CINEMATIC VISUALS
AI-assisted images shaped by retro sci-fi, disco futurism, surreal portraiture, and atmospheric world-building.
WHAT I DO
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.
Through A Human in the Loop, I offer strategic guidance and custom creative work across physical spaces, visual identity, motion, sound, and generative media.
Explore the services below to find the right starting point.
THE PRACTICE
The friction between human direction and machine interpretation.
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: navigating beyond barriers that have held me back, knowing what feels generic, what feels false, what carries force, and what can become a usable system.
Across image, sound, motion, and spatial design, the work is shaped through human judgment, creative intuition, strategic thinking, and iterative refinement.
RECOGNITION
Published work and awards
• 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)
• Artwork shown in Paris (Artverse), Mexico City, and New York City
NONLINEAR BY DESIGN
I’m Eric Kerr, a cross-disciplinary creative strategist, AI artist, and sound designer
My work is shaped by 25+ years across industries: the performing arts, hospitality and event production, Eastern medicine, workplace design strategy and operations, digital art, and music production.
An unconventional career path and a neurodivergent brain has helped me navigate complexity, surface patterns, identify solutions, and make abstract ideas tangible.
Through my creative studio (A Human in the Loop), I create visual, spatial, sonic, and strategic systems that feel distinctive, intentional, and built to adapt.
Currently available for consulting, collaborations, commissions, installations, and creative partnerships.
Based in North Carolina, with selected on-site availability in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and the broader Triangle.
DEFINE
In the Loop
In machine learning / AI, a human-in-the-loop is someone kept inside the automated process — guiding and course-correcting as the system runs.
I began exploring genAI in 2023. That experience broadened what the term meant to me.
We are all humans in the loop.
Cycling through inherited stories, unnamed patterns, habits that outlast their usefulness — until something breaks them open.
That's the territory my work explores.
