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Alber-K graduated from the world- renowned Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) is currently researching new Music Technologies, developing new hardware devices and electronic musical instruments. Alber-K seeks to combine his knowledge of music technology with his passion for electronic music to create a completely unique sound and unparalleled live performance experience (e.g. incorporating 8D Technology). An engineer by training, Alber-K designs and produces some of his own instruments allowing him to bring never-before-heard fresh and funky tracks to the global house music scene.

Alber-K

When Music meets Tech

La Bourse

Innie Tran, Client Director, Mutant
Innie is a Belgian Advertising School graduate. She started her career at LDV United (WPP group) and worked on award winning campaigns like &#8216;The race is ours&#8217; from Het Nieuwsblad and Special Olympics’ campaigns &#8216;Dare to play&#8217; and &#8216;Dare to sponsor&#8217;. In 2020 she mutated and worked on award winning campaigns ‘Now’s the time to stare’ for Paralympic Team Belgium ‘Missed you stranger’ and ‘Last Metal Standing’ for StuBru to name a few.
Hannah Patronoudis, Managing Partner, nocomputer
As Managing Partner, Hannah rose through the company starting as an intern back in 2018. Learning everything from chatbots to AI, in all its forms, she helped develop prototypes at Craftworkz. Hannah was cut out to lead Craftworkz&#8217; new focus: helping creative agencies as a technical partner to validate their most innovative ideas. As from 2022 she has found a partner in crime and you can find her team often working together with nocomputer since they share the same passion, drive and focus to elevate creative projects with creative tech

Innie Tran & Hannah Patronoudis

Mutant and nocomputer present &#8216;Think in Colour&#8217;, a campaign created for current affairs magazine Knack, a publication open to variety of thought and nuances of opinion.&#8217;Think in Colour’ examines how colourful a person&#8217;s thinking is.  It was developed in collaboration with psychologists at the renowned University of Brussels (VUB) which specialises in human sciences, and measures different variables such as empathy, open-mindedness, flexibility and intellectual curiosity.Find out how Think in Colour opened the debate on how we see the world and how we talk to each other.

How much colour does your grey matter have?

Mutant & nocomputer

A Quebec delegation of nearly 15 creative and digital companies will take over the KIKK during the four days of the festival with a blue and white pavilion.
From virtual reality to artificial intelligence, video mapping, interactive installations and augmented scenography, these booming sectors of activity will be put forward by these Quebec creators who are fond of transatlantic meetings and collaborations.
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L'effet Québec

Innovation, creation on a human scale, immersion, collaboration, learning, emergence process, community of interest, dissemination and international outreach, these are the central themes of this conference led by Eloi Beauchamp, CEO and partner of the digital art studio Iregular, Véronique Paradis, Director of Innovation and Training at the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), which is a research and creation laboratory open to the world, and Myriam Achard, Manager of New Media Partnerships and Public Relations at PHI, which is recognized as a multidisciplinary artistic hub located at the intersection of art, film, music, design and technology.
How to push the limits of digital art? How to initiate and develop ecosystemic governance modes? How to connect human beings to the technology of tomorrow?
Want to know more about them? Here is everything you need to know about these key players in the Quebec ecosystem.
<a href="https://effetquebec.ca/entreprises/iregular/">Iregular</a> 
SAT 
<a href="https://effetquebec.ca/entreprises/phi/">PHI</a> 
Hubblo 
<a href="https://effetquebec.ca/entreprises/mysmartjourney/">My smart journey</a> 
<a href="https://effetquebec.ca/entreprises/ottomata/">Ottomata</a> 
<a href="https://effetquebec.ca/entreprises/studio-kay/">Studio Kay</a> 
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pierre-thirion-9b4033a/">Pierre Thirion</a>

The Montreal ecosystem pushes the technological boundaries to amaze and bring people together!

L’effet Québec

Pau Garcia is a media designer and the co-founder of Domestic Data Streamers, a 25 people studio that since 2013 has been focused on creating info-experiences. He also leads de Master in Data in Design at the School of Design and Engineering in Barcelona and the Barcelona School of Economics. He builds and permanently lives in the Residence for Artists HeyHuman! and is part of the PosttraumaticCollective. Usually, he doesn&#8217;t speak in the third person.

Pau Garcia

We, humans, struggle to build empathy towards large amounts of information. ¿How do we solve these challenges when the problems we face today are so inherently big, interconnected, wicked, and globalized? In this talk, we will explore some humble experiments done to overcome this lack of empathy through art, technology, and participatory experiences.

