WE CREATE CROSSMEDIA WORLDS WHERE CULTURAL MEMORY AND FUTURE IMAGINATION MEET: SPACES OF RESONANCE ACROSS DISCIPLINES AND BORDERS.

Truth.io builds cross-media worlds through artistic collaboration, carrying cultural memory forward while opening spaces for collective imagination. We work with film, stage, immersive technologies, and myth to create environments where audiences can experience resonance beyond borders of discipline, culture, or language.

In an age shaped by ecological, social, and digital upheaval, our practice seeks not only to reflect reality but to reimagine it. By unravelling inherited scripts of identity and division, we create works that weave ancestral knowledge with contemporary voices; revealing untold stories and inviting new forms of connection.

Since 2016, Truth.io has been active as a non-profit foundation from Amsterdam. Our international productions—ranging from Symmetry and Sacred Environment to The Bird of a Thousand Voices—have appeared on stages such as Holland Festival, De Singel, and Gorki Theater, and through digital platforms including NOWNESS, AppleTV and ARTE. Each project is a constellation of collaborators: established and emerging artists, cultural institutions, and local communities, united in site-sensitive, co-creative formats.

As of 2025, with renewed board leadership and an expanded ethical commitment, Truth.io works in alignment with the Cultural Governance Code, Fair Practice Code, and Code of Diversity & Inclusion in the Netherlands and Europe. The foundation is led by artistic director Ruben Van Leer, together with a board consisting of Arzum Ünal, Jan Docter, and Nicholas White (chair), and supported by international producers, advisors, an


Our approach:

  • Creation – Develop and produce artistic cross-media projects with international reach

  • Artistic Research – Facilitate inclusive, project-based exploration into new cultural forms

  • Networking – Bridging emerging and acclaimed independent artists, forward-thinking institutions, and diverse audiences across geographies

  • Distribution – Innovate sustainable and accessible models to share artistic transmedia works

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Press:

 

The Huffington Post

“The gorgeous film project Symmetry, combines the best parts of opera and dance with the titillating rigor of digital art and physics to create a visual narrative that explores the philosophical elements of the giant particle accelerator.”

 

WIRED

“There's a post-apocalyptic vibe in the video imagines members of band Yeasayer as scientists struggling to find a cure for an unnamed global affliction. In addition to the Naturalis tower, the band filmed in molecular biologist Hans Tanke’s lab at Leiden University.”

Volkskrant

“Six dancers fly in geometrical formations across the large stage, pumping in a circle, pulsing across diagonals, breathing deeply, elongating their bodies, stretching their limbs far out or spreading out, as if they’d want to whip the energy in laser beams through the light.”

 

Hyperallergic

“The operatic and choral music by Joep Franssens and Henry Vega gives Symmetry its grand weight, while the setting of the LHC, the ALICE heavy-ion detector, and the laboratories of CERN ground the narrative in these mechanical tools we have constructed to reach into the limits of understanding.”

VICE

“The performance featured an orchestra playing Moore's music, while a VR performer, Esther Mugambi, explored 3D generative point-clouds of the sacred sites, which were projected on a screen for the audience to follow live.”

 

Glamcult

“Opening up the festival this year is an introduction to the man himself’s digital ritual, ‘I Know…’ performance which has been created alongside Ruben Van Leer and the public. After reflecting on these ‘Fragmented times’ Bill T. Jones searches for the ‘we’ within the world.”

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“Using the power of their imagination, artists can critically VISUALISE the ethical dilemmas that are now hidden from view in the theory of natural scientists.”

— Robert Zwijnenberg, professor Art & Science Interactions at Leiden University