Agenda - Nos derniers rendez-vous à ne pas manquer
04 > 26.02.2022 | Audioblast #11 – Network festival – Transmission of the Woods | Apo33 (Fr)
Audio in a network, Digital sound festival using the INTERNET as a venue for diffusing LIVE experimental, drone, noise, field recordings, sound poetry, electronic, contemporary music. The festival is streamed live online and in a quadraphonic sound system at the venue “La Plateforme Intermédia” in Nantes, France…
20/01/2023Call 2023 | Residencies – Digital & Sound Arts & new writings 2023-24 | Chateau Ephémère (FR)
In partnership with the network of European Pepinieres of Creation and Transcultures, Château Éphémère is launching for the 9th year its call for projects “Digital Arts, Sound Art & New Writings” for the 2023/24 season. Every project involving innovative digital practices and sound art in its creation process is…
18/01/202302.02 > 09.02.2023 | Signal exhibition – GMLR Arts2 (Be) ESÄ Tourcoing (Fr) Studio | Tourcoing (Fr)
The GMLR or twin studio is the cross-border sound studio common to the ARTS2 schools of Mons and the ESÄ Dunkerque-Tourcoing, site of Tourcoing. Like every year, following workshops, the GMLR offers an intermedia exhibition which combines the research and work of a dozen students from both institutions…
15/01/2023Appel 2023 | City Sonic Vilnius – Sound Camp #1 | Užiateka – Kompresorinė (Lt)
En association avec les Pépinières Européennes de Création, Transcultures Užiateka et ses partenaires, City Sonic Vilnius lance un appel à participation ouvert aux artistes sonores pour participer à son premier “Sound Camp”, un projet inspiré par la diversité du paysage acoustique de la capitale de la Lituanie…
13/01/202331.01 > 05.02.2023 | Zone Libre – Sound art festival 2023 | Bastia (Fr)
For the third time, Transcultures is an important partner of the Zone Libre – sound arts festival organized by the eponymous association in Bastia, which defends creative sound and digital practices both locally and internationally. As for the 2022 edition, Philippe Franck will be the artistic curator of a…
12/01/202314 > 15.01.2023 | Cat C. Boucher’s Remember Event | Second Life
Transcultures is very sad to announce the decease of Cat C. Boucher who has hosted in her great Second Life Cat’s Club many experimental audio visual events and artists (and in the past few months some Transonic Second Life Festivals supported by Transcultures)…
05/01/202314 > 18.01.23 | Sonopoetic residence – Maja Jantar (Be/Fi) + Paradise Now (Fr/Be) | Transonic Lab (Be)
Performer and vocalist Maja Jantar produced with her sound designer accomplice Paradise Now, after a first residency in Namur (BE) in 2021, a sonopoetic EP ‘Transonic Delta” on the Transonic label, which had also been the subject of a joint video titled ‘Clouds of light’.
02/01/202330.12.2022 | Senis ir Jūra – Kotryna Žilinskaitė (Lt) – Sonopoetic performance | Ideas Block (Lt)
The “Senis ir Jūra” sonopoetic performance is the third and last event of this year’s “City Sonic – Vilnius” – a sound experiential composition based on Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Old Man and the Sea” written in 1951 when the writer/journalist was living in Cuba. This Hemingway’ epic novel …
15/12/2022Call 2022 | Exhibition + Audioblast festival #11 (sound & radio arts 2023) | Apo33 (Fr)
The APO33 association launches, in partnership with the European Pepinieres of Creation and Transcultures, a call for participation for sound pieces and bio-radiophonic transmissions. Each artist proposes a sound piece of approximately 1 hour or more to be played in mono on an AM radio with a short wave…
07/12/2022Article | Ambiences and urban audio landscapes, questions to Philippe Franck | by Claire Azéma – Design Arts Medias Revue (Fr)
En parallèle du numéro 5 de la revue DAM, consacré aux Médialités du paysage, le comité éditorial a souhaité ouvrir la réflexion à la question des pratiques artistiques audio au travers d’une rencontre avec Philippe Franck spécialiste de l’art sonore. Une des questions à laquelle notre équipe de recherche s’intéresse…
06/12/2022Album | Bega [Sonic Scapes] – Tommy Lawson (Tg/Fr) | Transonic Label
This album finalized on the occasion of a European Pepinieres residency at Transcultures, is an invitation to a transonic journey – between Bastia (Corsica), Timisoara (Romania) and M’Hamid (Morocco) – by questioning the moment, shaking the uses and the people and events encountered in situ, and plunge us into…
04/12/202213 > 14.12.2022 | Study days – Scientific mediation and territorial project | LISA CNRS laboratory (Fr)
These study days entitled “Scientific mediation and territorial project: heritage in all its states”: “is part of the research activities in Information and Communication Sciences within the UMR CNRS 6240 LISA and more precisely in axis 2: “Making society in an intercultural framework: ways of modeling in an island…
03/12/2022
Agenda général

04 > 26.02.2022 | Audioblast #11 – Network festival – Transmission of the Woods | Apo33 (Fr)
Audio in a network, Digital sound festival using the INTERNET as a venue for diffusing LIVE experimental, drone, noise, field recordings, sound poetry, electronic, contemporary music. The festival is streamed live online and in a quadraphonic sound system at the venue “La Plateforme Intermédia” in Nantes, France…

Call 2023 | Residencies – Digital & Sound Arts & new writings 2023-24 | Chateau Ephémère (FR)
In partnership with the network of European Pepinieres of Creation and Transcultures, Château Éphémère is launching for the 9th year its call for projects “Digital Arts, Sound Art & New Writings” for the 2023/24 season. Every project involving innovative digital practices and sound art in its creation process is…

02.02 > 09.02.2023 | Signal exhibition – GMLR Arts2 (Be) ESÄ Tourcoing (Fr) Studio | Tourcoing (Fr)
The GMLR or twin studio is the cross-border sound studio common to the ARTS2 schools of Mons and the ESÄ Dunkerque-Tourcoing, site of Tourcoing. Like every year, following workshops, the GMLR offers an intermedia exhibition which combines the research and work of a dozen students from both institutions…

Appel 2023 | City Sonic Vilnius – Sound Camp #1 | Užiateka – Kompresorinė (Lt)
En association avec les Pépinières Européennes de Création, Transcultures Užiateka et ses partenaires, City Sonic Vilnius lance un appel à participation ouvert aux artistes sonores pour participer à son premier “Sound Camp”, un projet inspiré par la diversité du paysage acoustique de la capitale de la Lituanie…

31.01 > 05.02.2023 | Zone Libre – Sound art festival 2023 | Bastia (Fr)
For the third time, Transcultures is an important partner of the Zone Libre – sound arts festival organized by the eponymous association in Bastia, which defends creative sound and digital practices both locally and internationally. As for the 2022 edition, Philippe Franck will be the artistic curator of a…

14 > 15.01.2023 | Cat C. Boucher’s Remember Event | Second Life
Transcultures is very sad to announce the decease of Cat C. Boucher who has hosted in her great Second Life Cat’s Club many experimental audio visual events and artists (and in the past few months some Transonic Second Life Festivals supported by Transcultures)…

14 > 18.01.23 | Sonopoetic residence – Maja Jantar (Be/Fi) + Paradise Now (Fr/Be) | Transonic Lab (Be)
Performer and vocalist Maja Jantar produced with her sound designer accomplice Paradise Now, after a first residency in Namur (BE) in 2021, a sonopoetic EP ‘Transonic Delta” on the Transonic label, which had also been the subject of a joint video titled ‘Clouds of light’.

