Creative Alien
In 2021, I collaborated with Depositphotos and Crello to develop a visual manifesto for Social Media Week Kyiv in response to global changes. The concept of the artwork—creative intelligence—explored how we adapt to the physical and digital worlds we inhabit.
The hero of the manifesto was an avatar, a creative alien that possessed the power to overcome any obstacle it faced. Music for the visual manifesto was created using artificial intelligence, developed by Mubert using the Depositphotos audio library.
Creative Team:
Creative director: Tati Timoshenko
Creative producer: Alice Scope
Music director: Paul Zgordan
In addition to the animation featured in the video above, Social Media Week Kyiv produced a number of augmented reality filters that emerged from various merchandise like packaging and hoodies. These filters were shared online and featured the creative alien avatar from the animation.
LACMA Digital Witness
In 2024-2025, this Creative Alien work was featured in the prestigious exhibition Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). This major exhibition examines the impact of digital manipulation tools from the 1980s to the present, featuring over 150 works by nearly 200 artists, designers, and makers.
The exhibition traces the emergence of distinctive digital aesthetic strategies, relationships to realism, and storytelling modes, illuminating today's visual culture where digital editing tools are more accessible than ever before. Creative Alien represents the cutting edge of digital art and augmented reality experiences that have transformed our visual landscape.
Digital Witness is among more than 70 exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide, a landmark regional event exploring the intersections of art and science. The exhibition runs from November 24, 2024, through July 13, 2025, at LACMA's Broad Contemporary Art Museum.
In Conversation: Huntrezz Janos and Dr. Safiya Noble
On January 31, 2025, Huntrezz Janos and Dr. Safiya Noble (author of Algorithms of Oppression) engaged in a profound dialogue that explored the intersection of algorithmic bias and transcorporeal identity, examining how digital technologies both enable and constrain creative expression. Dr. Safiya Noble, a leading scholar in internet studies and digital inequality, brought her groundbreaking research on how search engines and AI systems perpetuate racial and gender biases to bear on questions of artistic practice in the digital age, with her work examining the political economy of technology providing a critical framework for understanding how algorithms shape representation—particularly relevant to my practice as a transcorporeal artificer, where digital avatars and AI-generated content challenge traditional notions of embodiment and identity. Our conversation navigated the tensions between technological liberation and digital surveillance, exploring how artists working with AI must simultaneously harness and resist the systems that govern digital space, as I shared how Dr. Noble's scholarship has informed my understanding of how algorithmic systems can either amplify or silence marginalized voices in digital art spaces, and together we examined the possibilities for creative practice to intervene in and reimagine the structures of technological power. This conversation was presented in partnership with PST ART: Art & Science Collide exhibitions Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World at UCR ARTS at UC Riverside and Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film at LACMA.
