CREATORS
Dave Johnson
Dave is a double Cannes Gold Awarded Creative Director and Screenwriter with over 20 years’ experience working with some of the world’s most iconic brands and creative agencies.
He has both a Writer and Art Director background and loves to create bold, disruptive work that moves people. His approach is strategically rigorous, conceptually driven, and executionally arresting. He now brings all of this insight and know-how to Generative AI.
Del Bey
Del Bey (M.Ed., MFA, BFA) is an artist and arts educator, exploring emotionally provocative and socially relevant images at the intersection of photography, video art, and augmented reality experiences, merging visual textures, photography, and digital technologies to weave a digital tapestry of personal visual expressions.
Hrant Vardanyan
The writer and director of 'My Movie' is Hrant Vardanyan. He was born in 1962 in Yerevan. In 1995, he graduated from the State Institute of Physical Culture as a water polo player.
His wish to create has been present since he was a child. In his adolescence, he wrote, drew, and even made silverware, all in an attempt to create something of his own. His dream to make movies also stems from his adolescence when his father gifted him with a Quartz 8mm camera with all its lenses. After searching for years, he finally came to cinematography.
In 1995, he filmed his first short film, 'Silence.' His many commercials and video clips received awards.
In 2011, Hrant Vardanyan founded 'Arev Film Studio,' where he works as a director and producer. He co-wrote the short film '1+1=1' with Russian playwright Vadim Levanov.
Diego Borrillo
I consider intuition to be my greatest strength - that subtle energy that guides me and allows me to read life as a journey of constant evolution.
Each experience was an opportunity to expand my perspective and explore new ways of storytelling. I’ve always felt the need to leave a subtle trace, a loving intention behind every project, a message that connects beyond the screen.
Today, I can clearly see how every experience, every step in my path, has aligned with precision to shape who I am.For me, audiovisual language has become a channel for healing, deep connection, and collective memory, a way of touching the invisible through the visible.
ALTER.LAB
ALTER.LAB is a borderless generative art laboratory that brings together a diverse team of scientists, visual artists, musicians, and programmers from Mexico, Canada, and France. Renowned for exploring the intersection of creativity and technology, the laboratory brings complex narratives to life through a unique vision where manual art and code converge.
Costas Papageorgiou
Costas Papageorgiou is a Greek photographer and visual artist. He is also a physicist with postgraduate studies in Distance Learning. Since 2009, he has been actively involved in photography and video art, frequently participating in group and solo exhibitions as well as multimedia projects in Greece, Cyprus, Austria, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
Jean-Luc Addams
I am an artist at heart with a passion for the Fairlight CMI, music and visual arts. Recently I’ve been involved with other creatives who have pushed me to expand my abilities, get out into the world a bit and connect more with people and nature.
Lee Beavington
Dr. Lee Beavington has been a Peter Gabriel fan since he was nine. He works in eco-social justice, and is a biologist, storyteller, university instructor, and creative artist.
The song i/o aptly aligns with his work and worldview of the interconnection of life.
Stéphane Laurencin
Stéphane Laurencin was born the same year as the release of Francis Ford Coppola’s film Apocalypse Now, and spent most of his youth and teenage years using his father’s film camera.
After studying audiovisual media and going through a few years of uncertainty, he became self-employed in 2012 with the goal of making a living from my passion for visual storytelling.
He works as a film educator in middle and high schools, a photographer for sports clubs, a portrait artist, a director of corporate films, and also serve as a film festival director.
Daniel Corey
Daniel Corey is a Los Angeles-based musician, visual media artist, and writer who works at the intersection of storytelling and emerging technology. As a singer-songwriter and composer, Daniel creates cinematic, emotionally charged music that blends Americana, electronica, and experimental soundscapes.
Michael Rhoades
Dr. Michael Rhoades is an intermedial visual artist, computer music composer, researcher, lecturer, and computer scientist. The central intention of his work is focused upon extending our perceptions of reality toward heightened consciousness. This is accomplished through oil paintings, and perhaps more so through his computer-generated music and visual music compositions. Often, Rhoades’ mediums of choice involve the fundamental processes of refraction, reflection, quasi-randomness, and 3D primitive shapes.
Daniel Leighton
Daniel Leighton is a painter, Augmented Reality artist, filmmaker, and technologist who began programming at the age of eleven. Born with Crohn’s Disease, he has faced mortality from a young age, leading him on a lifelong journey of emotional and artistic exploration. His work captures complex emotional states through the use of simple lines, vibrant colors, rhythmic movement, and editing. He integrates technology to expand the boundaries of artistic expression.
Arielko
Arielko, a creative director, visual communicator, and AI artist, has long been captivated by the fusion of art and technology. Following a distinguished career in top-tier branding and advertising agencies spanning New York to Tel Aviv, he was drawn to the realm of artificial intelligence, which he now considers his creative playground. His AI films have been showcased at international festivals, and his artwork has been exhibited worldwide.
Nathaniel Barlam
Nathaniel is a computational designer by trade, but outside of his profession he likes to start various personal projects. On occasion, he may finish some of them.
Ernie Button
Ernie Button’s photography is best known for the portfolios Cerealism (landscapes and portraits created from breakfast cereal) and Vanishing Spirits: The Dried Remains of Single Malt Scotch.
His photography has been featured in a collaboration with The Macallan Single Malt Scotch in their Masters of Photography series in 2015. He has exhibited internationally including exhibitions in the United States, China, Scotland, the Czech Republic and Lithuania. Photo-Eye Gallery, based in Santa Fe, NM, has published Vanishing Spirits: The Macallan Collection through Photo-eye Editions.
Ravi Swami
The application of technology to the moving image has been a significant element in my 4-decade career in animation, from design through to direction. I began at the cusp of the transition from analogue to digital processes, with work on Paul McCartney’s “MPL” logo, that combined traditional hand-drawn animation with computer-assisted animation.
Albert Normandin
Albert Normandin is a professional photographer and movie creator, born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Jay Schankman
Jay Schankman is a content creator and multimedia developer.
I am most often found creating just for the sake of creating art. I am an artist free and unbound, on a mission to prompt, provoke and promote.
Mike Bennion
Mike Bennion is a British sculptor and painter living in the USA who discovered AI in the autumn of 2024 and now can’t stop making films with it.
Lightbrush
Moe Angelo is a visionary digital artist and co-owner of Lightbrush, a creative studio from Denver, Colorado, renowned for projection mapping, live visuals, and interactive installations.