Case studies

How venues and events use Surrealism.ai.

Real stories from real customers. A bar in Providence, an international art festival, and a carnival production — each found something they weren't able to get anywhere else.

Ogie's Upsidedown — 4K AI Video Art

Ogie's Upsidedown — 4K AI Video Art

Venue & bar — Providence, RI

Ogie's Trailer Park

How a Providence bar transformed their space

Challenge

Ogie's needed consistent, on-brand visual atmosphere running on their screens every night. Their previous approach was looping YouTube playlists — but pre-roll ads kept breaking the vibe at exactly the wrong moments, and nothing they found was unique to them. Generic content felt out of place in a venue with its own strong identity.

Solution

They subscribed to the Surrealism.ai Pro plan and found "Ogie's Upsidedown" — a 12-hour AI-generated visual named for the venue itself. The content matched the bar's aesthetic: strange, layered, psychedelic-adjacent. It ran on their screens without ads, interruptions, or playlist management.

Result

Screens run all night with zero intervention. The visual has its own name and identity tied to the venue — it's become something regulars recognize. It stopped being a logistical problem and became part of what the bar actually is.

Ogies.AI Chapter IV — 4K AI Video Art

Ogies.AI Chapter IV — 4K AI Video Art

Art & technology festival — International

File Festival

Visuals for an international art & technology festival

Challenge

File Festival is internationally recognized for sitting at the intersection of digital art, experimental media, and technology. They needed projection visuals that matched that identity — not generic animated backgrounds, not the same stock assets used at a hundred other events. Their audience includes people who make this kind of work. Generic wasn't an option.

Solution

The festival sourced AI-generated surrealist visuals from Surrealism.ai. The content matched their aesthetic — unsettling, compositionally strange, unmistakably AI-native in a way that felt intentional rather than incidental. It looked like a curatorial choice rather than a budget decision.

Result

Visuals ran across multiple projection surfaces at the festival. The visual identity stayed consistent with their art and technology brand — and the work itself became part of the conversation about AI as a medium, not just a tool. Attendees engaged with it as content.

Koala Karnival — 12-Hour Visual Escape

Koala Karnival — 12-Hour Visual Escape

Event production — Carnival

Koala Karnival

A 12-hour visual identity for a carnival-themed event

Challenge

The Koala Karnival production team wanted a visual identity for their carnival-themed event — something surreal and psychedelic, but genuinely theirs. The trap they were trying to avoid: the same Resolume VJ pack every festival uses. Audiences who go to events know that content on sight. It signals that someone ran out of time, not that someone made something.

Solution

"Koala Karnival" was created as an AI-generated 12-hour visual experience, built specifically around the event's identity. It played on screens throughout the venue for the entire duration of the event — no loops shorter than the night, no repeated segments, no visible seam.

Result

The visual became part of the Koala Karnival brand. Attendees recognized it, referenced it, and photographed it from across the venue. That's a different outcome than screens running in the background — that's visual identity working the way it's supposed to.

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