Cèlia Dominguez Hernandez is an immersive and network producer, artist, and writer working at the convergence of storytelling, tactile textures, and responsive technology. Over nearly two decades, she has curated exhibitions, developed public programming, and led innovative audience engagement initiatives across the cultural sector. Her extensive track record includes coordinating the national, ACE-funded Immersive Venue Network at Watershed, serving as Network Producer for the £30M creative technology R&D programme MyWorld, and spending fourteen years as Learning Programmes Manager at the Museum of East Asian Art in Bath, UK.
Parallel to her producing and curatorial practice, Cèlia maintains an active literary and artistic career spanning analogue and digital collage, photography, and literature. Her evocative prose is highly atmospheric, psychologically driven, and deeply influenced by English literature alongside South American and Japanese magical realism. Having already published a novel and a non-fiction book in Spanish, including Brujeres (2021), she is currently working on her first two novels in the English language. Her non-fiction writing bridges her creative and network practice, featured notably in her recent essay "Home as a Lullaby" for the Watershed programme, alongside an ongoing series of creative essays exploring immersive venue infrastructures. She also serves as an advisory group member for the MIT Open DocLab Independent XR Coalition.
Cèlia’s independent artistic direction is profoundly guided by her background in East Asian Studies and her lived experience with chronic pain and neurodivergence. Her work explores frameworks of "sensory sustainability" and radical accessibility—using traditional East Asian philosophies of negative space and silence (Ma, Liúbái, Yeobaek) to engineer low-fatigue, multi-sensory installations. Her debut directorial project, Accents, aims to investigate systemic linguistic discrimination by transforming vocal cadences and regional dialects into tactile, physical soundscapes, creating restorative spatial journeys that invite audiences to ethically co-create the narrative canvas.
