Bruno Fonzi
Cofounder of CODAME ART+TECH, guided by the belief that technology becomes meaningful through creativity and shared exploration.
Some journeys begin with a plan. Others begin with curiosity.
Bruno’s began with a computer and a sense of wonder about what could be created through it. At 15, he built and sold his first software application to a school using a TI-99/4A. It wasn’t just a technical achievement—it was the first moment he saw that ideas could become real, that something imagined could take form through code. That experience helped fund a year of study in the United States, quietly expanding his view of the world and of his own path within it.
While studying Computer Science at London Metropolitan University, he developed a photo-manipulation program before Photoshop existed. He wasn’t trying to replicate reality, but to explore it—to understand how technology could become a medium for creativity. In that moment, software stopped being only functional. It became expressive.
This perspective shaped everything that followed. He worked with companies like Adobe, Salesforce —and contributed to advanced AI systems for the European Space Agency building technologies used in satellites, robotics, and space exploration. Each step deepened his belief that technology is not separate from human creativity, but an extension of it.
In 2010, in San Francisco, Bruno founded CODAME. It wasn’t conceived as an organization, but as a space—a place where artists and technologists could come together, experiment, and explore without predefined outcomes. Over time, it grew into a global community, united by the idea that the future is not something we wait for, but something we create together.
After completing his Master’s in Business and Technology at UNSW Sydney and moving to Silicon Valley, he continued building—founding Lanica and developing tools that empowered others to create. But CODAME remained the constant thread, reflecting a deeper purpose beyond any single company or role.
Today, that same curiosity continues to guide him. Not toward a fixed destination, but toward new questions. New collaborations. New forms of expression.
Because in the end, technology is only meaningful in what it enables us to imagine—and to become.
You can follow his journey at fonzi.com