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Le Pavillon

Pepa Ivanova

Part animal documentary, part erotic film and part science fiction film, Cindy Coutant&#8217;s high definition camera follows the (fictional) day of a group of snails. The gastropods, the stars of this short film, are bathed in a light that is sometimes pink, sometimes blue. From sunrise to sunset, the snails advance in a slow ascent, out of time and following the Earth&#8217;s axis. Télédésir, a thirty-minute film, follows their nonchalant rhythm and love-making. 
The animal reproduction takes on a theatrical, even supernatural dimension, enhanced by the soundtrack of Théo Pozoga, a musician and DJ also known as &#8220;Strip Steve&#8221;.
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Télédésir

Cindy Coutant

Econtinuum invites us to dive into the ecosystem of trees. This work is a collaboration between the artist Thijs Biersteker and the Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso. Before our eyes, it creates a conversation between two trees as it might happen underground, showing how the two species can warn each other of danger, how they share nutrients and how they learn from each other. As visitors enter the system, they realise that the roots respond to their presence and learn from their habits, forming a futuristic ecosystem of shared knowledge. 
The system is equipped with two sensors. Each one represents a tree and captures data on humidity, pressure, temperature, CO2 and the level of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) present in the exhibition space. These sensors are combined with artificial intelligence that mimics inter-tree communication from a large network of scientific data.

Econtinuum

Thijs Biersteker

Japanese artist Aki Inomata draws a parallel between the behaviour of hermit crabs that change their shells when they get too big or are simply chased away by another species, and that of humans and their migratory movements. 
The artist started with shells used by hermit crabs, which she scanned to reproduce an exact copy with the addition of urban landscapes, all 3D printed. 
For both Aki Inomata and Thomas Thwaites, their work is an exploration and displacement of our perception of others and ourselves by observing the living.

Why Not Hand Over a "Shelter" to Hermit Crabs?

Aki Inomata

The bacteria that live on your body outnumber your own cells.  While we have 23,000 genes, our microbiome can contain up to 2 million unique bacterial genes.  There is a lot of emerging research on the role of all the microorganisms cohabit our body and personal traits, such as mood, behavior and health.  These findings unseat our relationship with notions of identity and genetic determinism; do I exhibit certain traits because of genes I inherited, because of the environment I was raised in, or because of the biome I have acquired through a lifetime of kissing and touching? 
Kisses from the Future consists of a series of self portraits exploring a decentralized identity composed of the multi-species constellation that is a microbiome. This project examines the impact of microorganisms living in the body that impact mood and behavior- elements that we typically associate with a sense of “self”, but is co-made with other species.

Kisses from the future

Ani Liu

Thomas Thwaites is a British designer who, through the creation of his objects, explores the psychological and social impact of technologies. For over a year, he conducted research to prepare himself to spend three days living like a goat in the Swiss Alps. He built an exoskeleton to adapt his bipedal body to that of a quadruped, and created a prosthetic artificial stomach to allow him to feed on grass, just like a goat. For several days he lived among the herd, observing distinctions in the natural world that he had not previously perceived, and observing the world from new perspectives, in a desire to step out of himself and distance himself from an anthropocentric vision.

Goatman

Thomas Thwaites

In 25 woodworms, sound artist Zimoun captures the sounds emitted by 25 woodworms encased in a piece of bark. Using a simple device, a microphone placed above the bark, the artist makes the invisible presence of the living creatures audible to the human ear.

25 woodworms

In 25 woodworms, sound artist Zimoun captures the sounds emitted by 25 woodworms encased in a piece of bark. Using a simple device, a microphone placed above the bark, the artist makes the invisible presence of the living creatures audible to the human ear. 
The sound produced seems to follow its own swarm logic, but this is just an impression because it is actually random. Only animals like termites and ants follow their own logic; woodworms do not adopt this behaviour. Each one emits a unique sound sequence that is born purely of the moment. In 25 woodworms, some 20 individual sounds reveal themselves to us.