 Turning excel spreadsheets into collective emotions

Theatre

Daniel Iregui (Colombia, 1981) is a Montreal-based digital artist who creates interactive sculptures, immersive spaces, and architectural interventions using technology as both a tool and an aesthetic. He works with the infinite and random combinations produced by interactive systems that the audience influences and transforms.

Daniel Iregui

Iregular developed its own proprietary technology called CURSOR to power its interactive installations. It’s a touchless and long-range tracking system that uses AI and computer vision to precisely track up to 50 users at the same time and generate the most seamlessly interactive audiovisual responses. 
The magic of CURSOR creates new avenues for storytelling, liberates artistic expression, elevates public experience, and deepens the level of engagement to strongly connect people to the artwork and to one another.

Cursor : An interactive technology that turns cities into museums

Iregular

Olia Lialina is among the best-known participants in the 1990s net.art scene – an early-days, network-based art pioneer. Her early work had a great impact on recognizing the Internet as a medium for artistic expression and storytelling. This century her continuous and close attention to Internet architecture, &#8220;net.language&#8221; and vernacular web has made her an important voice in contemporary art and new media theory. Lialina is credited with founding one of the earliest web galleries, Art Teleportacia. She is cofounder and keeper of One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age archive and a professor at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, Germany and a GIF model.

Olia Lialina

What did it mean to design a web page in 1993 and what will it be in 2023? Let&#8217;s talk about World Wide Web its deep history and very near future. This talk is for those who is interested to discover the roots of modern sites and apps and the way the role of web designer, web master and web user is evolving.

What Does it Mean to Make a Web Page

David Bennett, CEO Mimic Productions Berlin (DE)
David Bennett has over 27 years of experience in the VFX, performance capture, 3D gaming and VR industries. He has played a major role in the development of facial animation, his credits include Hollywood’s blockbusters and has invented many new tools and techniques to streamline and enhance the capabilities of the internal technology. He founded Mimic Productions in 2012, a leading studio that makes the world&#8217;s most realistic digital characters, for all industries and imaginations, under one roof in Berlin.

David Bennett

Mimic Productions, a 3D studio that makes the world&#8217;s most realistic digital humans for all industries will present their case studies and future ambitions for virtual beings. David Bennett, a pioneer in the VFX, performance capture, 3D gaming and VR industries, with credits that include James Cameron&#8217;s Avatar and most recently The Matrix 4.
The visual presentation will focus on how photorealistic digital humans can be used in culture, with an industry insight into the current and future (AI) technologies that are used to create avatars. David has played a major role in the development of facial animation through innovation in new tools and techniques to streamline and enhance the capabilities of avatars and has plans to continue this journey through the use of AI technologies.

Digital humans for the creative industries

Vincent Morisset is a director known for his artistic use of technology. He is the founder of the Montreal-based studio AATOAA (pronounced à toi, meaning &#8220;yours&#8221;). Vincent has been celebrated worldwide for his interactive films and music videos. He has created the genre-defying projects BLA BLA, Way to Go, Vast Body, Motto and Composition.

Vincent Morisset

Lauren Moffatt is an Australian artist working with immersive environments and experimental narrative practices. Her works, often presented in hybrid and iterative forms, explore the paradoxical subjectivity of connected bodies and the indistinct boundaries between digital and organic life. In 2021 she was awarded the DKB VR Art Prize (DE). Lauren&#8217;s works have been exhibited most recently at La Gaïté Lyrique (FR), SXSW (US), Haus am Lützowplatz (DE), UNSW Galleries (AU), Daegu Art Museum (KOR), and at Le Grand Palais Ephémère (FR). She lives and works in Berlin and Valencia.

Lauren Moffatt

Lauren Moffatt will dive into the process behind her digital environments: techniques spanning physical painting and sculpture, 3D scanning, digital painting and world building. Working in unconventional ways with texture files, photogrammetry software, scientific data and game engines, she collaborates with software processes to produce 3D noise, which she builds into hybrid landscapes. Lauren will speak about how her experience has compelled her to translate sensations into visual compositions and unexpected textures that the eye can hold on to, going beyond the surface of digital glamour.

The Digital Strange

Annie Saunders is a multidisciplinary creator and director of site-specific experiences, and has made installations and performance works for both disused spaces and major arts institutions, experiential works for multinational brands and interactive works for public space. In recent years her projects have won the Tribeca Festival&#8217;s Immersive Creative Nonfiction Award, the D&amp;D Yellow Pencil, and the UK APA Award for Best Use of Technology for Good. Saunders is the founder and artistic director of site-specific performance company Wilderness, and her experimental project &#8216;The Wreck&#8217; for Opera Omaha was called ‘ingenious&#8230;a persuasive expression of complex female feeling,’ by the Wall Street Journal.

