Emma Barbato, Creative Director of MissEm.AI has been invited to join the judging panel for the 2026 Australian AI Film Awards (AAIFA), presented by directors Jamie van Leeuwen and Craig Swann. It’s a rare kind of judging panel: Hollywood heavyweights sitting alongside Australia’s leading AI pioneers. Emma joins David Hackl…
Miss Em, Creator of Bruce Ryder, recently sat down with Jonny Peters for Campaign Brief’s UNLEARN podcast to talk about Bruce Ryder’s hyperfiction world and the thinking behind it ahead of this year’s AI Video Summit in October. The conversation gave Emma the chance to draw a clear line between…
Emma Barbato of MissEm.AI has been featured in an in-depth interview with AK Academy, The Global AI School for Women, discussing her work with hyper-fiction, Bruce Ryder, and the new era of interactive entertainment. For Emma, opportunities like this matter because they let her draw a line most of the…
Emma Barbato Creator of Bruce Ryder, has been featured in Mi3 Australia, in a story by Andrew Birmingham examining Australia’s first AI film festival and what it revealed about the medium: that talent, not tools, is what actually delivers results. The piece placed Emma and Bruce Ryder alongside fellow honourees…
Emma Barbato is noting a milestone worth marking: Bruce Ryder is beginning to turn up in places she never anticipated when she built him. This weekend, Bruce will be presented to students at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) by Digital Media Lecturer, Kate Ayrton. It follows a…
Emma Barbato recently delivered the keynote for graduates of the Queensland Government’s AI Champions program, part of the Digital Graduate Program, standing in front of the next wave of AI technologists entering the workforce. Emma describes feeling three things at once: excitement, responsibility, and the sheer weight of what lies…
Bruce Ryder makes AI-history again now being the first AI to co-host an Awards Show.
Emma Barbato was invited to contribute to TechDay Australia’s global International Women’s Day 2026 publication, under this year’s theme, #BalanceTheScales. It’s not a topic Emma normally dwells on, nor one she’s allowed to create mental barriers in her own career. But the invitation felt like a rare opportunity to spotlight…
New York Weekly has featured Bruce Ryder and his creator, Miss Em, in a piece titled “Welcome to the Age of AI Hyperfiction: Bruce Ryder Is the Digital Icon Built for Now” a feature that positions Bruce as proof of an entirely new genre, rather than another entry in the…
Bruce Ryder has been profiled by Roastbrief, the global creative industry outlet, in a piece framing him as a genuine counterpoint to the flood of low-effort AI content currently crowding social feeds, not by pretending to be human, but by fully leaning into what animated AI content can uniquely offer.…