Zimoun

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KIKK in town

KIKK invades the whole city with an art exhibition in 20 different indoor and outdoor locations. Discover the city in a different way thanks to this journey including monumental and interactive installations!
Entrance fee 5€ (free for children under 16)

Kikk in tOwn

Inno-Boticis a young company, on a human scale, with more than 60 years of accumulated experience in the world of automation &amp; robotization in various industries, company management, international business development

Innobotic

Inno-Boticdesigns and/or distributes innovative robotic products in the Walloon Region -Brussels –Luxembourg Two key examples:

Project

Robotic at People’s service

KIKK Market

Druw audio is the startup from Verviers hidding behind BEATSURFING. Their former founders are persuing their goal for about 20 years: Bring  back interpretation/performance in the digital music industry. 
It’s not their first try. 10 years ago, Beatsurfing1 came out. The idea was already there but its use needed to grow.
In 2015, they came out with the Playground App which recorded 1.2M downloads and received the Best of App Store Award. The concept’s traction was proven. 
Now, where Playground allows you to (re)play already made music templates, BEATSURFING is the tool that allow you to create and edit those types of musical contents.

Druw audio

BEATSURFING is the only music creation software in the world hat brings &gt;&gt;back to the future&lt;&lt; the human performance in the music production process. Assemble curated -synth- or -sample based- Instruments and tweak them to create the perfect beat! Play your created MAP (Playable Musical Score Template) as a musician by surfing on your iPad. Record your performance directly or send it to your DAW. Jam with other Beatsurfing musicians by linking your iPads together and perform as a band.
And this is just the beginning! Soon, BEATSURFING will be deployed on desktop allowing you to play on any music dedicated touchscreen.

BEATSURFING

Brings interpretation back to the center of music production

The LSFB lab at UNamur has been studying sign language since the 2000s. The lab is composed of 10 people including researchers, teachers and sign language experts. Since 2018, the LSFB Lab has been collaborating with the Artificial Intelligence Lab of the Faculty of Computer Science to develop tools for the analysis and understanding of the French-speaking sign language of Belgium.

LSFB LAB

The project of a parallel dictionary of the French sign language of Belgium (LSFB) into French aims at providing an online platform allowing deaf people or people wishing to learn LSFB to search for the meaning of a sign using their webcam. The creation of this platform, unique in the world, is the result of the work of the translators of the LSFB laboratory of Namur and the research in artificial intelligence carried out at the Faculty of Computer Science of Namur.

  The French sign language of Belgium and artificial intelligence

Rokoko is a startup based in Copenhagen, Athens &amp; San Francisco that created the motion capture solutions Smartsuit Pro (sensor-based mocap suit), Smartgloves, and Motion Library (the world&#8217;s largest marketplace of motion assets). Our vision at Rokoko is to give all creative teams access to quick, non-intrusive and intuitive animation tools.

Rokoko

At Rokoko, we spearhead a paradigm shift in how developers work with human motion data. For decades, digital tools have been counter to the way we naturally work. We’re moving away from a past that constrained creativity and making a future where the tools are playful and intuitive for everyone.
We’ve democratized the expensive and inaccessible tools of traditional motion capture – with the Smartsuit Pro, Smartsuit Studio, and Motion Library. These tools can reach the hands of creators who never had access to motion capture before. We set their ideas free in gaming, films, education, sports, health, live performance, and VR/AR experiences. With more creators gaining access every day, the future of motion capture led by Rokoko is limitless.

3D character animation and motion capture for all creators

Instruments of Things is a German start-up that offers market-leading motion capture technology for interacting with media. Their product SOMI-1 is the basis for a new generation of affordable and easy-to-use controllers for immersive media, such as VR, based on motion sensor wearables.

Instruments of Things

SOMI-1 is a highly precise sensor technology that provides performers, musicians and creators the opportunity of making music via movements. It consists of Bluetooth® motion sensor wearables, a receiver hub and a smartphone app (as possible sound source). The sensors can be worn as wearables on the wrists and ankles, turning the user into an instrument.

