Keiken are a collaborative arts practice based between London and Berlin, co-founded by artists Tanya Cruz, Hana Omori and Isabel Ramos in 2015, who frequently work with multiple collaborators. Named after the Japanese for experience, they create speculative worlds, using moving-image, CGI, gaming software, installation, virtual and augmented reality, programming and performance to merge the physical and digital. Their work simulates new structures and ways of existing, exploring how societal introjection governs the way we feel, think and perceive. Recent projects have been produced for FACT in Liverpool, MIRA.mov festival organised by IDEAL in Barcelona, transmediale at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, and the ICA and Jerwood Space in London. Keiken have shown work at IMPAKT Festival in Utrecht, LUX Moving Image, Space Art + Technology in London and with Tate St Ives.

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Ryna Vautier is aCGI artist and designer based in London, who specialises in creating animated worlds that explore the fractures between the digital and physical. His work seeks to explore the evolution of digital realms and the influence of physical existence on these frontier spaces. Recent projects have included the creation of Digital Spa for the Dazed Beauty Wellness Week, the music video for Rhumba Club’s track Pocket Machine, and the Tate Modern Future Late programme. He has worked with 1975, Ms Banks, Grimes, Ben Ditto and Lucy Hardcastle. Recently he completed a residency with Keiken at Aspex Gallery in Portsmouth.