About
I build culture around emerging technology.
I am Kris Krug: photographer, creative technologist, community builder, speaker, and field-note person for the weird edge where humans meet the machines they keep inventing.
I have spent two decades documenting technology, art, activism, conferences, communities, and the back rooms where culture actually changes. These days, most of that work points at one question: how do we use AI to increase human capacity instead of flattening human judgment?
The rooms I am in now
BC + AI Ecosystem
Building grassroots AI literacy, events, and community infrastructure across British Columbia.
AI keynotes and workshops
Helping audiences understand AI through taste, courage, responsibility, and useful live demos.
Visual storytelling
A long public archive of people, movements, music, technology, and the strange theatre of modern life.
Creative AI systems
Projects, publishing loops, and experiments for staying distinct in the synthetic age.
Public trail
A two-decade public trail
National Geographic, CBC, Rolling Stone-adjacent rooms, TEDxOilSpill, Midway Journey, SXSW, the Olympics, and many smaller rooms that mattered just as much.
Community before platform
The durable work is not the tool. It is the people, rituals, trust, and shared language that let people build together.
Receipts over adjectives
I would rather show the work, name the collaborators, and leave a trail than inflate a bio until it floats away.
Human capacity
The point of AI is not to become less human faster. The point is to make more room for judgment, care, imagination, and courage.
Start with the work
For projects, talks, workshops, interviews, and collaborations, the best next step is to tell me what kind of room you want to build.