Month: January 2025

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William Kennedy

At Dinacon 2025:  I would like to explore some spontaneous performance possibilities combined with making functional objects from natural and unnatural objects (trash!) from around Sea Communities. I plan on hosting a lighting and lamp-making workshop, creating functional sculptures from scrap materials and trash from our surroundings. As well, we’ll be doing a shadow performance using our bespoke lighting and improvisational dancing and music-making.

I’m also currently exploring making natural building materials from shredded plastic, pulverized glass, and water glass and hope to bring in some of my recent learnings about this process into Dinacon.

Bio:  Heyoo! I’m William Kennedy, an artist, electrical engineer, musician, bicycler, and lighting designer who loves making lamps, music, and community. I like exploring on the idea of ‘play’ and the spontaneous nature of creation. I like doing this by creating spaces for people to be comfortable experimenting, improvising, and trying new things without fear of judgement.

My experience includes designing and building stage installations for major touring musicians, creating interactive public art pieces for municipalities and public art festivals, designing and fabricating hundreds of light fixtures, and touring the world playing synthesizers in bands. I am currently based in Los Angeles, CA, but hail from Atlanta, GA

Dinacon dates:

~June 28 – July 18, 2025

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Dinoj Mahendranathan


We (Sumugan, Luci and Dinoj) plan to collect ocean plastic and make recordings to build a common sample bank (shared online) using free, open source tools. We will experiment with sonification of ocean data and assemble musical instruments from scavenged plastic: potentially work with Andy’s plastic processing method for 3D printing. We were involved in the Thaalam Riddim Reapers music production workshop at Dinacon 2022, Batticaloa. In March 2024 we developed this project into a ten day “bootcamp”, Dham Dham Riddim, at DreamSpace Academy’s Music Lab and released an album of the participants’ results on Bandcamp in August 2024. 

Bio  Dinoj M is an artist and music producer who blends music with nature while celebrating the culture of his hometown, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. He runs DreamSpace Records, a creative hub where local artists can record and produce their tracks. When he’s not making music, he’s upcycling old stuff into musical instruments because sustainability is his jam. His songs reflect the rich traditions and stories of Batticaloa, while also highlighting why we need to protect the planet. Dinoj is all about empowering artists and creating music that’s meaningful, fresh, and rooted in heritage.

Bio  Lucinda Dayhew investigates relationships between social, ecological, historical, and psychological phenomena with a percussive bent. She sculpts words and moulds sounds and materials into pulsing narratives and rhythmic objects, which shift shape as they grapple with the conflicting ethics of daily life and global spin. Her works materialise as installations, performances, texts, films, photographs, sound works, and sculptures that are shown locally and internationally. Collaboration is the key to her beating heart. 

Bio  Sumugan Sivanesan is an artist, researcher and writer whose interests include music, minority politics, activist media, artist infrastructures and more-than-human rights. His artistic research project fugitive radio (2020-ongoing) develops live collectively-realised modes of “performance-radio” alongside a monthly podcast, music, zines and texts.

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Sumugan Sivanesan


We (Dinoj, Luci, and Sumugan) plan to collect ocean plastic and make recordings to build a common sample bank (shared online) using free, open source tools. We will experiment with sonification of ocean data and assemble musical instruments from scavenged plastic: potentially work with Andy’s plastic processing method for 3D printing. We were involved in the Thaalam Riddim Reapers music production workshop at Dinacon 2022, Batticaloa. In March 2024 we developed this project into a ten day “bootcamp”, Dham Dham Riddim, at DreamSpace Academy’s Music Lab and released an album of the participants’ results on Bandcamp in August 2024. 

Bio  Sumugan Sivanesan is an artist, researcher and writer whose interests include music, minority politics, activist media, artist infrastructures and more-than-human rights. His artistic research project fugitive radio (2020-ongoing) develops live collectively-realised modes of “performance-radio” alongside a monthly podcast, music, zines and texts.

Bio  Dinoj M is an artist and music producer who blends music with nature while celebrating the culture of his hometown, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. He runs DreamSpace Records, a creative hub where local artists can record and produce their tracks. When he’s not making music, he’s upcycling old stuff into musical instruments because sustainability is his jam. His songs reflect the rich traditions and stories of Batticaloa, while also highlighting why we need to protect the planet. Dinoj is all about empowering artists and creating music that’s meaningful, fresh, and rooted in heritage.

Bio  Lucinda Dayhew investigates relationships between social, ecological, historical, and psychological phenomena with a percussive bent. She sculpts words and moulds sounds and materials into pulsing narratives and rhythmic objects, which shift shape as they grapple with the conflicting ethics of daily life and global spin. Her works materialise as installations, performances, texts, films, photographs, sound works, and sculptures that are shown locally and internationally. Collaboration is the key to her beating heart. 

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Lucinda Dayhew


We (Dinoj, Luci, and Sumugan) plan to collect ocean plastic and make recordings to build a common sample bank (shared online) using free, open source tools. We will experiment with sonification of ocean data and assemble musical instruments from scavenged plastic: potentially work with Andy’s plastic processing method for 3D printing. We were involved in the Thaalam Riddim Reapers music production workshop at Dinacon 2022, Batticaloa. In March 2024 we developed this project into a ten day “bootcamp”, Dham Dham Riddim, at DreamSpace Academy’s Music Lab and released an album of the participants’ results on Bandcamp in August 2024.

Bio  Lucinda Dayhew investigates relationships between social, ecological, historical, and psychological phenomena with a percussive bent. She sculpts words and moulds sounds and materials into pulsing narratives and rhythmic objects, which shift shape as they grapple with the conflicting ethics of daily life and global spin. Her works materialise as installations, performances, texts, films, photographs, sound works, and sculptures that are shown locally and internationally. Collaboration is the key to her beating heart. 

Bio  Sumugan Sivanesan is an artist, researcher and writer whose interests include music, minority politics, activist media, artist infrastructures and more-than-human rights. His artistic research project fugitive radio (2020-ongoing) develops live collectively-realised modes of “performance-radio” alongside a monthly podcast, music, zines and texts.

Bio  Dinoj M is an artist and music producer who blends music with nature while celebrating the culture of his hometown, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. He runs DreamSpace Records, a creative hub where local artists can record and produce their tracks. When he’s not making music, he’s upcycling old stuff into musical instruments because sustainability is his jam. His songs reflect the rich traditions and stories of Batticaloa, while also highlighting why we need to protect the planet. Dinoj is all about empowering artists and creating music that’s meaningful, fresh, and rooted in heritage.

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Pom Prasopsuk

Project: Pom will be working on eco art, a combination of art and environment as concept

Bio: Pom is an eco artist from Thailand who make various kind of works such as sculptures, painting and product design focus mainly in environmental friendly

Here is the Link website to some of her past works
http://remains-of-the-day.com/

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Paula Te

Paula (she/her) is an interface designer & technologist focused on the intersection of crafting, learning, and culture. Her work on digital fabrication & interfaces has been featured in Ars Electronica, SIGCHI Interaction Design & Children, & Eyeo Festival. She is a collaborator on 50years.today (connecting with narratives on the Chinese-Indonesian diaspora). She likes owls. 

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