Creative technologist, designer, and artist re-imagining our intimacy with digital structures. Interested in internet culture, music, fashion.

Araya is a creative technologist, designer, and artist working across interaction, creative coding, and visual design. With a background in public policy and experience building across decentralized systems, their practice explores the structures that shape online life and the culture, intimacy, and awkwardness of being a person on the internet.

Through curiosity and play, they expose how power and visibility move through digital systems and re-imagine alternative ways of engagement. They co-founded (WinPrivacy), a creative agency for non-extractive technologies, framing privacy as a feminist and political project rooted in autonomy, self-expression, and collective power.

Araya can wear many hats, but they're all in the closet because it will ruin their hair.

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Artistic Practice

↗ iwillalwaysbemeipromise

2025-26

Art Book

Concept, Research, Curation, Writing

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Interactive installation of Terms & Conditions receipts, sheding light on the scale of what we "consent" to in order access the basic daily internet infrastucture. Featured in Sonar +D 2026 in Barcelona, Cypherpunk Congress + Ethereum Privacy Stack event in Buenos Aires, and Parallel Society in Lisbon.

↗ Receipts

2025-26

Interactive Installation

Creative Direction, Design, Development

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Interactive installation of Terms & Conditions receipts, sheding light on the scale of what we "consent" to in order access the basic daily internet infrastucture. Featured in Sonar +D 2026 in Barcelona, Cypherpunk Congress + Ethereum Privacy Stack event in Buenos Aires, and Parallel Society in Lisbon.

↙ Glitch Armour

2025-26

Privacy Toolkit

Research, Creative Direction, Development

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Researched and designed accessible privacy toolkit, presenting alternative options to big tech. For friends, family, everyone. Fun, anti-gatekeep project as privacy as collective safety. Creative direction by me. Loading screen coded by Eliza Struthers-Jobin.

↗ Waiting room w/ a4anxiety

2023-4

Radio Mix

Music Selection for Cry Sessions

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Dive into the emotional pool of "The Waiting Room," where a4anxiety takes listeners into an hour of their intimate emotions through emo ambient, trance, and deconstructed breaks. Click to be taken to the archived sets.

↗ Non-visual gallery

2023

Experimental Website

Concept, Design, Development

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On-going writing project interpreting selected photos in my iPhone gallery. The content is dynamically managed through a CMS, where entries are structured, stored, and rendered on the front end using a custom integration.

↗ Against the clock

2021

Experimental Website

Concept, Design, Development

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A contemplative work that challenges conventional time perception. Using responsive design, the clock remains fully visible yet distorts intervals and uses low-contrast gradients, defying usability norms. Interactive JavaScript elements amplify these disruptions in real time.

↗ In Relations

2020

Experimental Website

Concept, Design, Development

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An interactive experiment exploring how individuals position themselves in relation to others through touch-generated patterns. Each session begins with a randomly generated 'self,' prompting reflection on relationships. Built with web technologies, the project creates an intuitive, meditative exploration of connection and presence.

Commissioned Projects

↙ Lesbian Garros

2026

Screensaver

Creative Direction, Creative Coding

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Bringing courtship to the screen. Flirting interactions and ball hitting represented by tennis balls bouncing off each other and the screen edges. Built with three.js

↙ Swarm

2026

Decentralised Storage Platform

Generated Visuals

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Generated visual assets of a futuristic tech utopia of mesh network for a user-owned infrastructure. A technology-driven living, decentralized organism of cooperation.

↙ Plural Monolinth

2026

Live Coding Visuals

Creative Coding

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Cyberpositive generated visuals for a Berlin live coding event coded with p5.js and GLSL shaders, rendered via WebGL

↙ Privacy Church

2025

Aggregator App

Creative Direction, Branding, UX/UI

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Creative direction and led design of a privacy aggregator app. Translating seemingly niche and complex field to fun visuals and actionable guide.

↙ Wavv

2024-25

Social Coordination App

Creative Direction, Branding, UX

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Directing the design and development of a social coordination app to connect communities seamlessly, streamline event planning, and elevate user engagement. Overseeing all aspects of the product lifecycle, including creative direction, strategic design, user research, marketing campaigns, and integrating token utility to drive adoption and enhance functionality.

↙ Mentat

2025

AI Agent Tooling

Brand Identity

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Designed the visual identity of an AI agent, including a logo system inspired by the balance of human intelligence and machine logic, and a color palette blending tech-forward precision with a human-centric feel.

↙ Bitlazer

2024

Launch Website

Brand & Product Design, Wireframe

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Designed the branding, marketing website, and user interface for an upcoming Bitcoin Layer 3 solution set to launch in 2024, aimed at delivering scalable yield to Bitcoin holders. Collaborated closely with developers to ensure seamless execution and alignment across the team. Soon to be released.

↙ Unit A

2023

Development Agency

Web Design

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Unit A is a purpose-driven development studio connecting African and European tech talent through front-end, blockchain, and AI projects. Led art direction and web design for the site, focusing on a clean, typographic layout to reflect the studio’s clarity, structure, and social mission.

↙ Brick

2023

Photography Studio

Brand Identity

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Minimalistic branding for a photography studio in São Paulo.

↙ Random Walk Network

2023

On-chain staking podcast

Brand Identity, Visual design

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Modern branding that translates crypto concepts to institutional players.

↙ Lab3

2022

Web3 Music Community

Web, Interaction & Motion design

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Community website where music professionals can learn more about Web3 technologies like NFTs, DAOs, and ERC20 tokens, exchange best practices with experts and aficionados, and start their own Web3 experiments.

↗ Herma

2019

Experimental Website

Interaction Design, Creative Coding

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An immersive web experience exploring gender fluidity beyond binary conceptions, leveraging WebGL and JavaScript libraries for interactive motion and sound. The site integrates shader-based visual effects, dynamic cursor tracking, and smooth state transitions to create an intuitive and responsive user experience.

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