
" 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
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
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CONTACT
marie.dg@kikk.be