Ninja Guru

Ninja Guru Studio is a design studio based in Graz, founded by the artists and sound designers Nick Acorne and Valerio Zanini. It works in interactive art and design, creating sound and light installations and developing immersive interactive storytelling for exhibitions, museums and theatre performances. Its projects have been presented in Austria and across Europe.

Works include Mass of the World and DataSafe, interactive audiovisual installations, the sound and light pieces LOSTROSE and LOSTdimension, the interactive sound installation Klangzelle and SOLE, a system for live performances. ‘SHE’, a dance performance made with the Ukrainian director Nina Khyzhna, won the Vivo d’Arte prize of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Romaeuropa Festival, and was shown in Rome in 2020.