Kenneth Russo
Visual Artist · AI Filmmaker · Researcher
Biography
Kenneth Russo is the artistic identity of David Serra Navarro, visual artist, AI filmmaker and researcher whose practice explores cinema, archives, memory and generative artificial intelligence. His research-based projects move between documentary, essay film and experimental moving-image practices, often using archival materials and generative systems to question evidence, authenticity and the transformation of historical images.
한국어
Kenneth Russo는 시각예술가이자 AI 영화감독, 연구자인 David Serra Navarro의 예술적 정체성이다. 그의 작업은 영화, 아카이브, 기억, 생성형 인공지능을 탐구한다. 연구를 기반으로 한 그의 프로젝트는 다큐멘터리, 에세이 영화, 실험적 무빙 이미지의 경계를 넘나들며, 아카이브 자료와 생성형 시스템을 활용해 증거, 진정성, 그리고 역사적 이미지의 변형에 대해 질문한다.
日本語
Kenneth Russoは、ビジュアルアーティスト、AI映像作家、研究者であるDavid Serra Navarroのアーティスティック・アイデンティティである。彼の実践は、映画、アーカイブ、記憶、生成AIを探究している。リサーチを基盤とする彼のプロジェクトは、ドキュメンタリー、エッセイ・フィルム、実験的な映像表現を横断し、アーカイブ資料と生成システムを用いながら、証拠性、真正性、そして歴史的イメージの変容を問い直している。
Selected Exhibitions, Screenings & Festivals
Silver Portraits — FrontDoc, Festival Internazionale del Cinema di Frontiera, Spazio X Aosta, Italy 18-25 Oct. 2026
Labeled for Life — FOTOGENIA, Festival Internacional de Narrativas Divergentes, Ciudad de Mexico, 22-30 Nov. 2026 Official trailer
Intimate Strangers — Aberrant Creativity, Institute for Applied Creativity in the College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts at Texas A&M University, in partnership with the Arts Center of Brazos Valley, August 25 – October 10, 2026 / 30th Videomedeja International New Media Art Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia, October 17, 2026 (Special Mention)
Doubt — SENSEABLE, Narrazioni algoritmiche, Villa Genoese Zerbi, Reggio Calabria, 2–5 Sept. 2026 / IMAF’26, Rome, 20–22 Nov. 2026 / VIIAF’26, Chengdu, China, 26-28 June 2026
Very Loud Dreams (VLD2) — InventX (Silver Award), Malaysia, 2 July – 2 August 2026
Present Now, Present WOW! — MARS/AI Festival, Marseille, 19 June 2026
Echoed Presence — Next AI Content Festival, Official Selection, Next Prism - CGV Konkuk University, Seoul, 19 September 2026 / Korea AI Cinema Festival 2026, Seoul Film Center (Honorable Mention), February 26 2026 / Omni Film Festival, Sydney, 2026 (Nominee)
Mirrorsilkbias — MICAS: Malta International Contemporary Art Space, 12th SPA Conference, 25–28 March 2026
Eautopie — Adelio Ferrero (Menzioni d’onore), Alessandria Film Festival, 7 Oct. 2025 / Artefact AI Film Festival mk2, Paris, 2025 / VIDEOAKT 5 – Bienal de Arte y Nuevos Medios, Lima, Peru, 2026
metaKRilat — PyR Fest 2025, Competition Reel #4 (12), Sofia, Bulgaria, 3–7 Dec. 2025
Àlbum Il·lustrat — Open Panoràmic Festival ’25 (finalist), Roca Umbert Fàbrica de les Arts / Digital Art Zurich ’25 (Ausgezeichnet) / 17th Biennial of Media Arts of Santiago de Chile / KaiCON AI Festival 2026, (Best AI Documentary award) Seoul, 16 May 2026 / Hollywood AI Short Film Awards ’26 (Quarter Finalist)
Vredesspelia — HKUST AI Film Festival, 19 Apr. 2025 - Hong Kong (Quarter Finalist)
Fotocop-ia-s — Generative installation and photographic series, f|x|r Gallery (3rd Prize), House of Arts, Veszprém, Hungary, 27 Sept. 2025
