Aleksandra Stepanovic / Creative Producer / Project Manager / Portfolio 2023

Portfolio

Aleksandra Stepanovic —

Having spent the last 5 years working as a creative producer and project manager, I gained valuable experience, both conceptual and executional, in leading, organizing and realizing art and new media projects, in digital and physical environments.

My main points of engagement include structuring and managing teams, overseeing workflows and handling cross-department communication, but I have also been involved in early, conceptual phases of projects, for which I performed thorough research and delivered creative briefs and solutions. Working on various types of projects and taking different positions in them gave me a wide set of skills, complementing my abilities to multitask and to work efficiently in dynamic environments. Being a self-starter and a problem solver, I feel comfortable organizing and creating environments for clear communication, both personally and professionally.

Together with friends and associates, I went through the experience of co-founding and co-managing an NGO based in arts and culture. My role included dealing with legal issues, administration, overall process management and PR.

My background in art and architecture helps me manage projects with an enhanced sensibility towards aesthetics, culture and contemporary trends, which I find especially important in contexts of creative decision-making.

Creative Producer and Project Manager with a background in Architecture and design, working in the field of New media and contemporary art.

Digital Humans

DIGITAL HUMANS Digital Impact Disseny Hub —’23

Digital Impact is an art and design experience between the physical and virtual world that showcases the works of internationally renowned digital artists such as Refik Anadol, Universal Everything, Random International, Brendan Dawes and Field, as well as locals Domestic Data Streamers, Alba G. Corral and Antoni Arola. It was open for public in April 2023, in Disseny Hub Barcelona.

Premiered at Digital Impact exhibition ‘Digital Humans’ by LOWKEYMOVES is an interactive installation that features four digital avatars that are able to “converse” with attendees.

DIGITAL HUMANS

DIGITAL IMPACT

April 2023

Client OFFF Festival

Sector

Project Manager

Location

Barcelona, Spain

Digital Humans Meet Noa

As part of my work with LOWKEYMOVES, had the opportunity to contribute to the development of four unique Digital Humans from scratch. Each of these characters had their own distinct narrative and personality, which required us to carefully craft a concept for each one and develop the necessary content to bring them to life.

DIGITAL HUMANS

DIGITAL IMPACT

April 2023

Client OFFF Festival

Sector

Project Manager

Location

Barcelona, Spain

Digital Humans

Using industry-leading tools like Metahuman Creator and Unreal Engine, we were able to fully customize each digital human’s appearance, voice, and user interface elements to create a truly immersive experience for users. Through careful attention to detail and expert animation, we were able to make these digital avatars feel like real, engaging personalities that users could interact with in meaningful ways.

Digital Humans

Digital Impact

Meet Carlos

The installation itself consists of four Digital Avatars that are able to “converse” with attendees.

The avatars ask questions, prompting users to respond with ‘YES’ or ‘NO’ using buttons, and inviting them to debate some of the most talked-about topics in digital art, from its human qualities to sustainability concerns surrounding it.

Digital Humans

Digital Impact

Meet Eva

‘Digital Humans’ installation provides a glimpse into the future of customer interaction, where digital avatars can be used both in physical and digital spaces to provide a highly personalized and engaging experience for customers. The integration of ChatGPT and data collection systems makes it possible to create fully customizable and streamlined customer service experiences, paving the way for a new era of customer interaction.

Digital Humans

Digital Impact

Meet Joel

LKM is currently showcasing the potential of using digital avatars in physical spaces with their interactive installation which will be on display until August 2023 in Disseny Hub Barcelona.

ORBITAL SPACE STATION H.O.P.E. Museum of the Future Dubai —’22

Journey of the Pioneers

Orbital Space Station Hope is the brainchild of Galerija 12.

Well-versed in developing architecture and station inner workings to incredible detail, the Design team created a fictional home to thousand of Pioneers that orbit the Earth every day in a kilometer-wide megastructure.

JOURNEY OF PIONEERS

MOTF 022

Feb 2022

Client Dubai Future Foundation

Sector

Creative Producer / Project Manager

Location Dubai, UAE

Orbital Space Station H.O.P.E.

OSS Hope model is made in 1:400 proportion to its fictional counterpart.

