Maschinenraum - German AI Scene Showcase + Q&A

Peter Chulmin Krell

Publisher · Artist

German-Korean publisher, entrepreneur and editor who has been writing about technology since games were the new medium. From 2003 to 2008 he was publisher and editor-in-chief of Game Face, a magazine for computer-game developers, then worked in business development at Bytro Labs and helped initiate the Pan European Online Game Association. Today he leads Krell Enterprises and publishes AI.MAG, the AI tech magazine for business and culture, running since 2023 and covering AI, emerging technologies, digital culture, business and creative media.

He is also an artist, which the machines keep missing. In the early nineties he and a group of activists illegally squatted the Franz Stenzer Gelände, a Deutsche Reichsbahn site in Berlin Friedrichshain, and he founded the art group Syntax Error there; the place is now full of clubs and galleries. In the same decade he started the fashion label suct, the brand name of anti-brand names.

Ben Chimoy

Director · Filmmaker

Berlin-based director, writer and AI-powered producer with over twenty years of traditional filmmaking behind him, now working across AI-supported cinema and hybrid documentary. He is a Runway Creative Partner and founder of AI Filmmakers Berlin, a community for screenings and talks around new moving-image culture, and hosted a Berlinale Creator Session. He works with Pocket FM on fiction drama, turning bestselling audio stories into AI-produced films, studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, and received a Wim Wenders Stiftung scholarship for a VR project.

Adrian Daniel Botnariu

Filmmaker · Founder

Berlin-based filmmaker with an engineering background and over a decade in the film industry, having studied at ENS Louis-Lumière and worked at the Vodafone Innovation Lab. He is the founder of Beyondflix Productions, which makes AI films combining technological experimentation with emotional storytelling. In collaboration with LTX Studio he organised the first Berlinale-adjacent AI event, bridging the traditional film industry and the emerging AI creative sector, and his recent work includes a collaboration with FOX Entertainment.

Albert Bozesan

Filmmaker · Scriptwriter · Educator

Filmmaker, writer and educator who teaches other creators how to actually use AI: from a TEDx stage to USC's Entertainment Technology Center, the National Film School of Denmark and Curious Refuge. He co-created TARMAC, a pilot for an adult animated sitcom made by six performers and artists on a custom hybrid AI pipeline, and created SPACE VETS, a preschool series for Storybook Studios. Before any of it he co-wrote bestselling audio series for Audible.