30.12.2022 | Senis ir Jūra – Kotryna Žilinskaitė (Lt) – Sonopoetic performance | Ideas Block (Lt)
The “Senis ir Jūra” sonopoetic performance is the third and last event of this year’s “City Sonic – Vilnius” – a sound experiential composition based on Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Old Man and the Sea” written in 1951 when the writer/journalist was living in Cuba. This Hemingway’ epic novel …

Call 2022 | Exhibition + Audioblast festival #11 (sound & radio arts 2023) | Apo33 (Fr)
The APO33 association launches, in partnership with the European Pepinieres of Creation and Transcultures, a call for participation for sound pieces and bio-radiophonic transmissions. Each artist proposes a sound piece of approximately 1 hour or more to be played in mono on an AM radio with a short wave…

Article | Ambiences and urban audio landscapes, questions to Philippe Franck | by Claire Azéma – Design Arts Medias Revue (Fr)
En parallèle du numéro 5 de la revue DAM, consacré aux Médialités du paysage, le comité éditorial a souhaité ouvrir la réflexion à la question des pratiques artistiques audio au travers d’une rencontre avec Philippe Franck spécialiste de l’art sonore. Une des questions à laquelle notre équipe de recherche s’intéresse…
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Album | Bega [Sonic Scapes] – Tommy Lawson (Tg/Fr) | Transonic Label
This album finalized on the occasion of a European Pepinieres residency at Transcultures, is an invitation to a transonic journey – between Bastia (Corsica), Timisoara (Romania) and M’Hamid (Morocco) – by questioning the moment, shaking the uses and the people and events encountered in situ, and plunge us into…

13 > 14.12.2022 | Study days – Scientific mediation and territorial project | LISA CNRS laboratory (Fr)
These study days entitled “Scientific mediation and territorial project: heritage in all its states”: “is part of the research activities in Information and Communication Sciences within the UMR CNRS 6240 LISA and more precisely in axis 2: “Making society in an intercultural framework: ways of modeling in an island…

06.12.2022 | AN DOMHAN – Gaëtan Le Coarer (Fr) – Expo + thesis defense | Galerie Espace Larith (Fr)
Laureat of the European Pepinieres of Creation – Wallonia-Brussels Federation residency hosted by Transcultures in the fall of 2021, artist-researcher Gaëtan Le Coarer developed part of his project “AN DOMHAN”, which he is presenting today. as part of her defense of her thesis “Comic Strip and Mixed Reality, towards…

13.11 > 06.12.2022 | Tommy Lawson (TG/Fr) Lecture – Geosonic explorations and interactions of digital audio creation | Arts2 (Be)
For this multi-sound creator who likes to work in a contextual way, it is a question of apprehending the particularities of the territory and the daily surrounding world, by mobilizing and sharpening the sense of listening, in order to generate through a process of sound phenomenology unprecedented representations that…

27.11.2022 | The most Bizarre Avatar Fashion Show | SLEA MusicLAB – Second Life (Int)
As part of the Lazy Sunday Show, a weekly event and space set up by the MusicLab organized in the SLEA region (Second Life Endowment for the Arts – organization supporting creation in Second Life), the artists A Limb (Be) & Livio Korobase (It) offering a sound and multimedia…

26.11 > 08.12.2022 | Blé d’Art – Marie Bertrand (Be) – Exhibition + performance | Foyer Culturel de Saint-Ghislain (Be)
Through the creations of the Belgian visual and multidisciplinary artist Marie Bertrand on the theme of bread as well as those of the inhabitants of the commune of Saint Ghislain, Blé d’Art jointly presents works by Marie Bertrand as well as achievements of the inhabitants made during workshops she…

19.11.2022 | “Shooting stars can last” Performance – Christophe Bailleau & Friends (Int) | Solid’Art’Note (Be)
For the launch of his new album “Shooting stars can last” (released on Optical Sound in co-production with Transcultures and the European Pepinieres of Creation), Christophe Bailleau invited in complicity with the Solid’Art’Note association, in the city where he lives and works Huy, several sound creators who participated in…

17 > 27.11.2022 | Digital Emergences – Puppetry and Media Arts @ Festival Lumen #7 (Be)
For 5 years, the Center de la Marionnette and Transcultures have joined forces at the annual Lumen event to support and promote digital, intermedia or / and sound projects by students from the Eurometropolis: Arts2 – Visual Arts School of Mons, ESA – Academy of Fine Arts of Tournai,…

17.11 > 08.12.2022 | Viens Valeur – Rachel M. Cholz (Fr) @ Sweet B.I.O.S exhibition | POELP (Be)
.The artist Rachel M. Cholz presents a first single-band version of his multidisciplinary project “Viens Valeur”, which focuses on the fetishism of objects as sound and poetic possibilities. Interactive project with a particular writing, it is directly inspired by the ASMR process and offers an unprecedented dramaturgy with several…

13.11 > 06.12.2022 | Tommy Lawson (TG/Fr) – European Pepinieres Residency | Transcultures – Transonic Lab (Be)
This residency of Tommy Lawson – laureate 2022 European Pepinieres of Creation for Transcultures/Federation Wallonia-Brussels – at the Transonic Lab will aim at the writing and the realization of several projects with different architectures and contents but at the same time complementary, like several facets of the worlds…

11. 11.2022 | Nomadic Poetic Stories Performance – Biba Sheikh (Lb/USA) + Xia Dong Wei (Cn/USA) | Sweet Soul Bistro (USA)
After an artistic residency, mixing poetry, performance and music, at the Mediterranean Fire Studio in Detroit, the writer, performer, activist Biba Sheikh, takes us from Detroit, to Paris, Berlin, and more. The music is by Xiao Dong Wei, a master Chinese musician who fuses her traditional instruments and sounds…

08 > 12.11.2022 | Spectres & Neons – Exhibition + CD launch – Alain Wergifosse (Be) | Pléiades Festival (Fr)
Alain Wergifosse is invited again at the Saint-Etienne digital arts festival to present, in French premiere, his new exhibition “Spectres & Neons ” with about twenty photographs (12 inches/vinyl record cover format) and a listening of his new eponymous CD which has just been released on the Transonic label…

08 > 12.11.2022 | Transcultures @ International Video Art Festival – FIAV 2022 | Casablanca (Ma)
The Casablanca International Video Art Festival is a large-scale multidisciplinary event, which has become an unmissable event and a national and international reference in the field of video and digital arts. Every year, it brings together, in more than 10 places in the city, artists and actors of a…

CD | Shooting stars can last – Christophe Bailleau & Friends (Int) | Optical Sound (Fr)
Between 2020 and 2022, Christophe Bailleau invited several sound artists/accomplices from different backgrounds and countries to contribute to electronic, hybrid, soundscape pieces. Each of them is a sonic vision of another world…

25.10 > 11. 11.2022 | Nomadic Poetic Stories Résidency – Biba Sheikh (Lb/USA) + Xia Dong Wei (Cn/USA) | Mediterranean Fire Studio (USA)
Writer, performer, activist Biba Sheikh, takes us from Detroit, to Paris, Berlin, and more. The music is by Xiao Dong Wei, a master Chinese musician who fuses her traditional instruments and sounds with an American flavor…

