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Biography
Olivia Ema is a London-based interaction designer and creative technologist ...
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Approach
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)
Digital Vessel
2023
How can digital avatars help us conceptualise existential themes? Using Glitch Feminism as a guiding framework and the third-person perspective in games as a medium, Digital Vessel explores the corporeal body as a site for understanding the self. By inhabiting digital forms and observing our avatars from outside ourselves, the project interrogates the boundary between physical and virtual embodiment, asking: what is real when identity transcends flesh?