VIP PASS: FilmGate Interactive #09

WHAT: 9th FilmGate Interactive Media Festival 2022

WHEN: Monday November 28 - Monday, December 5

WHERE: Various Locations around Downtown Miami & Miami Beach

Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science

The Downtown Media Center

The SE Financial Center

O Cinema South Beach

Tickets

VIP passes $300 Presale / $400 Regular

Tickets from $0 to $75

Kids under 12 are free

Student Pass with current valid ID $25

With its slogan “art x tech empowering our future”, the 9th Annual FilmGate Interactive Media Festival returns to Miami Art week and over four days, continues to explore the best local and international mind-bending stories and concepts, using extended reality (XR) storytelling, or the content of the future, as its platform.

The FilmGate Interactive Festival, a one-of-a-kind international festival, taking place in person and virtually in Miami and Miami Beach, is designed to highlight and showcase how emerging tech empowers new ways of artistic and media expression. Over the course of four days, Friday through Monday, Dec. 2-5, 2022, creators, producers, tech companies and curious audiences will have access to over 30 interactive experiences, 15 labs and talks, interactive exhibits, 4 dome experiences, a financing market, b2b meetings, music, and live events, accessible to all ages.

The theme of the 9th Annual FilmGate Interactive Festival is SOLAR PUNK- a science fiction literary genre and art movement. “We decided to present works that search for and explore answers to the most provocative issues of our time, issues that challenge our very existence. We live at a time when difficult and important decisions must be made to address human impact, and human-machine relationships, as the world as we know it is irreversibly changing. We dared our community to envision how the future might look, if humanity succeeded in solving major contemporary challenges” said Festival and FilmGate’s Co-founder/Executive Director, Diliana Alexander.

Here is our TICKET BREAKDOWN and FESTIVAL SCHEDULE:

Public Installations: Access to our curated program at the Frost Science Museum, the Downtown Media Center, O Cinema, and the SE Financial Center. XR projects and chats (over twenty VR, AR, and interactive stories from around the world). This does not include access to the opening night, sunset cruise, parties, and networking events.

Opening Ceremony: Access to our opening night at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science. For event details, please see below. Complimentary drinks and treats. To purchase a ticket just for this event please visit this link:

Closing Sunset Cruise/Awards Ceremony: Access exclusively to our Sunset Cruise, interactive project, and our Awards Ceremony. Complimentary drinks and treats. For event details, please see below.

VIP: This will grant you access to all projects, experiences, events, and meet-ups. All VIP events include complimentary craft/drinks.

*Free admission for children under 12 years of age accompanied by an adult.

FILMGATE 2022 SCHEDULE

Theme: Solar Punk

An activist and artistic movement that envisions a sustainable future, interconnected with nature, art, technology and community and rejects nihilism and embraces decolonial enthusiasm for creating such a future.

ONGOING - Nov 28th to Dec 5th

Exhibitions at the Frost Science Museum

Plastisapiens

Our Common Ground: AI Art in Public Space: Mobile projection of Common Ground exhibitio

ONGOING - Friday Dec 2nd - Monday Dec 5th

Exhibitions at Downtown Media Center and the South East Financial Center

20 experiences, including

German Spotlight

Korean Spotlight

French Spotlight

Canada Spotlight

Common Ground, an exhibition of AI art on the blockchain, featuring 17 established and emerging digital artists whose work explores strategies for finding creative common ground with machines and their environment.

For a full list of projects at the Downtown Media Center: https://www.filmgate.miami/fg-imf-09-dowtown-media-center

For a full list of projects at the SE Financial Center: https://www.filmgate.miami/sefinancialcenterfgimf09

Friday Dec 2nd

Opening night at the Dome 7pm to 10pm

7pm cocktail

8pm 4 Interactive Experiences:

–22.7 C

The Orchid and the Bee

Vaudeville Sounds presents Waves and Particles

DJ set by Paperwater with friends

Sat Dec 3rd - 5th Floor Frost

10:30 AM - Breakfast/ SOLARPUNK opening lighting talks

Diliana Alexander, FilmGate Interactive - Opening remarks / Kick off the festival

Doug Roberts, Frost Science Museum - Opening remarks

Miri Chekhanovich/Edith Jorisch, creators Plastisapiens

11a - Panel: How NOT to build a Metaverse

The term "metaverse" is everywhere now, and it's divisive. Both a promise and a punchline, the concept for some represents the future; for others, a fad or false start. What should we NOT do when building a metaverse? What does it really mean to be "metaversal"? Why are we experiencing these "empty world" problems? And where does Web3 and AR fit in? Panelists will discuss best– and worst!– practices for designing a metaverse, and shed some light on what is (and isn't!) next for this new paradigm.

Joanna Popper, Chief Metaverse Officer, Creative Artists Agency

Emma Chiu, Global Director, Intelligence at Wunder Thompson

Sam Schoonover, head of Immersive at Coachella, and founder of The Future, Immersive Agency

Mirko Vogel, Vaudeville.tv

Moderator - Savannah Niles

12p - Panel: XR in Education -Powered by Microsoft

How do we inclusively onboard educators, emerging creatives and technologists into XR?

