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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)





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Rihanna AR

2021

The Rihanna AR activation uses the Rihanna coffee table book as a canvas for a custom AI experience, bringing the cover to life through augmented reality. By translating the book's aesthetic into an interactive digital layer, the project explores how AR can breathe new life into traditionally static mediums, transforming print into an immersive experience.
Rihanna ‘Fenty’ logo over collage

The Ai  sprite sheet to use for AR 
The first test, lo-res distortions


The first Ai test resulted to heavy distortions on both Rihanna’s face and the logo, to resolve this, meant manually removing and retouching the logo from her face giving the Ai a clean canvas to work from.



For fans without the book, the AR filter activates using any image of the front cover found online

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