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Bretzel  
Bretzel is a short interview format during which we create the meeting and open the discussion between artists, entrepreneurs and makers coming from different worlds and continents.
Donut  
Donut is a short interview format at the end of the stage, presenting the do&#8217;s and don&#8217;ts of the themes addressed by the speakers during the festival&#8217;s conferences.
À emporter 
À emporter is a short interview format to be followed around the city of Namur during the four days of the festival.

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Creative Village

Kingkong

For the 11th edition of the Kikk Festival, France will be fully represented with a delegation of French companies from the Cultural and Creative Industries. The chance to discover an attractive ecosystem and innovative companies in various industries: edition, immersive technologies (AR/VR/XR), photography, design, scenography&#8230; A French Pavilion will host companies, associations, public and private actors of the sector. The objective is to gather Belgian cultural institutions and French leaders in the field of immersive experiences and cultural innovation.

This initiative has been initiated by:
· The Cooperation and Cultural Action Department of the French Embassy in Belgium
· The ministry of Culture (DGMIC)
· Business France, the national agency supporting the international development of the French economy
· Minalogic, the innovation cluster for digital technologies operating out of France’s Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Minalogic drives an ecosystem of nearly 500 members and helps all of its stakeholders make business connections through targeted, qualified introductions and create opportunities to innovate and grow at the national, European, and international levels.
· 104 factory, the incubator for cultural and creative startups, which supports companies in the development of their projects while benefiting from business expertise.
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And the following partners :
· The French-Belgian Chamber of Commerce
· L&#8217;OFQJ : Office franco-québécois pour la jeunesse
· L’Institut français
· The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region

Délégation France

A Quebec delegation of nearly 15 creative and digital companies will take over the KIKK during the four days of the festival with a blue and white pavilion.
From virtual reality to artificial intelligence, video mapping, interactive installations and augmented scenography, these booming sectors of activity will be put forward by these Quebec creators who are fond of transatlantic meetings and collaborations.

L&#8217;Effet Québec &#8211; Pole of Export Expertise, an initiative of Xn Quebec that brings together the producers of digital experiences in Quebec, provides Quebec and international companies with common and sustainable tools to facilitate discoveries and contacts between different players, sectors and markets.
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L'Effet Québec

L’Effet Québec

The KIKK Pro is the networking area reserved for all festival pass holders. This space is a real business environment where you can find spaces to invite your clients, partners and potential prospects. A B2B app is also available to all pass holders allowing them to network with others. 
It is also within the KIKK pro that the lucky owners of the Smart Pass and VIP Experience will be able to receive their lunch pack on Thursday and Friday noon between 1pm and 2:30pm

KIKK PrO

The place dedicated to networking

KIKK Pro

Want to have a drink with family or friends during the festival? 
Meet us under the Place d&#8217;Armes tent! 
We have a large assortment of beers and soft drinks to offer you!

Where to drink

The place to take a break 

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Creative village and B2B

The Creative Village gathers the KIKK Market, the pro area and makes room for countries and regions that come to the festival with the best of their creative ecosystems.

Creative Village & B2B

COMING SOON &#8211; Organized on the side of the festival, workshops vary from a few hours to several days.

Workshops and masterclasses

Coming soon

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Workshops and Masterclasses

KIKK’s workshops are an opportunity for participants to discover new technologies and techniques. Organized on the side of the festival, workshops vary from a few hours to several days.

WorkshOps & MasterClasses

Alber-K graduated from the world- renowned Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) is currently researching new Music Technologies, developing new hardware devices and electronic musical instruments. Alber-K seeks to combine his knowledge of music technology with his passion for electronic music to create a completely unique sound and unparalleled live performance experience (e.g. incorporating 8D Technology). An engineer by training, Alber-K designs and produces some of his own instruments allowing him to bring never-before-heard fresh and funky tracks to the global house music scene.

