Violet Forest
Violet Forest is a digital artist & creative technologist currently working at Meta as a Technical Artist. She holds a Masters in Fine Art in Art & Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2016) and is the co-founder of cybertwee, a collective that explores the intersections of technology & cuteness.‧*̩̩̥͙ Work from Cybertwee has been acquired by Rhizome, the leading art organization dedicated to digital art and culture, affiliated with the New Museum in New York.
Violet's artistic practice is mainly focused on finding new processes and techniques with emerging technologies like web art, game art, virtual / augmented / mixed reality, and generative AI art, to name a few different media. She uses a range of tools like javascript, Unity, computer vision, arduino/DIY electronics, shaders, and touchdesigner to make interactive art.
Violet became involved in NFTs in 2021 while collaborating as a front-end developer with the Tezos NFT platform Hic et Nunc. She has shown my work in solo and group shows at institutions like Birmingham Open Media (UK) & Panke Gallery (Berlin) as well as participating in prominent online exhibition such as 'E-motions', curated by renowned AI artist Claire Silver for Unit London Gallery.