Artist Collective: K-Phi-A

Live Performance at MUTEK 2025, 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 collective brings together Philippe Pasquier (Monobor), a French-Canadian media artist and Professor at Simon Fraser University and Director of the Metacreation Lab for Creative AI; Keon Ju Maverick Lee (Keon la Nocturne), a Korean-Canadian electronic drummer and PhD artist-researcher specializing in co-creative musical AI agents and MIDI; and Jun Yuri (VJ Amagi), a Japanese audiovisual artist and creative technologist based in Canada, known for live, audio-reactive visual performance. K-Phi-A builds and performs hybrid ensembles where human performers and musical agents share agency on stage, combining live percussion, live electronics, and VJing with musical agents such as MACAT and MACataRT, and the AI-driven visual synthesizer Autolume. Their practice treats model crafting and interaction design as artistic material, developed through iterative rehearsal and feedback loops that keep the system’s decisions legible in performance. Committed to responsible and sustainable AI using a small data mindset and model crafting, K-Phi-A emphasizes small, curated datasets and transparent constraints while exploring how liveness, accountability, and co-existence can reshape authorship and collaboration in contemporary audiovisual performance.