29.10.2022 | Alain Wergifosse (Be) ⇝ Sound performance ⇜ André Chabot (Fr) | Ferme Géron – Nouvelles/Mons (Be)
On the occasion of the signing of the brochure “The last salon where we cause” (published by Koma) by the French photographer and journalist André Chabot around several books*, the artist Alain Wergifosse offers a contextual electro sonic intervention, in this heritage and friendly place that is the Géron…

27.10 > 05.11.2022 | Exhibition + performance Spectres & Neons – Alain Wergifosse | Galerie Koma (Be)
The Spectres & Neons photographic exhibition brings together around twenty images of moving urban lights taken in long exposure during journeys in the depths of spectral nights of neon subtly modulated by the 50hz of the electrical network…

25.10.2022 | Artistic workshop around bread – Marie Bertrand | Foyer Culturel St-Ghislain (Be)
Using piezo microphones and digital recorders, Marie Bertrand offers, ahead of her multidisciplinary and participatory exhibition “Blé d’Art” at FC Saint-Ghislain, a sound recording workshop using the materials that make up the bread (water, flour, salt, yeast/sourdough) and the bread object itself…

CD | Spectres & Neons – Alain Wergifosse (Be) | Transonic Label
Transonic is proud to release “Spectres & Neons” , the long-awaited album of Belgian electronic sonic pionnier Alain Wergifosse, his second album since the critical acclaim of his release “Deep grey organic” in 1999 and an EP called “Flux & Densités” published on the Transonic bandcamp in 2020 as…

13 > 15.10.2022 | Transcultures @ 01Design.12 Colloquium | Hammamet (Tn)
Transcultures will be present at the 12th International Colloquium on design sciences and technologies, which wants to question the limits of design process models and highlight “Unintentional Design” (DnI) as a “critique of phenomenology intentional” design. It is a desire to rethink the design process, taking into account the…

“Viens Valeur” | ASMR interactive multidisciplinary project – Rachel M. Cholz (Fr)
Transcultures supports the artist Rachel M. Cholz and her project “Viens Valeur”, which focuses on the fetishism of objects as sound and poetic possibilities. He plays with semiotic paradoxes in the face of the disinterest of the object as a bearer of meaning. A discrepancy thus proposing another form…

04 > 05.10.2022 | Lament _ A sound Ritual – Roberto Paci Dalò (It) | Cafe Oto London (UK)
After the Venice Biennale in April 2022, it’s in the famous Cafe Oto in London that Lament, this long-term project by artist Roberto Paci Dalò will be presented. Other performances will also take place during this event: SUONO GRASSO #1 – Two nights of experimental music from Italy’s Emilia-Romagna…

Call 2022 | Centre de la marionnette > digital arts – Transcultures | Lumen Festival #7 (Be)
In association with the European Pepinieres of Creation, the Center de la Marionnette of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation and Transcultures launch a call for the conception, adaptation or re-creation of an artistic work in connection with the arts of puppetry and new technologies. This call is part of the LUMEN#7…

29.09.2022 | No Lockdown Art Video @ Over The Real Festival (It)
Transcultures is pleased to initiate a first collaboration with Over the Real Festival (Lucca-IT) at the invitation of its artistic director Maurizio Marco Tozzi with an international selection of videos supported by Transcultures as part of the “No Lockdown Art” initiative launched in March 2020 during the Covid-19…

20.09.2022 > 20.01.2023 | In the Tangerine Dream – Exposition de 4 oeuvres immersives | Galerie ZAWIA Tanger (Ma)
Les œuvres immersives i-REAL, AN DOMHAN, NYMPHEA’s SURVEY et RADICANT sont exposés au cœur de la ville de Tanger, dans la galerie ZAWIA.
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18.09.2022 | Matin Lumineux @ Être[ici] – Artistic itinerary Tanger 2022 | Tanger (Ma)
On the occasion of the artistic journey 2022 – Etre – in Tangier, Mohamed Rachdi, Marc Veyrat, Gaëtan Le Coarer and Paradise Now present their new multimedia and multifaceted project Matin Lumineux…

09.09.2022 | Sieste sonique – UNDA (Be/Fr/Ch) | Jardin collectif Solidarcités – Baudour (Be)
As part of the Solidarcités collective garden open day and the end of the summer program of the cultural centre of Saint-Ghislain, Unda offers a “ sonic siesta”, surrounding and re-harmonizing performance and collective intimate experience combining well-being and sound journey, subtly crossing Tibetan bowls, gongs, bells, drone and…

08.09.2022 | Tree Stories Performance – Kotryna Žilinskaitė (Lt) + Hasan Alp Çelikel (Tk) | Užupis’ Art Incabutor (Lt)
Tree stories is a interdisciplinary and multifaceted in progress project inspired by the timeless poetry and mystical power of raw nature embodied by the tree in a time where Man is continuing to destroy the natural environment as well as himself in a blind infernal suicidal race. The…

01.09.2022 | i-REAL WORLD – Marc Veyrat + AN DOMHAN – Gaëtan Le Coarer + lectures | Computer Art Congress 2022 (Ch)
Since its inception in 2002, the Computer Art Congress has brought together artists and scholars from all over the world to observe and study the manifestations and evolution of this particular art form…

Article | Pastoral, du son à l’image et vice versa – Christophe Bailleau & Philippe Franck | Turbulences Video #116 (Fr)
Jean-françois Octave a conçu des pochettes devenues des références au début des années 80 pour des labels alors particulièrement créatifs comme Les Disques du Crépuscule ou Factory Benelux. Ces musiques ciselées « sur mesure » ont été composées pour deux expositions : Tabula à la Collégiale de Soignies (ici…

29.08.2022 | Artistic workshop around bread – Marie Bertrand | Espace Turati (Be)
What place do we still leave bread in everyday life? Bread is everywhere but yet it is often put in the background. Bread, the basis of food, what remains to be discovered about it? Through different artistic activities, let yourself be surprised by the richness of bread through sound,…

21.08.2022 | Clothing performance M&M Exhibition – Jean-François Octave + Paradise Now | Galerie Koma (Mons)
On the occasion of the end of the exhibition M&M – Merveilleux & Magnifique, Jean-François Octave offers, with his accomplice Paradise Now, a poetic and sound closing performance in connection with the album Soundtracks for JFO (exhibition music produced in Soignies – during the biennial of contemporary art and heritage…

19.08.2022 | No ou le pactole – Rachel M. Cholz (Fr) | Edition La Lettre Volée (Be)
The artist Rachel M. Cholz, supported by Transcultures for her project “Viens Valeur”, is releasing her first story with our partners at La Lettre Volée. “No ou le pactole” was the winner of the National Aid for the Creation of Dramatic Texts from ARTCENA (National Center for Circus, Street…

19.08 > 11.09.2022 | NFT exhibition by Lithuanian artists | Klaipėda (LT)
Following the huge interest in the art NFTs at the beginning of 2021, the field is undergoing a natural evolution and transformation. The internet, social networks and forums have been flooded with NFT artists, collectors and resellers. The huge sums of money and earnings have twisted the minds of…

