Auteur StudioDeep Engagement Studio
Auteur Studio is a deep engagement studio. We make interactive experiences for brands and cultural organizations—work where people take an active role: exploring, asking, comparing, configuring, discovering, acting. Storytelling, design and technology are how we build them.
Abduction — life-scale augmented reality, the Wende Museum
What We Do
Auteur works with brands, entertainment and cultural organizations to turn stories, products, content and places into experiences people can actively explore.
We combine creative direction, narrative, film, audio, imagery, contextual intelligence, interactive design and spatial experiences. Our own platform is one of the evolving tools we can bring to this work; the approach is shaped around the needs of each project.
Auteur is led by founder David Van Eyssen. His authored work—from award-winning branded series to spatial installations for brands and institutions—has consistently predicted the rise of new platforms and pioneered the work that defines them.
The story stops being something you watch—and becomes something you take part in.
Narrative, media and contextual intelligence brought together so people can ask, explore and follow their own line of interest—on the web, on site, or wherever the project calls for.
Selected Work
Museum Catalogue — Contextual Interpretation
An AR extension of a Los Angeles museum's exhibition catalogue—bringing Cold War-era objects into the visitor's space through spatial collage, with an integrated contextual intelligence.
Automotive — Interactive Brand Experience
An immersive spatial experience reimagining brand engagement—combining intelligence-driven interaction, real-world analytics, and cinematic narrative.
Publishing — Living Editions
Living extensions of physical books—AR scenes and conversational intelligence characters that carry the story beyond the printed page.
Media — Conversational Archive
A venture-capital podcast reimagined as a media brand—identity, brand film, a living editorial website, and a contextual intelligence trained on the show's entire archive.
Product Experience — Contextual Intelligence
A contextual intelligence woven into a spatial AR experience—the product itself speaks, performs, and remembers, turning a single browser link into direct contact with the thing a customer might buy.
Cultural Installation — Spatial Artwork
A life-scale spatial work—26 feet high—to be installed at a Los Angeles museum exhibition in 2026. A first-person spatial experience exploring the boundaries of physical and digital presence.
Art and Technology — Virtual Sculpture
A life-scale virtual sculpture of two cars colliding—their drivers thrown and entangled mid-air, seen through AR. Shown at MOCA London (2024) and Los Angeles (2025).
Science — Interactive Research Visualization
An immersive spatial experience translating cutting-edge genomics research into a navigable three-dimensional experience.
Intelligence
Where it suits the project, engagement can be understood—what people ask and explore becomes insight that informs what comes next.
What we make
Every project is built so the audience has something to do. These are the forms that takes most often.
Brand work where the audience does something: asks a question, compares options, configures a product, or follows a story further than a film or a page would allow. We build these for digital and physical settings—a browser, a venue, a device in someone's hand—and choose the form to suit the brand and the occasion.
The Puck·Cosmo-NoughtSpatial Brand Experience and The Directed Intelligence are shown on request.
Stories that respond. A publication that continues past its last page, an archive that can be asked questions, a narrative that takes its shape from what the reader follows. The writing, film and design come first; the interaction is what lets someone go further into it.
Work at real scale, in real places. Augmented reality, virtual sculpture and spatial collage let people walk around a thing, approach it, and see it in their own surroundings. We use these where the subject genuinely needs size, presence or place—not as a default.
Encounter·Abduction·Cosmo-NoughtSpatial Biology is shown on request.
Interpretation for museums, exhibitions and cultural organizations: extending a catalogue beyond the printed page, letting a visitor ask an object a question, bringing works into the visitor's own space. Built with curators, around the collection and the exhibition it belongs to—most recently with the Wende Museum in Los Angeles.
Capabilities
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We shape the audience experience around a clear purpose, story and opportunity.
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We create and combine film, writing, imagery, audio and interactive content to give each experience its character.
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We enable people to ask questions, explore subjects and encounter relevant information and media in response.
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We design interactive experiences across digital and physical contexts, using the devices and technologies appropriate to the project.
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Where appropriate, we help organizations understand what people ask, explore and act on—and use that insight to inform what comes next.
Why It Works
Most media asks people to sit still and receive. The work here asks them to follow their own curiosity—and answers when they do.
Most brand experiences deliver the same message to everyone. Auteur creates experiences that respond to a person’s curiosity—connecting them with the stories, information and media they want to explore.
That makes engagement more active and personal, while creating opportunities for organizations to learn what resonates with their audiences.
Participation can take many forms: a conversation with a story or a product, an edition that continues past the page, a work staged in a gallery, or something a person can walk around at life size.
Which form suits a project depends on the audience and the occasion. What stays constant is that the person is doing something rather than only receiving something.
A fixed experience gives everyone the same thing in the same order, however different their reasons for being there.
Contextual intelligence lets an experience respond to each person—what they ask, what they explore and where their interest takes them.
The result isn’t simply immersive media, it’s responsive media.
Conversational Intelligence
Audiences engage through natural language—asking questions, exploring detail and following their own line of interest.
Relevant imagery, video, audio, information and links appear in response. Navigation becomes conversation: contextual, responsive and personal.
Operational Intelligence
Understanding becomes action.
Intelligence that extends beyond conversation into responsive digital and physical experiences. The next phase.
Interactive Engagement
Interaction is the part that changes the relationship: people ask, explore, compare and choose their own way through, rather than receiving what everyone else receives.
It also tells you something. Depending on the experience, Auteur can help organizations understand what people ask about, which stories, subjects or products they explore, and what actions they take—insight that can inform the experience itself, and future decisions around content, audience or campaign.
Track Record
Work spanning BMW, Google, LG, Motorola, Pepsi, and leading cultural institutions including MoCA London and The Wende Museum.
Get In Touch
Tell us what you’re working on. We’ll explore how to make the audience experience more engaging—and what it could help you understand.