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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. Creative Cities Talks
    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
  3. 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
  4. CCI in Africa Brian Afande Talks
    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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. PopulAR Talks
    PopulAR
    ‘The state of the AR Industry: Unfiltered by PopulAR’
    11:50 - 12:50
    Theatre – Friends room
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. Brendan Dawes
    Brendan Dawes
    ‘On Collaboration’
    • AI Art
    • Art
    • Creative Coding
    12:40 - 13:20
    Theatre De Namur
    • AI Art
    • Art
    • Creative Coding
  11. Wallimage Talks
    Wallimage panel
    ‘Financer et accompagner la créativité digitale et audiovisuelle en Wallonie’
    14:00 - 14:40
    Theatre – Friends room
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. Joel Gethin Lewis
    Joel Gethin Lewis
    ‘Tetralemma’
    • Society
    • Storytelling
    • Technology
    15:00 - 15:40
    Theatre De Namur
    • Society
    • Storytelling
    • Technology
  15. 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
  16. Robyn Landau - Speaker
    Robyn Landau - Kinda Studios
    ‘Transforming Design with Neuroaesthetics’
    • Art
    • Immersive
    • Science
    15:10 - 15:50
    Le Delta
    • Art
    • Immersive
    • Science
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. Inmersiva panel Talks
    Spanish XR Panel
    ‘Spanish XR Ecosystem: Immersive Arts & Exhibitions’
    16:20 - 17:00
    Theatre – Friends room
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. Amélie Bouvier Talks
    Jos Auzende, Marie Papazoglou & Amélie Bouvier
    ‘Staring Into the Night’
    10:30 - 11:30
    Theatre – Friends room
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. Marcin Ignac - Speaker
    Marcin Ignac - Variable.io
    ‘Variable design’
    • Art
    • Creativity
    • Data
    11:20 - 12:00
    La Bourse
    • Art
    • Creativity
    • Data
  30. Anouk Wipprecht Talks
    Anouk Wipprecht
    ‘Where Fashion Meets Technology ’
    • Design
    • Interactivity
    • Technology
    11:40 - 12:20
    Theatre De Namur
    • Design
    • Interactivity
    • Technology
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. Linda Dounia Talks
    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
  36. Cristina Tarquini Talks
    Cristina Tarquini
    ‘Finding purpose underwater’
    • Immersive
    • Interactivity
    • Science
    14:10 - 14:50
    Le Delta
    • Immersive
    • Interactivity
    • Science
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. Andreas Refsgaard
    Andreas Refsgaard
    ‘Beyond prompting - silly interactive AI’
    • AI
    • Creative Coding
    • Interactivity
    15:10 - 15:50
    Le Delta
    • AI
    • Creative Coding
    • Interactivity
  40. Kurt Hentschlaeger Talks
    Kurt Hentschlaeger
    ‘’
    15:20 - 16:00
    La Bourse
  41. Digital Intersection Talks
    Digital Inter​/​Section
    ‘Digital Inter/Section : Decoding the code’
    15:30 - 16:30
    Theatre – Friends room
  42. 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
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. Niklas Roy
    Niklas Roy
    ‘Vectors, Pixels, Plotters and Public Participation’
    • Art
    • Creativity
    • Technology
    17:00 - 17:40
    Theatre De Namur
    • Art
    • Creativity
    • Technology
  46. 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
  47. 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

Workshops For Kids

Parties

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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