Alber-K

When Music meets Tech

Innie Tran, Client Director, Mutant
Innie is a Belgian Advertising School graduate. She started her career at LDV United (WPP group) and worked on award winning campaigns like &#8216;The race is ours&#8217; from Het Nieuwsblad and Special Olympics’ campaigns &#8216;Dare to play&#8217; and &#8216;Dare to sponsor&#8217;. In 2020 she mutated and worked on award winning campaigns ‘Now’s the time to stare’ for Paralympic Team Belgium ‘Missed you stranger’ and ‘Last Metal Standing’ for StuBru to name a few.
Hannah Patronoudis, Managing Partner, nocomputer
As Managing Partner, Hannah rose through the company starting as an intern back in 2018. Learning everything from chatbots to AI, in all its forms, she helped develop prototypes at Craftworkz. Hannah was cut out to lead Craftworkz&#8217; new focus: helping creative agencies as a technical partner to validate their most innovative ideas. As from 2022 she has found a partner in crime and you can find her team often working together with nocomputer since they share the same passion, drive and focus to elevate creative projects with creative tech

Innie Tran & Hannah Patronoudis

Mutant and nocomputer present &#8216;Think in Colour&#8217;, a campaign created for current affairs magazine Knack, a publication open to variety of thought and nuances of opinion.&#8217;Think in Colour’ examines how colourful a person&#8217;s thinking is.  It was developed in collaboration with psychologists at the renowned University of Brussels (VUB) which specialises in human sciences, and measures different variables such as empathy, open-mindedness, flexibility and intellectual curiosity.Find out how Think in Colour opened the debate on how we see the world and how we talk to each other.

How much colour does your grey matter have?

Mutant & nocomputer

A Quebec delegation of nearly 15 creative and digital companies will take over the KIKK during the four days of the festival with a blue and white pavilion.
From virtual reality to artificial intelligence, video mapping, interactive installations and augmented scenography, these booming sectors of activity will be put forward by these Quebec creators who are fond of transatlantic meetings and collaborations.
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L'effet Québec

Innovation, creation on a human scale, immersion, collaboration, learning, emergence process, community of interest, dissemination and international outreach, these are the central themes of this conference led by Eloi Beauchamp, CEO and partner of the digital art studio Iregular, Véronique Paradis, Director of Innovation and Training at the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), which is a research and creation laboratory open to the world, and Myriam Achard, Manager of New Media Partnerships and Public Relations at PHI, which is recognized as a multidisciplinary artistic hub located at the intersection of art, film, music, design and technology.
How to push the limits of digital art? How to initiate and develop ecosystemic governance modes? How to connect human beings to the technology of tomorrow?
Want to know more about them? Here is everything you need to know about these key players in the Quebec ecosystem.
<a href="https://effetquebec.ca/entreprises/iregular/">Iregular</a> 
SAT 
<a href="https://effetquebec.ca/entreprises/phi/">PHI</a> 
Hubblo 
<a href="https://effetquebec.ca/entreprises/mysmartjourney/">My smart journey</a> 
<a href="https://effetquebec.ca/entreprises/ottomata/">Ottomata</a> 
<a href="https://effetquebec.ca/entreprises/studio-kay/">Studio Kay</a> 
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pierre-thirion-9b4033a/">Pierre Thirion</a>

The Montreal ecosystem pushes the technological boundaries to amaze and bring people together!

L’effet Québec

Pau Garcia is a media designer and the co-founder of Domestic Data Streamers, a 25 people studio that since 2013 has been focused on creating info-experiences. He also leads de Master in Data in Design at the School of Design and Engineering in Barcelona and the Barcelona School of Economics. He builds and permanently lives in the Residence for Artists HeyHuman! and is part of the PosttraumaticCollective. Usually, he doesn&#8217;t speak in the third person.

Pau Garcia

We, humans, struggle to build empathy towards large amounts of information. ¿How do we solve these challenges when the problems we face today are so inherently big, interconnected, wicked, and globalized? In this talk, we will explore some humble experiments done to overcome this lack of empathy through art, technology, and participatory experiences.

