About
Yomi Ayeni is an award winning Transmedia creator, producer, filmmaker, and storyteller. His current project - Clockwork Watch is a retro-futurist story told across graphic novels, interactive theatre, online, and film. This co-created project has so far spawned three tangential threads, immersive live events, exhibitions at the Royal Observatory, Scottsdale Civic Library (Arizona), National Maritime Museum, The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, The Asylum in Lincoln, and several editions of the London Gazette - a fictional newspaper.
Yomi’s practice involves mapping stories to everyday life, as a way of creating experiences that nudge the audience closer to the heart of a narrative. His 2009 film “Breathe” was one of the first interactive and participatory projects to explore how an ongoing story offered the audience a chance to become characters in a story.
In 2002 he won the “Best Use of New Media” Award for Global E-Missions, a show he developed for ITV. Yomi worked as a Broadcast Journalist in the BBC newsroom, was an active part of the Burning Man Festival Media Team, and is a founding member of the European Burning Man Regional event, ‘Nowhere’ (Spain). He owned and produced music on the seminal drum and bass label Tone Def Records.
Yomi lectures Interactive Storytelling at the Royal College of Arts, lives in London, loves cooking, street art, travelling and making music.