Artist Collective: K-Phi-A
Group Photo for Artist Collective (Canada): K-Phi-A, photo credit: ©Christel Laycock
Live Performance at MUTEK 2025 (Canada), photo credit: ©Vivien Gaumand
K-Phi-A is a multinational artist collective working at the intersection of interactive art, experimental electronic music, and real-time generative visuals. Rooted in a research-creation approach, the group brings together Philippe Pasquier (Monobor), Keon Ju Maverick Lee (Keon la Nocturne), and Jun Yuri (VJ Amagi), combining backgrounds in media art, co-creative musical AI, electronic percussion, and live audiovisual performance.
The collective develops hybrid performance systems in which human performers and AI agents share agency on stage. Their works combine live percussion, live electronics, and VJing with musical agents such as MACAT and MACataRT, alongside the AI-driven visual synthesizer Autolume. K-Phi-A treats model crafting and interaction design as artistic material, using rehearsal and iterative feedback to keep machine behaviour legible within performance rather than hidden behind seamless automation.
A central aspect of the group’s practice is its commitment to responsible and sustainable AI. The website emphasizes a small-data mindset and model-crafting approach, relying on curated datasets and transparent constraints while exploring how liveness, accountability, co-existence, authorship, and collaboration can be rethought in contemporary audiovisual art.
In terms of history, the site presents K-Phi-A as an active international collective with documented performances and exhibitions, including MusicaAcoustica 2024 in China, MUTEK 2025 in Canada, the Asia Digital Art Exhibition (ADAE) 2025 in China, and a presentation at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Canada. Together, these appearances position K-Phi-A as an emerging collective in experimental audiovisual performance and co-creative interactive AI art.
Live Performance at MusicaAcoustica 2024 (China), photo credit: ©MusicaAcoustica 2024 Team
Asia Digital Art Exhibition (ADAE) 2025 (China), photo credit: ©ADAE 2025 Team
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre at 2025 (Canada), photo credit: ©Michelle Diamond