Annie Saunders

In this talk Saunders discusses experiential work, the role of technology in creating moments of spontaneous intimacy, synchronicity, enchantment and the unexpected, and the impact of pandemic years on the connection between inspiration and mysticism: that the creative process depends on a belief in the potential existence of something we’ve never seen before.

‘You had to be there’: liveness, creativity and the unforeseen

Lundahl &amp; Seitl, formed in 2003 as continuous research into the question of how we perceive reality and negotiate its various forms. The virtual experience in their works is created with peculiar objects such as sightless goggles or methods of choreographed touch through reverse engineering visual stimuli. Through a heuristic relationship to process, and created in collaboration between disciplines, the duo has developed an art form and method containing staging, choreographed movement, instructions, sculpture, spatial sound, and augmented and virtual reality.

Christer Lundahl

At the advent of the endemic, the artists discuss their practice making artworks that, each in a different way, explore how technology makes us and lay the ground for our human umwelt: how it connects and disconnects us from each other and other life-forms and processes. They explore their use of VR technologies in friction with material objects, and the human ability to receive a world, expressing a presence through absence.

A Language of What May Not Be Said

Lundahl & Seitl

Nicolas Nova is an anthropologist, design researcher, and writer. With a multidisciplinary background in social sciences, information technologies, design, and natural sciences, Nicolas uses ethnographic approaches to investigate everyday cultures in order to tell stories, and employs design techniques to explore the implications of new technologies as well as environmental change. Co-founder of a design fiction agency called The Near Future Laboratory, he is also Professor at the Geneva University of Arts and Design (HEAD–Genève).

Nicolas Nova

“Dr. Smartphone,” “iklinik,” “Smartphone clinique…” These are some of the names of a new type of business that has appeared in the past ten years: smartphone repair stores. The services provided vary, but they tend to focus on the material elements of the handset or terminal. Repair technicians may also be able to address software issues, or provide help to local people living in the neighborhood (from advices about addressing other areas of everyday life impacted by digital technologies to administrative tasks). The talk will address how these places can be seen as “hidden laboratories of care” for local communities, beyond simply “repairing” smartphones.

Hidden Laboratories of Care: smartphone repair shops as social hubs

Thierry Brunfaut is a creative director and one of the founding partners of Base Design, the international network of branding studios based in Brussels, New York, Geneva, and Melbourne. He is the author of the renowned 5–Minute poster series, a professor, and a regular speaker at design and branding conferences around the world. Thierry bears a striking and seemingly contradictory resemblance both to Moby and Kermit the frog.
Base Design is an international network of studios that creates brands with cultural impact. Located in Brussels, New York, Geneva, and Melbourne. Our team of creatives, 
strategists, and digital experts design and develop simple yet powerful brands, and build unique personalities.
Base knows that branding is first and foremost about people, so specializes in helping companies – whether new or established; large or small – to become human-centric brands with vision, clarity, and empathy.
Founded in the early ‘90s, the company has evolved continuously over the years and is now steered by partners across all four studios. Clients include Apple, The New York Times, The Institut Français de la Mode, la Fondation Cartier, Studio Brussel, MoMA, Bob Dylan Center, Dior Galerie, La Monnaie Opera, IFAW, The Prince Estate, Orior, Bozar, NY Mets, Caran d’Ache, Caudalie, the JFK Terminal 4, and many more.

Thierry Brunfaut 

Thierry Brunfaut is a graphic designer, therefore learned graphic design. Also, Thierry is an entrepreneur. However, he did not know anything about people management or human resources. So, with his partners, Thierry made ALL the possible mistakes you can make while running a creative business. Until the day they decided to redesign Base, their own company. Thierry will share this journey with the Base teams, how they changed and implemented new processes and rituals while maintaining personal inspiration and accelerated creativity in their four studios in Brussels, New York, Geneva, and Melbourne. Moreover, he will also give you one or two simple but effective bits of advice &#8230;

How to create a studio culture

Base Design

Kathleen Siminyu is an AI Researcher who has focused on Natural Language Processing for African Languages. She works at Mozilla as a Machine Learning Fellow to support the development of a Kiswahili Common Voice dataset and to build speech transcription models for end use cases in the agricultural and financial domains. In her NLP research, Kathleen has previously worked on speech transcription for Luhya languages and contributed to machine translation for Kenyan languages as part of Masakhane.

