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Kirsty is a multidisciplinary producer and strategic leader with a proven track record in securing international commissions and partnerships, leading organisational change and producing award-winning works of high quality and artistic ambition. She is Executive Producer for Anagram, an award-winning creative studio specialising in interactive storytelling and immersive experience design.
Previously, Kirsty worked as Business Director for the internationally renowned artist group Blast Theory for eight years. In this post, she produced artworks across multiple immersive forms including Karen (2015), a digital artwork exploring data profiling ; politically-charged immersive theatre pieces such as Operation Black Antler (2016) ; large scale international collaborations such as 2097 : We Made Ourselves Over (2017) and live interactive feature films including Bloodyminded (2018).
Kirsty also worked with Documentary Campus, 104 Films and Sheffield Doc/Fest.

Kirsty Jennings from Anagram

Blending tangible experience and impossible stories to unearth tiny truths. How can we use immersive worlds to reimagine the world and our place in it ?
In this talk Kirsty will discuss the power of physical experiences in virtual spaces to shape perception. She will focus the talk on Anagram’s VR experience Goliath : Playing with Reality (2021), which brings together the sensory power of immersive theatre with recently available technology to playfully invite audiences into alternative worlds and a unique understanding of our own minds.

Everything you feel is real

Theatre

Anagram

Edan Kwan (b. 1986, Hong Kong) is a visionary digital artist and highly sought-after creative director in the dynamic design and advertising industries. With a unique ability to blend art and technology, he is recognized as a leading-edge artist and a creative force to be reckoned with.
Having lived and worked in dynamic creative hubs like Hong Kong, New York and Tokyo, Edan now calls the United Kingdom home, where he owns and operates Lusion, a multi-award-winning digital production studio that is renowned for creating cutting-edge and immersive digital experiences for leading brands.

Edan Kwan

Through the looking glass of this talk, you&#8217;ll discover how to paint with physics, and sculpt with mathematics, using creativity as your palette and WebGL as your canvas. You&#8217;ll traverse the neon highways of data visualization, scale the shimmering mountain peaks of 3D modelling, and dive deep into the iridescent oceans of immersive experiences.

Immersive Experience in Pyjamas: A Fantastical Bedtime Story from the Realm of creativity

Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian Ph.D (she/ they) is an award-winning director and designer of experiences, a filmmaker and creative director, who creates multidimensional experiential projects at the intersection of film ,science, tech, theater, politics, the arts and design. Ben Hayoun-Stépanian has founded and managed projects, commissions and platforms from all scales from grassroots community organizations (The University of the Underground) to multi millions pounds publicly funded festival (called Tour de Moon) and platforms both physical and virtual. Recognised by her peers as a ‘force of nature’ and a ‘manufacturer of the impossible’, she is known for disrupting systems and sparking radical imagination whilst supporting youth countercultures, experimental practices and pluralistic futures.

Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian

Opening KIKK festival 2023, Nelly will take you on a provocative journey through her decolonial practice, building platforms for sociological and critical impact with events. In this energetic talk, Ben Hayoun-Stépanian Ph.D will create a space for thoughts, debate and provocation around the urgent need for organized communities, nightlife and plurality in society.  Nelly will share some learnings on founding and leading LGBTQ+ youth festival Tour de Moon. This was a free, public, pluralistic, nationwide festival celebrating nightlife and youth countercultures from across the UK and beyond, a part of Unboxed, Creativity in the UK. This was the UK’s most ambitious publicly funded showcase of creative collaboration including free large-scale events, installations and globally accessible digital experiences with a focus on &#8216;non human-centric&#8217; interactions : music was sent to the moon, while moths were invited to collaborate on this totally hybrid festival of creativity with a mission to decolonise, to celebrate nature, to empower countercultures and to redistribute wealth.
You will see the behind the scenes of complex large-scale productions, she will also exclusively share the latest development of her feature film called &#8216;Doppelgangers x3&#8217;, a diasporic investigation of human settlement on the moon in collaboration with Nelly&#8217;s doppelgangers.
Who knows : in the end you might find yourself experiencing an emotional gaze made of crystals and manufactured sun ? And this is only the beginning of KIKK !
Thanks to the support of European FEDER funds, this conference is exceptionally being offered free of charge, on request from the festival reception (entrance to the marquee).