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[Your Name], Department of Visual and Media Arts, [University] [Co‑author Name], Department of Music Technology, [University]

This paper investigates the collaborative practice of visual artist and digital composer‑producer Damion Dayski (hereafter “Koi & Dayski”). Since 2021 the duo has produced a series of immersive, site‑specific installations that integrate kinetic sculpture, augmented‑reality (AR) visualizations, and algorithmic soundscapes. Using a qualitative case‑study approach—comprising semi‑structured interviews, participant observation, and multimodal content analysis—we examine how their interdisciplinary negotiation of media, authorship, and technology produces novel aesthetic experiences. Findings reveal three central dynamics: (1) media hybridity as a generative tension, (2) distributed authorship mediated by code and physical fabrication, and (3) audience co‑creation facilitated through interactive AR interfaces. The study contributes to scholarship on collaborative new‑media art by foregrounding the material–conceptual negotiations that shape co‑authored works, and suggests methodological pathways for future research on interdisciplinary artistic teams.

Together, they create music that feels like a conversation: the voice up front, the production responding, commenting, and sometimes contradicting, which produces emotional complexity rather than straightforward sentiment.