19.08.2022 | Sonic Garden Party – Xavier Gazon (Be) | Hautrage-Etat (Be)
All the everyday objects that surround us hide curious sounds often imperceptible to the naked ear that it is very fun to discover by amplifying them to, perhaps, manage to make new, bizarre and amazing music. With tiny contact microphones placed strategically on any sort of object, using a…

19.08.2022 | Sonic Kids – Alain Wergifosse (Be) | Hautrage-Etat (Be)
All the everyday objects that surround us hide curious sounds often imperceptible to the naked ear that it is very fun to discover by amplifying them to, perhaps, manage to make new, bizarre and amazing music. With tiny contact microphones placed strategically on any sort of object, using a…

15.08 > 15.09.2022 | Alain Wergifosse – Summer residency | Transcultures (Be)
Alain Wergifosse is welcomed in a summer residence by Transcultures in order to prepare various projects for the coming months…

11.08.2022 | City Sonic AV Event @ Vilnius (Lt)
Extending the City Sonic Event @ Uzupis Summer Day of Culture, this evening offers a program where sound creation dialogues with the exploring image, which is also one of the fields explored by the City Sonic festival in its “Sonic Cinema” section. After a selection of sonic videos of…

Article | FaBlablab – Nathalie Cimino – Dominic Lafontaine par Philippe Franck | Turbulences Video #116 (Fr)
Depuis 2020, La Chambre Blanche – centre d’artistes voué à l’expérimentation et à la diffusion des arts visuels et numériques (Québec) et Transcultures – Centre des cultures numériques et sonores ont initié une nouvelle série d’échanges de résidences croisées création/recherche dans laquelle chaque partenaire accueille un tandem…

07 > 10.08.2022 | Résidence Tree Stories | Verpejų Art Residence (Lt)
This summer residence in rural Lithuania allows Kotryna Žilinskaitė, Hasan Alp Celikel, Paradise Now to work together on the Tree stories project. This is conceived as interdisciplinary and multifaceted process made from sound, visual and poetic material created during this artistic research residence in a house traditional wooden house…
Festivals / Expositions

04 > 26.02.2022 | Audioblast #11 – Network festival – Transmission of the Woods | Apo33 (Fr)
Audio in a network, Digital sound festival using the INTERNET as a venue for diffusing LIVE experimental, drone, noise, field recordings, sound poetry, electronic, contemporary music. The festival is streamed live online and in a quadraphonic sound system at the venue “La Plateforme Intermédia” in Nantes, France…

02.02 > 09.02.2023 | Signal exhibition – GMLR Arts2 (Be) ESÄ Tourcoing (Fr) Studio | Tourcoing (Fr)
The GMLR or twin studio is the cross-border sound studio common to the ARTS2 schools of Mons and the ESÄ Dunkerque-Tourcoing, site of Tourcoing. Like every year, following workshops, the GMLR offers an intermedia exhibition which combines the research and work of a dozen students from both institutions…

31.01 > 05.02.2023 | Zone Libre – Sound art festival 2023 | Bastia (Fr)
For the third time, Transcultures is an important partner of the Zone Libre – sound arts festival organized by the eponymous association in Bastia, which defends creative sound and digital practices both locally and internationally. As for the 2022 edition, Philippe Franck will be the artistic curator of a…

Call 2022 | Exhibition + Audioblast festival #11 (sound & radio arts 2023) | Apo33 (Fr)
The APO33 association launches, in partnership with the European Pepinieres of Creation and Transcultures, a call for participation for sound pieces and bio-radiophonic transmissions. Each artist proposes a sound piece of approximately 1 hour or more to be played in mono on an AM radio with a short wave…

13 > 14.12.2022 | Study days – Scientific mediation and territorial project | LISA CNRS laboratory (Fr)
These study days entitled “Scientific mediation and territorial project: heritage in all its states”: “is part of the research activities in Information and Communication Sciences within the UMR CNRS 6240 LISA and more precisely in axis 2: “Making society in an intercultural framework: ways of modeling in an island…

26.11 > 08.12.2022 | Blé d’Art – Marie Bertrand (Be) – Exhibition + performance | Foyer Culturel de Saint-Ghislain (Be)
Through the creations of the Belgian visual and multidisciplinary artist Marie Bertrand on the theme of bread as well as those of the inhabitants of the commune of Saint Ghislain, Blé d’Art jointly presents works by Marie Bertrand as well as achievements of the inhabitants made during workshops she…

17.11 > 08.12.2022 | Viens Valeur – Rachel M. Cholz (Fr) @ Sweet B.I.O.S exhibition | POELP (Be)
.The artist Rachel M. Cholz presents a first single-band version of his multidisciplinary project “Viens Valeur”, which focuses on the fetishism of objects as sound and poetic possibilities. Interactive project with a particular writing, it is directly inspired by the ASMR process and offers an unprecedented dramaturgy with several…

08 > 12.11.2022 | Spectres & Neons – Exhibition + CD launch – Alain Wergifosse (Be) | Pléiades Festival (Fr)
Alain Wergifosse is invited again at the Saint-Etienne digital arts festival to present, in French premiere, his new exhibition “Spectres & Neons ” with about twenty photographs (12 inches/vinyl record cover format) and a listening of his new eponymous CD which has just been released on the Transonic label…

27.10 > 05.11.2022 | Exhibition + performance Spectres & Neons – Alain Wergifosse | Galerie Koma (Be)
The Spectres & Neons photographic exhibition brings together around twenty images of moving urban lights taken in long exposure during journeys in the depths of spectral nights of neon subtly modulated by the 50hz of the electrical network…

19.08 > 11.09.2022 | NFT exhibition by Lithuanian artists | Klaipėda (LT)
Following the huge interest in the art NFTs at the beginning of 2021, the field is undergoing a natural evolution and transformation. The internet, social networks and forums have been flooded with NFT artists, collectors and resellers. The huge sums of money and earnings have twisted the minds of…

06.08.2022 | Užupis’ Summer Day of Culture | République d’Užupis – Vilnius (Lt)
After a first collaboration with the Republic of Užupis in 2021, the European Pepinieres of Creation continue their partnership in 2022 on several events, including this new edition of the Užupio Vasaros Kultūros Diena (Užupis’ Summer Day of Culture) with more than 20 artistic activities welcomed by as many…

08.07.2022 > 21.08.2022 | M&M – Merveilleux & Magnifique – Jean-François Octave (+ Paradise Now) | Galerie Koma (Mons)
For his exhibition at the Koma Gallery, Jean-François Octave continues his reflection on the image and the words, started since the beginning of the 80s, and this, from his started in 1971 when he was fifteen years (in the form of diaries, then on small Aurora notebooks with…

03.07 > 03.08.2022 | Exhibition “NFThon: The Future” | Akropolis Kaunas (Lt)
NFThon Kaunas is a project that aims to draw people’s attention to the potential of modern technologies in the field of culture and involve them in the creative process. During the first in-person NFT hackathon in Lithuania which will happen in the frame of Audra Festival, 30 selected participants…

03.06 > 21.08.2022 | Hanzel & Gretzel Hamlet Machine @ Lenin was a mushroom | M HKA (Be)
Hänzel & Gretzel makes us read, see, and wait for their own interpretation of the Hamlet Machine, after the text by Heiner Müller. Through this descent into Hamlet’s mental universe, a virtual puppet with violent human pulses, Hänzel & Gretzel tries to unravel the mechanisms of the interpretation phenomenon…

