You take place in a hollow log, and land in a frozen river that is projected around you. The game is controlled by tilting the log. During your wild adventure, you encounter rocks of ice, tree logs, penguins and seals on the way down! This unique experience was based on the film Casper & Emma: Winter Vacation.

Digital design and development (Devine) is a three-year optional course within the bachelor Multimedia and Communications at HOWEST in Kortrijk. The Deviners live digitally and online and created a few great installations for JEFF.

Devine (BE)
Kevin Hendrickx * h.kevin.hendrickx@gmail.com
Gert-Jan Wille* gertjanwille.w@gmail.com
Kevin Waelkens* kevox.waelkens@gmail.com

A hologram is a complete three-dimensional image of an object on a flat surface. 2D images are projected in 3D, making it possible to view the image from different angles. Does that sound exciting? In this How-To? station, you’ll discover how it works. You can make a hologram of yourself, using a pyramid you’ll construct yourself which you can take home with you afterwards.

For 30 years, Cinekid has been engaging themselves to stimulate the production of high-quality media for children, to let them actively take part in media and to let them contribute to the creation process. The goal is to guide children’s media development, to let them experience media with a critical eye, and to broaden their world view.

Cinekid ism Floortje Zonneveld (NL)

Ice Breaker is an interactive ice hockey game with two teams: ‘bear’ and ‘wolf’. Each player picks a team, and has his own installation to attack or defend. By jumping three timesn on a springboard, the attacker make the opponent’s screen tremble and move the pucks to make it extra exhilarating!

Digital design and development (Devine) is a three-year optional course within the bachelor Multimedia and Communications at HOWEST in Kortrijk. The Deviners live digitally and online and created a few great installations for JEFF.

Devine
Sébastien Henau * sebastienhenau@hotmail.com
Jonas De Vacht * jonas.devacht@outlook.be

Waiting for a film to start can take a while sometimes… But at The Youth Film Festival, we invented something that will make the wait anything but boring! In the cinema, you can use LED flashlights to make a drawing together, and to let footballs, ping pong balls, badminton shuttlecocks and other sports paraphernalia bounce across the screen. An interactive experience in the spo®tlights!

Alex Prooper has over 30 years of experience in developing software for a wide variety of computer systems. He approaches art differently than most other artists working with computers. For Alex, the computer is a unique medium, a device with awesome raw power, ideally suited to participate completely new things. It’s the ultimate way to make processes or visible or audible. His quest is to come up with these processes, the making of software to carry out these processes, and then to feed the built system with data.

AlexP (NL)

Fishy Nom Nom is an interactive installation designed for toddlers from three to six years old. The game is set in the beautiful world of the deep ocean. The player controls a diver who feeds the hungry fish by throwing food at them. But only the right color of food will make the fish happy. Through color recognition, the toddlers learn to build connections. The game is unlimited, and there are no winners or losers. Wrapped in an appealing aquarium, this is ideal for the littlest ones.

Digital design and development (Devine) is a three-year optional course within the bachelor Multimedia and Communications at HOWEST in Kortrijk. The Deviners live digitally and online and created a few great installations for JEFF.

Devine (BE)
Arne Deprez * cavia@live.be
Katia Smet * katia.smet@hotmail.com

You command the game by jumping on the trampoline. Jump as a panda through the rainforest, catching as many coins as you can along the way. Through sensor technology measuring your jump and speed, your avatar in the game is controlled.

Embedded Fitness is an interactive and serious gaming company striving to be the knowledge centre and living lab for interactive motion. They work with leading knowledge institutions to develop unique motion concepts for all ages. They also do extensive research in coordination with many organizations and educational facilities. Children grow up in a virtual environment, where ICT and technology are integral. Interactive motion games are a perfect fit for their world, stimulating them to move more.

The Sports Innovation Campus is a joint project by Howest and Sport Vlaanderen. The Sports Innovation Campus is a vibrant, innovative place connecting agents in sports, movement and active health. It has the ambition to be the testing grounds to support, host and connect entrepreneurial, inventive partners, allowing them to develop themselves to the fullest.

De sportinnovatiecampus (BE) & Embedded Fitness (NL)

With Pong Invaders Reality, the gamers continue to defend the world against the alien invasion that started with the classic Space Invaders video game back in 1978. This mixed reality installation uses motion tracking and a projection screen, creating an immersive combination of physical table tennis as an interface for a video game.

