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Talks

  1. Liva Grinberga Talks
    Liva Grinberga - Hypersolid
    ‘Mastering the Art of Forward Thinking’
    • AI
    • Critical Thinking
    • Design
    09:40 - 10:20
    Theatre De Namur
    • AI
    • Critical Thinking
    • Design
  2. Ouchhh
    Ferdi Alici - Ouchhh Studio
    ‘First AI art in Space - The Human Cell Atlas’
    • AI Art
    • Data
    10:40 - 11:20
    Theatre De Namur
    • AI Art
    • Data
  3. Bibasse Lemercie Talks
    Juliette Bibasse & Joanie Lemercier
    ‘Anti-AI - Tech will save us (lol)’
    • AI
    • Art
    • Critical Thinking
    11:00 - 11:40
    Le Delta
    • AI
    • Art
    • Critical Thinking
  4. Talia Cotton Talks
    Talia Cotton
    ‘Designing What Doesn't Exist... Yet’
    • Branding
    • Creative Coding
    • Interactivity
    11:40 - 12:20
    Theatre De Namur
    • Branding
    • Creative Coding
    • Interactivity
  5. PopulAR Talks
    PopulAR
    ‘The state of the AR Industry: Unfiltered by PopulAR’
    11:50 - 12:50
    Theatre – Friends room
  6. Anne Horel Talks
    Anne Horel
    ‘"It's not the wand, it's the wizard" - A creative approach of AI in Digital Art’
    • AI
    • Art
    • Creativity
    12:00 - 12:40
    Le Delta
    • AI
    • Art
    • Creativity
  7. Zala Šeško Talks
    Zala Šeško - Unseen Studio
    ‘Crafting Excellence: Between Chaos and Control’
    • Creative Coding
    • Creativity
    • Technology
    12:20 - 13:00
    La Bourse
    • Creative Coding
    • Creativity
    • Technology
  8. Brendan Dawes
    Brendan Dawes
    ‘On Collaboration’
    • AI Art
    • Art
    • Creative Coding
    12:40 - 13:20
    Theatre De Namur
    • AI Art
    • Art
    • Creative Coding
  9. Wallimage Talks
    Wallimage panel
    ‘Financer et accompagner la créativité digitale et audiovisuelle en Wallonie’
    14:00 - 14:40
    Theatre – Friends room
  10. Sara De Bondt Talks
    Sara De Bondt
    ‘On and Off the Grid’
    • Critical Thinking
    • Graphic Design
    • Research
    14:10 - 14:50
    Le Delta
    • Critical Thinking
    • Graphic Design
    • Research
  11. Wouter van Dijk
    Wouter van Dijk - Clever°Franke
    ‘Yes/no/maybe: the future is nuanced’
    • Algorithms
    • Data
    • Society
    14:20 - 15:00
    La Bourse
    • Algorithms
    • Data
    • Society
  12. Joel Gethin Lewis
    Joel Gethin Lewis
    ‘Tetralemma’
    • Society
    • Storytelling
    • Technology
    15:00 - 15:40
    Theatre De Namur
    • Society
    • Storytelling
    • Technology
  13. Sirop Talk
    wake! by Digital Wallonia panel
    ‘Réinventer les médias au croisement des territoires et des écosystèmes numériques’
    15:00 - 15:40
    Theatre – Friends room
  14. Robyn Landau - Speaker
    Robyn Landau - Kinda Studios
    ‘Transforming Design with Neuroaesthetics’
    • Art
    • Immersive
    • Science
    15:10 - 15:50
    Le Delta
    • Art
    • Immersive
    • Science
  15. Bruno Ribeiro Talks
    Bruno Ribeiro - Stroboscope
    ‘Creative chaos as a playground’
    • Interactivity
    • New Media Art
    • Storytelling
    15:20 - 16:00
    La Bourse
    • Interactivity
    • New Media Art
    • Storytelling
  16. Sofia Crespo
    Sofia Crespo
    ‘Expressing Entanglement: Art & the More-Than-Human World’
    • AI
    • Science
    • Society
    16:00 - 16:40
    Theatre De Namur
    • AI
    • Science
    • Society
  17. Varvara&Mar Talks
    Varvara & Mar
    ‘Artistic Strategies to Guide Neural Networks’
    • AI
    • Critical Thinking
    • New Media Art
    16:10 - 16:50
    Le Delta
    • AI
    • Critical Thinking
    • New Media Art
  18. Jessica In Talks
    Jessica In
    ‘How can architectural thinking can enable extrapolative Artificial Intelligence for design? ’
    • Creative Coding
    • Design
    • Research
    16:20 - 17:00
    La Bourse
    • Creative Coding
    • Design
    • Research
  19. Inmersiva panel Talks
    INMERSIVA XR panel
    ‘Spanish XR Ecosystem: Immersive Arts & Exhibitions’
    16:20 - 17:00
    Theatre – Friends room
  20. Anna Ginsburg
    Anna Ginsburg
    ‘Aubergines, Talking Genitals and the Oldest Women in the World’
    • Creativity
    • Research
    • Storytelling
    17:00 - 17:40
    Theatre De Namur
    • Creativity
    • Research
    • Storytelling
  21. Martin Nadal Talks
    Martin Nadal
    ‘The workforce of the latent space’
    • AI
    • Art
    • Critical Thinking
    17:20 - 18:00
    La Bourse
    • AI
    • Art
    • Critical Thinking
  22. Stefan Sagmeister
    Stefan Sagmeister
    ‘This will be boring.’
    • Critical Thinking
    • Data
    • Graphic Design
    18:00 - 18:40
    Theatre De Namur
    • Critical Thinking
    • Data
    • Graphic Design