12.05 > 20.05.2022 | PRIST exhibition – Dé-réalité Des Réalités #2 | ESA Tourcoing (Fr)
This exhibition presents the result of the theoretical and plastic research of more than twenty students whose plastic works intend to reflect on the tangled filiations between humans and technologies. These works are the fruit of a questioning that began when the pandemic demanded that Esä…

08.04.2022 | i-REAL_The game board – Marc Veyrat – Factory vernissage | Entreprise GIUSTI – Annecy (Fr)
i-REAL is a digital arts and hypermedia project that mixes triggered VR environments using cards placed on a JE(U) – game board. These cards are i-REALIZED with/from the social network Instagram and uploaded/posted on Pinterest. Using these connections open worlds in VR. Clues scattered across maps, the board, social…

21 > 27.03.2022 | Pierre Larauza (Fr) – 20 février 1998, Nagano | World figure skating championships (Fr)
As part of the world figure skating championships, the president of the French Federation of Ice Sports (FFSG), Nathalie Péchalat, invited the artist Pierre Larauza to exhibit his sculpture “February 20, 1998, Nagano” (one of the works that he produced as part of his research “Documentary Sculptures”)…

09 > 13.02.2022 | swalling hEARt – Raymond Delepierre (Be) | La Semaine du Son @ Lavallée (Be)
The Swalling hEARt imagined by the sound artist Raymond Delepierre, presents a project in the shape of an imposing spherical mass enthroned like a sort of enigma which is situated in the middle of the space. Moving their hands over the smooth and slightly softened surface of this generous…

05.11 > 31.12.2011 | Cosmografie – A sound exhibition | Radio Lada (Web) + Oggetti Specifici (It)
On November 5-6-7, 2021 Oggetti Specifici gallery in Turin presented the project Cosmographies – performances, installations, broadcasts with Katatonic Silentio, Jacopo Mazzonelli and Roberto Paci Dalò, with three days of performances and sound and visual installations in the gallery space…

30 + 31.10.2021 | Transcultures @ Sonic narratives – Timisoara (Ro)
Transcultures are pleased to be partners of the first edition of Sonic Narratives imagined in the framework of Timisoara, European Capital of Culture, by the dynamic Romanian association Simultan, which is also known for its eponymous annual festival of digital arts and adventurous music…

08.10.2021 | ARTEX 2021 – Arts and Sciences of Complex Systems day | TOTEM (Fr)
Dans le cadre de leur programme Emergences – Ars Sciences Recherche, Transcultures – Pépinières de Création soutient l’événement ARTEX 2021 proposé par le l′Institut des systèmes complexes de Paris Île-de-France, 3e édition de la « Journée Arts & Science des systèmes complexes » – Fête de la Science 2021…

01 > 03.10.2021 | Transcultures @ Les voix en ville Festival – Lettres en voix (Be)
For the second year in a row, the Lettres en Voix association, with the support of Transcultures, invites you to the Les Voix en Ville Festival, which will be held on October 1, 2 and 3. The festival intends to resonate literary and musical voices in emblematic places in…

26.09.2021 > 30.01.2022 | Silent Noise (exhibition) – Tamara Laï | Contemporary Arts Museum – MACS (Be)
Since the outset of her artistic activity, Tamara Laï has produced a body of work in which the variety of multimedia supports has extended in pace with her development and discoveries, from video to website via cam & chat performance, video conference, poetry collection and CD-ROM. Although she first…

24.09 > 28.11.2021 | Transcultures @ ARTour – Contemporary Art and Heritage Biennale 2021 (Be)
ARTour 2021 proposes to question the relationships that today bind writing and the visual, digital and sound arts. The invited artists, authors, visual artists, intermedia creators combine them according to their respective practices, associate them to give them to watch, to read, to listen…

27.08 > 05.09.2021 | 20 février 1998, Nagano – Pierre Larauza | En Piste – La Boverie Museum (Be)
The documentary sculpture “February 20, 1998, Nagano” recreates life-size the famous backward somersault of French figure skater Surya Bonaly during the Olympic Games in Nagano. A feat which has since become for many the icon of the struggle of a woman, a minority or a difference…

04.07 > 05.09.2021 | Tabula exhibition – Collégiale Saint-Vincent à Soignies – Jean-François Octave + Paradise Now – ARTour 2021
Proposed in upstream of the Biennale of contemporary art and heritage ARTour 2021 on the theme “The conjugated image”, this exhibition by Belgian visual artist Jean-François Octave is built from a “sign”, an index observed in the Roman Church of Soignies. The “Tabula” was designed by Bernardin de Siena…

24 + 25.04.2021 | Focus t.r.a.n.s.i.t.s.c.a.p.e – Ending performance – Jacques Franck Bruxelles
Last days of this focus of the t.r.a.n.s.i.t.s.c.a.p.e project created in 2003 by Pierre Larauza (intermedia artist also previously an architect) and Emmanuelle Vincent (dancer/choreographer) who explore movement in hybrid choreographic forms that question the porosity of disciplinary boundaries.

26.03 > 17.04.2021 | « Érosions – Flux & Densités » – Exhibition Alain Wergifosse – La Chambre Blanche (Qc)
Second production phase of the 2020-21 cross residencies between Transcultures and La Chambre Blanche between the Belgian sound artist Alain Wergifosse and Quebec art historian and curator Anne-Sophie Blanchet…

18.03 > 27.03.2021 | The double and its real – Exhibition ARC/ARTS2 – Mons + Charleroi
The first year of the ARC – Research and Creation workshops at the School of Visual Arts of Mons ARTS2 ends with a multi/pluridisciplinary exhibition with the projects of some fifty master’s students presented in the ARTS2 spaces in Mons and Charleroi. The theme chosen for this first fruitful…

06.02 > 25.04.2021 | Focus t.r.a.n.s.i.t.s.c.a.p.e – Exhibition + Event – Jacques Franck Bruxelles
This focus which allows to have a retrospective vision on the inter / trans-disciplinary, multi-form and nomadic projects of t.r.a.n.s.i.t.s.c.a.p.e opened at Cultural Centre Jacques Franck in Brussels with the exhibition “Your walls will not prevent us”…

30.01 > 28.02.21 | Distance rapprochée – IDM Exhibition @ Grand Hornu – MACs
After a first exhibition @ Les Abattoirs Mons and a second iteration @ BPS22 (Museum of Arts of the Province of Hainaut), coming now the third and last stage of the exhibitions around the IDM ( Image dans le milieu) department of the Visual Arts School of Mons Arts2…

17.12.2020 > 16.01.2021 | Des mouvements que je n’aurais jamais pu faire – Pierre Larauza ! – Tour à plomb (Be)
Pierre Larauza (interdisciplinary artist, co-founder of the collective transitscape) presents at the Center Tour à Plomb (Brussels) a three-dimensional work which he describes as a “documentary sculpture” taking the form of life-size historical reconstructions reproducing historical movements and mass-mediated news items…

01.12.2020 > 24.01.2021 | SURPRISE ! – Images dans le milieu (Arts2) – Exhibition @ BPS22 Charleroi
After a first exhibition @ Les Abattoirs Mons, the project continues with a second iteration @ BPS22, which brings together works by ex Arts2 students (who have often developed an interesting professional career) and current IDM students also shows – as also does the publication Le premier jour du…

