Black to the Future Ai Film

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

Black to the Future is a 3-minute AI-generated film exploring Black British culture through the collapsing of time, honouring the past, present and future as inseparable. The core concept interrogates how we envision futures when histories have been erased or overlooked, using AI as both medium and metaphor for reconstructing cultural memory.

The film was commissioned for Outernet London as a month-long installation across their five synchronized 360-degree screens - one of the UK's largest immersive experience spaces, with 200,000 daily visitors.

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