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Poh Leng Weng (PL Weng)

AT DINACON 2025: Would like to explore and tap into the stories from the community in the form of mixed media photo-journaling. The power of storytelling and narrative expanding to series of potential bilingual/trilingual poetry or songs. If time permits, would also like to share and make simple rudimentary musical instruments together.  

BIO: Self-taught Sci-artist exploring multidisciplinary fields through experiential learning– emphasizing on stories/art/poetry related to themes of gelotogy and dualism. Works appeared in Eksentrika, Dewan Sastera, Dewan Budaya, Majalah Samudera, A.P.O.M. and Burning House Press.

Other works: Peluru Aksara (2020), Rumpun Luhur (2022) and Hijab Everyday Stories of Muslim Women from Singapore and Beyond (2023).

Gear: violin bow, standard drumsticks, magic toolbox & stickers

Dates: July 5 – July 11

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Assia Kraan

Project: Salty drawing is the project Assia will be working on.

Bio: artist and program manager. Punge creates conceptual locative art. Starting from the characteristics of places and the social aspects of how they are used, using low-tech local materials and craftship.

At Dinacon 2025 Punge dives into (locally farmed) salt, bamboo weaving, no-purpose drawing, sensing, haptic perception, magnetism.

Portfolio

  • Flightcatcher Sand Prints & Podcast at artist in residency program National Geographic Explorers (Ivory Coast)
  • Plekkenarchief and Winckel at artist in residency Amsterdam Tussenland (Netherlands)
  • Muziekfiets at music festival In Vervoering in Utrecht (Netherlands)
  • Cuando te sientes… at music festival FVCM in Panama city (Panama)

Present at Bali: 4/6-14/6 2025

Gear: magnets, painting tools, sound recording equipment

Workshop: Bodystorming to design for sensory experience

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Judy Major-Girardin

A hand-made book project focused on water and flora of Bali

Judy Major-Girardin

Judy Major-Girardin received a BFA from the University of Windsor and an MFA from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. She is a recently retired Professor from the School of the Arts at McMaster University where she taught for 39 years.  She lives in Cambridge Ontario and has served as Co-Chair of the Cambridge Sculpture Garden since 2005. Her studio work includes an integrated practise of painting, printmaking, drawing, artist books, and fiber-based works that raise awareness for the preservation and celebration of wetland environments. She has exhibited throughout Canada and the USA and internationally through exhibitions in New Zealand, Portugal, and Taiwan. She has attended artist residencies in British Columbia, Newfoundland, Quebec, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Portugal, New Zealand, and most recently in France.

www.judymajorgirardin.com

Duration in Bali: June 28 – July11

I plan to make a hand-made book focused on ideas and challenges related to water. I would like to generate a second book focused on plants with medical or food applications if time allows. I will be bringing a small underwater camera, a field guide to flora of Bali and some art supplies.

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Michael Ang (Mang)

Michael Ang (aka Mang) is an artist, professor, and engineer who creates light objects, interactive installations, and technological tools that expand the possibilities of human expression and connection. Applying a hacker’s aesthetic, he often repurposes existing technology to create human-centered experiences in public space and the open field.

As a Node Leader at Dinacon 2025 I’ll be hosting a workshop on combining environmental data sonification with live musical performance. Come along and jam with the environment and each other!

Dates: June 26-July 5

Gear: environmental sensors, field recorder + microphones, music jamming gear

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Anna Carreras

Dates: 28/6 – 5/7

Will be working on: some generative visuals for kids that can be interactive with a Makey Makey and materials found around

Bio: generative artist and creative coder with some Mediterranean soul

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Jay Bond

Dates: June 23rd—July 22nd (give or take)

Project: Interactive 3D thingy of coral-inspired structures created using signed-distance functions in WGSL/Rust/Bevy!

Jay Facts:

  • Jay is from Ontario, Canada.
  • Jay is a code monkey by day and asleep by night.
  • Jay does not have socials media but is a real person who exists, he swears.

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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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