Cairo-based multidisciplinary new media audio-visual artist and illustrator whose work explores identity and examines how virtual and artificial environments, and massively distributed networks can challenge the boundaries of our senses. Her interdisciplinary approach includes studies across the traditional arts disciplines and an embrace of new technologies.Castell’s work spans digital media and audio-visual installations, to more traditional forms such as paintings and illustrations. The focus of her attention is the sonority and functionality of immaterial illusions between the real and virtual world and the research of the new nature of art. She uses the digital space to develop expansive worlds that fiddles with the dynamic between her and her audience by creating storytelling atmosphere with objectified emotions that balances on the edge of warm-hearted intimacy and sentimental absence.castellanko.com