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Nadia Alter · Artist and Engineer
The Human Core
of Sovereignty
Nadia Alter works across wearable art, information technology systems and experimental ventures.
Her practice explores the human capacities that make sovereignty possible: interiority, perception, judgement, authorship, dexterity, agency and multipolarity.
Current Work
Live · Building · Forthcoming
Ongoing build
SMB
A wearable technology system in active development.
Release · November 2026
V&P
A forthcoming release scheduled for November 2026.
Experimental Ventures
Inquiry through construction
Finanz und Wirtschaft
The Brussels Times
L’Echo
la Repubblica
The New Yorker
WIRED
DAZED
Stanford Social Innovation Review
The Guardian
The Nation
Nadia Alter explores questions by building experimental things around them.
The outcome is deliberately open. An exploration may become a work of art, a large-scale collective project, a new technology, an analog tool, or the basis for a commercial venture.
01
unMonastery
A secular monastic model for the internet age, bringing people together around place, collective work and civic problems.
02
The Science Fiction Economics Lab
Used speculative fiction as a method for examining and prototyping alternative economic systems.
03
Climate Gains
Translated this approach into climate fintech. Its first project was acquired by Swiss carbon-market operator myclimate.
04
Sovereign Minds Tech
Develops tools and physical technologies concerned with human agency, cognition and relationships under technological acceleration.