Laura A Dima is a Romanian-born multidisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam/The Hague, the Netherlands. She graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2015 from the Department of Inter-Architecture and recently completed her Master’s at the ArtScience Interfaculty at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) and Royal Conservatoire (KC) in The Hague. Her practice bridges performance, technology, and academic research, resulting in multimedia installations that examine intimacy, touch, and digital mediation from a technofeminist perspective.

Dima’s work investigates cultural norms surrounding the body, consent, and privacy in a technologized society. Notable projects include The Finger Rub Rug (2020) — a tactile sculpture composed of 1,300 silicone replicas of her partner’s fingers, placed in an isolated white room with a spatial soundscape — and Future Affair (2021), an interactive installation that enables participants to exchange affective touch remotely through a caressing machine and a ceramic sculpture serving as a control panel. More recently, The Alien Between Us (2025), an award-winning project, introduces responsive, creature-like sculptures as intermediaries for human connection, live-streaming biodata such as breath, heartbeat, and temperature between two participants.

Her installations and performances have been presented at large-scale events and exhibitions such as Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven), Bozar and EDRi – European Digital Rights (Brussels), Sheffield DocFest (UK), Colegio de Fonseca at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Come Alive by Niet Normaal INT (Utrecht), Tetem and The Overkill (Enschede), and the Science Centre at TU Delft. She has also been invited to give lectures and workshops at the intersection of art, technology, and design at various international institutions, including the Sandberg Instituut (Amsterdam), Ethics of Digitally Disruptive Technologies (ESDiT), The Hmm (NL), OPA – Ontwerp Platform Arnhem, University of Technology Delft (TU Delft), University of Twente (Enschede), ArtEZ (Arnhem), Royal Academy of Art (The Hague) and CanHaptics (Canada).

Dima is part of the Dutch Touch Society, a national community of researchers exploring interactions through haptic technology and affective touch. Together, they conduct research that bridges artistic practice and scientific investigation. Their collaborations have resulted in publications presented at WorldHaptics 2021 (Vancouver) and workshops during WorldHaptics 2023 (Delft). Her works have also been included and showcased at technology and science conferences, including EuroHaptics 2022 (Hamburg University of Technology), EuroHaptics 2024 (University of Technology Lille), RoboSoft 2025 Conference (EPFL, Lausanne), and the 4TU/ESDiT Conference on Ethics of Technology in 2024 (University of Twente), underscoring her ongoing engagement with academic and technological discourse.

Her work has been featured in Dutch and international media, including Dezeen (UK), Libération (France), Ming Pao Daily (Hong Kong) and Art and Design (艺术与设计 in China),  Radio Romania Cultural (RO), Elle (NL), VPRO Gids, NRC, het Parool, ED – Eindhovens Dagblad, Noordhollands Dagblad, De Ingenieur (NL), Dementia and Technology (TU Eindhoven), and Writer’s Block Magazine (UvA). In 2025, Libération profiled her installation Bellies ahead of its presentation at the Ars Electronika Festival and Symposium in Vienna, while Het Parool recommended her work at This Art Fair 2022 in Amsterdam. The Finger Rub Rug (2020) also received widespread attention, including an exhibition review in het Parool and an article in Writer’s Block Magazine by poet and editor Bren Booth-Jones, highlighting the tactile and provocative qualities of her practice.