Vladi Lepi

Yes, it's probably a good question about the background.

I was born in former Soviet Union in the city Kharkiv, Ukraine.

And my education started with, you know, regular school plus ballet education.

I went to ballet school in Kharkiv and then I moved to Kyiv.

capital of Ukraine, where I was a student of the only one ballet academy in Ukraine.

At that time, Ukraine was about 50 million people, and the school was only one school to get education as a ballet dancer.

So when I started education there, I had subjects like history of ballet, history of theater, history of art, musical literature.

So it was not only ballet education, it was overall art education.

And this background, like together with later my performance career, gave me some kind of unconscious background, which led me

to found surr.ai.

It's kind of activated the background information that I received during the education and led me to perform via visual arts.

And lately, it's not only visual arts, it's also sound.

So the latest work that I do, it's audiovisual works.

But the main idea of why I decided to do digital art, it was concept of NFT.

I understood at some point, I understood what it is.

And now it was a trigger, you know, NFT availability of this technology.

Let me start producing first still images.

then videos, and now it's audiovisual presentations.

Sometimes it's a solo presentation.

Sometimes it's like the artwork that we are talking about, 62 seconds.