KYT
15+ years in creative technology. polyphasic brain and hyper creative, cutting edge process.
i provide creative research, technical direction, production workflow development, vision, and visual/sound production. i work with ai labs, film and tv studios, vfx and post houses, major artists and brands, agencies, and live events.
i am currently a forward deployed creative at luma ai specializing in advanced media production pipelines, agent harnesses, and new workflow r&d with frontier models.
previously, i was the head of creative research at kaiber, where my work focused on multi-agent expressive systems, novel NLP methodologies, and generative video pipelines that ship as intuitive tools for creatives.
in 2018, i founded daisy studio with philip rugo as a way to scale and explore bigger creative and technical dreams - working with giants like Adult Swim, Nike, Apple, Google, Viacom, and more.
press, interviews, projects, & shows:
2026
projectjevy — jev-driven chat, drawing & music agent more
projectlatent mirror @ TIAT more
projectcrawly — autonomous art agent more
projectfyt.rip — personal outfit planner (September) more
talkRay 3.2 premiere @ AI on the Lot — early-access workshop, Culver City (May) more
performanceSleepwalker Realtime @ Code with Claude Conference, Anthropic (May) more
installationPERSIST: WHO RUNS THE LOOP? @ Temporal Replay (May) more
panel"AI & Content's Next Generation" @ NAB Show 2026 (April) more
pressFrom Scrappy Startup to Tech Giant, Apple Celebrates its 50th Year
podcastSPC Conversation: Sleepwalker with Priyaa K and Brina Lee (April)
projectSleepwalker Demo @ South Park Commons (April) more
careerForward Deployed Creative, Luma AI (March) more
projectSleepwalker v1 — realtime ambient generative A/V, walks to fall asleep to more
careerProject Pocket — multi-model beat-synced shortform pipeline, Kaiber (January) more
performanceATMOS — live ambient A/V at TIAT, SF (January) more
project"Tomorrow" — realtime WebGL piece for The Come Up (January) more
2025
projectSora Homebrew — my ode to sora, built on wan (December) more
projectSora showcase — prompt-directed shorts more
relocatedNYC → SF
careerHead of Studio → Head of Creative Research, Kaiber
contributorAll Things Considered — NPR
artworkEurydice (Whatever's Left) — TIAT Inaugural Exhibition, SF more
artworkHold the Light more
creative directionClams Casino live visuals — FWB Fest more
projectLLM-directed audio-reactive video editing (prototype, summer) more
projectParallel Farm — generative text art more
creative directionWisp at Coachella — Kaiber Labs more
pressEmerging Arts Scene at the Internet Archive — Richmond Sunset News
talkKiko — multi-modal creative agent, live @ TIAT at the Internet Archive, SF more
group showFace Value — andand Gallery, Los Angeles more
2024
careerKiko — multi-modal agentic creative architecture, Kaiber Superstudio more
pressSuperstudio is a new gen-AI editor — Fast Company
creative directionYaeji x Weirdcore — Boiler Room / Kaiber Labs more
panelAI & Ethics in Music — Primavera Pro, Barcelona
creative directionGrimes at Coachella — elfTech LoRA × AnimateDiff, Kaiber Labs more
artworkLet Go — Zora
pressRewriting the Rules of Animation with AI — Kaiber Blog
researchKaiber Labs — founded & led forward-deployed research more
careerJoined Kaiber as Head of Studio
pressKyt Janae named Head of Studio at Kaiber — BusinessWire
2023
projectStarlite Lobby — first GPT game on the OpenAI GPT Store
artworkMeaningless Gestures
artworkEverything You Ever Wanted
podcastKyt on Pattern Recognition
music videoTwo Shell — Ghost2
creative directionTwo Shell live Euro Tour more
music videoMum is Calling (as Angel Fragment)
artworkMore Than U Know
2022
projectBranzino Byteware more
2021
relocatedLA → NYC
pressAre Art NFTs Really Over? — Ocula Magazine
pressSteve Aoki hypes collection pieces — Input / Inverse
artworkIn the Flesh, with kytGAN — Sotheby's more
pressKyt Janae wants creatives to seize the NFT moment — Bitcoin Isle
installationCOSMOS — Foundation × Jen Stark, "Cascade" more
pressFoundation names Kyt Janae Director of Collector Relations — FAD Magazine
pressRick and Morty Gets Animal Crossing Makeover — ComicBook.com
short filmRick and Morty Crossing — Adult Swim more
2020
artworkReal Enough — trained GANs + controlled keyframe interpolation more
performanceSIGGRAPH Chapters Gathering
collaborationKyttenjanae x OWSLA Goods more
2019
directionRick and Morty Season 4 announcement — WarnerMedia Upfronts, Madison Square Garden (May) more
solo showCyber Spirits — Spectrum News
directionKyttenjanae for Rick and Morty — Adult Swim more
music videoTia Tamera — Pitchfork top 20 music videos of 2019 (Daisy Studio) more
researchSPADE-COCO GAN experiments (June) more
2017
performanceThe Food & Liquor w/ Philip Rugo — NTS Radio
honorable mentionFMWH (Find My Way Home) — Prix Ars Electronica
2016
pressKytten Janae — Design Collector
short film"Call Your Parents" — CLOWNS, Off The Air, Adult Swim
pressQWERTY, Flirty, & Crying — CultBytes
group showQWERTY, Flirty, & Crying — Big Pictures LA
music videoFloridada — Animal Collective
2015
pressThe deformed, lonely bodies of Kyttenjanae's colorful worlds — Kill Screen
pressKyttenjanae's Leggy Vines — Vice / The Creators Project
music videoSoft as Snow — Vice / The Creators Project
pressGoogle's Psychedelic AI Art Takes Twitter by Storm — Vice
music videoD∆WN "Calypso" — Vice / The Creators Project