Schedule

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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
Unesco Creative Cities panel

‘Exploring Europe’s Creative Cities of Media Arts - moderated by the digital media kingkong’

10:30 - 11:30

Theatre – Friends room
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
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
CCI in Africa Ecosystem moderated by Brian Afande

‘Reclaiming Narratives: How African Creatives are Merging Technology with Culture to Shape New Realities’

11:00 - 12:00

La Bourse
Talia Cotton

‘Designing What Doesn't Exist... Yet’
- Branding
- Creative Coding
- Interactivity
11:40 - 12:20

Theatre De Namur
- Branding
- Creative Coding
- Interactivity
PopulAR

‘The state of the AR Industry: Unfiltered by PopulAR’

11:50 - 12:50

Theatre – Friends room
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
Zala Šeško - Unseen Studio

‘Crafting Excellence: Between Chaos and Control’
- Creative Coding
- Creativity
- Technology
12:20 - 13:00

La Bourse
- Creative Coding
- Creativity
- Technology
Brendan Dawes

‘On Collaboration’
- AI Art
- Art
- Creative Coding
12:40 - 13:20

Theatre De Namur
- AI Art
- Art
- Creative Coding
Wallimage panel

‘Financer et accompagner la créativité digitale et audiovisuelle en Wallonie’

14:00 - 14:40

Theatre – Friends room
Sara De Bondt

‘On and Off the Grid’
- Critical Thinking
- Graphic Design
- Research
14:10 - 14:50

Le Delta
- Critical Thinking
- Graphic Design
- Research
Wouter van Dijk - Clever°Franke

‘Yes/no/maybe: the future is nuanced’
- Algorithms
- Data
- Society
14:20 - 15:00

La Bourse
- Algorithms
- Data
- Society
Joel Gethin Lewis

‘Tetralemma’
- Society
- Storytelling
- Technology
15:00 - 15:40

Theatre De Namur
- Society
- Storytelling
- Technology
wake! by Digital Wallonia panel

‘Réinventer les médias au croisement des territoires et des écosystèmes numériques’

15:00 - 15:40

Theatre – Friends room
Robyn Landau - Kinda Studios

‘Transforming Design with Neuroaesthetics’
- Art
- Immersive
- Science
15:10 - 15:50

Le Delta
- Art
- Immersive
- Science
Bruno Ribeiro - Stroboscope

‘Creative chaos as a playground’
- Interactivity
- New Media Art
- Storytelling
15:20 - 16:00

La Bourse
- Interactivity
- New Media Art
- Storytelling
Sofia Crespo

‘Expressing Entanglement: Art & the More-Than-Human World’
- AI
- Science
- Society
16:00 - 16:40

Theatre De Namur
- AI
- Science
- Society
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
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
Spanish XR Panel

‘Spanish XR Ecosystem: Immersive Arts & Exhibitions’

16:20 - 17:00

Theatre – Friends room
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
Martin Nadal

‘The workforce of the latent space’
- AI
- Art
- Critical Thinking
17:20 - 18:00

La Bourse
- AI
- Art
- Critical Thinking
Stefan Sagmeister

‘This will be boring.’
- Critical Thinking
- Data
- Graphic Design
18:00 - 18:40

Theatre De Namur
- Critical Thinking
- Data
- Graphic Design
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
Jos Auzende, Marie Papazoglou & Amélie Bouvier

‘Staring Into the Night’

10:30 - 11:30

Theatre – Friends room
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
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
Marcin Ignac - Variable.io

‘Variable design’
- Art
- Creativity
- Data
11:20 - 12:00

La Bourse
- Art
- Creativity
- Data
Anouk Wipprecht

‘Where Fashion Meets Technology ’
- Design
- Interactivity
- Technology
11:40 - 12:20

Theatre De Namur
- Design
- Interactivity
- Technology
Peter Aigner & Alex Wright

‘Weaving the threads of time : digital creativity for the common good’

11:50 - 13:10

Theatre – Friends room
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
Dr Formalyst

‘AI, Attention and Intention’
- AI
- Critical Thinking
- New Media Art
12:20 - 13:00

La Bourse
- AI
- Critical Thinking
- New Media Art
Borja Martinez - Lo Siento

‘The Sensitive Panorama’
- Branding
- Creativity
- Graphic Design
12:40 - 13:20

Theatre De Namur
- Branding
- Creativity
- Graphic Design
Panel: Digital Horizons: Exploring African New Media Art and Creativity

‘Digital Horizons: Exploring African New Media Art and Creativity’

14:00 - 15:00

Theatre – Friends room
Cristina Tarquini

‘Finding purpose underwater’
- Immersive
- Interactivity
- Science
14:10 - 14:50

Le Delta
- Immersive
- Interactivity
- Science
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
Julien Vallée - Vallée-Duhamel

‘The Word for Work is Play’
- AI
- Art
- Storytelling
15:00 - 15:40

Theatre De Namur
- AI
- Art
- Storytelling
Andreas Refsgaard

‘Beyond prompting - silly interactive AI’
- AI
- Creative Coding
- Interactivity
15:10 - 15:50

Le Delta
- AI
- Creative Coding
- Interactivity
Kurt Hentschlaeger

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15:20 - 16:00

La Bourse
Digital Inter/Section

‘Digital Inter/Section : Decoding the code’

15:30 - 16:30

Theatre – Friends room
Liza Enebeis - Studio Dumbar/DEPT®

‘Motion + Sound’
- Creative Coding
- Graphic Design
16:00 - 16:40

Theatre De Namur
- Creative Coding
- Graphic Design
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
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
Niklas Roy

‘Vectors, Pixels, Plotters and Public Participation’
- Art
- Creativity
- Technology
17:00 - 17:40

Theatre De Namur
- Art
- Creativity
- Technology
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
Mr Bingo

‘How I got here and what I’ve learnt’
- Art
- Creativity
18:00 - 18:40

Theatre De Namur
- Art
- Creativity

Workshops

Playful machine learning
- Humor
- Machine Learning
- Workshop
09:30 - 13:00

TRAKK
Next-Gen Immersive Spaces with AI and TouchDesigner
- AI
- Immersive
- Workshop
09:30 - 13:00

TRAKK
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
Tech Butcher
- Arduino
- Electronic
- Workshop
10:00 - 17:00

TRAKK
Learn to Sing Like a Whale
- Bioacoustics
- Masterclass
- Music
11:30 - 13:00

TRAKK
Design Patterns for AI Interfaces
- AI
- Design
- Masterclass
14:00 - 16:00

TRAKK
REWINE
- Handicraft
- Typography
- Workshop
14:00 - 17:00

TRAKK
Exploring Generative AI with ComfyUI
- Generative AI
- Workshop
14:00 - 17:00

TRAKK

Workshops For Kids

Tech Butcher

10:00 - 17:00

TRAKK
Programming workshop with Coder Dojo

14:00 - 17:00

Le Pavillon
Digital expression - Making a mask

10:00 - 12:00

Creative Village
Create a massive AI-generated "Guess Who"

10:30 - 15:30

Creative Village
Paint & Sound

11:00 - 04:30

Creative Village
Introduction to circuit bending

15:00 - 17:00

Creative Village

Parties

KIKK Opening - AfriKIKK Party

La Flamboyante curated by Rokia Bamba x AKAR & Fat B.

21:00 - 02:00

La Nef
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
KIKK After Party

Electric atmosphere to end on a high note!

21:00 - 02:00

La Nef

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.

More info

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.

More info

5€ from 16 years old

(Included in all passes)

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