CREATIVE STRATEGY
Making the unclear visible across spaces, brands, media, and experiences.
Making the unclear visible
I help venues, brands, businesses, and creative projects clarify their direction and bring ideas into form.
I offer strategic guidance and custom creative work across physical and digital spaces.
Explore my services below to find a potential starting point, and contact me to start a dialogue.
CINEMATIC VISUALS • SURREAL PORTRAITURE • DISCO-FUTURISTIC FASHION
AI-assisted visuals influenced by theatre, Butoh dance, retro sci-fi, and dark disco.
My work is defined by recurring motifs — theatrical lighting, reflective surfaces, synthetic materials — building worlds that feel familiar, surreal, and emotionally charged.
HUMAN CREATIVITY / AI ASSISTANCE
The friction between human direction and machine interpretation.
Across image, sound, motion, and spatial design, the work is shaped through human judgment, creative intuition, strategic thinking, and iterative refinement.
I use AI image, sound, and motion tools to surface patterns, test directions, challenge assumptions, and make nonlinear thinking visible.
I bring prompts, source material, lived experience, intuition, and judgment into generative systems, then work with and against the outputs: distortions, false starts, unexpected patterns, and moments of alignment.
For me, the value is not automation for productivity sake.
The value is discernment: knowing what feels generic, what feels false, what carries force, and what can become a usable system; navigating beyond barriers that have held me back since childhood.
MEET ERIC
I’m a creative strategist and multidisciplinary artist, and the founder of A Human in the Loop.
My work draws on 25+ years across the performing arts, hospitality and event production, Eastern medicine, workplace strategy, spatial design, and operations—including roles at DoorDash, WeWork, and BlackRock.
That unconventional path shapes how I approach a brief: understanding the people involved, finding a clear direction, and carrying an idea through to execution.
Today, my studio practice spans visual art, music, and motion, with commissioned work ranging from distinctive imagery and ambient motion loops to large-format environmental graphics.
Based in North Carolina, with selected on-site availability in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and the broader Triangle.
Available for creative strategy, commissions, installations, and collaborations.
DEFINED
Human in the Loop
In machine learning / AI
A human-in-the-loop is a person intentionally involved in an automated process—guiding, evaluating, and course-correcting the system rather than leaving it to operate entirely on its own.
In my creative work
The studio name extends that idea beyond technology.
We are all caught in a loop at some point in our lives—cycling through inherited stories, unnamed patterns, and habits that outlast their usefulness.
A Human in the Loop is about what happens when human attention enters the process: noticing the pattern, intervening, and making something different possible.
RECOGNITION
Published work and awards
• IIIIL Community Selected Artist | CreAtIva AI Art Book Vol. 10 ADS, Advertising Against Advertising (Aug. 2026)
• Featured Artist | IIIIL Sixfingers Vol. 1 (Jul. 2026), Sixfingers Vol.2 (Sept. 2026)
• IIIIL Community Selected Artist | CreAtIva AI Art Book Vol.9 ART: it is argument (Mar. 2026)
• Golden Ticket / Juror Selection, 4-page feature | The AI Art Magazine, No2 (2025)
• Special Recognition, Fine Art Portrait Series | The AI Design Awards (2025)
• Published work | AI Planet Magazine, Music Issue (2025), Baroque Issue (2026)
• Gallery showings in Paris (Artverse), Mexico City, and New York City
AI MUSIC PRODUCTION
Music for a Fractured World
Fractured World is an expanding music and visual anthology blending dark disco, gothic pop, 80s synth, and theatrical electrobeats.
Original tracks written and produced by Eric Kerr using AI technology — a sonic journey through fractured identity, from breakdown to breakthrough.
Stream on SoundCloud or support on Bandcamp.