Kathleen Siminyu

A deep look at Mozilla Common Voice’s Kiswahili work – an initiative to bring a vital language of East Africa online, and to make voice technology accessible to Kiswahili speakers. The talk will cover the mission, challenges, and successes of building an open-source Kiswahili speech data set + community of contributors.

Honoring Kiswahili through technology and community

Merging the latest technology with traditional crafts, Sophie’s creations explore themes of body image, modification, evolution and transhumanism, whilst promoting positive conversations around disability and celebrating body diversity.
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Sophie de Oliveira Barata

The alternative limb project was found by Sophie de Oliveira Barata using the unique medium of prosthetics to create highly stylised wearable art pieces.
Drawing on her own specialist skills in making ultra realistic looking limbs, Sophie collaborates with specialists in fields such as 3D modelling, electronics and cutting edge technology, and works in conjunction with in-house prosthetist Chris Parsons at Design Prosthetics. Clients have included Paralympic athletes, musicians, models, performing artists and video game companies.

The alternative limb project

Immersive Garden has been recognized as Studio of the year 2017, 2018 and 2020 by AWWWARDS. Our vision is focused on crafting in-house meaningful concepts and stories thanks to digital experiences. This translates in websites but also installations, apps or any media that is relevant. Immersive Garden’s focus on details allows to bring high-end experiences that merge innovation in design and in technology to offer a powerful digital presence to brands. Our experience and dedication has brought us to collaborate with international clients: they reach out to us from all parts of the globe, leading us to have 75% of our collaborations with companies abroad.

Immersive Garden

Neil Mendoza’s work combines sculpture, electronics and software to bring inanimate objects and spaces to life. By combining found objects with technology in unexpected ways, the different elements of his work can be looked at from a new perspective. He explores themes of the absurd, the humorous, the futile and the surreal. He has exhibited work and talked at conferences around the world, taught classes on art and technology at UCLA and Stanford and co-founded the art collective “is this good?”.

Neil Mendoza

In this talk, Neil will share some of his thoughts on using technology to create artworks that live outside the screen, blurring the line between physical and the digital.

Screens and Machines

Elliot Woods (UK) is a digital media artist from Manchester UK.
He graduated with a Masters from the School of Physics and Astronomy and entered the arts following the founding of studio Kimchi and Chips in 2009 where he currently tests alternative relationships between images and reality. Here he participates in conceptual and technical design of projects, and develops techniques in computer vision, machine learning and robotics. His works reveal the implicit nature of systems therein suggesting to audiences revelatory experiences about nature and reality. He has created large scale light field art installations which draw floating images of the sun out of sunlight, or moons from 600 calibrated projector beams. Elliot has contributed to the openFrameworks and VVVV creative coding platforms and has released over 100 open source libraries for free on GitHub.

Elliot Woods

The work of Kimchi and Chips deals with the notion that images are physical representations of imaginary forms, and that the technology of images therefore reshapes and filters our collective imagination.

Images that change the way we see

Kimchi and Chips

SNASK is your future romance. A creative agency of misfit geniuses conquering the world through fine lookin&#8217; design and real emotions. They seek to challenge conservative frameworks and they do it with their backs straight, supported by their unbreakable values. They don&#8217;t cower away from the challenge, as they see that the magic lies within the unexplored. In order to be great &#8211; you have to be brave and bold. In order to be real &#8211;  you have to stand up for your opinions and beliefs. And that is Snask &#8211; brave, bold and real. They excel at branding, design and film and refuse to do anything else than what they see as world class. They are doctors of disturbance, wizards of disruption and spokesmen of disobedience. They take on the responsibility to stay engaged, give a damn, and strive for empathy. There is a short word for this assumption of responsibility: Snask.

SNASK

Snask will walk you through their view on life, their view on branding and their view on conservatism and why change is fucking inevitable. Hold on to your hats, because here comes your future romance!

Change is Fu*king Inevitable

Patrik is the Artistic Director of Artificial Rome. It’s not always the easiest job when you’re dealing with a bunch of individualists and – let’s face it – nerds. Astonishingly, he manages to keep up with this matter-of-fact feature and still works as an excellent designer with an ingenious output. 
Born in 1979 in Bochum, Germany, he started out by the age of 18 and was dragged along by the new economy hype. 
Aged 20 Patrik started freelancing at various advertising agencies. others), studying Communication &amp; Illustration Design in the meantime. In 2004 he teamed up with Dirk Hoffmann, they would co- found Artificial Rome in 2014. Since then, the team has, in successive years, received many awards in prestigious competitions including the Cannes Lions, the Art Directors Club, the Red Dot Award and the New York Festivals. 
Patrik has been a speaker at the OFFF Festival, Resonate, ADC Conference, Playground Festival and was Guest Lecturer at the HAW, FH Lübeck and the Miami Ad School.

