Munnik, born in 1989, studied in the ArtScience department of the Royal Academy of Arts in the Hague, until 2011. His breakout installation, “Microscopic Opera”, tracked the projected movements of C. elegans worms and triggered different sounds for their various movements to create an abstract playback “opera” of sound. This work won the first 2013 leCube Prize, and the Artist & Designer 4 Genomics award, which invites artists to collaborate with actual local genomics centers. The piece was also nominated for the Rotterdam Design Award.

Munnik’s other works have included installations like “Heliosphere”, a light display that transforms solar wind activity into an artificial aurora, and the “Citadels” series that investigates the hallucinatory response created by flickering light of varying colour and intensity.