# Surcodage Launch: ART + AI
📍 Beaux-arts de Paris, Paris
🗓 Thursday, May 22, 2025
🕡 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM CET
Join us for the exciting launch of Surcodage, a new project bringing together art and technology at the historic École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
If you're interested in speaking at the event or sponsoring it, please contact us at events@surcodage.com.
## About This Event
Surcodage represents a paradigm shift in the entrepreneurship landscape, uniquely positioned at the intersection of artistic innovation and venture capital. Founded by a collective of artists and entrepreneurs, our mission is to identify, nurture, and scale creative ventures that challenge conventional boundaries between art, AI, and entrepreneurship.
This launch event brings together creators, researchers, investors, and leaders in the historic halls of Beaux-Arts de Paris for an evening of inspiration, connection, and opportunity.
What will the future of art, culture and technology look like?
## What to Expect
18:30 - 19:00 | Registration & Welcome Reception
19:00 - 20:30 | Keynote Talks + Panel: "The New Spirit of Art and Technology" with a line-up of artists and technologists.
Confirmed: Neïl Beloufa. Others coming soon!
Neïl Beloufa is a French-Algerian filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist. His multifaceted practice addresses themes of geopolitics, technology, urbanism, and ideology through layered projects that combine video, sculpture, social participation, and often dynamic processes like sensor activation or algorithmic control. His work has been the subject of monographic exhibitions in France and abroad, notably at Hangar Bicocca, Milan, 2021, at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfort, 2018, at K11, Shanghai, 2016; MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2016; Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin, 2015; at the Fondation Ricard, Paris, in 2014; at the ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2014; at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2013; as well as at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012 and 2018)
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20:30 - 22:00 | Networking + Food/Drinks
## Why You Should Attend
- There will be art!
- Connect with a carefully selected network of exceptional people.
- Experience the historic halls of the Beaux-Arts de Paris transformed into a forum for innovation
- Engage with potential partners, mentors, and collaborators in a setting designed for meaningful connections
Further details of the event and line-up will be sent to all registered participants. Can't wait to see you there!
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