Maya Benaïnous

Co-founder. Artist and engineer, creator of Ledotron. · Barcelona

Artist and engineer, she creates immersive installations at the crossroads of ecology, technology and the senses, and has worked with real-time data since 2008. She invented a new way to work with LEDs: Ledotron. With Cyril, she signs her artworks as Mouawad + Laurier.

Trained in mathematics, biology and art and technology (IMAC engineering school), she also studied acting in Paris. She began in research and development for cinema special effects at Duboi Duran, made two animated short films for the RAI and interactive web works with the Fat-Man Collective, then set up and ran a 3D animation studio in Barcelona for BRB Internacional: art direction, technical direction, production, team management and voice direction for Zoobabu, 104 stereoscopic 3D episodes broadcast by Disney, Canal+ and RAI, delivered a week ahead of deadline.

Laureate of the Villa Al Qamar residency of the Institut Français du Liban in 2024, in residency at ElClimamola, Barcelona, in 2025.

“Technology is a tool, nature is the path.”

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Maya Benaïnous, Co-founder. Artist and engineer, creator of Ledotron.

Work

  • Retour aux Sources · Maison Ruinart · an artwork by Mouawad + Laurier
  • La Traversée du temps · Moët & Chandon · sound and light journey, with Fisheye
  • Alpine, Paris Motor Show · Alpine, Paris Motor Show · interactive screen, with Fisheye
  • OX · Romain Tardy & Hand Coded · a machine that feels music
  • MGNTRN · Romain Tardy · software, engineering and robot
  • Peupler / Populate · Mouawad + Laurier
  • Rising · Mouawad + Laurier
  • Hors du temps · Mouawad + Laurier, with Art Explora
  • Paysage Sonore · Mouawad + Laurier
  • Future Ruins · Romain Tardy · software and engineering
  • Ledotron · Our tool for creating and driving light
  • Gyrotope · Pablo Valbuena · light and sound spatialisation
  • Être Absorbé · Maison Ruinart · an artwork by Mouawad + Laurier
  • Tientos al tiempo · Pablo Valbuena & Patricia Guerrero · coding and sound
  • Beardyman · Beardytron 5000 · live composition software
  • Maestro · Hand Coded & TigreLab · three interactive experiences
  • Viktoria Modesta · Music Tech Fest Berlin · interactive mapping and light costume
  • Methods · Pablo Valbuena, Durham Cathedral · creation and control tools
  • Kinematope · Pablo Valbuena, Paisaje Técnico · a tool to drive 5,000 LEDs
  • Upperground · Mouawad + Laurier
  • TGIC · Romain Tardy · original software
  • Albatros · Mouawad + Laurier, with the CNRS
  • Slush · Music Tech Fest Labs · generative visuals
  • Mouvement de l'air · Adrien M & Claire B · real-time generation
  • EKO · Maotik & Ezra · interactive tools for the stage
  • Bionic Orchestra · Ezra, Organic Orchestra · technologies for live beatbox
  • Churchill · Churchill’s · brainwave tasting
  • RAS Ubiquitous · Mouawad + Laurier · Ars in Campania exhibition, Maison Ruinart collection
  • Nestlé Crunch, Human Beats · Nestlé Crunch, Human Beats · interactive installation
  • Audi Mind Race · Audi & FC Barcelona, with DDB · brain interfaces and tracking
  • Eruption of the end · Rossella Piccinno · interaction
  • Prometheus · Music Technology Group, UPF · an augmented philharmonic orchestra
  • Augmented Paper · Organic Orchestra · collective residency with 30 artists
  • Poussière d’étoile · A 700 m² exhibition project, with Fisheye and Jean-Luc Monterosso
  • Complete Revolution · Residency with Raquel Gualtero
  • The early years · Fat-Man Collective and interactive advertising
  • Wizz · Voting by dancing, with a smartphone, in a club