Talks
TALKS AT KIKK
Get inspired by the cream of the crop!
More than 40 talks about hot topics such as creative coding, data visualization, artificial intelligence, branding and strategy, VR/AR, bioart, design, research and more.
Event Time:
09:30 - 18:30
Date:
23rd - 24th October
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Language:
english
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Talks at Kikk

Mick Champayne
In an era of AI doom-scrolling and hustle-culture-induced burnout, it’s hard not to feel like your creative brain is perpetually running on fumes. As a professional overthinker and empath who feels things deeply, the pressure to be creative and make big, meaningful work can often feel impossible.

Barnaby Steel, Marshmallow Laser Feast
Barnaby Steel explores how art, science, and technology expand perception and reconnect us with nature through immersive sensory experiences.

Ines Alpha
Internationally recognized digital artist, Ines Alpha turns makeup into 3D art. A former beauty art director, she crafts futuristic, ethereal visions that merge tech and aesthetics into speculative beauty worlds.

Daily tous les jours - Melissa Mongiat & Mouna Andraos
Explore how art, design, and technology spark joy, resilience, and community in times of crisis through creative and meaningful work.

Niccolò Miranda
In this talk, Niccolò Miranda, explores how XR will reshape the way we craft, sense, and live digital experiences.

Liam Young
Designer, director, and BAFTA-nominated producer, Liam Young creates visionary films that blend fiction and future-thinking. Called “the man designing our futures” by the BBC, his work explores environmental futures and is featured from Tribeca to the MoMA and Venice Biennale.

Aurélia de Azambuja - Base Design
For 7 years, Aurélia de Azambuja has brought clarity, structure, and spark to Base Brussels. As a senior designer, she leads bold, thoughtful work with a strong conceptual vision—driven by her belief in design as a tool for change.

Eddie Opara
Designer and Pentagram partner Eddie Opara shapes bold identities and immersive digital worlds for brands like Samsung and Rivian. A MoMA-exhibited artist, RCA Fellow, and Yale critic, he bridges design and innovation.

Makemepulse : Camille Chalvin & Manon Bin
A talk on emotional design. How to turn a simple glance into a heartbeat, and pixels into places that truly resonate.

Andrew Melchior
Andrew Melchior’s The Logos turns cosmic signals into immersive music, making the universe audible and emotionally resonant through art and science.

Tamara Shogaolu
Emmy-winning director Tamara Shogaolu blends film, animation, and immersive tech to tell powerful stories on identity and memory. Shown at MoMA, Tribeca, and IDFA, her work—like Anouschka at SXSW 2025—challenges narratives and reimagines history through play and innovation.

SpecialGuestX - Miguel Espada
In an era where AI generates images, composes symphonies, and even tells stories, the line between human creativity and machine output becomes increasingly blurred.

mischer'traxler studio
Katharina Mischer presents mischer’traxler studio: combining craft, technology, and ecology to create projects linking biodiversity, storytelling, and poetic experiences.

Evan Roth
Evan Roth reflects on twenty years of art, from laser graffiti to contemplative landscapes, exploring speed, slowness, and a new work created in Namur.

Amelie Dinh & Iris Cuppen from Bakken & Bæck
At Bakken & Bæck, Amelie Dinh and Iris Cuppen explore the strategic and narrative dimensions of emerging technologies, with a focus on AI and its cultural impact.

Total Refusal : Susanna Flock
Artist collective Total Refusal hacks mainstream video games to expose and critique the hidden ideologies of mass media.

Antfood
Antfood believe in sound’s ability to move people — blending deep audio expertise with strategic thinking and a restless curiosity for innovation to evoke emotion and bring stories to life.

Moritz Simon Geist
Moritz Simon Geist asks: can machines convey empathy and emotions on stage like human performers?

Rebecca Fiebrink
Rebecca Fiebrink is a Professor of Creative Computing whose research combines human-computer interaction, machine learning, and the arts to develop new forms of expression and accessibility.

Bruno Ribeiro
Bruno Ribeiro explores a decade of immersive storytelling, from Aura Invalides in Paris to Matrix in Shared Reality in LA, blending creativity, tech, and collaboration.

Portrait XO
Whether you’re designing interfaces, installations, or public communications, this talk will present patterns, pitfalls, and a lightweight pipeline to turn evidence into sound that informs, includes, and moves people—without compromising truth.

