Black to the Future — Olivia Ema

Biography

Olivia Ema is a London-based interaction designer and creative technologist ...

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Her practice is grounded within experimental storytelling, using digital technologies as an instrument to probe into cultural memory and material reality.

Talks/Panels

Arebyte: Technology, Mystism & Spirituality (2025)

Westminister Universty, Virtual Production: Digital avatars (2025)

Geneva School of Design: The Creative Process (2025)

Creative Computing Festival: Spiritual Computing (2025)

Creative Tech Europe Conference: Sensing the Digital (2025)

D&AD Festival: Digital Avatars and Generative Art (2025)

Stanford University: The Creative Process (2024)

Digital Body Festival, Dance We Do Film Discussion (2024)

Softer Digital
Futures Copenhagen (2024)

Softer Digital
Futures London (2024)

Garden of Tomorrow Festival (2024)

~~Writing~~

Glossery

Selected works

[3D] [All] [Ai] [AR] [Digital avatars] [Generative] [Installations]
[Live performance] [Touchdesigner] [Unreal engine]

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

Black to the Future, Outernet

2025

Creative direction, Ai generation: Olivia Ema
Editor: Sam Adjaye
Producer: Curated
Client: Outernet, Media Stream Ai
Photography: Alan West

An AI-generated tribute to Black British history, created as a first-of-its-kind five-screen installation for Black History Month at the Outernet.

There is no future without the past and present. Black to the Future collapses time to honour Black British culture, memory and connection.

There is no future without the past and present.