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BIOGRAPHY 

I’m Violeta Ayala — filmmaker, artist, technologist and AI innovator — and the first Quechua member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. My work moves between cinema, code, and resistance. I build worlds where storytelling, technology, and Indigenous futurism meet, imagining film as something alive, a system that listens, reacts, and evolves. My VR animation Prison X premiered at Sundance and Cannes XR before traveling through festivals and museums around the world. My documentaries: La Lucha, Cocaine Prison, The Fight, The Bolivian Case, and Stolen; have been broadcast on PBS, Amazon Prime, Netflix, and The Guardian, earning more than 50 international awards including a Walkley.

In 2023, La Lucha premiered at BlackStar and SXSW Sydney, winning the NYWIFT Award for Excellence in Documentary Directing. That same year I received the XR Innovation Award at Games for Change (New York) for Weaving Worlds and an honorable mention from Yale for my Voxels metaverse gallery. My XR works: Las Awichas, Huk: The Jaguaress, and Weaving Worlds — have been exhibited in London, NY, Paris, Copenhagen, and Guangzhou.

In 2024, At Mila – Québec AI Institute, I developed Huk: The Jaguaress, a multimodal experience where robotic vision, large language models, sculpture, and projection mapping come together in real time. In 2025 I co-led FAIR FUTURE: Feminist AI at the University of Nottingham, designing workshops and hack jams about collective intelligence and care.

Recently, I presented Todo Nace de lo Pequeño at Festival Ollantay in Cochabamba, a live experiment where dancers, generative imagery, and spectators co-created the story together.

Right now, I’m expanding Huk at Mila Quebec AI / Abundant Intelligences, building a collective intelligence model at the intersection of Indigenous AI, dance, affective computing, and ecology — and directing a new film about the technologies of distribution, centered on my local cooperative, Comteco.

I'm the co-founder of unitednotions.film.

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FILMMOGRAPHY

LA LUCHA, doc, 90 min, 2023

PRISON X, VR Interactive & Immersive Animation, 35 min, 2021 

COCAINE PRISON, doc, 75 min, 2017 

THE FIGHT, doc, 29 min, 2017 

THE BOLIVIAN CASE, doc, 85 min, 2015 

STOLEN, doc,78 min, 2009 

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XR FILM EXPERIENCES & EXHIBITIONS 

- Todo Nace De Lo Pequeño (We're building Neo-Andean Futurism, fine-tuning a local Al model. Local means: our own computers, our own energy - no internet. Ethical / Transparent / Collective. OUR DATA. OUR RULES. Collective intelligence evolves through breakdance and Neo-Andean futurism.), El Martadero, Cochabamba 2015 V1

- Las Awichas, SURREALITY, The World's First Large-Scale Al XR Art Exhibition at HKUST (Weaves storytelling with Al, featuring eight robotic spirit animals from the Nazca Lines. Presented at Surreality exhibition, visitors interact with robotic creatures in a dreamlike large scale mixed reality, multiuser SLAM, exploring how  our grandmothers shaped our world as we now shape the future with artificial intelligence.) Guangzhou 2025 V3

- HUK, The Jaguaress (Robotics, Interactive Installation, IRT Projection Mapping, 3d printed Sculptures, Flowers)

Forum Des Images, Paris 2025 V3

CPH Dox Interactive, Copenhagen 2025 V2

Mila Quebec AI Institute, Montreal 2024 V1

- LAS AWICHAS, Phygital Experience (Photography/AR/Interactive Art), The Strand, London 2024 

- PRISON X, VR, SXSW Sydney, Australia, 2023 

- WEAVING WORLDS, VR film, 15 min, Games For Change, New York, US, 2023 

- LAS AWICHAS, AI/ Post-Photography, Martadero, Cochabamba, Bolivia, 2022

- PRISON X, VR, Forum Des Images, Paris, France, 2022

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