Patrik de Jong

We will take a stroll down memory lane and do a timewarp thru the past 25 years. We shed light on the origins of the metaverse, which seems astonishingly closely interconnected to our own past. We will showcase some of the work that led to our involvement with the metaverse, we will highlight the limitless opportunities, but we will also voice some concerns about the current state of things.

Creating the Metaverse since 1996

Artificial Rome

Gabriele Rossi is a co-founder of Accurat, a boutique data-driven design consultancy with offices in Milan and New York. There, he directs a multi-disciplinary team of 40 designers, researchers, and engineers working on data visualization and digital experience innovation challenges at the forefront of the most disparate industries. Over 11 years, he has led the Accurat team on more than 600 ground-breaking collaborations with clients including the United Nations, Google, MoMA, IBM, Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, TED, Starbucks, World Economic Forum, and Adobe, among many others.

Gabriele Rossi

After running a firm operating at the intersection of design, technology and data for more than 10 years, Gabriele takes stock of all the hard-learned truths, disproven myths, dangerous habits, and healthy discomforts encountered while making contrasting approaches work together. Drawing from Accurat’s experience on more than 500 projects combining art and science, the talk tries to frame a pragmatic perspective to answer the questions we all keep asking ourselves: Are interdisciplinary teams worth the effort? How to find your “secret sauce”? How —and why— does a team grow? What’s the endgame?

The things I wish I knew BEFORE starting a data design studio

Accurat

Guided by an emotional approach, Berlin based studio onformative constantly searches for new forms of creative expression. Through an experimental practice they create meaningful digital art works to question the relationship between humans and technology. Their outcomes and interpretations take on varying forms across media through self-initiated and commissioned works that range from interactive media installations, generative corporate designs and dynamic visuals to data-driven narratives. Works by onformative have been exhibited across Europe as well as in North America, Australia and China.

Cedric Kiefer

When talking about the creation of digital art, we believe that technology is both a tool and parameter. It is enabling and adding new dimensions to what is possible. At the same time, technology sets limitations – which can serve as an inspiration as well. What we find in our practice is that it&#8217;s all about co-creation. Cedric will reflect on the role of the designer and how it evolves when computers end up taking over even more design tasks. Regarding data as an inspiration and A.I. as a muse, we can create an interesting interplay to integrate into our work.

About inspiration and co-creation in the age of data & AI

onformative

Conferences

More than 35 conferences about creative coding, data visualization, artificial intelligence, branding and strategy, VR/AR, bioart, design, research and more.

COnferenCes

Decay

Le Pavillon

Pepa Ivanova

Part animal documentary, part erotic film and part science fiction film, Cindy Coutant&#8217;s high definition camera follows the (fictional) day of a group of snails. The gastropods, the stars of this short film, are bathed in a light that is sometimes pink, sometimes blue. From sunrise to sunset, the snails advance in a slow ascent, out of time and following the Earth&#8217;s axis. Télédésir, a thirty-minute film, follows their nonchalant rhythm and love-making. 
The animal reproduction takes on a theatrical, even supernatural dimension, enhanced by the soundtrack of Théo Pozoga, a musician and DJ also known as &#8220;Strip Steve&#8221;.
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Télédésir

Cindy Coutant

Econtinuum invites us to dive into the ecosystem of trees. This work is a collaboration between the artist Thijs Biersteker and the Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso. Before our eyes, it creates a conversation between two trees as it might happen underground, showing how the two species can warn each other of danger, how they share nutrients and how they learn from each other. As visitors enter the system, they realise that the roots respond to their presence and learn from their habits, forming a futuristic ecosystem of shared knowledge. 
The system is equipped with two sensors. Each one represents a tree and captures data on humidity, pressure, temperature, CO2 and the level of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) present in the exhibition space. These sensors are combined with artificial intelligence that mimics inter-tree communication from a large network of scientific data.

Econtinuum

Thijs Biersteker

Japanese artist Aki Inomata draws a parallel between the behaviour of hermit crabs that change their shells when they get too big or are simply chased away by another species, and that of humans and their migratory movements. 
The artist started with shells used by hermit crabs, which she scanned to reproduce an exact copy with the addition of urban landscapes, all 3D printed. 
For both Aki Inomata and Thomas Thwaites, their work is an exploration and displacement of our perception of others and ourselves by observing the living.

Why Not Hand Over a "Shelter" to Hermit Crabs?

