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Gemma O’Brien is an internationally renowned designer and artist known for her bold graphics, illustrative lettering and murals.
Her work has been commissioned by Apple, Nike, Google, and is held in the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City.
Outside her commercial design work, she explores language, nature and the human experience through her art practice.

Gemma O'Brien

After a decade working in the field of graphic design, art and illustration, Gemma O’Brien became intrigued with the idea that ultra running actually might hold the secrets of how to endure a long life as an artist.
Join her at KIKK in Namur 2023 as she shares the early stories of her career, the hands-on processes behind her largest wall installations and explains what she thinks it means to be an ultra artist.

How to Be An Ultra Artist

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Gemma O’Brien

Jack Isles is an architect, researcher and cartographer working between Italy and Spain.
Jack’s work focuses on the intersection of climatology, migration and human rights, developing spatial methodologies and analytical practices for investigating conflict across numerous scales. As a cartographer he is a member of the Swiss based agency for investigation Border Forensics, documenting state sponsored violence at Europe’s borders. Whilst as a researcher at the University of Bologna, he is a member of the ERC funded Hostile Envrioment’s project, investigating the political ecology of migration and border violence.
Jack’s work has been exhibited and published by organisations such as Human Rights Watch, Chicago Architecture Triennale, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and Elisava Escuela Universitaria de Diseño e Ingeniería de Barcelona.

Jack Isles

Hostile Waters explores the frayed edges and intrinsic violence of Europe’s internal and external borders. Focussing on work surrounding migration across the Central Mediterranean, Jack will extrapolate upon investigative, spatial and artistic practices for documenting and denouncing violence at sea.
The talk will highlight various forensic methodologies developed by Border Forensics and LIMINAL for resisting the criminalisation of migration and widespread border surveillance, transforming the skies above the mediterranean sea.

Hostile Waters - Strategies for Resistance 

Hostile Waters ; Strategies for Resistance 

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Maywa Denki, the art studio run by Novmichi Tosa, is named after the electrical company his father ran, hence the uniform typical of Japanese electrical shops that the unit&#8217;s &#8217;employees&#8217; wear.  Each Maywa Denki piece is a &#8220;product&#8221;, and exhibitions or shows are organised as &#8220;product demonstrations&#8221;. Visit any variety shop or musical instrument shop in Japan, and you&#8217;re likely to discover a display dedicated to the toy synthesiser known as the Otamatone, a curious device with a small but devoted fan base. Available in a range of sizes, this electronic instrument with the appearance of a drawn eighth note was launched in 2010 and remains one of Maywa Denki&#8217;s most famous creations. Based in Tokyo, the company marries art and commerce, democratising creativity while giving its credentials to zany fun.The heart of Maywa Denki is its co-founder, inventor, musician, artist and entrepreneur Novmichi Tosa. He fits in culturally somewhere between Devo and the Blue Man Group, Harry Partch and Alexander Calder, Akihiro Yokoi and Aki Maita (the inventors of the Tamagotchi).Live, the group offers up some jubilant popkitsch concert-performances featuring electromechanical musical instruments as absurd as they are ingenious. Their show should delight fans of electronic culture and street theatre alike.
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).