María Laura Ruggiero works at the intersection of cinema, immersive media, and narrative research. Her practice explores how stories are experienced when they move beyond the frame — into spaces, systems, bodies, and collective perception.

Her work spans film, virtual and extended realities, live performance, and hybrid formats. She approaches storytelling as a lived process: something that is inhabited, remembered, and shaped through presence rather than explanation.

Practice

Her work circulates across international festivals, research labs, and performance contexts. She has collaborated with MIT, Berlinale Talents, SXSW, MUTEK, Experiential, Ibermedia, the World Bank VR Division, and the Amplify Digital Initiative — and in 2025, with La Fura dels Baus in Barcelona as part of the European Performing Science Night, contributing narrative design and spatial dramaturgy to PosidonIA, a live performative work at the intersection of science and theater.