17.10.20 > 30.01.21 | SURPRISE !… ou le premier jour du reste de ma vie – Mons
Since the launch in 2008 of Digital and Sound Emergences, a program to support art school student projects, Transcultures has developed close ties with the IDM (Image in the middle) section of the school. of the visual arts of Mons (now Arts2), and its responsible professor Jean-François Octave…

16.10.2020 | Falling Human – Thomas Israël @ Lumen#5 festival
Thomas Israël (artiste numérique, plasticien, performer bruxellois) est le lauréat d’un appel à projet lancé cet été 2020 par la Maison de la Marionnette et Transcultures pour la création d’une oeuvre originale croisant arts numériques, scéniques et de la marionnette…

AGORA(-OFF)-ON – Cultural space and festival for confined arts | #Nola2020
AGORA-OFF became AGORA-ON, a place dedicated to all creators permanently or temporarily confined (in remand centers, prisons, internment, immigration or refugee camps, in administrative detention center in medium or long-stay…

06-03 > 24-05-2020 | Digital Icons exhibition – Extension | La Louvière
With ‘Digital Icons’, Transcultures, at the invitation of Central, is offering an exhibition in the museum exhibition spaces around mutations and translations of the various signs-images, data-images, networks-images which proliferate in…

08.05 > 10.05.2020 | Drum & Percussion Madness #8 – Apo33 (Fr)
Every year, percussionists and drummers from all around the world offer you different ways to tap, scrub, creak, rattle and other sounds of the art of percussion.

06-03 > 24-05-2020 | Digital Icons – Transnumeriques #7 Festival | La Louvière
With ‘Digital Icons’, Transcultures, at the invitation of Central, is offering an exhibition in the museum exhibition spaces around mutations and translations of the various signs-images, data-images, networks-images which proliferate in…
Workshops / Conférences

02.02 > 09.02.2023 | Signal exhibition – GMLR Arts2 (Be) ESÄ Tourcoing (Fr) Studio | Tourcoing (Fr)
The GMLR or twin studio is the cross-border sound studio common to the ARTS2 schools of Mons and the ESÄ Dunkerque-Tourcoing, site of Tourcoing. Like every year, following workshops, the GMLR offers an intermedia exhibition which combines the research and work of a dozen students from both institutions…

Appel 2023 | City Sonic Vilnius – Sound Camp #1 | Užiateka – Kompresorinė (Lt)
En association avec les Pépinières Européennes de Création, Transcultures Užiateka et ses partenaires, City Sonic Vilnius lance un appel à participation ouvert aux artistes sonores pour participer à son premier “Sound Camp”, un projet inspiré par la diversité du paysage acoustique de la capitale de la Lituanie…

31.01 > 05.02.2023 | Zone Libre – Sound art festival 2023 | Bastia (Fr)
For the third time, Transcultures is an important partner of the Zone Libre – sound arts festival organized by the eponymous association in Bastia, which defends creative sound and digital practices both locally and internationally. As for the 2022 edition, Philippe Franck will be the artistic curator of a…

13 > 14.12.2022 | Study days – Scientific mediation and territorial project | LISA CNRS laboratory (Fr)
These study days entitled “Scientific mediation and territorial project: heritage in all its states”: “is part of the research activities in Information and Communication Sciences within the UMR CNRS 6240 LISA and more precisely in axis 2: “Making society in an intercultural framework: ways of modeling in an island…

13.11 > 06.12.2022 | Tommy Lawson (TG/Fr) Lecture – Geosonic explorations and interactions of digital audio creation | Arts2 (Be)
For this multi-sound creator who likes to work in a contextual way, it is a question of apprehending the particularities of the territory and the daily surrounding world, by mobilizing and sharpening the sense of listening, in order to generate through a process of sound phenomenology unprecedented representations that…

13 > 15.10.2022 | Transcultures @ 01Design.12 Colloquium | Hammamet (Tn)
Transcultures will be present at the 12th International Colloquium on design sciences and technologies, which wants to question the limits of design process models and highlight “Unintentional Design” (DnI) as a “critique of phenomenology intentional” design. It is a desire to rethink the design process, taking into account the…

01.09.2022 | i-REAL WORLD – Marc Veyrat + AN DOMHAN – Gaëtan Le Coarer + lectures | Computer Art Congress 2022 (Ch)
Since its inception in 2002, the Computer Art Congress has brought together artists and scholars from all over the world to observe and study the manifestations and evolution of this particular art form…

19.08.2022 | Sonic Kids – Alain Wergifosse (Be) | Hautrage-Etat (Be)
All the everyday objects that surround us hide curious sounds often imperceptible to the naked ear that it is very fun to discover by amplifying them to, perhaps, manage to make new, bizarre and amazing music. With tiny contact microphones placed strategically on any sort of object, using a…

06.08.2022 | City Sonic Event @ Užupis’ Summer Culture Day | Užupis’ Art Incabutor – Vilnius (Lt)
On the occasion of Užupis’ Summer Culture Day, Transcultures offers with its Lithuanian partners Užiateka, a City Sonic Event offering from morning to evening, a workshop, an installation, a performance and a mix of sound art in the interior space (Galera) and exterior (by the Vilnia river) of the…

30.06 > 03.07.2022 | NFThon Kaunas – Hackathon | Magnum Business Center (Lt)
NFThon Kaunas is one of the regular CultureTech events from the NFThon series in the Baltics and the EU, which draw people’s attention to the potential of modern technologies and solutions (like NFT, Blockchain, Web3, Metaverse, AI, XR) in the fields of culture and sustainable development, involve them in…

18 > 24.04.2022 | Seminar – Digital mediation platform | Maison de la Science – Bastia (Fr)
In the digital age, the quality of research results in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) increasingly depends on the completeness and relevance of the data processed. The digital divide (like the digital deficiency) greatly influences the question of completeness, which can amplify the phenomenon of relevance…

06.04.2022 | Which Transcultures today and tomorrow? Philippe Franck | Kaunas (Lt)
Philippe Franck will present the approach and action of Transcultures, Centre of digital and sound cultures based in Belgium, a pioneer structure (since 1996) for intermedia and sound arts organizing 2 international festivals (he also founded) – City Sonic /sound arts in the city and Transnumériques / digital emergences)…

12.03.2022 | Gaëtan Le Coarer (Fr) @ Nigth of ideas | St James Cavalier (Mt)
During the Night of Ideas places of knowledge and culture around the world are invited to celebrate the free flow of ideas by offering conferences, as well as screenings, and artistic performances. Almost two years have passed, punctuated by the pandemic and its repercussions. The whole planet experienced closing…

25.02.2022 | La recherche-création avec Yves Citton (Ch/Fr) – Journée d’étude | UCLouvain (Be)
Convaincue que la culture nous aide à penser et à agir sur le monde, l’UCLouvain veut inscrire celle-ci au cœur de l’enseignement et de la recherche. L’enseignement comme la recherche gagnent en effet à s’hybrider avec la création artistique. Il s’agit dès lors d’encourager ces rencontres entre arts et…