Aki Inomata

The bacteria that live on your body outnumber your own cells.  While we have 23,000 genes, our microbiome can contain up to 2 million unique bacterial genes.  There is a lot of emerging research on the role of all the microorganisms cohabit our body and personal traits, such as mood, behavior and health.  These findings unseat our relationship with notions of identity and genetic determinism; do I exhibit certain traits because of genes I inherited, because of the environment I was raised in, or because of the biome I have acquired through a lifetime of kissing and touching? 
Kisses from the Future consists of a series of self portraits exploring a decentralized identity composed of the multi-species constellation that is a microbiome. This project examines the impact of microorganisms living in the body that impact mood and behavior- elements that we typically associate with a sense of “self”, but is co-made with other species.

Kisses from the future

Ani Liu

Thomas Thwaites is a British designer who, through the creation of his objects, explores the psychological and social impact of technologies. For over a year, he conducted research to prepare himself to spend three days living like a goat in the Swiss Alps. He built an exoskeleton to adapt his bipedal body to that of a quadruped, and created a prosthetic artificial stomach to allow him to feed on grass, just like a goat. For several days he lived among the herd, observing distinctions in the natural world that he had not previously perceived, and observing the world from new perspectives, in a desire to step out of himself and distance himself from an anthropocentric vision.

Goatman

Thomas Thwaites

In 25 woodworms, sound artist Zimoun captures the sounds emitted by 25 woodworms encased in a piece of bark. Using a simple device, a microphone placed above the bark, the artist makes the invisible presence of the living creatures audible to the human ear.

25 woodworms

In 25 woodworms, sound artist Zimoun captures the sounds emitted by 25 woodworms encased in a piece of bark. Using a simple device, a microphone placed above the bark, the artist makes the invisible presence of the living creatures audible to the human ear. 
The sound produced seems to follow its own swarm logic, but this is just an impression because it is actually random. Only animals like termites and ants follow their own logic; woodworms do not adopt this behaviour. Each one emits a unique sound sequence that is born purely of the moment. In 25 woodworms, some 20 individual sounds reveal themselves to us.

Zimoun

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KIKK in town

KIKK invades the whole city with an art exhibition in 20 different indoor and outdoor locations. Discover the city in a different way thanks to this journey including monumental and interactive installations!
Entrance fee 5€ (free for children under 16)

Kikk in tOwn

Inno-Boticis a young company, on a human scale, with more than 60 years of accumulated experience in the world of automation &amp; robotization in various industries, company management, international business development

Innobotic

Inno-Boticdesigns and/or distributes innovative robotic products in the Walloon Region -Brussels –Luxembourg Two key examples:

Project

Robotic at People’s service

KIKK Market

Druw audio is the startup from Verviers hidding behind BEATSURFING. Their former founders are persuing their goal for about 20 years: Bring  back interpretation/performance in the digital music industry. 
It’s not their first try. 10 years ago, Beatsurfing1 came out. The idea was already there but its use needed to grow.
In 2015, they came out with the Playground App which recorded 1.2M downloads and received the Best of App Store Award. The concept’s traction was proven. 
Now, where Playground allows you to (re)play already made music templates, BEATSURFING is the tool that allow you to create and edit those types of musical contents.

Druw audio

BEATSURFING is the only music creation software in the world hat brings &gt;&gt;back to the future&lt;&lt; the human performance in the music production process. Assemble curated -synth- or -sample based- Instruments and tweak them to create the perfect beat! Play your created MAP (Playable Musical Score Template) as a musician by surfing on your iPad. Record your performance directly or send it to your DAW. Jam with other Beatsurfing musicians by linking your iPads together and perform as a band.
And this is just the beginning! Soon, BEATSURFING will be deployed on desktop allowing you to play on any music dedicated touchscreen.

BEATSURFING

Brings interpretation back to the center of music production

The LSFB lab at UNamur has been studying sign language since the 2000s. The lab is composed of 10 people including researchers, teachers and sign language experts. Since 2018, the LSFB Lab has been collaborating with the Artificial Intelligence Lab of the Faculty of Computer Science to develop tools for the analysis and understanding of the French-speaking sign language of Belgium.

LSFB LAB

The project of a parallel dictionary of the French sign language of Belgium (LSFB) into French aims at providing an online platform allowing deaf people or people wishing to learn LSFB to search for the meaning of a sign using their webcam. The creation of this platform, unique in the world, is the result of the work of the translators of the LSFB laboratory of Namur and the research in artificial intelligence carried out at the Faculty of Computer Science of Namur.