SOMI-1

Highly precise sensor technology that provides performers, musicians and creators the opportunity of making music via movements

Open Mind Neurotechnologies offers a unique method combining virtual reality, serious games and neuroscience to reveal and develop soft skills. Its innovative trainings allow people to better understand how they manage their stress, their emotions, their ability to adapt to change &#8230; in order to develop their soft skills and act on their well-being and performance at work!
The participant is immersed in a gamified parallel universe thanks to a virtual reality helmet, where his reactions and behaviors are measured in real time by sensors (heart rate, breathing rate, sweat rate). This data allows him to understand his strengths and his areas for improvement. Once the diagnosis has been made, he trains his soft skills either individually through a personalized program or in a group workshop to develop collective intelligence, managerial practices and learn to better manage his energy over time.

Open Mind Neurotechnologies

Discover a unique virtual reality experience combining game, neuroscience, and sensors to analyze people’s reactions to stress, adaptation to uncertainty, emotional regulation, … and develop their soft skills and well-being at work!

Open Mind

Open Mind Neurotechnologies offers a unique method combining virtual reality, serious games and neuroscience to reveal and develop soft skills

HaptX Inc is a small business that creates haptic feedback devices for natural interaction in virtual environments as well as human-machine interface for telerobotics. With offices in Redmond, Washington, and San Luis Obispo, California, the HaptX team specializes in creating products which provide high-fidelity haptic experiences. Working across market sectors in enterprise and government, HaptX Gloves and products provide an unequalled sense of lifelike touch and presence which allows for high confidence in transferability of skills developed in training, accuracy of design, simplified and quicker engineering, and the ability to work collaboratively in the same environment with a collocated or geographically dispersed cohort.

HaptX

The HaptX Gloves DK2 provide realistic touch sensation unlike any other device. Built with patented microfluidic technology, these are the only gloves that deliver industrial-grade performance and true contact haptic feedback for natural interactions in both VR and robotics. Fortune 500 companies and government agencies use HaptX Gloves for VR training, design, and telerobotics. Whether you&#8217;re training your workforce, designing a new product, or controlling robots from a distance, HaptX Gloves make it feel real.

HaptX Gloves DK2

The HaptX Gloves DK2 provide realistic touch sensation unlike any other device

HAPTX Gloves

Liège Hackerspace is a community driven space where members with common interests in sciences, technology or digital art meet to create, share and learn based on their knowledge and skills. It’s a non-profit organisation funded in 2016. It opens twice a week for members and visitors, and it also regularly holds conferences, workshop and various events.
Running a hackerspace is a never-ending project with a never-ending list of projects. Few of members projects will be shown at our booth.

Liège Hackerspace

Running a hackerspace is a never-ending project with a never-ending list of projects.

Hackerspace of Namur, Incubhacker is an interdisciplinary meeting and creation space. Based on the sharing of knowledge such as electronics, computer science and digital arts, its goal is to gather creative people motivated by technological projects and collaborations. Events and workshops are organized in order to open members and the public to new fields.
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Incubhacker enters its 10th year! Here is an opportunity to look back on some of the achievements that marked this period! Between Arduino and Raspbery pi, current and future projects, between imagination and manufacturing, you will be able to observe and manipulate our creations, discuss them and their future because nothing is set in stone!

Incubhacker

An interdisciplinary meeting and creation space

Tennis and padel are one of the most polluting sports in the world due to ball overconsumption. Bounce is a start-up that has as goal to make these sports more sustainable by creating a circular economy around balls.

Bounce

The Bounce tube is the next generation of tubes for tennis and padel balls. It allows you to recreate a pressurized environment at the end of each game thanks to its integrated pump and hermetic cover. Your balls will no longer lose pressure between games and you&#8217;ll be able to play up to 3 times longer with them.

The Bounce tube

The Bounce tube is the next generation of tubes for tennis and padel balls

ENTER.black is a young company bringing together two artists with a common goal: to make digital tangible by producing physical and hybrid artistic installations.

