Every AIMA Official Selection is automatically considered for the annual AIMA Council Award.

Nina Sabina Caballero is an award-winning Curator, Creative Technologist, AI Artist, and Filmmaker working across contemporary art, fashion, visual culture and emerging technologies. With a foundation in Fine Arts, professional photography and studies at the University of the Arts Helsinki, she brings more than two decades of international experience across fashion, design and the creative industries. Caballero leads the artistic and curatorial direction of an international creative community connecting a global network of more than 90,000 artists, filmmakers, designers and creative technologists, spanning artist selection, exhibitions, editorial programmes and international cultural partnerships. She is a recipient of a Global

Diana Mota is a Fashion Photographer, AI Creative Director and Film Director working at the intersection of cinema, fashion and artificial intelligence. With a degree in Cinema & Video and over two decades of experience across fashion, film and editorial, she brings a full directorial vision to AI-driven storytelling. Founder of Summersun Studio and creator of Zoey Summersun, an original AI character developed to push the boundaries of visual storytelling across any medium, genre or format, with no limits on scope or ambition. Her work has been published in Time Out Porto, featured on the official websites of Vogue Italia and Playboy Russia, and exhibited internationally at Cluster Photography & Print Fair, London (2025).

Maciej Tarnowski, known as GLΛ55HΣΛD™, is a Polish AI artist and Creative Director, exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence, contemporary art, and visual culture. His work has been exhibited internationally across Europe, North and South America, and Asia. He is an AI/CC Ambassador and a member of FRMWRK. Tarnowski is the winner of the AI Master Award in the Portrait category and the AI Design Awards in Experimental & Abstract Video. His practice combines a distinctive visual language with a strong focus on materiality, identity, and the evolving relationship between technology and human perception.

Sarah is an AI Art Director, artist, and lecturer with over two decades of experience in fashion design, creative direction, and product development. Since 2023, her practice has focused on artificial intelligence as a creative medium, developing AI-driven visual worlds that merge fashion and art. She creates editorial imagery, brand narratives, and immersive visual experiences for fashion, lifestyle, and beauty brands. Alongside commercial and artistic projects, she leads a workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Fashion at the University of Design and Gestaltung Pforzheim.

Dan is a UK-based AI creative, curator, and community builder, and one of the co-founders of FRMWRK.AI. Working under the handle dank.xupr, he approaches AI image-making as a director and collaborator, drawing on a background in digital art and photography to explore themes of identity, perception, and cultural hybridity. Alongside his own practice, Dan is an Ambassador and Featured Artist within the wider AI creative community, where he is known for championing craft and intentionality over volume. His work has appeared in and been submitted to a number of respected AI art publications, reflecting a practice that is as invested in the field’s culture as it is in the image itself.

A graphic designer from Ukraine. In 2023, Vadym began actively exploring art and the possibilities of artificial intelligence as part of the creative process. His work is characterized by a distinctive visual approach, using vivid neon gradients, black-and-white palettes, glitch and grain as separate artistic techniques across different works. In 2025, Vadym founded Ministry of Aesthetics, an independent publication dedicated to contemporary art. Every Friday, the magazine presents one selected artist, photographer, graphic designer, or digital creator. Each artist and their work is personally reviewed and selected by Vadym. Publication is offered exclusively by personal invitation. In 2026, Vadym launched the print edition of Ministry of

Margarida Barreto is a Portuguese Creative Director, AI artist, author, and educator with over 20 years of experience in design and visual communication. Her practice explores the intersection of generative AI, visual storytelling, nature, and social impact, creating experimental imagery and films that question our relationship with technology and the natural world. She is the author of The MidJourney Expedition, published by Packt Publishing, and co-founder of CIA – Comunidade de Inteligência Artificial, a Portuguese community dedicated to AI literacy and education. Alongside her artistic practice, Margarida teaches generative AI and regularly contributes to international talks, workshops, exhibitions, and creative communities.

Ingrid Giordan is an Italian art director and creative curator based between Venice and Turin. She is the Artistic Director of BIA Creatives, an independent creative platform and magazine exploring the intersections of fashion, visual culture, emerging artists and new technologies. With a background in New Media Communication for Fashion, including an Erasmus experience in Switzerland, her practice spans creative direction, visual storytelling, editorial development and digital image-making. Her work is particularly interested in the ways emerging technologies, and artificial intelligence in particular, are reshaping contemporary visual culture and expanding the possibilities of creative expression. Her international experience has

Anna has 15 years of experience in production and post‑production, the music industry, and fashion. She has developed concepts for international exhibitions, fine art galleries, and object design. In her work for Fons, Anna consistently places the artist at the centre, emphasising authenticity, conceptual depth, and a unique artistic signature that reflects the creator’s philosophy. She considers AI art a new direction that has already given rise to its own distinctive authors and entirely new styles.

