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 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.
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.…
For over four decades, Lürzer’s Archive has been the reference point advertising and creative industries turn to the publication that has quietly defined who counts as a serious creative voice, issue after issue. So when Emma Barbato learned she’d be featured in the magazine’s first-ever special report dedicated to generative…
Bruce Ryder closed out 2025 by taking home Best AI Influencer at the Australian AI Festival Awards, with Tech Business News reporting that the honour recognised the exceptional real-world engagement generated by the Australian AI celebrity, beating out several high-profile international AI influencers for the title. The category sat alongside…
