Operactive Arts Ltd
Operactive Arts is a creative-technology company that builds tools for live arts and tests them in its own artistic productions. Its patent-pending ‘Intelligent Stage’ platform takes the emotional temperature of the room: audiences join from their own devices, and the collective emotional state of the audience shapes visuals, sound, light and story, with the artists always in control. Its first product, Surtitles in a Box, is on sale to venues.
Posted: 05 November 2026
Dr Alexandra Huang-Kokina
Dr Alexandra Huang-Kokina is Artistic Director and co-founder of Operactive Arts, a Bicentenary Fellow in Music at the University of Manchester, and a pianist whose work bridges music, literature, intermediality and digital creativity. As a maker of immersive opera and performer and curator of experimental music ensembles, her practice directly informs her research at the intersection of performing arts, digital innovation and intercultural inclusivity. Through radical innovations in storytelling and audience engagement, she has designed, co-written and directed two experimental operas, Yūrei (2025) and The Covenant (2026), infused with Japanese Noh and Kabuki theatre, improvisation and gamification.
Arturs Kokins
Arturs Kokins is Managing Director and co-founder of Operactive Arts, where he produces the company's productions and leads its business. A software engineer, he architected the Intelligent Stage, the company's audience-responsive platform, including the Emotion Engine, the audience mobile interface, the operator console and Surtitles in a Box, and is co-inventor on the pending UK patent application. He brings twenty years of technology delivery and business-transformation leadership, and holds an MBA with distinction from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