The 4-meter wide model, weighing 1 tonne, is suspended from the ceiling.

The model is made of aluminum sub-construction with a 3D printed shell assembled from a staggering 3000 parts, all handpainted.

OSS Hope model is fitted with electronics that rotate the rings simulating the speeds needed to create artificial gravity.

The screen underneath shows a video loop. The first portion of the video focuses on oss hope’s exterior, illustrating the workings of the sol system and the station’s role in it.

The second portion of the video showcases crosscuts of individual station segments. It illustrates “live” station activities of the segment highlighted in the physical model, focusing on different aspects of circularity of the entire system.

JOURNEY OF PIONEERS

MOTF 022

Feb 2022

Client Dubai Future Foundation

Sector

Creative Producer / Project Manager Location Dubai, UAE

Monument of the Pioneers Orrery

The purpose of this exhibit is to showcase the holistic approach to space expansion by reinforcing a sense of sacrifice and community. The sculpture is a physical, mechanical model of the solar system featuring multiple globes and discs representing planets and their orbits.

The sculpture’s functionality within the OSS HOPE PIONEER CENTER context also aims to support the idea that science and spirituality can coexist in space. Portrayed as a donation by the UAESA to the OSS HOPE PIONEER PROGRAM, the sculpture is inspired by Islamic astronomical tools used hundreds of years ago to calculate Mecca’s direction for prayers. The expansion of humanity to new planets brings with it the proliferation of religious faith - the futuristic astrolabe is a symbol of the intention to maintain this practice in the future.

Monument of the Pioneers Orrery

With a diameter of 3 meters, the Monument to the Pioneers is the biggest moving orrery in the world.

Each planet is made through a months-long unique artisan method that involves obtaining colors using a specific chemical process. All the gold engravings on black are handpainted. An electronic mechanism inside the orrery propels the planets in a seamless motion and allows for the programming of their relative positions and speeds.

Monument of the Pioneers

Orrery Planets

Each planet is made through a months-long unique artisan method that involves obtaining colors using a specific chemical process.

The testing period consisted of a thorough research of various metal patinas.

JOURNEY OF PIONEERS

MOTF 022

Feb 2022

Client Dubai Future Foundation

Sector

Creative Producer / Project Manager

Location

Dubai, UAE

Command Station Area

A space for the visitor to explore what roles and technologies are aboard on Hope, to dive into the Sol System’s workings and to explore the tools and artefacts of daily life that support the Pioneer Conversations. The Sol Station shows the scale of effort in details. The Gear Station provides a glimpse of future speculative tech and the Pioneer artefacts wall helps the recorded characters show artefacts, displaying a daily and more human experience of living in space.

Artisanal interventions ranged from hand painting to casting and often required custom techniques to bring a design to life.

Many artifacts are fitted with electronics, such as foldable and round screens.

The fabrication of the future Pioneer artifacts, such as the Deep Space Explorer Helmet, entailed artisanal intervention by the skilled Art Department.

Command Station Gear

Command Station Gear

Gear Station showcases physical artefacts on top of it, with corollary information on the underneath screen. These objects are representing the 8 key Pioneer profession and jobs. Visitors can understand what the pioneers use as part of their job and discover new speculative technologies.

JOURNEY OF PIONEERS

MOTF 022

Feb 2022

Client Dubai Future Foundation

Sector

Architecture Department / Project Manager

Location Dubai, UAE

Dubai 2071

A heavily altered Dubai skyline features entirely new architecture, such as levitating structures and squares, drone skyscrapers, and organic structures that are grown rather than built. The complex urban plan features extensive interconnectedness, with automated and airborne vehicles signaling robust city activity. Strategically positioned Hero structures catch people’s attention and highlight the best of Dubai’s ambitionsthus representing the values upon which the city was built, as a sustainable, smart city for all.

Large-scale changes to the landscape and skyline provisioned by the Dubai 2040 Urban Master Plan, an outline of how the emirate will be developed over the next 20 years, are accounted for. Mainly, the plan sets out to improve the quality of life, with the doubling of green and leisure areas, in addition to public parks, to create more areas where people can exercise.

