Oded Yaniv (Ed) Strauss is a digital storyteller from Yisra’el Vally, now from uptown Tel Aviv.
Roaming from filmmaking, curating for festivals and cinema clubs, to the other end of making astonishing AI art, rolling out as a Creative Technologist and UX Designer.
His creations deal with love, fear, the desire for inventions, and the quest for the unknown future.
After graduating from TAU (Tel Aviv University) with a B.A. at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, he continued to M.F.A. in Digital Media directing and producing. While doing so, Oded was a research assistant to Dr. David Gurevitz in his book “Kafka’s America” (2024), a T.A. in the College of Management, and a representative of the students’ association at TAU.
Recently, he completed two projects- the first is about tortures, using a DIY chair, 180 degrees film, and an eye-tracking controller; the second is an experimental short film containing an enormous number of frames, checking the ability to recognize the content and appreciate the frame as the basic unit of cinema.
Although Oded feels like Festivals are his territory, from winning two prizes for his short film in the age of 18, his other nature is experimenting with new ideas about the cinematic world, whether those may be messing up with the shape and length of the frames or the affordances of XR and AI.
As a game developer, Oded led a team to create “Exodus”, a short video game where we need to save the Israelites by finding Moses's staff through conversations with AI-NPCs who tell their version of the biblical exodus. It is not his first time as a team leader after he was responsible for some other task forces during the last years.
Roles he’s into:
From scriptwriting to code-writing and everything in the middle! making any idea or dream to be a meaningful experience for a broad audience.
Tools he uses:
Adobe Suit, Unity, C#, Figma, multiple AI tools, UI&UX technics…