03 > 10.02.2022 | SHARAWADJI !?! Arrange the unexpected – Sound arts exhibition | Carré des Arts – ARTS2 (Be)
After two weeks of workshop coordinated by artists/teachers Silvain Vanot and Julien Poidevin, the GMLR (twin studio) which is the sound studio shared by the art school of Tourcoing and the one of Mons ARTS², dedicates an exhibition to an effect rarely studied…

24.01 > 03.02.2022 | Workshops Digital & Sound Emergences | Gémellaire Studio Esä (Fr) – Arts2 (Be)
Studio Gémellaire (GMLR) was born from the merger of two sound creation workshops: that of ARTS2, in Mons in Belgium, and that of Esä Dunkerque-Tourcoing, in France. For two weeks, Belgian and French students will work together to prepare a collective exhibition in the form of 2 workshops (one…

03 > 04.12.2021 | Transcultures @ HyperUrbain 8 Symposium | Université Côte d’Azur (Fr)
The series of HyperUrban conferences offers reflections on the city in the making, in communicational, artistic, cultural, philosophical, social, economic, political, technological terms… In the continuity of the previous editions of HyperUrban, this sixth conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Urban Environments…

18 > 19.11.2021 | Celtic Myths and Folklores in the English Speaking World seminar | Université de Toulon (Fr)
As part of the colloquium on Celtic Myths and Folklores, Gaëtan Le Coarer will first present the script production process of the AN DOMHAN project, and how he adapted the story, the fabula in the project. The concept of the “Other-World” described in the appendix to the translation of…

09 > 10.11.2021 | Gaëtan Le Coarer @ Parure du corps, Vêtement et bande dessinée Seminar | Rencontres d’Angoulême (Fr)
Gaëtan Le Coarer, effectuant sa résidence Pépinières MAP (Mobility in Art Process) 2021 à Transcultures est invité au prochain colloque des Rencontre d’Angoulême 2021 pour y parler des Spatialités Narratives Du Vêtement Chez Sergio Toppi – en Co écriture avec Carole Brandon.

30 + 31.10.2021 | Transcultures @ Sonic narratives – Timisoara (Ro)
Transcultures are pleased to be partners of the first edition of Sonic Narratives imagined in the framework of Timisoara, European Capital of Culture, by the dynamic Romanian association Simultan, which is also known for its eponymous annual festival of digital arts and adventurous music…

12.10.2021 | Transcultures @ Seminar “Uses and Values of Black” | INHA (Fr)
The CEEI-THALIM 2021-2022 seminar, “Usages and values of the black” follows the five-year cycle of conferences organized within the walls of the INHA, aimed at developing a reflection on the material forms of writing, in line with reflections carried out at the Center for the Study of Writing and…

25.09 > 26.09.2021 | Transcultures – Pepinieres of Creation @ Festival Ibrida | Forli (It)
Transcultures et les European Pepinieres of Creation presents for this 2021 edition of the Ibrida festival a selection of videos produced as part of their No Lockdown Art project that they initiated during the first global containment linked to Covid-19 aimed at support contemporary artistic projects likely to be…

24.09 > 28.11.2021 | Transcultures @ ARTour – Contemporary Art and Heritage Biennale 2021 (Be)
ARTour 2021 proposes to question the relationships that today bind writing and the visual, digital and sound arts. The invited artists, authors, visual artists, intermedia creators combine them according to their respective practices, associate them to give them to watch, to read, to listen…

01.09 > 03.09.2021 | Transcultures @ Text & Image #6 Forum | Malta Society of Arts – La Valette (Mt)
Matthieu Quiniou says: “Blockchain technology permits the control, or more precisely, a certified timestamping of transactions, deals and events on a distributed ledger. In such a system, no suspicions whatsoever will crop up of some administration faking an information or a date. So, it is possible to time…

06 > 10.07.2021 | Transcultures – Pepinieres of Création @ Zone Libre 2021 – Bastia (Fr)
The Sound Arts Forum, renamed Zone Libre (Free Zone), from the name of the Corsican association that initiated it, asserts itself as a sound arts festival which, as Tommy Lawson specifies, “offers forms adapted to current and forward-looking constraints, forms reinvented around new stories and more generally digital writing…

13.05.2021 | Residence presentation – Anne-Sophie Blanchet Alain Wergifosse – La Chambre Blanche (Zoom – Qc)
For the second part of the digital arts and research residency between LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE and Transcultures, we invite the public to the presentation of Belgian artist Alain Wergifosse and Quebec researcher Anne-Sophie Blanchet which will take place on May 13, 2021 at 2 pm (Quebec) / 8 pm…

16.04.2021 | The Drift Operating Modes – Seminar @ Recto VRso – Laval Virtual (Fr)
The Drift Operating Modes, further exacerbated by the pandemic, oblige us to re/think our interrelationships with the different platforms used to communicate and re/present Art. In these “Between “ eSPACEs, our multiple bodiliness as defectors migrates and leaves traces in the form of stardust in the machines that…

07 > 10.04.2021 | Transcultures + European Pepinieres @ RIANA 2021 – Abidjan (CI)
On the theme “Sources and resources”, the 2021edition of the International Digital and Visual Arts Meetings of Abidjan offers a series of exhibitions, lectures / debates / presentations, workshops and performances by African artists and European artists. This fifth edition combines, in “face-to-face” and “connected” modes, various…

18.03 > 04.04.2021 | Transcultures & Pepinieres @ Festival Videoformes 2021
Since 1984, Videoformes has organized an annual international festival, in Clermont-Ferrand, which presents the latest news in digital creation: installations, videos, performances, multidisciplinary digital creations, and round tables on themes extended to the creative industries and societal developments linked to digital technology…

14.03.2021 | Incuboradio – Collectif Incubo – Emergences Podcast
Incuboradio is an initiative of the Incubo collective made up of ten young artists from different fields of the school of visual arts of Mons Arts2 (visual arts, performing arts and music)…

07 > 18.12.20 | D’un sens l’autre – Workshop Emergences – Sound creation (Be/Fr)
The third collaboration between the school of visual arts of Mons Arts2 (BE) and ESÄ-Nord-Pas-de-Calais in Tourcoing (Fr) – still in partnership with Transcultures and the European Pépinières de Création – which together initiated the twin studio or GMLR has started, in a connected way, in December 2020 with a cross-border…

16.10.2020 | Robots on stage… Lumen#5 festival
Around Philippe Franck gathered for ‘Lumen #5’, several creators and researchers (including Nathalie Stefanov – art critic, exhibition curator, teacher at the ” ESA Nord-Pas-de-Calais and associate researcher in the laboratory of the Center d’Etude des Arts Contemporains – University of Lille and Jérôme Decocq- member of the Labau..

