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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.

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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

Welcome to My Metaverse

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.

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