Anna Shvets is an art manager, international art producer, independent curator, AI researcher, and art business strategist working across contemporary art, cultural production, and emerging technologies. With more than two decades of international experience, she has produced and curated hundreds of art projects across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and beyond. Shvets is Co-Founder, Producer, and Co-Curator of the AI Hokusai ArtTech Research Foundation, where she leads interdisciplinary initiatives exploring the evolving relationship between art, artificial intelligence, cultural heritage, and contemporary creative practice. She is also CEO of TAtchers’ Art Management, where she develops and produces international exhibitions, research

Timea Paál is a Hungarian multidisciplinary artist based in Romania, working under the name The Artifictional. With a background in architecture, graphic design, and visual communication, her practice centers on generative AI and promptography as methods of visual inquiry rather than spectacle. Her work examines how perception misfires, how memory distorts, and how inner experience shapes what we see. She sees AI as an unparalleled medium for deeply personal self-discovery, wandering the inner architecture of thought and emotion through a tool that is both alien and strangely human. She currently serves as visual lead and character designer at a US-based production company, building cohesive visual languages for narrative projects.

Bruno Lattes is a visual artist and art director based in São Paulo, Brazil, specializing in creative image development, art direction, and AI-powered animation. With a degree in Advertising and a postgraduate specialization in Digital Media, his artistic vision is driven by a lifelong passion for impactful visual storytelling and a strong visual memory.
He has worked with Future Creatives (Common People Films, UK), Kartel AI (Los Angeles), Zen Digital (Amsterdam), The Stanga Show, and Yoash Music, creating premium AI-driven visuals and motion across advertising, music, and film.
Rooted in pop culture and design aesthetics, his signature approach incorporates bold color schemes, striking patterns, symmetry, textures, and a distinctive

creAtIva AI Art Book is an international benchmark in the print format, where the aim is to empower creators and artists in a world where screens are important, but a historical record on paper is what allows them to enter the new wave of digital art and achieve something eternal rather than ephemeral. All of this is approached from a curatorial perspective.

Veronika Pell is a multidisciplinary artist who works with generative AI under the name Mindeye, making video art with a strong emphasis on sound, digital image series, and short films, from a position rooted in cinema. She is based in Helsinki, originally from Uzbekistan, and trained in film direction in Moscow before moving into contemporary art and AI-based practice. Mindeye was named to Leonardo. Ai's Top 50 Women in AI Art (2025) and Top 50 Women in AI Filmmaking (2026), and was profiled in Forbes Australia. Her short film "How to Poison Art" won second place in the Arts & Culture category at the Korean International AI Film Festival and was shortlisted for Runway's Gen:48 and AI Academy Awards. Her work has been shown at VIFF, AI

Bruktawit Furlan is a curator and the founder of BIA Creatives, an independent platform and magazine based in Venice, Italy, dedicated to contemporary visual culture, fashion, emerging artists and artificial intelligence. Her work is rooted in curatorial research and the creation of spaces for dialogue between artists, creatives and new technologies. Through BIA, she develops editorial projects, exhibitions and collaborations that connect emerging voices across disciplines and geographies, with a particular interest in the changing ways images are produced, circulated and understood today. Her practice explores the cultural implications of artificial intelligence within contemporary creativity, asking how new technologies can participate

/Altered District is an independent editorial publication exploring ideas, creative practice, and visual culture through the lens of generative AI. Through interviews, commissioned collaborations, and editorial features, we document the creators, conversations, and emerging practices shaping this rapidly evolving medium.

Ilayda Celep is a Barcelona-based Creative Technologist, AI Artist and Creative Director working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, design and storytelling. Through SpecialGuestX, she contributes to Google’s AI projects, including Google Flow, developing AI-native creative direction, visual concepts and experimental workflows. Alongside her commercial practice, she creates work under the name Paranormalitty, exploring surreal visual worlds and new forms of AI-driven image-making. Her work has been featured in Times Square and international AI art publications, and she was named IED Barcelona Alumni of the Year in 2026. She is a winner of the ADCE & Google AI Summit Creative Challenge and has delivered a keynote at C de C (Club