Francesca Fini is an interdisciplinary artist, experimental filmmaker, and performer whose practice thrives on the friction between tradition and innovation. Moving fluidly across cinema, live media performance, installation, and artificial intelligence, she constructs poetic, surreal, and often unsettling narratives that question the boundaries between body, technology, and identity.
Over the years, Fini’s work has been presented at major international venues and festivals including the WRO Biennale (Poland), CINEMED Film Festival (Montpellier), NordArt International Art Exhibition (Germany), Berlin Directors Lounge and IKONO TV Film Festival (Germany), Videoformes Festival (Clermont-Ferrand), Szczecin European Film Festival – SEFF (Poland), FILE Electronic Language Festival (Brazil), Athens Videoart Festival, Proyector Festival (Madrid), CYBERFEST and Now&After (Russia), Robot Festival (Bologna), Instants Video numériques et poétiques (Marseille), MANIFESTA12 collateral events (Palermo), IMAGE PLAY, MEM Festival at the Guggenheim Bilbao, BODY + CAMERA at MANA Contemporary Chicago, Un-Becoming at SomoS Berlin, the Japan Media Arts Festival (Tokyo), the Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta), as well as MAXXI and MACRO in Rome.
She has held notable solo exhibitions including BODY (S)CUL(P)TURE at Fondazione Dino Zoli (Forlì), Other Identity Biennale (Genoa, 2019), Cyborg Fatale at Narkissos Gallery (Bologna, 2019). Her work has also been shown at The Arts House (Singapore), Palazzo Merulana and Galleria d’Arte Moderna (Rome), Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome), and in the Takeda Italia Metaverse project.
As a performer, she took part in the landmark first edition of the Venice International Performance Art Week, alongside Valie Export, Yoko Ono, Jan Fabre, Marina Abramović, and Hermann Nitsch. She has been an artist-in-residence at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center (New York, 2014 and 2016).
AI-Driven Practice. In recent years, Francesca Fini has emerged as a pioneering voice in AI-based filmmaking and digital performance. Her projects blend neural image generation, cinematic animation workflows, sound design, 3D reconstruction, and digital compositing to build immersive post-human mythologies and poetic techno-landscapes.
Her practice navigates the liminal space where embodied performance meets synthetic vision, tracing the emotional contours of hybrid existence in an age of intelligent images.
Educator & Creative Coaching. Alongside her artistic practice, Francesca is the founder of The AI Creator Toolkit (https://www.ai-toolkit.xyz/), a creative mentorship and training platform dedicated to empowering artists, filmmakers, and designers to integrate AI into their workflows.
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Awards and Recognition
Share Art Prize XIII – Turin, 2020 (1st Prize)
Zealous Digital Art – UK, 2020 (1st Prize)
CYLAND “Chaos and Cosmos” – Russia, 2020 (1st Prize / Video Art)
Désencadré Film Festival – Paris, 2022 (Hors du cadre Prize)
Ribalta Experimental Film Festival – Italy, 2022 (Freccia Freak Prize)
Ibrida Festival – Forlì, 2024 (Italian Videoart Prize)
DigitalBigScreen – Slovenia, 2016 (1st Prize / Video Art Section)
Szczecin European Film Festival – SEFF – Poland, 2015 (Most Innovative Language, Polish Film Institute Award)
Prix Université Blaise Pascal & Conseil Général du Puy-de-Dôme – Videoformes, France, 2015
Magmart Videoart Festival – Naples (multiple winning editions)
A.M.A. Art & Music Around Festival – Brescia, 2014 (1st Prize)
Voices from artists, critics, and innovators who have engaged with my work.
"Your AI film LOVE is a work of art. Really beautiful and haunting at the same time. I loved it."
"I was already a Francesca Fini fan, having bought her work on Sedition Art, but having read her interviews, I now know WHY I am a Francesca Fini fan."
"Francesca Fini’s moving images are provocative devices calling up passions and emotions."
Six core dimensions of expertise where art and artificial intelligence converge to shape tomorrow’s narratives. Each pillar reflects years of artistic practice fused with cutting-edge AI, creating a unique space where tradition and innovation move forward together.
With a strong foundation in experimental cinema and performance art, I’ve developed projects that merge traditional narrative with interactivity and immersion. A notable example is The Metaverse of Metaphors, a digital art project crafted for Takeda Italia Pharmaceutical, where users navigated an interactive environment exploring metaphors of illness. My expertise lies in building stories that move seamlessly between linear cinematic language and interactive digital frameworks, creating narratives that engage both emotionally and experientially.
I create cinematic AI films, music videos, and branded content, combining prompt engineering, visual consistency, and professional editing. The result: immersive, production-ready video that blends artistry with cutting-edge technology. My short film The 2225 Race was commissioned by the prestigious Fondazione Dino Zoli for the AI Art in Motion exhibition, presented during the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix 2024. This project reflects how I merge prompt engineering, visual consistency, and editing expertise to create production-ready works with a unique cinematic signature.
My work extends to AI-driven soundscapes, voices, and experimental compositions, integrated with professional sound design techniques. For the AI-generated web series Hello World, I combined synthetic voices with custom audio workflows to achieve narrative depth and coherence. With Radio Dante, a poetry podcasting project produced with RadioMI and commissioned by the Italian Cultural Institute of Tirana and to celebrate the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death, I explored how AI can honor cultural heritage through sound.
I design custom workflows that integrate multiple AI platforms and automation tools to streamline creative production. For my project Decoherence, a series of AI short films inspired by radio dramas, I built a multi-phase pipeline connecting prompt generation, visual consistency, video editing, and audio post-production—significantly reducing time while maintaining artistic coherence. I also developed Jade on Mars, an award-winning AI series that exemplifies my ability to sustain character, narrative, and visual style consistency across episodes.
I develop AI-powered microapps that extend creative practice beyond video and audio production. My upcoming project VOCALMINTY is an AI podcast generator that turns any concept into sound-based, compelling storytelling. These tools offer interactive, playful, and professional-grade experiences, making advanced AI workflows accessible to wider audiences. Through microapps, I open new pathways for creators to experiment with storytelling, identity, and interactivity.
Beyond production, I’m an active coach and educator, sharing my expertise worldwide. I have led a digital performance course at the University of Rome, hosted masterclasses for HI-Dance Festival and Cinematica Festival, and delivered professional coaching for Eikon Strategies Italia. Through these experiences, I empower artists, innovators, content creators, students and brands to master AI-driven creativity and storytelling.
On the Shelves
Over two decades of artistic experimentation have placed my work in books and critical publications worldwide. From traditional art and avant-garde performance to digital art, experimental filmmaking, and AI storytelling, these volumes document my evolving journey and the ways my practice has inspired curators, critics, and researchers. Each page reflects the depth, innovation, and cultural impact of a career dedicated to exploring the shifting boundaries between human creativity and technology.
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Postmedia Books (2021)
Published by Postmedia Books in 2021, this authoritative volume is a comprehensive critical essay on my work. Featuring in-depth texts by renowned art critics Bruno Di Marino, Lori Adragna, Adriano Aprà, and Giacomo Ravesi, the book explores my extensive career in performance art, experimental filmmaking, and AI-driven storytelling. .
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Ibrida (2024)
Published on the occasion of my solo exhibition at Fondazione Dino Zoli, this comprehensive catalog offers a richly illustrated journey through my latest body of work. Conceived as more than documentation, it is a visual and conceptual map that immerses readers in the exhibition’s themes—spanning the dialogue between humanity, technology, and new hybrid identities.