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Johannes Schmitz (DE)

Kiki — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 06:59:10 +0000

Johannes Schmitz is a well-known figure in Berlin’s club scene. With his event series Rebellion der Träumer and Multilayer, he regularly curates and promotes events at Kater Blau, Sisyphos, and ://about blank. He also serves as Head of Booking for the Bucht der Träumer festival and Skalar Festival. In addition, he performs as a DJ and producer under the alias bīsu.

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Noam Rubin (DE)

Kiki — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:29:21 +0000

Noam is a Berlin-based founder and active member of the electronic music community she’s building for. With a background in neuroscience and tech, she combines analytical thinking and creativity to co-create ohr: a platform making music discovery more transparent, social, and meaningful.

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Alaa Elhadba (DE)

Kiki — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:47:18 +0000

Alaa Elhadba is the founder and CEO of Djoid, a music curation intelligence platform built for professional DJs. With a background as a search architect at Zalando and Head of Data at Native Instruments, he spent over a decade at the intersection of music and machine intelligence before building Djoid — now a profitable SaaS with thousands of paying users and a proprietary Music Canonical Graph at its core.

A DJ with 15+ years of experience, Alaa builds from the inside out: the product reflects a practitioner’s obsession with how music is understood, organized, and played. He speaks on AI-powered music discovery, search architecture applied to creative domains, and what it means to build infrastructure for culture.

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505 (IT/DE)

Lilli Lou — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:14:37 +0000

Berlin-based duo 505, formed by guitarist Daniel Calvi and electronic artist Mattia Prete, crafts a sonic landscape where electronica, jazz, and trip-hop converge. After a defining year at Montreux Jazz, Fusion, and Garbicz Festival, they are set to release their independent debut album, “True at First Light”, on February 27th, 2026.

Their sound pulses with deep rhythms and dreamlike atmospheres, driven by a collaborative philosophy that invites European musicians to shape each live show into a unique experience. Following the release, 505 will tour Japan in March before returning to Europe for an extensive run of concerts, including a live show at Privat club Berlin on May 21st.

Combining cinematic storytelling with raw energy, 505 continues to transcend genre boundaries through ongoing sonic experimentation.

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Dr. Kathrin Brunner (DE)

Artur — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:40:41 +0000

Kathrin Brunner is a creative producer specializing in XR, immersive media, and new forms of interaction. Driven by curiosity, she explores emerging technologies to create innovative narrative and interactive experiences. She has held senior management positions at the Warner/Bertelsmann joint venture in2movies, Deutsche Telekom, and Discovery Communications. With Starberry.the media factory and mYndstorm productions, she has consulted companies ranging from ProSiebenSat.1’s VoD platform maxdome to major German public broadcasters.

With Mind the Brain!, she pioneered neuroreactive VR with Oliver Czeslik. The project won the Stereopsia Lumière Award for Best VR Technology (2020) and the 1E9 New Realities Award (2021), and was exhibited at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. The French-German coproduction Duchampiana premiered at Venice Immersive 2024, won Best Art Experience at the European XR Awards – Stereopsia 2024, received the Impact Prize at NewImages 2025, and is part of the Berlinale EFM Selection 2026.

Kathrin also teaches and gives masterclasses on XR storytelling, immersive interaction design, and emerging media formats. She holds a doctoral degree in Strategic Management from the Munich School of Management (LMU), focusing on organization theory in times of globalization.

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Oliver Czeslik (DE)

Artur — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:31:37 +0000

Oliver Czeslik is an award-winning creator, writer and producer of XR experiences, theatre and film. His plays have been performed internationally, including khaddafi rocks, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman in New York and at Germany’s leading theatres, including Schaubühne and Volksbühne Berlin. He has produced feature films for cinema and television, mostly based on his own screenplays. Oliver has worked extensively as a lecturer, including at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb), and leads international workshops and masterclasses, among others at Theatertreffen Berlin.

