Aura Sensai Studios Ltd

AuraSensAI is a creative technology company building immersive experiences for the creative industries, work that responds to the audiences in real time.  In most live and screen-based work, every audience member receives the same experience, however they feel. AuraSensAI changes that. Through discreet wearable sensing and AI, its platform senses how each person is responding as the experience unfolds, and shapes what they see, hear and feel in return.  Each audience member becomes a co-author, their body quietly guiding the piece, so that what they feel is reflected back to them through sound, light and space. Built for theatre, site-specific sound installations, galleries and screen, the platform supports both intimate, individual journeys and collective experiences where a whole room, audience or broadcast moment responds together.  The company is at the intersection of AI, immersive theatre and somatic design. AuraSensAI brings that practice directly to the creative industries, partnering with theatres, galleries, broadcasters and festivals to build work that deepens engagement and invites a more embodied connection with an audience.  

AuraSensAI is founded by Debbie Bandara, a multidisciplinary artist and technologist trained in Artificial Intelligence, with two decades of immersive and inclusive creative practice.

Debbie Bandara is an artist and technologist who creates immersive work where the audience's body becomes part of the story. Trained in Artificial Intelligence, she founded the company making multisensory and inclusive experiences for theatre, galleries and screen, including virtual reality work with a major UK theatre and an Innovate UK funded haptic audio walk. She sits on the Creative UK advisory board and is developing Somatic AI Design, a framework for embodied, feeling-led technology in the creative industries.