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The KIKK Pro is the networking area reserved for all festival pass holders. This space is a real business environment where you can find spaces to invite your clients, partners and potential prospects. A B2B app is also available to all pass holders allowing them to network with others. 
It is also within the KIKK pro that the lucky owners of the Smart Pass and VIP Experience will be able to receive their lunch pack on Thursday and Friday noon between 1pm and 2:30pm

KIKK PrO

The place dedicated to networking

Creative Village

KIKK Pro

Founded in 2005, Minalogic is an innovation cluster for digital technologies operating out of France’s Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Minalogic drives an ecosystem of nearly 500 members that includes more than 430 innovative companies from across the region that cover the entire digital technology value chain. Minalogic’s members also include universities, research organizations, local government, banks and investors to sustain a unique network dedicated to innovation in digital technologies.
Minalogic helps all of its stakeholders make business connections through targeted, qualified introductions and create opportunities to innovate and grow at the national, European, and international levels.
In a bid to restore France’s place as powerhouse of culture and creativity, the French government launched its France 2030 initiative. The ambitious program includes increased support for the arts in the form of education and investments into opportunities offered by digital technologies, such as virtual reality, over-the-top media, and real-time discoverability.
Minalogic is an expert in content technology and helps its members obtain funding to buy the tech they need for their creations and creativity, and in general, for developing and publishing the cultural content of today and tomorrow.
With the support from the regional authority, Minalogic is delighted to be leading a delegation from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region at this year’s KIKK festival!

Minalogic and its companies

Technologies: 
Image processing (2D/3D/Holograms) 
Immersive technologies [AR/VR/XR] 
Game engines 
Broadcasting 
Sound processing 
Light processing 
3D Printing 
Intelligence Artificielle 
Blockchain &amp; NFC
Business sectors:
Architecture &amp; Heritage 
Arts of living &amp; FoodTech 
Cinema &amp; Audiovisual 
Design 
Editing &amp; Book publishing 
EdTech 
Media, Press &amp; Radio 
Mode and Fashion 
Music 
Live performance 
Video Gaming &amp; eSport 
Visual arts, Graphism &amp; Photography 
Web / Communication / Marketing
Contents:
Pictures 
Photographs 
Artwork 
Texts 
Poems 
Books 
Blog 
Sounds (music, podcast) 
Audio book 
(Meta-)Data 
Complexes 
Short film 
Documentary 
Film 
Animation 
Video games
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Key competencies

The creative ecosystem

Minalogic Auvergne Rhone Alpes

Want to have a drink with family or friends during the festival? 
Meet us under the Place d&#8217;Armes tent! 
We have a large assortment of beers and soft drinks to offer you!

Where to drink

The place to take a break 

More info soon

Creative village and B2B

The Creative Village gathers the KIKK Market, the pro area and makes room for countries and regions that come to the festival with the best of their creative ecosystems.

Creative Village & B2B

COMING SOON &#8211; Organized on the side of the festival, workshops vary from a few hours to several days.

Workshops and masterclasses

Coming soon

La Bourse

Workshops and Masterclasses

KIKK’s workshops are an opportunity for participants to discover new technologies and techniques. Organized on the side of the festival, workshops vary from a few hours to several days.

WorkshOps & MasterClasses

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

Theatre

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

Aparna Rao, of duo Pors &amp; Rao since 2004, works between their studio in Bangalore and lab in Zurich. They make objects and installations often incorporating physical animation and responsive behaviors, to evoke a sense of a being. Many of their works are conceived as a kind of &#8216;being&#8217; with basic behavior traits such as shyness, fatigue and dependency; highlighting involuntary aspects of human behavior and relationships. She also runs the Robotics Aesthetics &amp; Usability Center at ETHZ, to freely share the robotic tools extracted from the artworks with other non technical users.

Aparna Rao

Pors & Rao

Artificial Rome

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

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

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