About

Hello, I’m Kai.


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Kai Tattersall (b. Okinawa, Japan) is a Japanese American director and animator, working with machine intelligence to combine live-action and animation. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California, where he works as a director with ARTI studios to produce music videos and visual pieces that utilize new approaches to incorporate technology into film and animation. Tattersall has been mentored by Mike Patterson, a pioneer in animation who created Aha’s ground-breaking music video Take On Me.


Tattersall’s body of work centers around the use of machines to copy nature. He explores the limits of what can be achieved through visual sampling using technology at the forefront of development. Tattersall is intrigued by the ways machines can understand and translate the aesthetics of nature and create a new immersive environment that treads the uncanny cross-section between familiar and digital.


Kai Tattersall’s works have been featured in IMAX, VR, and as a gallery installation across the country. The research he spearheaded has been presented at both University of Southern California’s directed study program, and University of California Santa Cruz’s Digital Scholarship Symposium.