Photo: Jan Rune Blom

Welcome to My Creative World

Welcome to a space where art, technology, imagination and intuition meet.

I am an award-nominated multidisciplinary artist, writer, musician and creative consultant working across AI, digital art, photography, music, writing and emerging technologies. My wider practice also encompasses podcasting, design, 3D, intuitive consultations and explorations of creativity, consciousness and wellbeing.

Curiosity is at the heart of everything I do. I am drawn to the places where different disciplines intersect—where art meets technology, sound meets image, and innovation meets more timeless ways of understanding ourselves and the world around us.

Art, Music & Creative Exploration

My work spans digital and mixed-media art, AI-generated art & 3D, photography, music production, composition, songwriting, sound design, field recording, film music, music videos, writing and experimental creative projects.

I have worked with photography, digital art and Photoshop for more than 20 years and have exhibited my work internationally. My photographic practice includes creative portraiture, fine art, infrared and full-spectrum photography, light painting, and other experimental approaches to image-making.

As an early adopter of generative AI, I began exploring its possibilities in the creative fields around 2020. I was among the early artists in Norway to work extensively with AI-generated art and later presented Norway's first exhibition with AI-generated art. I also created an early (possibly the very first) AI-generated music video in Norway (https://youtu.be/p72KA8uhQKc?feature=shared)

My work with creative AI has since led to two nominations for Gullhaien, Norway's creative AI awards.

In 2026 I started 3D printing my own design with the help of AI and various digital thechniques.

Music & Sound

Music has always been another important instrument of self-expression for me. I write songs, compose, sing and produce, and I enjoy being involved in as much of the creative process as possible.

My album Reflections features my own songs and grew out of collaborations with different producers through both online and studio-based work. I began experimenting with web-based creative collaborations relatively early, long before remote collaboration became commonplace.

Today, my musical work continues to evolve across songwriting, electronic and experimental music, production, sound design, field recording, film music and the intersection between music, visual art and AI.

AI & Creative Consulting

Alongside my artistic practice, I offer AI consulting for creatives, businesses and organizations.

I can assist in making sense of a rapidly evolving technological landscape and explore where AI can genuinely add value—not simply because the technology exists, but where it can support creativity, efficiency, innovation and new possibilities.

My approach combines hands-on experience with emerging AI tools and a long background in creative practice. I am particularly interested in the relationship between human creativity and artificial intelligence, and in finding ways of using technology that expand rather than diminish imagination.

Ideas, Intuition & Other Worlds

What I do does not fit neatly into one category.

I write articles, interviews, poetry, music, songs and other texts, host and develop podcast projects, and offer a limited number of intuitive and creative consultations drawing on astrology, numerology, philosophy and the Enneagram, among other things.

These interests may appear very different on the surface, but to me they share something fundamental: a curiosity about patterns, connections, identity, creativity and what it means to be human.

Between the Fjords and the Sea

These days, I live in a tranquil place by the sea, surrounded by the fjords, mountains and forests of Norway.

The landscape influences much of what I create. I tend to work intuitively and across disciplines, moving between different “instruments” of expression—an image, a camera, a piece of music, a field recording, a text, an algorithm or an idea.

Each project begins with curiosity and exploration.

Whether I am creating an artwork, composing music, experimenting with new technology or working with another person on an idea, I am interested in creating something that goes beyond the purely functional or decorative—something with atmosphere, meaning and resonance.

Ultimately, my work is about bringing together modern innovation, artistic imagination and timeless human curiosity—and seeing what becomes possible when different worlds are allowed to meet.

I do have a podcast too, where I talk with interesting people (and sometimes to myself): (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/manuela-hofer)

For requests and/or collaborations contact: manuelahofer@hotmail.com