From October 24 to 27, Namur morphed into a digital arts capital, but also into an open-air museum with the KIKK Festival. The art trail punctuating 12 iconic sites of the Namur city centre with its 70 artworks once again drew in the crowds. ➝

In September 2024, Sarah Descamps, a researcher and doctoral student at UMONS, placed Belgium in the spotlight in the world of Information and Communication Technologies. ➝ #tech #ICT #unesco #information #communication #digital #umons #kingkongkikk

The co-leader of the Walloon artificial intelligence programme will have no truck with dehumanised technology. Her activities are focused on raising awareness of AI and its issues amongst citizens and industrialists. ➙ #IA #artificialintelligence

Is AI a cis-hetero white man? 🤔. 👉

For the past thirty years, Austrian graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister has been bringing a fresh yet singular look at various layers of contemporary society. 👉

Namur is morphing into an open-air museum during KIKK Festival. From October 24th to the 27th, roam the city in search of digital art installations 💥. 👉 #digital #art #kikkfestival #kikkintown #namur

? What are the principal calls for residency application in Wallonia and Brussels? How is the ecosystem structured? 🪐. 👉 #residencies #research #creativework #art #wallonia #brussels #digitalcreation

From science freelance journalist for Flemish news outlets to now being his own publisher, Low-tech Magazine’s founder Kris De Decker keeps a critical eye on how tech is being covered in mass media. 👉 #lowtechmagazine #media #tech #digital #kingkongkikk

On August 1, 2024, over a coffee, kingkong met up with Leïla Maidane, the founder of ‘Femmes Fières’ (Proud Women) ☕. Do you want to know more? Read our article on kingkong 🦍. 👉 #empowerment #femmesfieres #women #entrepreneurship #kingkongkikk

𝑯𝒆𝒚, 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒆𝒕 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒔 ? 😎. Possessing a sharp sense of resourcefulness, a degree in computing and an unrelenting expertise in terms of music programming, the former Dour festival programmer now heads Music Data Studio. 👉

Are you curious about the intersection of creativity and technology? 🧠 Explore how today's artists are breaking boundaries and redefining what's possible in the art world!. 👉 #creativity #technology #art #digital #artts #kingkongkikk

Who has never dreamed of being able to communicate with their cat or dog? 🐾. Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, these imaginings, which back in the day were more the stuff of fantasy films, may be more accessible than it would appear. 👉

The #MatildaEffect describes the process whereby men appropriate the intellectual work of #FemaleScientists and then bask in the attendant praise, at the expense of the women involved, who are sidelined and forgotten over the course of #history. 👉

We talk about the videogaming industry’s use of nostalgia on kingkong ! A powerful marketing argument, but one which has its limits. Read it 👉 #videogaming #gamingindustry #reboot #remake #marketing #kingkong

Whilst the ‘all-digital’ idea is each day gaining ground, legal expert Amélie Lachapelle highlights a key challenge: the shift to digitalisation will have to factor in the issues of sustainable development 🌿. Read our article on kingkong 🦍. 👉

The incredible evolution in AI over the past 2 years has massively impacted numerous sectors by offering them hitherto unattainable possibilities. Amongst them, sport for its part is making the most of these new technologies to initiate its own revolution.

An art gallery which gatecrashes the public space by means of advertising displays. That is the passion-driven project launched during the summer of 2022 by Mathieu France. 👉

From stardust to the Universe with infinite dimensions, the Stellar Scape exhibition brings together some twenty artists and companies around the imaginary worlds of astronomy and the resurgence of space adventures. 👉 #exhibition #lepavillon #namur.

Fishing Cactus is working on ‘Gloomy Eyes – The Game’, and the first images to have been released are particularly promising. Read our article on kingkong 👉 #digital #gaming #gloomyeyes #timburton #fishingcactus #belgianstudio #kingkongkikk

From our birth to our death, the State collects our data. Elise Degrave, a legal expert at the UNamur, investigates the uses this data is put to, and assesses if they are democratically acceptable. 👉 #legal #data #state #unamur #kingkongkikk