Big Future for Coral Collective & Remix Reef!

Coral Collective at Miami Art Week with BitBasel

Coral Collective was highlighted by BitBasel during Miami Art Week at the Sagamore Hotel in South Beach. As part of the BitBasel Space Collection, a photo of Coralette — our AI-enabled coral reef NPC — has been selected to launch to the Moon aboard the Griffin-1 mission and will be archived under the AstroGLYPH payload.

Remix Reef Won the Reality Hack by MIT’s Community Hackathon

Our project Remix Reef won the Reality Hack by MIT’s Community Hackathon, hosted in partnership with Immersive Insiders and XRCC. We were also honored to receive XRCC’s Golden Ticket to attend United XR in Brussels, where Remix Reef was featured at the MIT booth and at the final party event during the conference.

Remix Reef invites worldbuilders to remix and expand a coral ecosystem using an open-source coral library — supporting Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water through creativity, participation, and visibility.

Remix Reef participated at Discovery Day: Women in Science at the Bakken Museum. We created a hands-on project for kids to draw life below water. Using SAM3 AI Video Segmentation and 3D Asset creation tools, I facilitated kids to create and customize their drawings into AI 3D Assets with video effects. Additionally, Coral Collective Lead Artist, TinksPlayground joing me in VR to create a new underwater remixed reef formation.

Remix Reef Team includes Charity Everett, Sara Tink Mapelli, Leona Shimoru, Fia Miri, and Laura Curtidor Hernandez

🌊 Why Coral Collective?

Coral Collective—along with Coral Quest, Deep Reef, and Sea Coral—was created to reimagine how we engage with the ocean. At a time when SDG 14: Life Below Water remains the least funded and often most overlooked of the UN Global Goals, these immersive, virtual reef experiences invite people into a vibrant, participatory relationship with the ocean’s most fragile ecosystems.

Created by Better World Museum, Coral Collective is not just digital art—it’s a regenerative call to action. As a museum dedicated to climate justice, community resilience, and creative technology, we saw a critical need to bring coral—and the ocean—back into people’s hearts, minds, and imaginations.

In a world of information overload and climate fatigue, we turned to play, storytelling, and AI to spark renewed connection. Through worldbuilding, AI coral NPCs, and interactive experiences like catching polyps or regenerating virtual reefs, people don’t just learn about marine life—they become part of its future.

These projects serve multiple goals:

✅ Raise awareness and empathy for endangered coral species and biodiversity loss
🎮 Teach new digital skills, like using GenAI to make 3D coral assets and worlds
🌐 Inspire global collaboration to regenerate reefs, virtually and physically
💡 Empower 1 million creators by 2030 to build for the sea

As the founder of Better World Museum, it’s clear to me: Museums must be active agents of hope and change. Coral Collective is our response—a place where art, tech, and community come together to restore what we still have time to save.

Coral Restoration Outreach and Beyond