Nature, Seeds, Phagocytes — ARE’25 / Synthetic Rewilding, Between Nature and the Machine, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2–6 June 2025
CreAItion. A Human-Machine Lovestory — Generative AI production. Italia Media Art Festival RAW ’24, Palazzo Michiel, Venice, 27 Sept. 2024 / Gazometro Ostense, Rome, 25–27 Oct. 2024
The Myth of the Cave – [동굴의 신화. 연애 (기억이 담긴 상상)] — Generative AI documentary. Korea International AI Film Festival (Documentary contents 1st), Gyeonggi Content Agency, 25 Oct. 2024 / EBS International Documentary Festival (EIDF), AI Visions, South Korea, 24-30 August 2026
Postcards. Log-rolling memories — Generative AI production. AI International Film Festival (Best effects), San Diego, California, 15 Aug. 2024 / CineTech Future Fest, Opole, Poland, 2 Sept. 2024 / Sound and Vision Film Festival, New York, 19 Sept. 2024 / Burano Artificial Intelligence Film Festival, Venice, 14–19 Oct. 2024 / XXIV International Image Festival, Manizales–Bogotá, Colombia, 2–9 May 2025 / Lugano Film Festival, Switzerland, 28 March–5 Apr. 2025 / SAIFF – Seattle AI Film Festival, Seattle, 29–30 March 2025
Calidoscopio — Generative AI. AI Film 3 – AI Film & Art Festival, Glendale, Arizona, 31 Oct.–2 Nov. 2024
Pianic — Exposició col·lectiva Espais un fenomen artístic, Museu d'Història de Girona, 14 Apr.–Sept. 2024
X Graphic Vlag Wimpel — Ruimtedevlieg, Antwerpen, Belgium, 14 March 2024
vAImpir: la AI com a eina vampírica — Trained AI models. Barcelona Producció 23/24, La Capella, ICUB (Institut de Cultura de Barcelona), 20 June 2024
Circular confessions — Generative AI animation. Punto y Raya, 8th Edition, Lisbon, Portugal, 11–15 Oct. 2023
Brueghel Wave — Generative AI graphics. Ars Artificialis AI Art Exhibition, Bristol, UK, 14 July–15 Aug. 2023
Oilpaintingdatalife — Generative AI motion. 16th Digital Graffiti Festival, Florida, 19–22 May 2023
A Bigger Splash AI Review — Generative AI production, VR Exhibition, DAHJ Gallery, 6 June–6 July 2023
Emodraw5 — NFT Generative AI. NFT Biennial, Besiktas, Istanbul, 6–29 Jan. 2023
El perro AIndaluz — Poems & Generative AI. Centro Buñuel Calanda (CBC), Calanda, 29 March 2023
2026
- FrontDoc, Festival Internazionale del Cinema di Frontiera, Spazio X Aosta, Italy 18-25 Oct. 2026 — Silver Portraits
- FOTOGENIA, Festival Internacional de Narrativas Divergentes, Ciudad de Mexico, 22-30 Nov. 2026 Official trailer — Labeled for Life
- Aberrant Creativity, Institute for Applied Creativity in the College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts at Texas A&M University, in partnership with the Arts Center of Brazos Valley, August 25 – October 10, 2026 — Intimate Strangers
- 30th Videomedeja International New Media Art Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia, October 17, 2026 (Special Mention) — Intimate Strangers
- SENSEABLE, Narrazioni algoritmiche, Villa Genoese Zerbi, Reggio Calabria, 2–5 Sept. 2026 — Doubt
- IMAF’26, Rome, 20–22 Nov. 2026 — Doubt
- VIIAF’26, Chengdu, China, 26-28 June 2026 — Doubt
- InventX (Silver Award), Malaysia, 2 July – 2 August 2026 — Very Loud Dreams (VLD2)
- MARS/AI Festival, Marseille, 19 June 2026 — Present Now, Present WOW!