 Turning excel spreadsheets into collective emotions

Theatre

Daniel Iregui (Colombia, 1981) is a Montreal-based digital artist who creates interactive sculptures, immersive spaces, and architectural interventions using technology as both a tool and an aesthetic. He works with the infinite and random combinations produced by interactive systems that the audience influences and transforms.

Daniel Iregui

Iregular developed its own proprietary technology called CURSOR to power its interactive installations. It’s a touchless and long-range tracking system that uses AI and computer vision to precisely track up to 50 users at the same time and generate the most seamlessly interactive audiovisual responses. 
The magic of CURSOR creates new avenues for storytelling, liberates artistic expression, elevates public experience, and deepens the level of engagement to strongly connect people to the artwork and to one another.

Cursor : An interactive technology that turns cities into museums

Iregular

Olia Lialina is among the best-known participants in the 1990s net.art scene – an early-days, network-based art pioneer. Her early work had a great impact on recognizing the Internet as a medium for artistic expression and storytelling. This century her continuous and close attention to Internet architecture, &#8220;net.language&#8221; and vernacular web has made her an important voice in contemporary art and new media theory. Lialina is credited with founding one of the earliest web galleries, Art Teleportacia. She is cofounder and keeper of One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age archive and a professor at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, Germany and a GIF model.

Olia Lialina

What did it mean to design a web page in 1993 and what will it be in 2023? Let&#8217;s talk about World Wide Web its deep history and very near future. This talk is for those who is interested to discover the roots of modern sites and apps and the way the role of web designer, web master and web user is evolving.

What Does it Mean to Make a Web Page

David Bennett, CEO Mimic Productions Berlin (DE)
David Bennett has over 27 years of experience in the VFX, performance capture, 3D gaming and VR industries. He has played a major role in the development of facial animation, his credits include Hollywood’s blockbusters and has invented many new tools and techniques to streamline and enhance the capabilities of the internal technology. He founded Mimic Productions in 2012, a leading studio that makes the world&#8217;s most realistic digital characters, for all industries and imaginations, under one roof in Berlin.

David Bennett

Mimic Productions, a 3D studio that makes the world&#8217;s most realistic digital humans for all industries will present their case studies and future ambitions for virtual beings. David Bennett, a pioneer in the VFX, performance capture, 3D gaming and VR industries, with credits that include James Cameron&#8217;s Avatar and most recently The Matrix 4.
The visual presentation will focus on how photorealistic digital humans can be used in culture, with an industry insight into the current and future (AI) technologies that are used to create avatars. David has played a major role in the development of facial animation through innovation in new tools and techniques to streamline and enhance the capabilities of avatars and has plans to continue this journey through the use of AI technologies.

Digital humans for the creative industries

Vincent Morisset is a director known for his artistic use of technology. He is the founder of the Montreal-based studio AATOAA (pronounced à toi, meaning &#8220;yours&#8221;). Vincent has been celebrated worldwide for his interactive films and music videos. He has created the genre-defying projects BLA BLA, Way to Go, Vast Body, Motto and Composition.

Vincent Morisset

Lauren Moffatt is an Australian artist working with immersive environments and experimental narrative practices. Her works, often presented in hybrid and iterative forms, explore the paradoxical subjectivity of connected bodies and the indistinct boundaries between digital and organic life. In 2021 she was awarded the DKB VR Art Prize (DE). Lauren&#8217;s works have been exhibited most recently at La Gaïté Lyrique (FR), SXSW (US), Haus am Lützowplatz (DE), UNSW Galleries (AU), Daegu Art Museum (KOR), and at Le Grand Palais Ephémère (FR). She lives and works in Berlin and Valencia.

Lauren Moffatt

Lauren Moffatt will dive into the process behind her digital environments: techniques spanning physical painting and sculpture, 3D scanning, digital painting and world building. Working in unconventional ways with texture files, photogrammetry software, scientific data and game engines, she collaborates with software processes to produce 3D noise, which she builds into hybrid landscapes. Lauren will speak about how her experience has compelled her to translate sensations into visual compositions and unexpected textures that the eye can hold on to, going beyond the surface of digital glamour.