Pavani Yalla, Director of platform experience design, Magic Leap

Mauricio Ferrazza, Chairperson for Miami Animation & Gaming International Complex (MAGIC)

Darrell Booker, Microsoft

Moderator - Tangy Frederick, Founder, Tech Education Foundation

1p - 2 Lunch

2p - Lightning talks

AMPD & Departure Lounge, ​​James Hursthouse, Chief Strategy Officer at AMPD Ventures Inc. | CEO and Founder of Departure Lounge Inc. and Adam Rogers Co-Founder, VP Creative & Head of Studio at Departure Lounge Inc.

Michael Pickering, Cloud Constable - introduces AI “Eva”

2:30p - Panel: IRL as Site and Subject

IRL is back. After two years in lockdown, the places and people around us open up again. As new platforms like augmented reality, interactive displays, and volumetric capture become viable at scale, the world around us becomes site and subject for the experiential. What's next? What are the crucial interventions and imperatives for location-based experiences today?

Hugo Laliberte, Ottomata

Nicolas S. Roy - CEO of Dept

Tamara Shogaolu

Atley Loughridge, Snap

Moderator - Nelly Gocheva

3:30p - Everything is Different - Web3, AI, and the New Creative - Sponsored by Microsoft

Just as we've accepted that Web3 has radically changed the creative economy and the worlds of art and entertainment, in the last few months, the dizzying pace of advancement in generative AI has shattered our model of creative production entirely. Time to forget everything we know. What does it mean to be "a creative" now? And how will these new technologies continue to transform art, entertainment, commerce, and more?

Pierre Zandrowicz, Atlas V

Michelle Abbs

Victoria Bousis, UME

Mathieu Rozières, Dark Euphoria

Moderator - Denise Mendez, Microsoft

4:30p - Panel: Common Ground | Uncommon Tools

Flimgate presents Common Ground, an exhibition of AI art on the blockchain, featuring 17 established and emerging digital artists whose work explores strategies for finding creative common ground with machines and their environment. In this panel, “View Source” behind the work of several featured artists from the exhibition, Common Ground, as they share the diverse artistic research practices and software tools being used to invent a new medium of cultural production.

Lonliboy [ Ivan Tulpa ], curator

Karan4D, Artist

Ivona Tau, Artist

Sophia Crespo, Artist

Moderator - James Powderly, Snap

5:30p - Happy hour at the Frost

6:30pm Projection: Common Ground

7p - Performance of Cosmogeny

Sunday Dec 4th

10am - Party Bus to O Cinema

10:30 am Villa Albertine Presentation by Camille JEANJEAN, New Media Officer, Villa Albertine, French Embassy in the US

The Cultural Services of the French Embassy is thrilled to introduce "Immersive spaces" a new program dedicated to the export of French immersive exhibitions and multi-user large-scale immersive experiences in the United States in collaboration with the French Insitute in Paris. Discover Villa Albertine new medias residents all over the country.

11am - Current State and Future Growth of the Asian Pacific XR Market

The Asia Pacific XR market will grow by 49.0% over 2020-2026 with a total addressable market cap of $288.2 billion as the total demand in the fast-growing region. Hear from key players, programmers, producers and influencers from South Korea, China, Taiwan, and Japan.

Moderator: Jimmy Cheng, Director of International Partnership Sandman Studios

Eddie Lou, Founder / Curator, Sandbox Immersive Festival

Jay Kim, Producer of GiiÖii & XR Curator of BIFAN, South Korea 

Min-Wei Kuo, Taicca Taiwan

Katsutoshi Machiba, Festival Director, Beyond the Frame, Japan

12 to 1p - This is Not a Ceremony Panel

Colin Van Loun, creator This is Not a Ceremony

Rev. Houston R. Cypress, Otter Clan; co-founder of Love The Everglades Movement

Moderated by Vivian Marthell, co-founder O Cinema

1 - 2p - Lunch

2p - 5p - Pitches

9 creators - 7 Canadians and 3 Miami creators will pitch in front of festival attendees and a panel of dedicated jury

5p - 7p - Canadian Cocktail

8 - 10p - 2nd performance of AI Art in Public Space: Mobile projection of Common Ground exhibition

Monday, Dec 5th

10am to 2pm - Market Morning creator/producer/business meetings - downtown

4p to 8p - Awards/boat ⛴️Bayside

For more information, please go to our website: filmgate.miami

Let's celebrate Miami Art Basel and new technology together!

Thank you to our partners: The National Endowment for the Arts, Miami Dade Cultural Affairs Office, Florida State's Department of Cultural Affairs, The Downtown Development Authority, Microsoft, The Canadian Consulate Miami, French Embassy in Miami, German Consulate in Miami, O Cinema, Alacran Group,Tito's Handcrafted Vodka, Equiano.

*The Cultural Services of the French Embassy and FACE Foundation, in partnership with UniFrance, the Institut Français, the CNC, launched French Immersion. The grant brings French creators or producers to the US on the occasion of a screening or presentation of their work during a significant festival or program identified by the Cultural Services team.