- Next AI Content Festival, Official Selection, Next Prism - CGV Konkuk University, Seoul, 19 September 2026 — Echoed Presence
- Korea AI Cinema Festival 2026, Seoul Film Center (Honorable Mention), February 26 2026 — Echoed Presence
- Omni Film Festival, Sydney, 2026 (Nominee) — Echoed Presence
- MICAS: Malta International Contemporary Art Space, 12th SPA Conference, 25–28 March 2026 — Mirrorsilkbias
- VIDEOAKT 5 – Bienal de Arte y Nuevos Medios, Lima, Peru, 2026 — Eautopie
- KaiCON AI Festival 2026, (Best AI Documentary award) Seoul, 16 May 2026 — Àlbum Il·lustrat
- Hollywood AI Short Film Awards ’26 (Quarter Finalist) — Àlbum Il·lustrat
- EBS International Documentary Festival (EIDF), AI Visions, South Korea, 24-30 August 2026 — The Myth of the Cave – [동굴의 신화. 연애 (기억이 담긴 상상)]
2025
- Adelio Ferrero (Menzioni d’onore), Alessandria Film Festival, 7 Oct. 2025 — Eautopie
- Artefact AI Film Festival mk2, Paris, 2025 — Eautopie
- PyR Fest 2025, Competition Reel #4 (12), Sofia, Bulgaria, 3–7 Dec. 2025 — metaKRilat
- Open Panoràmic Festival ’25 (finalist), Roca Umbert Fàbrica de les Arts — Àlbum Il·lustrat
- Digital Art Zurich ’25 (Ausgezeichnet) — Àlbum Il·lustrat
- HKUST AI Film Festival, 19 Apr. 2025 - Hong Kong (Quarter Finalist) — Vredesspelia
- Generative installation and photographic series, f|x|r Gallery (3rd Prize), House of Arts, Veszprém, Hungary, 27 Sept. 2025 — Fotocop-ia-s
- ARE’25 — Nature, Seeds, Phagocytes
- Synthetic Rewilding, Between Nature and the Machine, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2–6 June 2025 — Nature, Seeds, Phagocytes
- XXIV International Image Festival, Manizales–Bogotá, Colombia, 2–9 May 2025 — Postcards. Log-rolling memories
- Lugano Film Festival, Switzerland, 28 March–5 Apr. 2025 — Postcards. Log-rolling memories
- SAIFF – Seattle AI Film Festival, Seattle, 29–30 March 2025 — Postcards. Log-rolling memories
2024
- Generative AI production. Italia Media Art Festival RAW ’24, Palazzo Michiel, Venice, 27 Sept. 2024 — CreAItion. A Human-Machine Lovestory
- Gazometro Ostense, Rome, 25–27 Oct. 2024 — CreAItion. A Human-Machine Lovestory
- Generative AI documentary. Korea International AI Film Festival (Documentary contents 1st), Gyeonggi Content Agency, 25 Oct. 2024 — The Myth of the Cave – [동굴의 신화. 연애 (기억이 담긴 상상)]
- Generative AI production. AI International Film Festival (Best effects), San Diego, California, 15 Aug. 2024 — Postcards. Log-rolling memories
- CineTech Future Fest, Opole, Poland, 2 Sept. 2024 — Postcards. Log-rolling memories
- Sound and Vision Film Festival, New York, 19 Sept. 2024 — Postcards. Log-rolling memories
- Burano Artificial Intelligence Film Festival, Venice, 14–19 Oct. 2024 — Postcards. Log-rolling memories
- Generative AI. AI Film 3 – AI Film & Art Festival, Glendale, Arizona, 31 Oct.–2 Nov. 2024 — Calidoscopio
- Exposició col·lectiva Espais un fenomen artístic, Museu d'Història de Girona, 14 Apr.–Sept. 2024 — Pianic
- Ruimtedevlieg, Antwerpen, Belgium, 14 March 2024 — X Graphic Vlag Wimpel
- Trained AI models. Barcelona Producció 23/24, La Capella, ICUB (Institut de Cultura de Barcelona), 20 June 2024 — vAImpir: la AI com a eina vampírica
2023
- Generative AI animation. Punto y Raya, 8th Edition, Lisbon, Portugal, 11–15 Oct. 2023 — Circular confessions
- Generative AI graphics. Ars Artificialis AI Art Exhibition, Bristol, UK, 14 July–15 Aug. 2023 — Brueghel Wave
- Generative AI motion. 16th Digital Graffiti Festival, Florida, 19–22 May 2023 — Oilpaintingdatalife
- Generative AI production, VR Exhibition, DAHJ Gallery, 6 June–6 July 2023 — A Bigger Splash AI Review
- NFT Generative AI. NFT Biennial, Besiktas, Istanbul, 6–29 Jan. 2023 — Emodraw5
- Poems & Generative AI. Centro Buñuel Calanda (CBC), Calanda, 29 March 2023 — El perro AIndaluz