Tobias Othmar Hermann, the maker of Pong Invaders Reality, is a cross media artist located in Berlin, Germany. He is a resident at Creative Gaming Initiative Hamburg and Game Science Center Berlin. Pong Invaders Reality has been shown at major electronic arts exhibitions in Germany and across Europe. In 2017 a small series of machines are under development, since the game became quite popular over the years.

Tobias Othmar Hermann

Douglas Wilson’s Johann Sebastian Joust is a physical, music-enabled playground game for motion controllers. Jostle your opponents’ controllers while protecting your own! The goal is to be the last player remaining. When the music — J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos — plays in slow motion, the controllers are very sensitive to movement. When the music speeds up, the threshold becomes less strict, giving the players a small window to dash at their opponents. If your controller is ever moved beyond the allowable threshold, you’re out! This game was selected for us by House of Indie and will be played in a Panna Field to make it extra exciting.

The House of Indie is an indie game collective from Antwerp, Belgium, committed to curating, nurturing & solidifying local and international indie culture.

House of Indie

The Wonder Table is an interactive installation that turns shadow play, the classical theatre art form, interactive. With the help of so-called fiducials, little black-and-white squares that are recognized by a webcam, the play comes to life. These fiducials activate an element in the shadow play. By bringing different elements together, the players can create their own stories.

Sebastiaan Hensen graduated from the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht in 2015. He is currently developing interactive installations and experiences, with the focus on physical interaction, which he turns into digital output. Puppetry is an important source of inspiration to him. He finds it interesting to let physical objects come to life in a surprising way. He does this by transforming everyday actions into digital interaction. Because this makes the interaction feel more natural, the visitors can immerse themselves in the experience.

Sebastiaan Hensen (NL)

Turn your body into an actual shadow puppet. Convert yourself from 3D to 2D! Shadow play is one of the oldest types of theatre in the world. It started in Asia, around 100 BC. One of the pioneers of animated film, Lotte Reiniger, used a lightbox with cut-out figurines to make her “shadow movies”. She used ‘cut-out animation’, allowing the figurines to come to life through stopmotion.

For more than 35 years already, Jekino is building towards a dynamic, diverse and respectful children’s film culture. In this organisation culture, entertainment and education go hand in hand. Films and workshops customised for children, youngsters and their teachers and coaches find their way to schools, cinemas, cultural centres and youth organisations.

Jekino (BE)

Bring the figures to life in a self-made animation. Choose your own little figures, make up an adventurous story and get to work with the iPad. With the wonderful technique of stop-motion, you magically transform the images into a playful film. The technique is almost as old as the art of filming itself and was one of the first special effects techniques in the film industry, before the arrival of digital animation.

For more than 35 years already, Jekino is building towards a dynamic, diverse and respectful children’s film culture. In this organisation culture, entertainment and education go hand in hand. Films and workshops customised for children, youngsters and their teachers and coaches find their way to schools, cinemas, cultural centres and youth organisations.

Jekino

Lightning is the ultimate racing experience for children, young and old.
Find your seat in one of the two handmade cars and start racing along one of the three tracks like Lightning or Flash.
Bring out your finest racing skills, because the tracks are filled with obstacles which will determine who finishes first.
Ready to race? Go!

Devine (BE)
Bernd Bousard * bernd.bousard@gmail.com
Samuel De Pooter* samuel.de.pooter@student.howest.be

Go on a short visual trip across the sport fields of LaboJEFF using the Oculus Rift. Fly over a tennis court, float in between bouncing footballs and slide past rackets and other sports equipment. It’s virtual gymnastics for sport lovers!

Alex Prooper has over 30 years of experience in developing software for a wide variety of computer systems. He approaches art differently than most other artists working with computers. For Alex, the computer is a unique medium, a device with awesome raw power, ideally suited to participate completely new things. It’s the ultimate way to make processes or visible or audible. His quest is to come up with these processes, the making of software to carry out these processes, and then to feed the built system with data.

AlexP (NL)

Have you always wanted to be a futuristic archer? Now is the time! Test your Robin Hood skills and pick up the laser bow. Pull back the string, aim and let go at the right moment. Are you the archery talent the world has been waiting for? Try it out and practice your skills.

Digital design and development (Devine) is a three-year optional course within the bachelor Multimedia and Communications at HOWEST in Kortrijk. The Deviners live digitally and online and created a few great installations for JEFF.

Devine (BE)
Daphne Danneels * daphnedanneels@hotmail.com
Jordy Wittouck * jordywittouck@live.be