Artist

Generative, Digital, Mixed Media, Gen AI
behance.net/0xKen, kennewton.myportfolio.com 
theartistcollective.io/ken-newton 

Tech Trainer

Data & AI; Digital App Innovations
Your partner in all things Microsoft
Copilot, M365, Azure AI
GitHub - infotrix

Artist in Residence & Co-Founder

The Artist Collective
Managed, go-to-market, services for artists, collectors, and brands. Taking art to new places.

About Ken:

ART: I am a multi-media Artist that's been drawing since I could hold a pencil, and programing art since my first computer class in grade school, 'Drawing in BASIC'

🔹 2021 - Today: Generative Algorithmic Art & Gen AI
🔹 2000 - Today: Exhibiting freelance multi-media artist.

TECH: Experienced technical innovation lead with a record in leading high-performance teams and delivering end-to-end solutions for both SMB and Enterprise clients. I build the right things, the right way. I have developed products and managed global teams across higher education, enterprise, and commercial teams as a designer, developer, project manager, account manager, and consultant for orgs such as Tulane University, KPMG, and The Henson Group MSP.

Currently, I am dedicated to shaping the next generation by sharing knowledge on cutting-edge technological advancements. My passion for learning drives me to guide business leaders and stakeholders through the ever-evolving landscape of technologies. Drawing from extensive experience in creative arts and application development, I currently specialize in training others on Azure AI Services and Microsoft CoPilot/Copilot for M365.

🔹 2022 - Today: Trainer & Account Manager - Azure, Azure AI, Microsoft Copilot
🔹 2021 - Today: Gen AI Architecture & Engineering - Open AI, Azure OpenAI, LLMs, LMMs, GPTs, GANs, Diffusion
🔹 2021 - Today: Web3 Architecture & Development - Solidity, DApps, EVM 🔹 2016 - Today: Azure Cloud, Data & AI, Digital App Innovations Consultant
🔹 2019 - Today: Strategic Global Accounts Management & Systems Architecture
🔹 2018 - Today: Enterprise Application Developer
🔹 2012 - Today: Interaction Design & Project Manager.

Exhibitions & awards

Singapore Art Festival, Singapore, Sponsored by Coiseland, January 2024
"Artificial Imagination," Gen AI Video collage
"Frequency" 2024+, Web Application, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, frequency.kennewton.com 

Contemporary Art Gallery,  LA, USA
Juried Show: "Identity," "Lament," "Icon," "Head (Self-portrait)," "Hand (Self-portrait)," "Heart (Self-portrait)", 2006

Regional Arts Center, Hammond, LA
"Temporality of Technology" Visual Arts Society Juried Exhibition, February 2006: "Best Laid Plans," "Vestiges," "Head (Self-portrait)," "Hand (Self-portrait)," "Cultural Lag"

Sims Memorial Library, Hammond, LA
"Social Wars" Invitational Show, November 2005: "Moirai, Erinyes I Orai (The Fates, The Furies and The Hours)"

Sally Dunn -Ven Norman Gallery, Covington, LA
“Esoteric Expose” Visual Arts Society Juried Exhibition, June 2005: "Identity," "Sequence X7," "Proserpine 2004"

Center for Contemporary Arts, SELU, Hammond, LA
"Flux and Fluxes, 2004 SELU Film Awards," December 2004: "Avant-garde" for "Lament," "Best Screenplay" for "Recycle"

Columbia Theater, Hammond, LA
"Reflections" multimedia dance/film/arts exhibition, April 2004: "Lament"

Clark Hall Gallery, SELU, Hammond, LA
Outstanding Student Show, April 2004: "Identity" "Flux and Fluxes,
2003 SELU Film Awards,"
November 2003: "Best in Cinematography" for "Identity"

Zeitgeist Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Open Screening, December 2003: "Identity"

Nomad Gallery, Hammond, LA
Visual Arts Society Juried Exhibition, September 2003: "1st in Drawing" for "Cultural Lag"

Regional Arts Center, Hammond, LA
Visual Arts Society Juried Art Exhibition, October 2002: "Honorable Mention" for "Pride"​​.