Humans 2.0

HUMANS 2.0 World Government Summit Dubai —’19

Inspired by the latest scientific breakthroughs and leading futurist projections HUMANS 2.0 imagines a future in which we already solved the scientific problems we are yet to solve and developed the technologies now only theoretically possible. Focused on the individual body and mind, elements extracted from a larger vision of the future invite you to explore how this latest era of advance will benefit the individual person.

The exhibition is divided into four sections, each further away in time than the previous, providing uninterrupted narrative flow along a rudimentary timeline into the future as it relates to the individual person and to humanity as a whole. Advance is envisioned to happen in four key stages titled BETA BODY, BETA MIND, META BODY, and META MIND.

Autonomous First Responder

Autonomous First Responder is a demonstration of the future of body augmentation technologies. The showcase of multiple forms of human enhancements is embodied in the form of an AI-powered surgical unit that arrives directly to the patient, is packed with innovative technology, and pre-loaded with the latest medical treatments, fully capable to provide expansive care on the spot.

The concept is based on meticulous research in the field of the future of medicine, while the exhibit itself is produced by combining holographic projections, animation, robotic engineering & realistic human animatronic.

Interaction is enabled via custom made application that allows the user to gain in-depth knowledge about the showcased process of repairing injuries and enhancing physical abilities as well as about future technologies, including 3D bioprinting, bio-robotics, nanotechnology, pharmaceutics, automation, and AI.

Autonomous First Responder

This exhibition represents a thinking process and a multitude of smaller thoughts at the same time, all affected by the possibility of visual imagination, the influence of local popular culture, a romantic view on human relationships and a desire to simplify love through symbols. Because of this, we give you chains: a symbol of security and of giving up control for others to deal with, because chains (short or long) have their physical limitations, a distance to which they go. Anything greater seems like a fantasy. This way, the system where words and objects are interchangeable manipulates our ambitions. Through ungraspable terms, such as anxiety, identity, success, dream; And simple things, objects that cannot answer our questions.

Essential Organs

Essential Organs Lab depicts the future regenerative medicine and organ growth technologies, on the example of human hearts. By implementing 3D bioprinting, stem cell engineering and advanced mechanical manufacturing methods, the exhibit showcases transplantable organs that are uniquely suitable to each person guaranteeing full compatibility and lasting functionality.

Based on research in the fields of bioengineering, biorobotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology, the exhibit is produced by combining 3D printing, practical effects, realistic sculpting, and mechanical engineering.

Interaction serves to give the in-depth info on the integrated technologies and is triggered via a pulse reading sensor which translates the user’s pulse rate to the heartbeat motion.

Essential Organs Lab

Essential Organs Lab depicts the future regenerative medicine and organ growth technologies, on the example of human hearts. By implementing 3D bioprinting, stem cell engineering and advanced mechanical manufacturing methods, the exhibit showcases transplantable organs that are uniquely suitable to each person guaranteeing full compatibility and lasting functionality.

Based on research in the fields of bioengineering, biorobotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology, the exhibit is produced by combining 3D printing, practical effects, realistic sculpting, and mechanical engineering.

Interaction serves to give the in-depth info on the integrated technologies and is triggered via a pulse reading sensor which translates the user’s pulse rate to the heartbeat motion.

Essential Organs Lab

HUMANS 2.0

WGS 019

Feb 2019

Client World Government Summit Dubai Sector

Art Department / Project Manager Location Dubai, UAE

Neuro Supplements

Self-standing exhibit illustrating the future of genetically engineered bio-organisms designed to balance neurochemistry of the human mind. Easily implantable, these tiny organisms live in a symbiotic union with brain neural structure and amplify their abilities by regulating the release of chemicals and providing a healthy balance.

Neuro Supplements concept is based on research and advances made in the fields of genetic and bioengineering, materialized in the form of 3D printed and sculpted, custom made objects.

Neuro Supplements

This exhibition represents a thinking process and a multitude of smaller thoughts at the same time, all affected by the possibility of visual imagination, the influence of local popular culture, a romantic view on human relationships and a desire to simplify love through symbols. Because of this, we give you chains: a symbol of security and of giving up control for others to deal with, because chains (short or long) have their physical limitations, a distance to which they go. Anything greater seems like a fantasy. This way, the system where words and objects are interchangeable manipulates our ambitions. Through ungraspable terms, such as anxiety, identity, success, dream; And simple things, objects that cannot answer our questions.

