Speaker · Vancouver 2026

Dr. Brad Necyk

Artist, researcher & computer science and AI teacher

Shawnigan Lake School

October 28–30 · Vancouver

Futureproof Festival featured artist card for Brad Necyk, wearing glasses and a grey shirt, in a recursive fern forest with impossible looping waterfalls, coral name lettering, the star-dot Futureproof wordmark and the BC + AI ecosystem presenter mark. The card names Shawnigan Lake School and live art demos in the lobby.

Find Brad's live art demos in the lobby. His practice explores AI filmmaking, computational art, and software itself as an artistic medium.

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About Dr. Brad Necyk

Brad Necyk, PhD, MFA, is an artist, researcher, and computer science and AI teacher at Shawnigan Lake School. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at York University through the Vision: Science to Applications (VISTA) program, specializing in creative applications of artificial intelligence. His artistic practice focuses on AI filmmaking, computational art, and emerging forms of digital expression. His current work centres on The Cyberdelic Kernel, an experimental software paradigm that reimagines software itself as an artistic medium, developing applications, computational systems, and novel file formats as works of art. Through his artistic research and teaching, he explores how AI is transforming not only what we create, but the very tools and systems through which creativity becomes possible.

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Hand-painted Futureproof Festival scene: Squatchie on a snowy switchback under the aurora, carrying half a geode while a raven lifts the other side, the line "Bring The Question You Cannot Solve Alone." lettered into the picture and the festival name drawn as a constellation in the sky
Bring The Question You Cannot Solve Alone.

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