Yuri Suzuki
Yuri Suzuki explores how sound in public art can connect people, spark joy, and help design more inclusive and human shared spaces.

Erin Gee
Erin Gee turns physiological signals into sound through biofeedback, ASMR, and hypnosis, exploring emotion at the crossroads of body, technology, and music.

Robert Hodgin
This talk is about what happens when the work we’ve built our lives around is suddenly effortless, endless, and automated. It’s not a rejection of the creative potential for AI. It’s an attempt to understand where our creative value lives when machines can generate anything instantly.

SWAMP, Sadie Spencer
Immersive experiences aren’t just about spectacle, they’re about connection. At their heart lies the audience: their choices, their emotions, and their journey. In this talk, we’ll explore what it means to design with an audience-first mindset, creating bold and memorable encounters that blur the boundaries between the digital and the physical.

Nelly-Eve Rajotte
How contemporary technologies, surgical robotics, LiDAR scanning, biometric sensors, and artificial intelligence, can be reconfigured to produce imagery that emerges from the viewpoint of the living world.

Benjamin Gaulon
At KIKK, I’d like to weave a narrative that connects planned obsolescence, material glitch, and tech-rural affect—asking:
How does the failure of technology expose its politics?

Tim Hunkin
A self-taught inventor, he moved from cartooning to building satirical, interactive machines. Now 74, he continues creating automata displayed in his own arcades in Southwold and London.

Marco Barotti and Robertina Šebjanič
Fossilized Futures by Marco Barotti and Robertina Šebjanič explores connections between ancient fossils, contemporary landscapes, and speculative futures through science and mythology.

Matt Locke
Matt Locke is a digital media expert and founder of the content agency Storythings, with over 20 years of leadership in cultural and educational institutions.

Mónica Rikić
Barcelona-based artist Mónica Rikić crafts interactive works that blend creative coding, handmade electronics, and critical thinking. For over a decade, her poetic robots and philosophical devices have been exhibited and awarded worldwide.

DROPSTUFF MEDIA : René van Engelenburg
René van Engelenburg, immersive media artist and co-founder of DROPSTUFF MEDIA, makes complex stories accessible through creative, technology-driven experiences for everyone.

Daniel Simu with Acrobot
From circus stages to robot labs, Dutch artist Daniel Simu blends performance and tech. A juggler, clown, and Dutch champion, he now builds whimsical robots after launching his first Acrobot in 2022.

Ioana Vreme Moser
Ioana Vreme Moser generates sound through raw circuits and natural elements, exploring personal narratives and the toxic impact of electronics.

Adwoa Ankoma - Electric South
Electric South began with a simple but radical goal: to introduce African artists to new and emerging storytelling technologies — from XR and VR to the wider world of immersive media. Over the years, it has trained, mentored, and produced the works of more than 200 artists across the continent, creating space for African creators to experiment and imagine new digital futures.

hérétique
hérétique is a Parisian organization that operates at the crossroads between a think-tank, a development studio and a publishing house to imagine, craft and share digital alternatives.

Panel by ikii - Art, Brands & Venues : Real Collaborations
This panel follows a full day of in-depth discussion between 20+ leaders from the immersive art, brand, venue and agency worlds, brought together for a private roundtable curated by ikii on October 22.

Panel HACNUM network for hybrid arts & digital cultures
HACNUM, France’s national network for hybrid arts and digital cultures, presents Ambivalences, a joint program by Normandy, Brittany, and Pays de la Loire.

Panel STARTS Aqua Motion - art & science collaborations
How can collaborations between artists and scientists generate new ways of understanding and caring for our most vital element : water?

PANEL African Intelligence
The African Intelligence panel explores African knowledge systems as engines of innovation, linking art, science, and tradition to imagine plural, sustainable futures.

Panel Beyond Code : UK Visions in Art & Tech
How can art and technology meaningfully collaborate to shape our shared future?
This panel gathers key UK organisations that operate at the intersection of art, innovation, and public engagement. Moderated by Hannah Andrews, Director of Digital Innovation (Arts) at the British Council, the discussion will explore how institutions, festivals, and curators approach technology as both medium and ecosystem for creativity.
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