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Pippi Anne Zornoza (born 1978) is an American interdisciplinary artist working in visual art, performance art, and music, and co-founder of the Providence-based artist collective Dirt Palace and Hive Archive.

Biography
Zornoza received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A) degree in Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2001. In 2016, she received a Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A) degree in Art Practice from School of Visual Arts (SVA). She is the sister of novelist Andrew Zornoza.

The Dirt Palace, a feminist artist collective located in Olneyville, was co-founded in 2000 by Zornoza alongside Jo Dery, Xander Morro, Rachel Berube, Cara Hyde, and Michelle Marchese. It is a cooperative, affordable living space for seven female artists, working in various media.

She starred in the 2005 cult movie Die You Zombie Bastards!, a zombie comedy.

Visual art
Zornoza's visual art utilizes fabric, textiles and embroidery; her repetitive and intricate designs contain layered and repeating motifs of skulls, swords, birds and various predatory animals, inspired by the aesthetic commonly found associated with metal music.

Her art work has exhibited internationally in Argentina, Columbia and Sweden, and was published in the art-poster anthology book, The Art of Modern Rock.

In 2006, Zornoza was part of Wunderground: Providence, 1995 to the Present, at Rhode Island School of Design Museum featuring Providence poster art from 1995 to 2005 along other artists such as Brian Chippendale, Xander Marro, Jim Drain, Leif Goldberg, Jungil Hong, Erin Rosenthal and Mat Brinkman.

She was a Rhode Island State Council of the Arts (RISCA) 2007 Design Fellowship Recipient.

In 2010, Guggenheim Curator Lauren Hinkson interviewed Zornoza on Contemporary Printmaking at the AS220 galley.

Music
Zornoza is also a percussionist and has played drums for the band Bonedust, which toured the U.S. in 2006; Throne of Blood (2002–03); and Sawzall (2001–02). Her most recent project is a collaboration with musician Chrissy Wolpert co-directing and co-producing a rock opera as Bonedust. She was also in the metal band Vvltvre, playing drums and vocals. Ulta has invested in several AI start-up companies including Adeptmind, Mink and Iterate.ai. In 2019, Ulta made it's first AI company acquisition, QM Scientific. Ulta's $20 million VC fund, Prisma Ventures, was launched in August 2022 for digital innovation. Start-ups working with Ulta will be able to use the company's customer base to test their tools, but Ulta will not use the technology of all the companies they have invested in.

In October 2023, the company launched the Ulta Beauty Advisor Chat which will use Generative AI to give customers access to the company's beauty resources. The company also uses GenAI for virtual hairstyle try-on.

Ulta has partnered with the company LUUM Precision Lash for LUUM's first commercial pilot, which was announced on December 12, 2023.

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"Ulta Beauty is also bringing generative AI into the customer service experience. In October, the company launched the Ulta Beauty Advisor Chat as a virtual beauty assistant, leveraging GenAI to provide shoppers a convenient way to tap into Ulta’s beauty expertise and resources. In addition, there’s the company’s hairstyle virtual try-on, which uses generative AI to help customers try different hairstyles on-camera."

"Five-year-old company Luum launched its commercial pilot with Ulta Beauty on December 12 and is meant to provide faster lash extension applications than humans"

Ulta Beauty has been a pioneer in the implementation of AI tools. For example, prior to this year’s AI boom, in 2019, the company acquired AI company QM Scientific to focus on personalization.

QM was Ulta Beauty’s first AI acquisition of several as the retailer has continued to prioritize AI capabilities. Both its digital innovation team and its investment fund, Prisma Ventures, are heavily focused on AI development and training, internally and through their portfolio startups. The venture fund was launched in August 2022 to bring new technologies to Ulta Beauty.

Prisma Ventures, Ulta Beauty's digital innovation fund

1 https://www.glossy.co/beauty/how-ulta-beauty-is-using-ai-to-advance-its-tools-and-services/

LUUM Precision Lash, a groundbreaking beauty-tech venture, announced today the launch of its first commercial pilot with Ulta Beauty.

2 https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/luum-precision-lash-launches-groundbreaking-ai-robotics-pilot-service-with-ulta-beauty-302011885.html

3 https://www.glossy.co/beauty/ulta-beauty-joins-the-vc-world-with-launch-of-prisma-ventures-%EF%BF%BC/

4 https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/03/ulta-beauty-launches-a-fund-showcasing-the-resilience-of-corporate-venture-capital/