HUMANS 2.0

Mind Transfer Gateway

Mind Transfer Gateway embodies the principles of brain mapping technologies with the purpose of transferring the human mind to an artificial vessel. The showcase of future mind-mapping tech is illustrated via case study of a space engineer transferring to a robotic body specially equipped to handle time-consuming travel as well as the dangers of unearthly environments of remote planets.

The concept of approach is based on research and scientific achievements in the fields of brain mapping and mind transfer, such as The Connectome Project. The concept is materialized by combining holographic projections, practical effects and scenographic elements, including full scale realistic human animatronic and 3D printed robotic body.

HUMANS 2.0

WGS 019

Feb 2019

Mind Transfer Gateway

Custom-made app enables the user to navigate through the entire process of transferring the human mind into the artificial one, and get the deeper insight into the technologies being used to achieve this milestone.

This exhibition represents a thinking process and a multitude of smaller thoughts at the same time, all affected by the possibility of visual imagination, the influence of local popular culture, a romantic view on human relationships and a desire to simplify love through symbols. Because of this, we give you chains: a symbol of security and of giving up control for others to deal with, because chains (short or long) have their physical limitations, a distance to which they go. Anything greater seems like a fantasy. This way, the system where words and objects are interchangeable manipulates our ambitions. Through ungraspable terms, such as anxiety, identity, success, dream; And simple things, objects that cannot answer our questions.

HUMANS 2.0

WGS 019

Feb 2019

Remote Mind Transfer Gateway

Remote Mind Transfer Gateway illustrates the concept of remote presence by simulation of neural linkage to a Mars training station. The simulation of connection to a remote body and the experience of being in two places at once is used to train potential interplanetary workers how to use remote uplink connection and operate successfully.

The concept is based on scientific research in the fields of brain mapping and space colonization, while the interactive installation iz realized using the combination of Virtual Reality and mechanical engineering.

Interaction is VR based and allows the user to go through short training exercises in Mars based environments.

Client

World Government Summit Dubai

Sector

Art Department / Project Manager

Location

Dubai, UAE

Remote Mind Transfer Gateway

This exhibition represents a thinking process and a multitude of smaller thoughts at the same time, all affected by the possibility of visual imagination, the influence of local popular culture, a romantic view on human relationships and a desire to simplify love through symbols. Because of this, we give you chains: a symbol of security and of giving up control for others to deal with, because chains (short or long) have their physical limitations, a distance to which they go. Anything greater seems like a fantasy. This way, the system where words and objects are interchangeable manipulates our ambitions. Through ungraspable terms, such as anxiety, identity, success, dream; And simple things, objects that cannot answer our questions.

HUMANS 2.0

WGS 019 Feb

Host Models

Gen 4

Host Models Gen 4 serves as a showcase of future avatars a human consciousness can be transferred into. Displayed avatars cover the three main types of host bodies, including virtual, mechanical & biosynthetic types.

Based on research in the field of future technologies enabling brain mapping and mind transfer, the exhibits are produced by using holographic display tech, real-life human sculpture, and 3D printed custom-designed mechanical body.

We have no reference to predict the fascinating consequences of an individual’s ability to shift consciousness to other forms. Those experiences are simply unimaginable to us today. However, what we can suppose is that, inevitably, technology enabling the transfer of consciousness would gather extensive datasets that reflect the conscious knowledge, beliefs, ideas and experiences of billions of individuals.

Having access to such data would mean an unprecedented opportunity to create something that has potential to be a uniquely unifying force for humanity - the creation of a collective sentience embodied in a single form. Imagining such a unique hive-mind, linking our consciousnesses, continuously growing, learning and developing alongside us, - UN1TY is a conceptual embodiment of such a synthetic sentience, the first step towards Humanity 3.0.

