Jacques Urbanska

Jacques Urbanska

Projects manager

As project manager, Jacques Urbanska is involved in the development of various artistic and cultural initiatives, with a particular focus on performing arts, digital arts, and art/science/technology projects. He brings his expertise to the creation of funding applications (national, European, and international), the implementation of Transcultures’ various programs, and also works as a project coordinator, curator, speaker, and writer. He manages Transcultures’ online presence and helps strengthen its network across the web.

He is also:

  • Project manager at the European Pépinières of Creation (Paris)
  • Member of the steering committee of the RAN – Digital Arts Network (Paris)
  • Regular consultant for various NGOs, socio-cultural, and artistic organizations, both public and private.
  • Member of the multimedia collective art2.network
  • Between 2017 and 2020, he has served on advisory commissions of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (Interdisciplinary Performing Arts Commission, Digital Arts Commission).

Originally trained as an actor and stage director (Royal Conservatory of Liège), his research has challenged the conventional theater stage as the sole space of performance, questioning the individual relationship with the spectator, spectator perception, and the concept of postdramatic theater.

In 2007, he turned more decisively towards performance and digital arts. His projects range from multimedia performance and interactive installations to networked art.

Since 2010, he has developed an extensive information network on digital arts (artsnumeriques.be – arts-numeriques.info – Twitter @arts_numeriques – Media Art WatchLab – Processing_org), as well as on various cultural and socio-political topics (Belgique_info, fukushima_actu, SF_Imaginaire, RN_PASofficiel, OccupyWomen, occupy_USA…).

He also has a strong interest in science fiction literature (especially Hard SF and theoretical studies) and launched in 2020 the Reddit forum r/ScienceFiction_FR (now with over 20,000 members) and the website sfff.fr – Science Fiction & Imaginary Cultures.

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