María Laura Ruggiero
María Laura Ruggiero
María Laura Ruggiero is an Argentine filmmaker, narrative designer, and immersive media researcher. Her work unfolds at the intersection of film, extended realities, and experimental storytelling — exploring how narratives are inhabited and experienced when they move beyond the frame into spatial, embodied, and hybrid conditions.
Her practice spans cinematic, immersive, and performance contexts, with focus on worldbuilding, speculative futures, and the habitability of virtual spaces. She advances methods of storytelling that foreground presence, attention, and collective experience.
Her work has been part of MIT Reality Hack, Berlinale Talents, SXSW, ONA, and the European Performing Science Night. In Barcelona she collaborated with La Fura dels Baus on PosidonIA — a live performance at the intersection of narrative design, spatial dramaturgy, and technology. Her project Wave 201: The Unwanted Atlantis was selected for MIT Cocreation Studio's Worlding initiative.
She leads SeirenFilms, a narrative design lab for hybrid storytelling and emerging media, and StoryHackers, a nomadic experimentation lab active in hackathons, institutions, and festival contexts across 15+ countries. She serves regularly as mentor, speaker, and jury member — most recently at MIT Reality Hack and Berlinale Talents Short Form Station.
Awards and fellowships include the Amplify–Williams Foundation Grant, British Council, Digital Jove Spain, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a Berlinale Talents alumna, NATPE Diversity Fellow, and Jihlava Emerging Producer. Currently completing a PhD in Immersive Design at UBA-FADU.
A.KA. Domar Huracanes
Also known as Domar Huracanes — taming hurricanes.
As an image and sound designer, virtual explorer, and field guide of #StoryHackers, she navigates the liminal spaces where narrative, technology, and collective presence intersect. In 2026 she co-founded Sala Lúcida alongside PulpoFilms — an immersive space for narrative experimentation in Buenos Aires. Part lab, part venue, part ongoing conversation about what stories can do when they have a room of their own.
A lifelong space geek with a deep fascination for astronomy and exploration. Design, architecture, surfing, and sustainability animate her curiosity — wilderness, both ocean and desert, feels like home. She practices yoga and meditation, delights in Borgesian labyrinths, and is endlessly captivated by Elvis Presley and bioluminescent phenomena beneath the waves.
A freediving apprentice, she moves easily between film sets, labs, hackathons, and open water alike. Mythologies, hybrid beings, cyberpunk, Bauhaus, California landscapes, and photographs of alpacas make her happy. Unabashedly devoted to Brit Marling and low-fi science fiction.
For María Laura, poetry and pixels are in constant dialogue — each informing the other. She creates, designs, and writes constantly, often in Buenos Aires but always with her imagination wandering toward California redwoods and crystal-clear shores.
She's always writing something.