HUMANS 2.0

UN1TY Client

World Government Summit Dubai Sector

Art Department / Project Manager Location Dubai, UAE

I Turn Boobs into Trees and Whales and Oceans

DearPETA

I’minaTVshowcalled “Baywatch”andthepressis obsessedwithmypersonallife. I’dreallyliketodivertsomeof theattentiontothingsmore importantthanmyboobsor myboyfriends.Canwejoin forces?I’vebeenananimal loverandaPETAmember sinceIwasakid,sendingin rolledupquarters,andI’ve alwayswantedtogetmore involved. Pleaseuseme.

Love, PamelaAnderson

I Turn Boobs into Trees and Whales and Oceans

Artist Milica Mijajlović

Role Producer Co-curator

PR Location

Belgrade, Serbia

How much the world has changed since then is impossible to tell in descriptive terms.

We could make a graph measuring the CO2 and sea levels in 1995 and 2020, but numbers quickly get lost and insignificant and are easily forgotten.

What we can talk about in this exhibition text is how Pam was chased around and sought after long before Instagram, before the Kardashians and Paris Hilton. She was the top tabloid story at the time, having had a turbulent love life, a sex tape, a bomb body and a hep C diagnosis. The roles she had in various films and series all indicated that she was, on and off screen, basically the same person - a hot blonde.

I Turn Boobs into Trees and Whales and Oceans

But Pam knew that all attention can be used and diverted, and she did to her stories what her paparazzi had done to her. Selflessly, at the center of everyone’s interest, she applied the method of self-exploitation. She surrendered willingly, so that in the end, nobody could conquer her. She surrendered her body to the world, on her own terms. The terms were that, while her pictures, stories, boobs, hair, tats and love interests circulated the Internet and press, she would be talking about the stuff she cared about, which was: save the planet.

I Turn Boobs into Trees and Whales and Oceans

People used to make fun of Miss World laureates whose biggest wish in life was world peace. Is this really that funny? Is it funny because it’s said by a beautiful woman, or is it funny because it sounds impossible? Or does it sound impossible because it is being wished for by a beautiful woman?

I Turn Boobs into Trees and Whales and Oceans

Now that we speak of the world ending in numbers and graphs and units of time, and not in abstract terms anymore, we might need to lend our own bodies to accomplish a new awareness. And now that so many bodies are gorgeous and erotic, naked and blunt everywhere, and every day online, maybe there’s nothing else left for us to think about than the world itself, world peace, world survival, trees, oceans and whales. There might be more boobs than whales in the world anyway, but we’re not here to talk about numbers. There’s no time, the world is sinking.

So Much Furniture and Light in Dis Room Voždovačka Galerija —’19

Let’s put words and objects into a system where one can replace the other. For example: This is an image displaying a bridge whose length matches that of your footstep. In the lack of imagery, words can be everything and anything, concrete terms represent abstract forms. Forms know something and they direct us to meaning, like portals, standing silently one across the other. So we attach our emotions to forms, otherwise we wouldn’t know what to do with them. Things become clear only when given names, up until then they’re mushy, up until then, there’s no boundaries. There is endless projection, a chain reaction: when an object acquires more than one meaning and starts spilling over onto other things. One color mixes with another, metal with cotton, a regular word with a metaphor.

Kristina Nikolić belongs to a generation of artists who treat concepts and art-making as parallel processes, whose art begins before the idea is conceived, through a fascination with visual and verbal phenomena. This kind of art is not concerned with succeeding, as its intentions are often shaped after an artwork has already been materialized. Its identity lingers between formalism (the contemporary aesthetics of the casual, the instant, the weird, the other, the obscure) and concept, going back and forth, just like the term chain shifts between two semantic groups, security and imprisonment, corelation and co-dependence.

Artist Kristina Nikolić

Role Producer Co-curator

PR Location Belgrade, Serbia

So Much Furniture and Light in Dis Room

So Much Furniture and Light in Dis Room

This exhibition represents a thinking process and a multitude of smaller thoughts at the same time, all affected by the possibility of visual imagination, the influence of local popular culture, a romantic view on human relationships and a desire to simplify love through symbols. Because of this, we give you chains: a symbol of security and of giving up control for others to deal with, because chains (short or long) have their physical limitations, a distance to which they go. Anything greater seems like a fantasy. This way, the system where words and objects are interchangeable manipulates our ambitions. Through ungraspable terms, such as anxiety, identity, success, dream; And simple things, objects that cannot answer our questions.