  The French sign language of Belgium and artificial intelligence

Rokoko is a startup based in Copenhagen, Athens &amp; San Francisco that created the motion capture solutions Smartsuit Pro (sensor-based mocap suit), Smartgloves, and Motion Library (the world&#8217;s largest marketplace of motion assets). Our vision at Rokoko is to give all creative teams access to quick, non-intrusive and intuitive animation tools.

Rokoko

At Rokoko, we spearhead a paradigm shift in how developers work with human motion data. For decades, digital tools have been counter to the way we naturally work. We’re moving away from a past that constrained creativity and making a future where the tools are playful and intuitive for everyone.
We’ve democratized the expensive and inaccessible tools of traditional motion capture – with the Smartsuit Pro, Smartsuit Studio, and Motion Library. These tools can reach the hands of creators who never had access to motion capture before. We set their ideas free in gaming, films, education, sports, health, live performance, and VR/AR experiences. With more creators gaining access every day, the future of motion capture led by Rokoko is limitless.

3D character animation and motion capture for all creators

Instruments of Things is a German start-up that offers market-leading motion capture technology for interacting with media. Their product SOMI-1 is the basis for a new generation of affordable and easy-to-use controllers for immersive media, such as VR, based on motion sensor wearables.

Instruments of Things

SOMI-1 is a highly precise sensor technology that provides performers, musicians and creators the opportunity of making music via movements. It consists of Bluetooth® motion sensor wearables, a receiver hub and a smartphone app (as possible sound source). The sensors can be worn as wearables on the wrists and ankles, turning the user into an instrument.

SOMI-1

Highly precise sensor technology that provides performers, musicians and creators the opportunity of making music via movements

Open Mind Neurotechnologies offers a unique method combining virtual reality, serious games and neuroscience to reveal and develop soft skills. Its innovative trainings allow people to better understand how they manage their stress, their emotions, their ability to adapt to change &#8230; in order to develop their soft skills and act on their well-being and performance at work!
The participant is immersed in a gamified parallel universe thanks to a virtual reality helmet, where his reactions and behaviors are measured in real time by sensors (heart rate, breathing rate, sweat rate). This data allows him to understand his strengths and his areas for improvement. Once the diagnosis has been made, he trains his soft skills either individually through a personalized program or in a group workshop to develop collective intelligence, managerial practices and learn to better manage his energy over time.

Open Mind Neurotechnologies

Discover a unique virtual reality experience combining game, neuroscience, and sensors to analyze people’s reactions to stress, adaptation to uncertainty, emotional regulation, … and develop their soft skills and well-being at work!

Open Mind

Open Mind Neurotechnologies offers a unique method combining virtual reality, serious games and neuroscience to reveal and develop soft skills

HaptX Inc is a small business that creates haptic feedback devices for natural interaction in virtual environments as well as human-machine interface for telerobotics. With offices in Redmond, Washington, and San Luis Obispo, California, the HaptX team specializes in creating products which provide high-fidelity haptic experiences. Working across market sectors in enterprise and government, HaptX Gloves and products provide an unequalled sense of lifelike touch and presence which allows for high confidence in transferability of skills developed in training, accuracy of design, simplified and quicker engineering, and the ability to work collaboratively in the same environment with a collocated or geographically dispersed cohort.

HaptX

The HaptX Gloves DK2 provide realistic touch sensation unlike any other device. Built with patented microfluidic technology, these are the only gloves that deliver industrial-grade performance and true contact haptic feedback for natural interactions in both VR and robotics. Fortune 500 companies and government agencies use HaptX Gloves for VR training, design, and telerobotics. Whether you&#8217;re training your workforce, designing a new product, or controlling robots from a distance, HaptX Gloves make it feel real.

HaptX Gloves DK2

The HaptX Gloves DK2 provide realistic touch sensation unlike any other device

HAPTX Gloves

Liège Hackerspace is a community driven space where members with common interests in sciences, technology or digital art meet to create, share and learn based on their knowledge and skills. It’s a non-profit organisation funded in 2016. It opens twice a week for members and visitors, and it also regularly holds conferences, workshop and various events.
Running a hackerspace is a never-ending project with a never-ending list of projects. Few of members projects will be shown at our booth.

Liège Hackerspace

Running a hackerspace is a never-ending project with a never-ending list of projects.

Hackerspace of Namur, Incubhacker is an interdisciplinary meeting and creation space. Based on the sharing of knowledge such as electronics, computer science and digital arts, its goal is to gather creative people motivated by technological projects and collaborations. Events and workshops are organized in order to open members and the public to new fields.
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Incubhacker enters its 10th year! Here is an opportunity to look back on some of the achievements that marked this period! Between Arduino and Raspbery pi, current and future projects, between imagination and manufacturing, you will be able to observe and manipulate our creations, discuss them and their future because nothing is set in stone!

