Clemence Debaig

Creative Technologist - The Kids Are Halal

Clemence Debaig is a dance artist, XR designer, and creative technologist whose practice examines how technologically mediated interactions shape control, empathy, and intimacy. She is Artistic Director of Unwired Dance Theatre and founder of Unwired Studio, working with telepresence, networked wearables, motion capture, and VR. Her work has been presented at Jacob's Pillow (USA), Maison de la Danse (France), The Cockpit (UK), and beyond, with collaborations including Mavin Khoo (Akram Khan Dance Company), Alexander Whitley Dance Company and Pell Ensemble. She is also a lecturer and researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London, teaching motion capture, digital embodiment & immersive theatre.

Website: https://www.clemencedebaig.com/ 

Instagram: @clemencedebaig_art 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clemence-debaig 

Kashish Gakhar

Movement Director - The Kids Are Halal

Kashish Gakhar is a creative technologist, movement director, curator, and illustrator. She creates embodied experiences that blend classical Indian dance, sound, and creative coding to explore memory, internalised barriers, and cultural storytelling. Her practice draws on a background in art direction at the global advertising agency Hakuhodo, where she developed narrative-led campaigns for clients including Honda and KOSÉ. She has presented work at Frameless Immersive Gallery, Copeland Gallery, Royal College of Art, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, BBC Television Centre, and Tsinghua University, China. In collaboration with Indigenous communities, she explores new technologies to support the representation of intangible cultural heritage in immersive media. She is developing a motion-capture archive of South Asian dance forms to document and translate embodied movement into digital space.

Website: https://kashishgakhar.framer.website 

Instagram: @katterpil 

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kashish-gakhar-062934153 

Ben Freeth

Spatial Audio Designer - Rootless Connections / The Kids Are Halal / Echoes of Satisaras

Ben Freeth is a sound artist, sound designer, researcher, and educator whose practice explores the intersection of listening, space, and memory. Their work uses sound as a mode of inquiry – capturing sonic artefacts such as field recordings, oral histories, and environmental textures, and reconfiguring them to create immersive environments. These spatial audio experiences invite audiences to explore new relationships between place, memory, and presence. They have developed a diverse body of work spanning installations, sculpture, and multichannel composition, presented nationally and internationally with North Pennines National Landscape (UK), Supersonic Festival (UK), ZKM (Germany), the Institute of Cellular Medicine at Newcastle University (UK), and the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference at the Brisbane Conservatorium (Australia).

Website: http://benfreeth.com/