The Digital Strange

Annie Saunders is a multidisciplinary creator and director of site-specific experiences, and has made installations and performance works for both disused spaces and major arts institutions, experiential works for multinational brands and interactive works for public space. In recent years her projects have won the Tribeca Festival&#8217;s Immersive Creative Nonfiction Award, the D&amp;D Yellow Pencil, and the UK APA Award for Best Use of Technology for Good. Saunders is the founder and artistic director of site-specific performance company Wilderness, and her experimental project &#8216;The Wreck&#8217; for Opera Omaha was called ‘ingenious&#8230;a persuasive expression of complex female feeling,’ by the Wall Street Journal.

Annie Saunders

In this talk Saunders discusses experiential work, the role of technology in creating moments of spontaneous intimacy, synchronicity, enchantment and the unexpected, and the impact of pandemic years on the connection between inspiration and mysticism: that the creative process depends on a belief in the potential existence of something we’ve never seen before.

‘You had to be there’: liveness, creativity and the unforeseen

Lundahl &amp; Seitl, formed in 2003 as continuous research into the question of how we perceive reality and negotiate its various forms. The virtual experience in their works is created with peculiar objects such as sightless goggles or methods of choreographed touch through reverse engineering visual stimuli. Through a heuristic relationship to process, and created in collaboration between disciplines, the duo has developed an art form and method containing staging, choreographed movement, instructions, sculpture, spatial sound, and augmented and virtual reality.

Christer Lundahl

At the advent of the endemic, the artists discuss their practice making artworks that, each in a different way, explore how technology makes us and lay the ground for our human umwelt: how it connects and disconnects us from each other and other life-forms and processes. They explore their use of VR technologies in friction with material objects, and the human ability to receive a world, expressing a presence through absence.

A Language of What May Not Be Said

Lundahl & Seitl

Nicolas Nova is an anthropologist, design researcher, and writer. With a multidisciplinary background in social sciences, information technologies, design, and natural sciences, Nicolas uses ethnographic approaches to investigate everyday cultures in order to tell stories, and employs design techniques to explore the implications of new technologies as well as environmental change. Co-founder of a design fiction agency called The Near Future Laboratory, he is also Professor at the Geneva University of Arts and Design (HEAD–Genève).

Nicolas Nova

“Dr. Smartphone,” “iklinik,” “Smartphone clinique…” These are some of the names of a new type of business that has appeared in the past ten years: smartphone repair stores. The services provided vary, but they tend to focus on the material elements of the handset or terminal. Repair technicians may also be able to address software issues, or provide help to local people living in the neighborhood (from advices about addressing other areas of everyday life impacted by digital technologies to administrative tasks). The talk will address how these places can be seen as “hidden laboratories of care” for local communities, beyond simply “repairing” smartphones.

Hidden Laboratories of Care: smartphone repair shops as social hubs

Thierry Brunfaut is a creative director and one of the founding partners of Base Design, the international network of branding studios based in Brussels, New York, Geneva, and Melbourne. He is the author of the renowned 5–Minute poster series, a professor, and a regular speaker at design and branding conferences around the world. Thierry bears a striking and seemingly contradictory resemblance both to Moby and Kermit the frog.
Base Design is an international network of studios that creates brands with cultural impact. Located in Brussels, New York, Geneva, and Melbourne. Our team of creatives, 
strategists, and digital experts design and develop simple yet powerful brands, and build unique personalities.
Base knows that branding is first and foremost about people, so specializes in helping companies – whether new or established; large or small – to become human-centric brands with vision, clarity, and empathy.
Founded in the early ‘90s, the company has evolved continuously over the years and is now steered by partners across all four studios. Clients include Apple, The New York Times, The Institut Français de la Mode, la Fondation Cartier, Studio Brussel, MoMA, Bob Dylan Center, Dior Galerie, La Monnaie Opera, IFAW, The Prince Estate, Orior, Bozar, NY Mets, Caran d’Ache, Caudalie, the JFK Terminal 4, and many more.

