Immersive Arts

My Immersive Digital Journey

 

My journey into immersive arts was a natural evolution — not a sudden shift, but the unfolding of something long rooted in me. Since the early days of personal computers, I was already exploring digital creativity: designing posters, restoring photographs, building webpages, and crafting visual stories before tools like Photoshop became mainstream. I have always feel confident with computers.

 

These early self-taught skills including SEO and digital media, later became part of my formal Arts & Crafts education. 

During the 2020 pandemic, while developing "Magnification" — my major solo exhibition and residency with the City of Melville — I experienced profound epiphanies during my nature explorations and observations. I realize that the world was in a metamorphosis, and so was I. I realized that my art, too, needed to transform — to expand into new dimensions. 

"Magnification" exhibition was a big local success, generously supported and curated by City of Melville Museums. 

 

Then, in 2024, the disruptive wave of artificial intelligence arrived, and I instinctively knew I had to dive deeper. A.I. felt unsettling, and I needed to understand my place in this new era. For me, it was a choice between giving up and stagnating—or finding a new way of creating and evolving. My previous trips to New York City, with visits to museums and galleries, had already planted seeds of inspiration. Studying and observing art and artists across centuries reminded me of the power of adaptation, vision, and timeless expression.

 

I paused, and started formal education in Information Technology, Immersive Arts, A.I., and Automation, and entered a second phase of metamorphosis. A training that gave me the technical confidence for my new practice. This was not a rejection of my traditional art — but a reaffirmation of it. A bridge. A new layer of creative language to speak across both time and technology. 

Immersive art is now the space where my roots and future converge.

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As with any journey, it starts with imperfect steps — guided by the desire to grow, to explore, and to create something meaningful.

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Rooted in my love for nature, painting, drawing, and soft sculpture, my practice now start and expands into immersive digital arts, augmented reality, animation, visual effects, video production, and interactive digital environments. These works are portals—spaces where nature, spirit, and technology converge. Through immersive art, I invite viewers to experience transformation as a living process: to witness the cocoon crack, the energy pulse, and the digital bloom take form. 

 

This is not a departure from my traditional art practice, but a deeper unfolding—an expansion into space, time, and presence, where I continue representing and translating nature in visual and conceptual art forms, allowing the unseen rhythms of the natural world to move, breathe, and respond.​

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Nidia Hansen

April 18 /2025

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Stay tuned here for upcoming immersive art experiences and nature-inspired projects.  

This is where you’ll find my evolving portfolio of immersive works and nature-based explorations.​

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