ANGELA BERMUDO

Founder • Strategic Operator • Researcher • Artist

The Work

-> Fieldnotes


WHERE MY WORK LIVES



In the in-between. 
Between clarity and complexity. Vision and velocity.

From signal to system. From instinct to infrastructure.

I collaborate with teams and individuals at the edge of emergence, design what comes next, building the frameworks to carry it forward.

Some of the work has been created quietly under confidentiality and is not shown here. 

I take on a small number of projects each season, this might be the moment we build it together. 
 

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ONGOING RESEARCH


I build quiet architectures—some made of systems, others of story.

My work spans frameworks, field notes, rituals, research, and design experiments that invite new ways of sensing, making, and being.

Some of these take form as companies. Others as concepts, convenings, or curations. Many live between disciplines and definitions.

If the shape of something is still forming, that’s often where I begin.

NON-ABSOLUTE
Research lab and AI-powered platform for accelerating future visions. We shape innovation systems that connect invention to meaning, and R&D to real-world transformation.

  • Status: In Development
  • Category: Platform & Systems



COMMON FUTURES
A living nervous system. Shared commons for open research, dialogue, and collective input. A connective layer between Non-absolute lab and platform, turning insight into interaction and public feedback into forward motion.

  • Status: In Development
  • Category: Platform & Systems



THE SHAPE OF THE TOOL, THE SHAPE OF THE WORLD

“Before there were gods, there were tools.
And before we named them, they shaped us—

silent co-conspirators in our becoming,

carrying within them not just function,
but the pulse of memory, longing,
and the futures we have yet to speak aloud.”

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LEAP MOTION


Exploring and building natural connections between people and technology.
 
  • Status: Acquired
  • Category: Platform & Systems

  • Key Projects & Releases:
    • Project North Star
    • Interaction Engine
    • Orion Hand Tracking Engine
    • Virtual Wearables 
    • Mirrorworlds
    • Cat Explorer


FUTURE HORIZONA gathering and accelerator for bold visions—held in spaces where ideas root in ritual, relationship, and radical possibility. Built for those shaping a more symbiotic future.
 
  • Status: Ongoing
  • Category: Platform & Systems


THE ARCHITECTURE OF BELIEF

“Most ideas, movement, or companies stall
not from lack of vision—but from lack of architecture.”

Belief begins long before it’s visible. 
It hums beneath the surface.
You can’t always see the shape—but you can feel when it’s near.”


AMANUA decentralized archive powered by ancestral memory and artificial intelligence for future kinship. Stories carried in breath, language, and body—mapping what we inherit, adopt, and become.
 
  • Status: Ongoing
  • Location: Global
  • Category: Platform & Systems


ENVELOPAmplifying the power of immersive technologies and sound to make collective listening accessible. 
  • Status: Completed
  • Category: Platform & Systems

  • Key Projects:
    Envelop Stream 
    Envelop Radio
    Envelop SF
    Envelop Pop-up



OXFORD UNIVERSITYEstablishment of a the first immersive technologies hub at one of the world’s oldest universities/research institutions to explore potential outcomes of blending academia and research with innovation. 

  • Status: Completed
  • Category: Platform & Systems




KAPÁRAA participatory foresight experience told through indigenous futurism. Weaving stories, Kapára reclaims narrative as futurism—where traditional knowledge, speculative vision, and ancestral wisdom co-create what comes next.
 
Status: Completed
Category: Embodied Research
Exhibited: The Pocantico Center | Various San Francisco