Marrakech – FAN 2025 (Digital Arts Khouribga Festival) offers a platform for artists, technologists, and visionaries to explore the intersection of creativity and innovation.
Driven by CANCoop and produced by Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) through the school 1337, the festival benefits from the collaboration of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) with its artist residencies, and Open Mind Art & Culture (OMAC) for cultural coordination.
Supported by EPSON and the French Institute of Morocco, FAN 2025 is part of the global celebration of digital creation during Novembre Numérique.
After Monday and Tuesday in Benguerir, the festival has moved to Khouribga, where it continues from today and will run until Sunday.
Today started with the conference and workshop ‘From Lerp to Bézier Curves’ by Youssef Lyoussfi (1337), guiding participants through the magic of mathematical curves that shape animations, design, and interactive experiences.
Next was Yann Minh from France, who transformed the ordinary into the extraordinary.
Using the EyeJack app, visitors could point their phones at his seemingly static artworks and watch them move, shift, and reveal hidden layers right before their eyes.
Minh’s work blurs the line between reality and digital imagination, creating a playful dialogue between viewer and art.
Across both campuses and several city locations, audiences can explore exhibitions, performances, conferences, and workshops.
Following this, El Mehdi Alislami turned art into immersive experiences. In “Milestones of Ibnu Battuta,” VR lets you follow the explorer’s journeys.
“Echoes of Intelligence” invites interaction with a responsive AI installation, while “Time is Everything” reflects on the fleeting nature of time through video art.
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Under the overarching theme of exploring the evolving dialogue between humans and machines and how technology reshapes artistic expression and perception of reality.
This edition of FAN embraces a multidisciplinary approach, spanning visual, sonic, interactive, and immersive arts.
For seven days, audiences will encounter digital, interactive, and immersive works by artists and researchers from Morocco, France, Japan, Spain, Tunisia, and Iceland.
FAN 2025 brings together students, creators, scientists, and artists around a shared language: experimentation and innovation.
Among the highlights, the opening spectacle “AI DREAME,” hosted in Benguerir, merges visual art with immersive and interactive augmented magic, created by French artist MOULLA and his Augmented Magic team.
The façades of the UM6P Campus in Benguerir, 1337 Campus in Khouribga, and Place Al Moujahidine light up with monumental video mappings featuring:
- “Fozemachine and Gestographe” by Fred Chemmama (France)
- “Architecture Lumière” by Zineb Sekkat (Morocco)
- “Cosmic Drift” by Ahmed Khilad (Morocco)
- “Pulse of the Game” by El Mehdi Alislami (Morocco)
These productions are the result of collaboration between 1337, IAS Ben Guerir, and EPSON, the festival’s technology partner.
Artists from Japan, France, Tunisia, Spain, China, and Iceland converged in Morocco for this edition.
Some traveled specifically to present their works, while others created in situ through artist residencies.
Their presence embodies a shared ambition: making Morocco a hub for artistic and technological experimentation.
FAN 2025 also prioritizes thought, debate, and exchange. Alongside exhibitions, the festival hosts conferences, masterclasses, and public roundtables where researchers, artists, and engineers examine the aesthetic, philosophical, and social implications of creative technologies.
Every artwork, performance, and interaction invites audiences to think differently, express themselves freely, and question assumptions.
FAN 2025 proves that art and technology do more than coexist — they spark curiosity, inspire wonder, and invite audiences to step into new realities. It is a festival where experimentation meets imagination, and where Morocco takes center stage as a global platform for digital creativity.