He founded the screenplay department of S. Fischer Verlag in Berlin. Together with Kathrin Brunner, he founded mYndstorm productions to create movement between film, science, XR, AI and art. As part of the Delimitation Series, he created Mind the Brain! and i wanna be ur dog as author and director. He also co-produced the internationally award-winning XR project Duchampiana.

He is currently developing to the other side…, an individual performance combining BCI, AI, art and an interactive installation.

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Szymon Smolin (DE)

Kiki — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:13:24 +0000

Szymon Smolin is a music business professional with 10+ years of experience in music production, audio engineering, music supervision, and publishing.

He has had a lot of experience working with artists, labels, and TV productions, with a focus on music placement, rights management, and production workflows.

Currently he and his team are developing A Piece of Cake, a hardware backing track player designed to streamline live performance setups for artists and bands.

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Marc-André Schmachtel (DE/FR)

Fani — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 09:12:24 +0000

Born in Germany, Marc-André Schmachtel studied in Saarbrücken and Québec/Canada. He has been active for several film festivals in Germany and is working since 2008 for the Goethe-Institut, first in Cameroon, then as head of Goethe-Institut Nigeria. He initiated several projects in the film, theatre, music and fine arts sector, both on a national and international level. In 2016 he was posted to the headquarters in Munich and was in charge for TV and radio cooperation, focusing amongst other on the artistic dimension of radio-making. As consultant to the head of Culture Department he was in charge of the support programs to Ukrainian artists after the Russian invasion and took over the position of artistic director at the project space “Goethe-Institut in Exile” in Berlin, organizing large festivals with Belarusian, Afghan and Iranian exile diasporas. In 2024 he has been posted to Athens as regional head of cultural programs.

Links: https://www.instagram.com/marcandre_schmachtel/;
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Mark Dieler (DE/IT)

admino — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:47:20 +0000

Mark Dieler, Latvian-Sicily based German-Italian from Ranco (Italy), has been working internationally since 1998, of which 10+ years spent on the African continent.  With a background of activism and interest in social change, he has worked on numerous projects between hospitality and events involving both underground and top-tier artists and locations.
Due to the decade spent in East Africa he has a particular interest in the continent.

He continues working on networking projects, producing events, tours and residencies, cooperates with organisations such as In Place of War, Tallinn Music Week, Sicily Music Conference, Trans Europe Halles, Dirty Deal Audio, Cindy&Kate, Lona Musik, Paavli Kultuurivabrik and others.

A current focus is the establishment of an artist residency space in Sicily, where he spends as much time as possible with a particular interest on island and mediterranean music ecosystems as well as collaborative projects and circular economy. In cooperation with likeminded projects he co-founded AMARI – a network of rural mediterranean residencies.

Links: https://www.facebook.com/mark.dieler
www.lazytime.org

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SALOMEA (DE)

konstantinos — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 15:30:16 +0000

Ένας εντυπωσιακός συνφιασμός ακατέργαστου R’n’B και hip-hop των 2000s, συνδυασμένο με neo-soul και μια φουτουριστική σύγχρονη jazz αισθητική που θέτει διεθνή standards με απόλυτη φυσικότητα. Το γεγονός ότι μια τέτοια μπάντα προέρχεται από τη Γερμανία; Μια ουτοπία. Αλλά πάνω απ’ όλα: ένα μανιφέστο ελπίδας, αντίστασης, αγάπης και ευγνωμοσύνης.

Ένας πολυεπίπεδος ηχητικός κόσμος, με εκπληκτικά δυνατές παραγωγές και φωνητικά υψηλότατου επιπέδου. Συνδυασμένο με στίχους που αναζητούν ουσιαστικό βάθος και διάλογο, και την πεποίθηση ότι η μεταμόρφωση του πόνου σε ομορφιά και τέχνη μπορεί να επιτευχθεί. Συχνά: μια ουτοπία. Εδώ: μια πραγματικότητα μέσα από την τέχνη της εξαιρετικής μουσικής.

Links:
Website: https://salomeaofficial.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/salomeasaywhat/
Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@salomeasaywhat
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVDkfGN7ALvybrq4uzd89Zw

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