  23. Playmodes Talks
    Playmodes
    ‘"Astres", a journey into Playmodes immersive visual music creations’
    • Creative Coding
    • Immersive
    • Research
    09:40 - 10:20
    Theatre De Namur
    • Creative Coding
    • Immersive
    • Research
  24. Vulane Mthembu Talks
    Vulane Mthembu - /divide by zero research
    ‘The Machine Speaks’
    • AI
    • New Media Art
    • Society
    10:40 - 11:20
    Theatre De Namur
    • AI
    • New Media Art
    • Society
  25. Dasha Ilina - Speaker
    Dasha Ilina
    ‘Jordan B. Peterson Thought a Bollywood Film Was AI-Generated’
    • Art
    • Critical Thinking
    • Society
    11:00 - 11:40
    Le Delta
    • Art
    • Critical Thinking
    • Society
  26. Marcin Ignac - Speaker
    Marcin Ignac - Variable.io
    ‘Variable design’
    • Art
    • Creativity
    • Data
    11:20 - 12:00
    La Bourse
    • Art
    • Creativity
    • Data
  27. Anouk Wipprecht Talks
    Anouk Wipprecht
    ‘Where Fashion Meets Technology ’
    • Design
    • Interactivity
    • Technology
    11:40 - 12:20
    Theatre De Namur
    • Design
    • Interactivity
    • Technology
  28. Peter Aigner Alex Wright Talks
    Peter Aigner & Alex Wright
    ‘Weaving the threads of time : digital creativity for the common good’
    11:50 - 13:10
    Theatre – Friends room
  29. Naadira Patel Talks
    Naadira Patel - softwork studio
    ‘Soft Futures: Digital Imaging Technologies, Community of Practice, And the Potential for Solidarity.’
    • Critical Thinking
    • Design
    • Research
    12:00 - 12:40
    Le Delta
    • Critical Thinking
    • Design
    • Research
  30. Dr. Formalyst
    Dr Formalyst
    ‘AI, Attention and Intention’
    • AI
    • Critical Thinking
    • New Media Art
    12:20 - 13:00
    La Bourse
    • AI
    • Critical Thinking
    • New Media Art
  31. Borja Martinez Talks
    Borja Martinez - Lo Siento
    ‘The Sensitive Panorama’
    • Branding
    • Creativity
    • Graphic Design
    12:40 - 13:20
    Theatre De Namur
    • Branding
    • Creativity
    • Graphic Design
  32. Cristina Tarquini Talks
    Cristina Tarquini
    ‘Finding purpose underwater’
    • Immersive
    • Interactivity
    • Science
    14:10 - 14:50
    Le Delta
    • Immersive
    • Interactivity
    • Science
  33. Pinaffo & Pluvinage
    Pinaffo & Pluvinage
    ‘Sand, paper, water, jelly, smoke and confetti, how we ended up programming uncontrollable materials’
    • Art
    • Interactivity
    14:20 - 15:00
    La Bourse
    • Art
    • Interactivity
  34. Julien Vallée Talks
    Julien Vallée - Vallée-Duhamel
    ‘The Word for Work is Play’
    • AI
    • Art
    • Storytelling
    15:00 - 15:40
    Theatre De Namur
    • AI
    • Art
    • Storytelling
  35. Andreas Refsgaard
    Andreas Refsgaard
    ‘Beyond prompting - silly interactive AI’
    • AI
    • Creative Coding
    • Interactivity
    15:10 - 15:50
    Le Delta
    • AI
    • Creative Coding
    • Interactivity
  36. Boris Acket Talks
    Boris Acket
    ‘Silence & the presence of everything’
    • Critical Thinking
    • New Media Art
    • Storytelling
    15:20 - 16:00
    La Bourse
    • Critical Thinking
    • New Media Art
    • Storytelling
  37. Digital Intersection Talks
    Digital Inter/Section
    ‘Digital Inter/Section : Decoding the code’
    15:30 - 16:30
    Theatre – Friends room
  38. Liza Enebeis Talks
    Liza Enebeis - Studio Dumbar/DEPT®
    ‘Motion + Sound’
    • Creative Coding
    • Graphic Design
    16:00 - 16:40
    Theatre De Namur
    • Creative Coding
    • Graphic Design
  39. Marc-André Cossette Talks
    Marc-André Cossette
    ‘Creating with artificial neural networks: from micro-generation to real-time composition agents’
    • AI
    • Art
    • Research
    16:10 - 16:50
    Le Delta
    • AI
    • Art
    • Research
  40. Ida Toft Talks
    Ida Toft - ELEKTRA
    ‘Virtual Museology: The ELEKTRA Virtual Museum - a case study’
    • Immersive
    • Interactivity
    • New Media Art
    16:20 - 17:00
    La Bourse
    • Immersive
    • Interactivity
    • New Media Art
  41. Niklas Roy
    Niklas Roy
    ‘Vectors, Pixels, Plotters and Public Participation’
    • Art
    • Creativity
    • Technology
    17:00 - 17:40
    Theatre De Namur
    • Art
    • Creativity
    • Technology
  42. Grégory Chatonsky Talks
    Grégory Chatonsky
    ‘After the Truth : in the Latent Spaces of Artificial Imagination’
    • AI
    • Critical Thinking
    • New Media Art
    17:20 - 18:00
    La Bourse
    • AI
    • Critical Thinking
    • New Media Art
  43. Mr Bingo
    Mr Bingo
    ‘How I got here and what I’ve learnt’
    • Art
    • Creativity
    18:00 - 18:40
    Theatre De Namur
    • Art
    • Creativity