Thierry Brunfaut 

Thierry Brunfaut is a graphic designer, therefore learned graphic design. Also, Thierry is an entrepreneur. However, he did not know anything about people management or human resources. So, with his partners, Thierry made ALL the possible mistakes you can make while running a creative business. Until the day they decided to redesign Base, their own company. Thierry will share this journey with the Base teams, how they changed and implemented new processes and rituals while maintaining personal inspiration and accelerated creativity in their four studios in Brussels, New York, Geneva, and Melbourne. Moreover, he will also give you one or two simple but effective bits of advice &#8230;

How to create a studio culture

Base Design

Kathleen Siminyu is an AI Researcher who has focused on Natural Language Processing for African Languages. She works at Mozilla as a Machine Learning Fellow to support the development of a Kiswahili Common Voice dataset and to build speech transcription models for end use cases in the agricultural and financial domains. In her NLP research, Kathleen has previously worked on speech transcription for Luhya languages and contributed to machine translation for Kenyan languages as part of Masakhane.

Kathleen Siminyu

A deep look at Mozilla Common Voice’s Kiswahili work – an initiative to bring a vital language of East Africa online, and to make voice technology accessible to Kiswahili speakers. The talk will cover the mission, challenges, and successes of building an open-source Kiswahili speech data set + community of contributors.

Honoring Kiswahili through technology and community

Merging the latest technology with traditional crafts, Sophie’s creations explore themes of body image, modification, evolution and transhumanism, whilst promoting positive conversations around disability and celebrating body diversity.
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Sophie de Oliveira Barata

The alternative limb project was found by Sophie de Oliveira Barata using the unique medium of prosthetics to create highly stylised wearable art pieces.
Drawing on her own specialist skills in making ultra realistic looking limbs, Sophie collaborates with specialists in fields such as 3D modelling, electronics and cutting edge technology, and works in conjunction with in-house prosthetist Chris Parsons at Design Prosthetics. Clients have included Paralympic athletes, musicians, models, performing artists and video game companies.

The alternative limb project

Immersive Garden has been recognized as Studio of the year 2017, 2018 and 2020 by AWWWARDS. Our vision is focused on crafting in-house meaningful concepts and stories thanks to digital experiences. This translates in websites but also installations, apps or any media that is relevant. Immersive Garden’s focus on details allows to bring high-end experiences that merge innovation in design and in technology to offer a powerful digital presence to brands. Our experience and dedication has brought us to collaborate with international clients: they reach out to us from all parts of the globe, leading us to have 75% of our collaborations with companies abroad.

Immersive Garden

Neil Mendoza’s work combines sculpture, electronics and software to bring inanimate objects and spaces to life. By combining found objects with technology in unexpected ways, the different elements of his work can be looked at from a new perspective. He explores themes of the absurd, the humorous, the futile and the surreal. He has exhibited work and talked at conferences around the world, taught classes on art and technology at UCLA and Stanford and co-founded the art collective “is this good?”.

Neil Mendoza

In this talk, Neil will share some of his thoughts on using technology to create artworks that live outside the screen, blurring the line between physical and the digital.

Screens and Machines

Elliot Woods (UK) is a digital media artist from Manchester UK.
He graduated with a Masters from the School of Physics and Astronomy and entered the arts following the founding of studio Kimchi and Chips in 2009 where he currently tests alternative relationships between images and reality. Here he participates in conceptual and technical design of projects, and develops techniques in computer vision, machine learning and robotics. His works reveal the implicit nature of systems therein suggesting to audiences revelatory experiences about nature and reality. He has created large scale light field art installations which draw floating images of the sun out of sunlight, or moons from 600 calibrated projector beams. Elliot has contributed to the openFrameworks and VVVV creative coding platforms and has released over 100 open source libraries for free on GitHub.

Elliot Woods

The work of Kimchi and Chips deals with the notion that images are physical representations of imaginary forms, and that the technology of images therefore reshapes and filters our collective imagination.