Incubhacker

An interdisciplinary meeting and creation space

Tennis and padel are one of the most polluting sports in the world due to ball overconsumption. Bounce is a start-up that has as goal to make these sports more sustainable by creating a circular economy around balls.

Bounce

The Bounce tube is the next generation of tubes for tennis and padel balls. It allows you to recreate a pressurized environment at the end of each game thanks to its integrated pump and hermetic cover. Your balls will no longer lose pressure between games and you&#8217;ll be able to play up to 3 times longer with them.

The Bounce tube

The Bounce tube is the next generation of tubes for tennis and padel balls

ENTER.black is a young company bringing together two artists with a common goal: to make digital tangible by producing physical and hybrid artistic installations.

ENTER.black

The Metamorpheur is a personalized photocall that uses micromapping and an intuitive interface. A disruptive booth that projects evocative patterns on the faces of its guests, making them a part of the art piece. Alone or with others, spectators can select their favorite projections and collect their portraits through a web-app or instant printing.

The Metamorpheur

ENTER.BLACK

At ODD our mission is to unlock the fun, inspiring, educational and therapeutic powers of music for everyone, through playful but powerful smart products.

ODD Ball is the first ball in the world to make music. It connects to the ODD App, where you can choose 100s of sounds from percussions, keys, guitars and more. You can play over your favorite artists using Spotify or Apple Music, record and create a full track, sample your voice and share your creations with your friends.
It works as a wireless MIDI controller and is sensitive to the intensity of the bounce. Every time you bounce, tap, slap, catch, spin or juggle the ball, the app will play a sound through the phone&#8217;s internal speaker or any headphone or speaker connected to the phone.

ODD Ball

Play and create music by simply bouncing a ball 

Born in 2015 during an educational workshop led by the Master ITER (Innovation and Territory) and the LabEx ITEM (Innovation and Mountain Territories), at the Institute of Alpine Geography in Grenoble, France, the Losonnante project was initiated by Sébastien Depertat, joined in 2017 by Thomas Bonnenfant.

Losonnante

Losonnante is an original sound installation in that it offers a bone conduction listening experience. The sound is therefore not projected into space through the air, it travels along the elbows, arms, hands to the ears.
Perfect for noisy places
Bone conduction listening offers unparalleled sonic possibilities and depth in noisy places. Hands on your ears, you isolate yourself from the outside world.
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A discreet sound bubble
Losonnante is a listening device that is discreet from those around it. It does not generate sound conflicts and can be installed in environments sensitive to noise.
Simplify access
The device offers a simple surface where you can put your elbows. There is no specific equipment. Depending on the position of the hands on the ears, the sound changes slightly allowing everyone to find the most suitable listening position.

Bone conduction audio terminals

La niche is a digital agency specializing in the collaborative design of relevant solutions to boost your growth. From project management to digital strategies, from interface design to user experience, from application development to maintenance, from SEO to online marketing, from data intelligence to reporting, our team of experts are at the forefront of all the areas of the digital world. Our involvement and our passion have led us to collaborate with many clients and help them design quality digital projects that make sense. In this way, La niche offers a strategic and operational partnership to ambitious digital startups.

La Niche

Digital Agency

Zafi Cycles is a start-up that manufactures wooden bicycle frames that are 100% made in Belgium. 
Manufacturing wooden bicycles combines technology and craftsmanship to create an exclusive and innovative product. Its technical qualities (performance and comfort) and its timeless aesthetics make it a unique object capable of satisfying the simple amateur or the experienced cyclist.
In fact, wood is a great engineering material because its cellular structure acts as a network of natural shock absorbers, absorbing road vibrations and making the ride extremely smooth. It therefore allows you to combine performance and pleasure.
The wood is sourced from local sustainably managed forests (including the Sonian Forest) and everything is done to minimise the ecological impact during production. Each bike is custom built and designed in Belgium.
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Zafi Cycles

Wooden bicycle frames that are 100% made in Belgium

Deloitte Digital combines industry intelligence, tech know-how, creativity, and a human-centric mindset to create end-to-end experiences. From frictionless, always-on experiences and platforms that deliver simple, accessible human utility, to branded products and services that convert prospects to lifelong customers, we amplify behaviors that fuel growth.

Deloitte

The Deloitte Digital team will showcase its rapid prototyping capabilities by giving visitors the opportunity to experience their latest Digital Twin. Through the lenses of an augmented reality headset, users will discover the relationship between traffic and air pollution in a city center, and will be able to interact with the data in real time to improve the daily lives of citizens.