Rowynn Dumont
Rowynn Dumont is a researcher, artist, and systems thinker whose work sits at the intersection of perception, design, and human experience.
Her career began in fine arts and curatorial practice — working as assistant curator on Decadence Now: Visions of Excess at Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague under Dr. Otto M. Urban, archiving ethnographic collections at the Smithsonian Institution, and co-editing exhibition catalogs featuring work by Cindy Sherman, Damien Hirst, and Jake & Dinos Chapman. In 2024, her wet plate photographs were included in Kafkaesque at DOX Contemporary Art Centre in Prague — a major international exhibition curated by Urban alongside David Lynch, Jan Švankmajer, and Douglas Gordon.
When the art world contracted after 2008 and institutional gatekeeping foreclosed paths that should have remained open, she redirected the same core inquiry — how people perceive, interpret, and navigate complex environments — into psychology, design, and emerging technology. She co-founded Mindesign Labs, an XR research initiative developing adaptive tools for neurodivergent users, and has conducted and published experimental research across two clinical phases with real participant populations.
The questions have never changed. Only the tools.
Her career began in fine arts and curatorial practice — working as assistant curator on Decadence Now: Visions of Excess at Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague under Dr. Otto M. Urban, archiving ethnographic collections at the Smithsonian Institution, and co-editing exhibition catalogs featuring work by Cindy Sherman, Damien Hirst, and Jake & Dinos Chapman. In 2024, her wet plate photographs were included in Kafkaesque at DOX Contemporary Art Centre in Prague — a major international exhibition curated by Urban alongside David Lynch, Jan Švankmajer, and Douglas Gordon.
When the art world contracted after 2008 and institutional gatekeeping foreclosed paths that should have remained open, she redirected the same core inquiry — how people perceive, interpret, and navigate complex environments — into psychology, design, and emerging technology. She co-founded Mindesign Labs, an XR research initiative developing adaptive tools for neurodivergent users, and has conducted and published experimental research across two clinical phases with real participant populations.
The questions have never changed. Only the tools.