ENTER.black

The Metamorpheur is a personalized photocall that uses micromapping and an intuitive interface. A disruptive booth that projects evocative patterns on the faces of its guests, making them a part of the art piece. Alone or with others, spectators can select their favorite projections and collect their portraits through a web-app or instant printing.

The Metamorpheur

ENTER.BLACK

At ODD our mission is to unlock the fun, inspiring, educational and therapeutic powers of music for everyone, through playful but powerful smart products.

ODD Ball is the first ball in the world to make music. It connects to the ODD App, where you can choose 100s of sounds from percussions, keys, guitars and more. You can play over your favorite artists using Spotify or Apple Music, record and create a full track, sample your voice and share your creations with your friends.
It works as a wireless MIDI controller and is sensitive to the intensity of the bounce. Every time you bounce, tap, slap, catch, spin or juggle the ball, the app will play a sound through the phone&#8217;s internal speaker or any headphone or speaker connected to the phone.

ODD Ball

Play and create music by simply bouncing a ball 

Born in 2015 during an educational workshop led by the Master ITER (Innovation and Territory) and the LabEx ITEM (Innovation and Mountain Territories), at the Institute of Alpine Geography in Grenoble, France, the Losonnante project was initiated by Sébastien Depertat, joined in 2017 by Thomas Bonnenfant.

Losonnante

Losonnante is an original sound installation in that it offers a bone conduction listening experience. The sound is therefore not projected into space through the air, it travels along the elbows, arms, hands to the ears.
Perfect for noisy places
Bone conduction listening offers unparalleled sonic possibilities and depth in noisy places. Hands on your ears, you isolate yourself from the outside world.
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A discreet sound bubble
Losonnante is a listening device that is discreet from those around it. It does not generate sound conflicts and can be installed in environments sensitive to noise.
Simplify access
The device offers a simple surface where you can put your elbows. There is no specific equipment. Depending on the position of the hands on the ears, the sound changes slightly allowing everyone to find the most suitable listening position.

Bone conduction audio terminals

La niche is a digital agency specializing in the collaborative design of relevant solutions to boost your growth. From project management to digital strategies, from interface design to user experience, from application development to maintenance, from SEO to online marketing, from data intelligence to reporting, our team of experts are at the forefront of all the areas of the digital world. Our involvement and our passion have led us to collaborate with many clients and help them design quality digital projects that make sense. In this way, La niche offers a strategic and operational partnership to ambitious digital startups.

La Niche

Digital Agency

Zafi Cycles is a start-up that manufactures wooden bicycle frames that are 100% made in Belgium. 
Manufacturing wooden bicycles combines technology and craftsmanship to create an exclusive and innovative product. Its technical qualities (performance and comfort) and its timeless aesthetics make it a unique object capable of satisfying the simple amateur or the experienced cyclist.
In fact, wood is a great engineering material because its cellular structure acts as a network of natural shock absorbers, absorbing road vibrations and making the ride extremely smooth. It therefore allows you to combine performance and pleasure.
The wood is sourced from local sustainably managed forests (including the Sonian Forest) and everything is done to minimise the ecological impact during production. Each bike is custom built and designed in Belgium.
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Zafi Cycles

Wooden bicycle frames that are 100% made in Belgium

Deloitte Digital combines industry intelligence, tech know-how, creativity, and a human-centric mindset to create end-to-end experiences. From frictionless, always-on experiences and platforms that deliver simple, accessible human utility, to branded products and services that convert prospects to lifelong customers, we amplify behaviors that fuel growth.

Deloitte

The Deloitte Digital team will showcase its rapid prototyping capabilities by giving visitors the opportunity to experience their latest Digital Twin. Through the lenses of an augmented reality headset, users will discover the relationship between traffic and air pollution in a city center, and will be able to interact with the data in real time to improve the daily lives of citizens.

