AI Creative Technologist
I make things with AI that people actually use.
I’m Frank Nanninga, an AI Creative Technologist from the Netherlands. I come up with ideas and use AI to turn them into things you can use, hear, read or play: an app that knows which terrace is in the sun, an AI artist with an album on vinyl, an AI podcast, a book by three generations and an island you ride around on a yellow fixie.
As an AI Creative Technologist I work between the idea and the technology. I come up with the concept, I direct AI as a creative team for text, images, voices, music, 3D and code, and I pick and steer until it’s done.
What I make has to work in the real world: an app people open every day, an album released on vinyl, a book you can buy in a shop.
What does an AI Creative Technologist actually do? Read my explanation →
App · iPhone & Android
My app that shows which café terraces are in the sun right now. It works out the shadow of every building from its real height and the real position of the sun, wherever you are, in 36 languages. It started as a website that drew 50,000 visits in its first week, IamExpat reported.
Album · AI artist
Berend Botje is an AI artist and I’m the maker behind him: the concept and creative direction are mine, the music and vocals were made with AI. His debut album turns twelve Dutch nursery rhymes into hip-hop. Out since 11 September 2026, digitally and on vinyl.
Podcast · with Tonny Media · 18+
An automatic AI podcast I made in collaboration with Tonny Media. I generated the stories and the voices with AI, locally on my own hardware: 35 episodes, from December 2023 to January 2024.
Book · three generations
My grandfather Willem Nanninga started this book (“The Gnomes’ Revolution”) on his typewriter some fifty years ago. My aunt Wilma wrote the ending he had in mind. I wrote the middle part with AI as my co-author, steered towards my grandfather’s voice, and made the illustrations. Hardcover, 147 pages, in Dutch, BoekenGilde, 2025.
Website · 3D
This site: a 3D island where you ride a yellow fixie past my work. It sits in the real Amsterdam sun, the seasons follow the calendar, and there are 40 coffee beans, a night market and four hidden gnomes. Made together with AI: the world, the 3D models and the code.
Also on RTL Nieuws.
An idea, a question, or an invitation for a podcast or a talk? Email me or send me a message on LinkedIn.