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" KIKK galaxy | Art & Science Residency Imagining Ecological Futures 2025 "

KIKK galaxy | Art & Science Residency Imagining Ecological Futures 2025

KIKK galaxy residency supports new media art and art & science projects from international and Belgium- based artists

The KIKK galaxy, which promotes digital and creative cultures at the crossroads of art, science, technology and society, along with  its Creative Hub: TRAKK, in collaboration with the CCN/Namur Cultural Center, is launching an Arts & Sciences residency program around the theme “Ecological Futures”.  

The residency provides a unique opportunity for visual artists and artistic researchers to work at the intersection of art, science, technology, and ecology. The aim is to foster art-driven interdisciplinary research and artistic creation that critically addresses and creatively explores ecological futures through digital and technological media.

Proposal themes:
- The climate crisis and global warming
- Biodiversity loss and non-human ecologies
- Models of human and non-human co-existence
- Biotechnological innovations and their cultural impact
- The decolonization of nature and ecological ethics

Projects in new media arts, including but not limited to: Generative and AI-driven art, Data visualization & sonification, Biotechnology & bioart, Interactive & immersive installations, Digital fabrication & speculative design, Algorithmic, robotic & kinetic art, XR (VR, AR, MR) projects

Exclusions: This residency does not support performance-based work, live art, theater, dance, music, or purely textual/literary projects.

INFO

AMOUNT

Each artist (or collective) will receive a grant of 5.000 € to develop a new media art or art & science project project, along with curatorial and scientific support..


APPLICATION DEADLINE

March 8, 2025


ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES
Austria - Belgium - Bulgaria - Croatia - Cyprus - Czech Republic - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland, Republic of (EIRE) - Italy - Latvia - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Netherlands - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - Ukraine

ELIGIBILITY

Two artists and/or collectives will be welcomed in residence : one international artist & one artist from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (resident in Brussels or in Wallonia) located at the Centre Culturel des Abattoirs de Bomel from Monday, May 5 to Friday, May 30, 2025. 


APPLICATION DETAILS

Apply by March 8, 2025 - before midnight Central European Time !

To apply, please fill in this form : https://airtable.com/appBKajWzI7Jo33Ab/shrZ7vN2aU4qD4lom

The form needs to include the documents requested below :
- Project description including images and technical drawings in French or English.
- Artistic positioning in French or English
- Provisional budget in French or English.
- CV in French or English
- Portfolio

DEADLINE

2025-03-08


TYPE OF SUPPORT

Public funding


FUNDING COUNTRIES

Belgium


WEBSITE

CONTACT

marie.dg@kikk.be


KEYWORDS
Arts - AI - Bio-art - Bio-science - Biology - Data science - Digital approaches - Digital arts and new media - Digital media arts - DIY biotechnology - Science - New media - Digital arts