Images that change the way we see

Kimchi and Chips

SNASK is your future romance. A creative agency of misfit geniuses conquering the world through fine lookin&#8217; design and real emotions. They seek to challenge conservative frameworks and they do it with their backs straight, supported by their unbreakable values. They don&#8217;t cower away from the challenge, as they see that the magic lies within the unexplored. In order to be great &#8211; you have to be brave and bold. In order to be real &#8211;  you have to stand up for your opinions and beliefs. And that is Snask &#8211; brave, bold and real. They excel at branding, design and film and refuse to do anything else than what they see as world class. They are doctors of disturbance, wizards of disruption and spokesmen of disobedience. They take on the responsibility to stay engaged, give a damn, and strive for empathy. There is a short word for this assumption of responsibility: Snask.

SNASK

Snask will walk you through their view on life, their view on branding and their view on conservatism and why change is fucking inevitable. Hold on to your hats, because here comes your future romance!

Change is Fu*king Inevitable

Patrik is the Artistic Director of Artificial Rome. It’s not always the easiest job when you’re dealing with a bunch of individualists and – let’s face it – nerds. Astonishingly, he manages to keep up with this matter-of-fact feature and still works as an excellent designer with an ingenious output. 
Born in 1979 in Bochum, Germany, he started out by the age of 18 and was dragged along by the new economy hype. 
Aged 20 Patrik started freelancing at various advertising agencies. others), studying Communication &amp; Illustration Design in the meantime. In 2004 he teamed up with Dirk Hoffmann, they would co- found Artificial Rome in 2014. Since then, the team has, in successive years, received many awards in prestigious competitions including the Cannes Lions, the Art Directors Club, the Red Dot Award and the New York Festivals. 
Patrik has been a speaker at the OFFF Festival, Resonate, ADC Conference, Playground Festival and was Guest Lecturer at the HAW, FH Lübeck and the Miami Ad School.

Patrik de Jong

We will take a stroll down memory lane and do a timewarp thru the past 25 years. We shed light on the origins of the metaverse, which seems astonishingly closely interconnected to our own past. We will showcase some of the work that led to our involvement with the metaverse, we will highlight the limitless opportunities, but we will also voice some concerns about the current state of things.

Creating the Metaverse since 1996

Artificial Rome

Gabriele Rossi is a co-founder of Accurat, a boutique data-driven design consultancy with offices in Milan and New York. There, he directs a multi-disciplinary team of 40 designers, researchers, and engineers working on data visualization and digital experience innovation challenges at the forefront of the most disparate industries. Over 11 years, he has led the Accurat team on more than 600 ground-breaking collaborations with clients including the United Nations, Google, MoMA, IBM, Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, TED, Starbucks, World Economic Forum, and Adobe, among many others.

Gabriele Rossi

After running a firm operating at the intersection of design, technology and data for more than 10 years, Gabriele takes stock of all the hard-learned truths, disproven myths, dangerous habits, and healthy discomforts encountered while making contrasting approaches work together. Drawing from Accurat’s experience on more than 500 projects combining art and science, the talk tries to frame a pragmatic perspective to answer the questions we all keep asking ourselves: Are interdisciplinary teams worth the effort? How to find your “secret sauce”? How —and why— does a team grow? What’s the endgame?

The things I wish I knew BEFORE starting a data design studio

Accurat

Guided by an emotional approach, Berlin based studio onformative constantly searches for new forms of creative expression. Through an experimental practice they create meaningful digital art works to question the relationship between humans and technology. Their outcomes and interpretations take on varying forms across media through self-initiated and commissioned works that range from interactive media installations, generative corporate designs and dynamic visuals to data-driven narratives. Works by onformative have been exhibited across Europe as well as in North America, Australia and China.

Cedric Kiefer

When talking about the creation of digital art, we believe that technology is both a tool and parameter. It is enabling and adding new dimensions to what is possible. At the same time, technology sets limitations – which can serve as an inspiration as well. What we find in our practice is that it&#8217;s all about co-creation. Cedric will reflect on the role of the designer and how it evolves when computers end up taking over even more design tasks. Regarding data as an inspiration and A.I. as a muse, we can create an interesting interplay to integrate into our work.

About inspiration and co-creation in the age of data & AI

onformative

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