Augmented Reality & Digital Twin

Elevating the human experience

EyeHarp Association is a social company with the mission of improving the quality of life of people with disabilities through music.
Our activity aims to generate positive change in the life of people with disabilities by artistic, social, and laboral inclusion.
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EyeHarp

EyeHarp is the first musical instrument that is played with the eyes or with head movements. It allows people with disabilities to learn and to play music without barriers. Designed with musicality in mind, EyeHarp offers the same expressive qualities as any traditional instrument. It adapts to the musical level and capabilities of each user, thus providing a tailored, accessible music playing experience.

Musical instrument played with eyes

Fabricar3v is an INTERREG FWVL (France-Wallonie-Vlanderen) project created in 2019 and having the ambition to develop a &#8220;low cost&#8221; process of metal additive manufacturing. Our objective is to allow the greatest number of structures to have access to the printing of metal parts for prototyping and production in small or medium series. The work carried out within the framework of the project is open source and the technology developed is based on &#8220;MIM-like&#8221; manufacturing (FDM printing of metal-filled granules), which is very easy to implement, unlike other processes currently available on the metal 3D printing market.
The developments made will give rise to a technology with the lowest possible purchase cost: The complete process is currently less than €10,000. This is 20 times less expensive than what is currently available on the market, making this process accessible to small and medium-sized businesses and FabLabs.

FabricAr3v

Open Source and Low Cost aim to facilitate the adoption of metal 3D printing by all industry players. By freeing ourselves from the constraints of industrial property and cost we wish to accelerate the development of this promising technology. The design and development of a technology like this is complex and the skills to be implemented are therefore very diverse: Fabricar3v is composed of a multidisciplinary consortium, bringing together all the skills needed to pursue the objectives we have set ourselves. The project is composed of 10 cross-border partners, led by the CNRS. We are thus combining know-how and expertise in five areas: additive metal manufacturing, mechanics, metal injection moulding, simulation and industrial property.

Metal 3D printing

IT4Anxiety aims to support the implementation of innovative solutions through start-ups with the objective of reducing the anxiety of patients suffering from mental disorders.

IT4Anxiety

The project focuses on three aspects:
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1/ Supporting the co-creation of innovative solutions, based on the needs of mental health users, families and professionals in the field of mental health;
2/ Developing the competence and confidence of the mental health users and professionals;
3/ Assisting the implementation of the best solutions to ensure long-term sustainability.
This partnership comprises start-ups, Information Technology companies, mental health institutions, research centers, mental health users’ and families’ associations, psychiatric hospitals, universities and public authorities.

The Project

Blended Therapies

About 40 projects will be showcased from all over the word, all curated by us.

More names soon

Market

The Market is the place where you will discover the unique and innovative projects of talented Belgian and international entrepreneurs. On the program: a selection of innovative objects to handle, to test before everyone else. 

Au jardin des potiniers 
Ersatz Cie/ Creation in the room [Be/Ca] 
Immersive performance 
As part of the KIKK Festival
With their heads up, their bodies hidden under a model, the public is invited to observe closely the swarming of an imaginary garden, a microcosm of craftsmanship in perpetual evolution.
Through its colorful, delicate and surprising world, through this wonderment in front of simple things, Au jardin des potiniers offers us new keys to become aware of nature and poetically take a new look at the splendor of the world and its fragility.

Au jardin des potiniers

Delta

DJ Set at La Nef

Welcome party

For its Friday after-party, the KIKK joins forces with the young Namur crew T R U S T as well as the Delta&#8217;s &#8220;Doux Baisers&#8221; concept for a 100% techno line up with distinguished guests.
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KIKK x TRUST x Le Delta