Workshops

  1. Andreas Refsgaard - Workshop
    Playful machine learning
    • Humor
    • Machine Learning
    • Workshop
    09:30 - 13:00
    TRAKK
  2. Chantal Matar - Workshop
    Next-Gen Immersive Spaces with AI and TouchDesigner
    • AI
    • Immersive
    • Workshop
    09:30 - 13:00
    TRAKK
  3. Joel Gethin Lewis Talks
    How to have ideas, how to make them happen and some ideas I think are interesting
    • Graphic Design
    • Masterclass
    • Methodology
    09:30 - 11:00
    TRAKK
  4. Elie Bolard Kids
    Tech Butcher
    • Arduino
    • Electronic
    • Workshop
    10:00 - 17:00
    TRAKK
  5. Kyle McDonald Workshops
    Learn to Sing Like a Whale
    • Bioacoustics
    • Masterclass
    • Music
    11:30 - 13:00
    TRAKK
  6. Vitaly Friedman - Workshop
    Design Patterns for AI Interfaces
    • AI
    • Design
    • Masterclass
    14:00 - 16:00
    TRAKK
  7. Borja Martinez Lo Siento Workshops
    REWINE
    • Handicraft
    • Typography
    • Workshop
    14:00 - 17:00
    TRAKK
  8. Varvara&Mar Workshops
    Exploring Generative AI with ComfyUI
    • Generative AI
    • Workshop
    14:00 - 17:00
    TRAKK

Workshops For Kids

  1. Elie Bolard Kids
    Tech Butcher
    10:00 - 17:00
    TRAKK
  2. Coder Dojo
    Programming workshop with Coder Dojo
    14:00 - 17:00
    Le Pavillon
  3. Katpatat Kids
    Digital expression - Making a mask
    10:00 - 12:00
    Creative Village
  4. Kids
    Create a massive AI-generated "Guess Who"
    10:30 - 15:30
    Creative Village
  5. Playtronica - Paint and sound workshop kids
    Paint & Sound
    11:00 - 04:30
    Creative Village
  6. Xavier Gazon Kids
    Introduction to circuit bending
    15:00 - 17:00
    Creative Village

Parties

  1. Rokia Bamba - Soirées
    KIKK Opening - AfriKIKK Party
    La Flamboyante curated by Rokia Bamba x AKAR & Fat B.
    21:00 - 02:00
    La Nef
  2. Nocturne Soirées
    KIKK by Night - Nocturne of the KIKK in Town
    For the very first time, the KIKK Festival is offering a festive, musical & free nocturne!
    18:00 - 22:00
    Creative Village
  3. Soirées
    KIKK After Party
    Electric atmosphere to end on a high note!
    21:00 - 02:00
    La Nef
Kids
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (closes at 4:00 PM, Sun 27th)

KIKK Market

The Market is the place where you will discover the unique and innovative ideas of Belgian and international entrepreneurs and makers with talented DNA. Open for the duration of the festival, 24 - 27th of October.
Free Event
(open to the public)
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

ART
EXHIBITION

10 different indoor & outdoor locations all around the city of Namur (included access to Le Pavillon's exhibition “Stellar Scape”). Open for the duration of the festival, 24 - 27th of October.
5€ from 16 years old
(Included in all passes)
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