Maxim Safioulline is a creative technologist and an educator. His work spans alternative user interfaces, digital identities, generative and algorithmic design, storytelling and world-building, systems design and complexity in general. He collaborated and worked on projects in New York, Shanghai, Detroit, Montreal among others. He is a co-founder of Connected Cat Media, a creative studio that specializes in interactive installations, immersive experiences, and digital art. Maxim has an MFA degree from Parsons the New School for Design; he is currently working in Los Angeles and teaching in Santa Monica College and ArtCenter College of Art and Design.