Boston 168 (Italie) – Live :
Hailing from the Italian Motor City of Turin, the Boston 168 duo,is a kind of creative laboratory : true electronics researchers, who have spent years working on the vivisection of sound in order to create a new techno substance. In 2010 with their friend Gambo they created the Old and Young label which combines Gambo&#8217;s experience with their fresh perspective to take techno to unexplored territories. This is when they get to work on their live set and start irradiate with cosmic warmth, the dawns in warehouses, ex-industries and clubs, taking their audience on journeys in search new gravitational spaces and sonic black holes. Like the music on their label, their live sets combine the machines that have made the history of techno such as the TB-303 and the TR’s from Roland, with new machines from Elektron.
Phara – Live :
As a resident of the iconic Fuse Club in Brussels and the infamous Voltage Festival, Phara has been on the Belgian techno scene’s forefront since the start of his career in 2016. After releasing a 2 x 12” album on the renowned Black Sun Records following up on artists like Blawan, AnD, Sunil Sharpe &amp; many more, Phara has been continuously putting out dancefloor weapons on labels such as Planet Rhythm, Projekts, SK-Eleven and Soma.
In October 2021 he announced his first label PHAAAR, specially made to release his own productions. Known for his raw and energetic DJ sets, Phara takes a modern twist on old school techno. It shows up in his live performances which he’s been working on for a few years now : with only an ElecTribe as his only instrument on stage, he’s pushing the capacities of the machine to root a visceral techno out if it.
antoine. – DJ set :
antoine., is a DJ and producer from Namur (Belgium), curator of the T R U S T concept and member of the MOMENTUM collective. 
It was in 2011, in a dark marquee in Dour and in a euphoric atmosphere that antoine. got acquainted with techno music. 
The power of the basses, the repetitive and hypnotic rhythms, the sound textures&#8230; All these elements were new but already so natural to listen to. He is particularly attentive to the universe of Richie Hawtin, the undisputed master on the global minimal-techno scene.
In 2012, he bought equipment to tame music, understand it, to feel it. Love at first sight. In love with what technology offers him as a possibility, he quickly turns to a hybrid set-up that allows him greater creativity by integrating drum loops, live elements and sound layers into original tracks. He is now influenced by artists with singular, hypnotic and melancholic universes such as Shifted, Joachim Spieth, Etapp Kyle, Artefakt, Emmanuel or even P.E.A.R.L. In 2018, he became more interested in production and worked in his home studio to release his 2021 album “after. &#8220;.

Line up

 by KIKK X T R U S T X Le Delta

KIKK AFTERPARTY X TRUST X DELTA

With La bombe humaine, Éline Schumacher and Vincent Hennebicq put climate change at the heart of the debate. In a sincere, funny and intelligent approach, they explore all the facets of the crisis and hold up a mirror to our inconsistencies.
Melting ice, acidification of the oceans, disappearance of animal and plant species&#8230; One word alone sums up the impact of Man on the earth&#8217;s ecosystem: anthropocene. The era of human activities which, under the yoke of capitalism, is sacking the wealth of our planet. We know that we are heading straight for the wall, so why aren&#8217;t we doing anything to prevent it? This is the question that Éline asks herself, an average human being, full of ideals but also of contradictions like many of us.
Armed with a delightfully offbeat sense of humor that avoids moralizing, Éline and Vincent tackle the big question of the Earth&#8217;s future, multiplying encounters with scientists, anthropologists, psychologists, politicians and people with alternative lifestyles. The play is accompanied by music, a playwright&#8217;s guide, and a playwright&#8217;s guide. The play is a salvageable and incongruous plunge into the intimate face of a faltering humanity.
The play is accompanied by the original live music of Marine Horbaczewski and Olivia Carrère: the keystone of the show&#8217;s sound, which sometimes gives an air of apocalypse, sometimes a hint of spring to the performance.

La Bombe Humaine

« On en ressort gonflés à bloc, poussés dans nos voiles par l’énergie, l’humour, mais aussi le sérieux de ces confessions intimes doublées d’un copieux travail de recherche et de rencontres (…) » — Le Soir

Eline Schumacher & Vincent Hennebicq

Theatre

Parties and Performances

Because KIKK is also (and maybe especially) a party atmosphere, we invite you to several performances and parties. On the menu, live music, audiovisual performances, DJ sets and glitter!