Meet @visualfrisson
An AI creator exploring the edge of generative video through editing, animation and custom-built workflows.
His work is driven by experimentation and a deep belief in the creative freedom that open-source tools make possible.
Now you get the chance to see him live at ADOS Paris 2026 for his talk:
Custom Pipelines: The Open Source Advantage.
📍 Artifex Lab, Paris
🗓 Sunday, April 19th
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Meet @enigmatic_e
An AI artist, content creator and educator whose work moves between videography, motion design, VFX, animation and emerging creative tools.
Known off-screen as Eric Solorio, he brings a perspective shaped by hands-on experimentation, AI animation research and a deep curiosity for what these new workflows make possible.
Now you get the chance to see him live at ADOS Paris 2026 for his talk:
Creative Intent in an Automated World
📍 Artifex Lab, Paris
🗓 Sunday, April 19th
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Meet Ziv Ilan.
A Solutions Architect at NVIDIA working on LLM evaluation, optimization and deployment — focused on how to make powerful AI systems faster, leaner and more useful in the real world.
Before joining NVIDIA, he worked at deci.ai on neural architecture search and model compression for generative AI and computer vision models, bringing a perspective shaped by both deep technical rigor and practical AI performance.
Now you get the chance to see him live at ADOS Paris 2026 for his talk:
You Might Not Need 50 Diffusion Steps.
📍 Artifex Lab, Paris
🗓 Sunday, April 19th
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Meet @miki_duran
A film and commercial director and AI artist working where cinematic storytelling meets emerging creative tools.
With a background in film directing and post-production, Miki brings a perspective shaped by both traditional craft and new production workflows.
Now you get the chance to see him live at ADOS Paris 2026 for his talk: “Creating with LTX Studio.”
📍 Artifex Lab, Paris
🗓 Sunday, April 19th
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Meet @calvin_herbst
An artist and director with a rare instinct for resurrection — reviving forgotten visual languages and breathing new life into styles the world had left behind, then colliding them with scenarios nobody saw coming.
Through his mastery of LoRA training techniques, Calvin works at the crossroads of the historical and the radical, taking aesthetics that time forgot and recontextualizing them into something entirely fresh and unexpected.
Now you get the chance to see him live at ADOS Paris 2026, where he’ll speak about the process and motivation behind his work in his presentation:
Creating New Aesthetics with Old Data
📍 Artifex Lab, Paris
🗓 Sunday, April 19th
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Meet @mohamed.oumoumad
As CTO of Gear Productions, Mohamed works where technical innovation meets creative execution — turning ideas that once felt out of reach into something tangible.
With a focus on building and applying new systems in production, his perspective is grounded not just in what is theoretically possible, but in what can actually be done now.
Now you can see him live at ADOS Paris 2026 for his talk:
IC LoRAs and the End of Impossible.
📍 Artifex Lab, Paris
🗓 Sunday, April 19th
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Meet @mattszy
The director, writer and creative producer whose work moves between film, branded content and AI-enhanced storytelling — always circling the deeper psychological and cultural questions behind new technology.
With a background in both traditional filmmaking and experimental AI cinema, Matt brings a perspective that is thoughtful, cinematic and unafraid of uncomfortable questions.
Now you can see him live at ADOS Paris 2026 for his talk: When AI Killed the Artist.
📍 Artifex Lab, Paris
🗓 Sunday, April 19th
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Meet Yaron Inger.
Co-founder and CTO of Lightricks, the company behind some of the most widely used creative tools of the last decade and, more recently, major advances in open-source AI video.
A builder at heart, Yaron works where deep technical thinking meets creative possibility, helping shape the tools, models and systems that are changing how people make images and films.
Now you can see him live at ADOS Paris 2026 for his talk: Your Model Now:
LTX and the Builders Who Define It
📍 Artifex Lab, Paris
🗓 Sunday, April 19th
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Meet @ingi.ai
The man behind the infamous viral inflatable Heisenberg video and an Emmy-nominated creative entrepreneur working at the intersection of animation, internet culture and emerging technology.
As CEO of Systms and founder of Golden Wolf, Ingi has spent years building bold visual worlds and exploring how new tools reshape the way ideas are made, shared and remixed.
Now you get the chance to see him live at ADOS Paris 2026, where he’ll be giving his talk Remix Culture.
📍 Artifex Lab, Paris
🗓 Sunday, April 19th
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Meet @nekodificador
The guy who makes you rethink everything you thought you knew about AI and creativity.
With a background spanning photography, 3D, VFX and generative AI, he's become one of the most trusted voices in the Spanish-speaking AI art community, not by hyping the tools, but by showing what's actually possible with them.
Now you get the chance to see him speak at ADOS Paris 2026 with "Embracing the Liquid Paradigm" on how AI is reshaping the creative pipeline and what it really means to adapt.
📍 Artifex Lab, Paris
🗓 Sunday, April 19th
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The Arca Gidan Prize is back!
And this one is going to be something special.
The meta-theme is Time.
Three subthemes to pick from:
Déjà Vu — the glitch, the loop, moments that echo
The Briefness of Bloom — that perfect moment just before it fades
Traveling Through Time — backward, forward, sideways
Your piece can be anywhere from 30 seconds to 3 minutes. The whole point is to push past what AI video usually looks like, no Hollywood trailers, no music videos. Something genuinely new and weird and impossible before now.
And thanks to @peteromallet and his restless efforts for our Banodoco community this year the reward is juicier than ever! 💜
$50K+ in prize money, with top entries getting flown to Paris for ADOS to show their work on opening night.
If you've been waiting for a reason to make something, this is it.
Deadline and submission details on the Arca Gidan Website: /
Hope you enjoy the trailer for maybe a whisper of inspiration.
Let's make something beautiful.
