Vladi Lepi
Artist, Founder, Creator
Web3, Blockchain, AI
New York, New York, USA
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Vladi Lepi is the founder of SurR.Ai, an art and technology project operating at the intersection of artificial intelligence, mathematics, and blockchain-secured systems. His work focuses on authorship, structure, and the role of time in defining creative output in the age of AI. Through SurR.Ai, Lepi positions AI not as an autonomous creator, but as a tool within a human-directed system, introducing a framework where digital art is treated as a structured, verifiable protocol rather than a standalone image.
Lepi’s latest project, SurR: The System of Temporal Law, explores how blockchain timestamping can be used to define authorship in AI-generated content. By minting a 62-second audiovisual sequence on Ethereum, the work creates a permanent, verifiable point of origin, applying principles of irreversible, time-stamped systems to the question of ownership in digital media.
With more than three decades of experience across cultural production, institutional leadership, and systems-based thinking, Lepi has built a career at the intersection of art and structure. He has spent over 30 years coordinating Brighton Ballet Theater Co., Inc., and nearly three decades as President and CEO of LV Agency, Inc. Earlier in his career, he was involved in the entertainment marketing surrounding the 1996 VimpelCom IPO, the first Russian company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, an experience that informs his ongoing work bridging creative and financial systems.
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