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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 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, New York, 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. 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 / Abundant Intelligences, building a collective intelligence model at the intersection of Indigenous AI, dance, affective computing, and ecology. As a Mozilla Fellow, I'm building Paqarina, an embodied intelligence trained locally, on our own computers and our own energy, for community data sovereignty and Indigenous dance ch'ixied with breaking. I direct sala.red, Red de Información Tecnológica, investigating Bolivia's technological infrastructure, economy, critical minerals, media ownership, and Indigenous data rights. I'm the co-founder of United Notions 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 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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