KIKK Festival

Various projects of the SENSE team will be presented:

Black Out

With no more information than a blacked-out screen and a series of mysterious objects in motion, the player will have to be creative. His challenge ? Understand how his interaction with the mobile phone triggers the animation of the objects. Black Out is a portfolio of toys controlled by the sensors of a smartphone. Using the data collected by the sensors (such as accelerometer or gyroscope), the game invites us to question oneself and learn more on our essential and intrusive companions.

Hack Go Black

The smartphone, object incarnation of our digital life, is the perfect playground to take – or take back – the control on the continuous recording of our lives. This kit “HACK GO BACK”, literally ’Hack and disappear’ has been designed to approach peacefully the issue of the permanent recording of our data by our smartphones, with no paranoia nor technophobia The kit is composed of two booklets, one describing the recent history of smartphones and their sensors, the other that gives tips and tricks to play with the recording of your data by your phone. The briefcase that comes along will allow you to take control over things by making your own hacks with simple materials.

IA ex machinas

IA ex Machinas is a set of small actionable machines that allows anyone to understand key notions used in artificial intelligence and machine learning. By being tangible, the concepts become comprehensible.

(t)Rain

(t)Rain is a vintage phone booth of France Telecom that grew Intelligent. The booth recognizes you and plays with the rain. Based on Machine Learning technologies for image recognition, (t)Rain leaves the user in command. Each player decides on his own what pose, face or movement will stop the rain.