the Arts Utrecht in Image and Media Technology as a multidisciplinary maker.

I approach my work in immersive media with theatrical and cinematic sensibility, using VR as a tool to question societal norms, values, and the ways we imagine the future. Fascinated by extreme thinking like futurism and utopia, I explores how visions of tomorrow reveal the assumptions and power structures of today.

Tijn Maria

I'm Tijn Maria (2002) based in Utrecht, the Netherlands.The distance that has been created between humans and nature inspires me to find the bridges where we connect.I find these connections in my research using human and nature’s patterns and processes - from the cellular to the cosmic. These patterns can be found physically, but also in behaviour, rituals, and recurring cycles. By exploring the similarities and differences we share I gain a better understanding of what part I play in the whole, where I'm woven into, and what it all means. I create through these questions, and not to solve them - but to stay in dialogue with them.
My works can take different forms - in visual works as illustrations, animations and physical sculptures, to sound-based pieces, including songs.
I work hands on with water, ink and the voice my grandmother gave me.

Sire Mane

Mijn werk komt voort uit een behoefte om te begrijpen, te delen en te verbinden. Als kunstenaar met roots in Senegal gebruik ik mijn persoonlijke ervaringen als startpunt om thema’s als mentale gezondheid, identiteit en culturele verbondenheid te verkennen.

In mijn illustraties, collages en VR-ervaringen probeer ik die zintuiglijke rijkdom tastbaar te maken. Ik vind het combineren van de fysieke en digitale wereld fascinerend. Ik speel met materialen, geluiden en geuren om mensen niet alleen te laten kijken, maar ook echt te laten voelen.

Mijn werk is bedoeld voor wie zich herkent in wat ik maak, maar net zo goed voor mensen die nieuwsgierig zijn naar een wereld die misschien niet bekend is. Ik wil gesprekken openen over wat vaak onbesproken blijft maar op een lichte, speelse manier, zonder de diepgang te verliezen.

MASKED (Working Title)

PROJECT DIGITAL NATURE (Working Title)

STYX (Working Title)

CODE (Working Title)

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