08.10.2020 | When technology meets puppetry – Lumen#5
This public presentation celebrates the official release of the book “When technology meets puppetry” directed by Françoise Flabat and Philippe Franck…

20 > 24.01.2020 | Imaginary covers Workshop City Sonic #16 – Arts2
Under the direction of their teachers Jean-Bernard Libert and Jean-Marc Vanoevelen, 8 students of visual and graphic communication from the Visual Arts School of Mons Arts2 participate in a workshop in connection with…

20 > 24.02.2020 | Digital & sound emergences 2020 #1
This first workshop of the series Emergences digital and sound of 2020, a partnership between Transcultures and the school of visual arts of Mons Arts2 initiated for several years, is coordinated by digital/audio/intermedia artists…

24 > 28.06. 2019 | Digital and sound emergences @ Arts2 – Mons
Transcultures in complicity with the Visual Arts School of Mons Arts2 launched a decade ago, the program ‘Digital and Sound Emergences’, which offer two workshops in the year to art students & young intermedia talents…

22.05.2019 | Interculturality – Afternoon of reflection / round table
This round table is an opportunity to question the need for collective narrative invention. The communication networks that are ubiquitous in our lives are not collective imaginary spaces…

16.05.2019 | Rencontre avec Simon Dumas – initiation aux écritures numériques
On the occasion of the presentation of the poetic and digital installation ‘Choeur(s)’ he initiated and his workshop of initiation to digital writing in connection with literature at the invitation of Myriam Watthee-Delmotte…

15.05.2019 | Poésies numériques performées – lecture Jacques Donguy
After various names such as ‘electronic poetry’ or ‘cyber poetry’, it seems that the term ‘digital poetry’ is used to designate this current that has existed since 1983. This period also corresponds to the dissemination to the general…
Appel à projets

Call 2023 | Residencies – Digital & Sound Arts & new writings 2023-24 | Chateau Ephémère (FR)
In partnership with the network of European Pepinieres of Creation and Transcultures, Château Éphémère is launching for the 9th year its call for projects “Digital Arts, Sound Art & New Writings” for the 2023/24 season. Every project involving innovative digital practices and sound art in its creation process is…

Appel 2023 | City Sonic Vilnius – Sound Camp #1 | Užiateka – Kompresorinė (Lt)
En association avec les Pépinières Européennes de Création, Transcultures Užiateka et ses partenaires, City Sonic Vilnius lance un appel à participation ouvert aux artistes sonores pour participer à son premier “Sound Camp”, un projet inspiré par la diversité du paysage acoustique de la capitale de la Lituanie…

Call 2022 | Exhibition + Audioblast festival #11 (sound & radio arts 2023) | Apo33 (Fr)
The APO33 association launches, in partnership with the European Pepinieres of Creation and Transcultures, a call for participation for sound pieces and bio-radiophonic transmissions. Each artist proposes a sound piece of approximately 1 hour or more to be played in mono on an AM radio with a short wave…

Call 2022 | Centre de la marionnette > digital arts – Transcultures | Lumen Festival #7 (Be)
In association with the European Pepinieres of Creation, the Center de la Marionnette of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation and Transcultures launch a call for the conception, adaptation or re-creation of an artistic work in connection with the arts of puppetry and new technologies. This call is part of the LUMEN#7…

Call 2022 | Residencies – Digital & Sound Arts & new writings 2022-23 | Chateau Ephémère (FR)
In partnership with Transcultures and the network of European Pepinieres of Creation, Château Éphémère is launching for the 8th year its call for projects “Digital Arts, Sound Art & New Writings” for the 2022/23 season…

Appel 2021 | The Common Ground Project (CGP – collaborative multimedia project)| NK Studio – Kika Nicolela (Br/Be)
As part of NoLA – No Lockdown Art initiative, the “Common Ground Project”, initiated and coordinated by the artist Kika Nicolela during confinement, proposes the creation of a growing database, with the collaboration of artists from around the world, sharing video, audio and/or text pieces. The main immediate goal…

24.09 > 28.11.2021 | Transcultures @ ARTour – Contemporary Art and Heritage Biennale 2021 (Be)
ARTour 2021 proposes to question the relationships that today bind writing and the visual, digital and sound arts. The invited artists, authors, visual artists, intermedia creators combine them according to their respective practices, associate them to give them to watch, to read, to listen…

31.08 > 08.09.2021 | Transcultures @ The Week of the Sound 2021 | Bruxelles et Namur (Be)
As every year since the launch of La Semaine du Son first in Brussels and then also in Wallonia and Flanders, by the association Halolalune, Transcultures is happy to collaborate in this unifying event which works to give, for the greatest number, a listening attentive to the diversity of…

Call 2021 | IONNYK – photographic art, digital, black & white (INT) | Thema: Nature – Music
In partnership with Transcultures and the European Pepinieres of Creation, IONNYK is launching a new call for participation aimed at contemporary visual artists around photographic art, digital black & white. Thematics : Nature – Music.
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Call 2021 | Résidences [Digital & Sound Arts] 2021-22 | Chateau Ephémère (FR)
In partenership with the European Pepinieres Of Creation, Château Éphémère is launching its call for artistic residences in Digital Arts, sound art & New writings – Deadline : March 31, 2020

Appel 2020 | IONNYK – art photographique, numérique, noir & blanc (INT)
In partnership with Transcultures and the European Pepinieres of Creation, IONNYK is launching its first call for participation aimed at contemporary visual artists around photographic art, digital black & white…

Call 2020 | Listening windows – (Field recording – phase 2) | desartsonnants | #NoLA2020
Transcultures and the European Pepinieres of Creation are pleased to be associated with the project initiated at the start of the lockdown by their accomplice Gilles Malatray who invites to develop forms of “Hearing Points”…

Call 2020 | Nola – No Lockdown Art 2020 – Call for projects
The European Pepinieres of Creation, in partenership with Transcultures, are launching a call for online artistic projects or initiatives carried out during this confinement period due to Covid19 in order to give them additional visibility…

Call 2020 | Listening windows (Field recording – phase 1) – Desartsonnants
Transcultures and the European Pepinieres of Creation are pleased to be associated with the project initiated at the start of the lockdown by their accomplice Gilles Malatray who invites to develop forms of “Hearing Points” …

Call 2020 | Open Data & ICC | Crossborder Living Labs
Dans le cadre du projet Interreg transfrontalier C2L3PLAY – Cross Border Living Labs, est lancé un appel à projets destiné aux designers, artistes, entrepreneurs, petites et moyennes entreprises, particuliers, désireux de…

Appel 2019 | City Sonic #16, international sound art festival
Transcultures, Interdisciplinary Centre for Digital and Sound Cultures, is launching a call for projects for the exhibition of the 16th edition of the City Sonic International Festival of Sound Arts which will take place…

Call 2019 | Les Ateliers de l’Universel – Appels à projets international en arts plastiques
« Les Ateliers de l’Universel », in partnership with “European Pepinieres de Creation”, is launching an international call for projects aimed for contemporary visual artists and focusing on the concept of the “Universal”…

Call 2019 | Résidence – Quartiers Fenassiers – Val D´Aran (Fr)
Since 2014, the City of Colomiers has been involved in an urban renewal project in the Fenassiers district, a change for which it wants to support the inhabitants: by 2020, the social, urban and cultural identity of the first…

Call 2019 | Expressing the creativity of cities/regions – Crossborder Living Labs
Within the framework of the Interreg cross-border project C2L3PLAY – Cross Border Living Labs, a call for economic, artistic, and technological projects is launched. This call aims at projects by designers, artists, entrepreneurs…

Call 2019 | Pépinières Européennes de Création – MAP Residency Transcultures (Be)
In the framework of Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes*, Transcultures, Interdisciplinary centre for digital and sound cultures, together with the City of Charleroi, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and the…

Appel à candidatures | Résidence – Experimentation vidéo – Domaine du Tournefou 2019 (Fr)

Call for Pepinieres MAP résidency program | MAP résidences Est-Nord-Est, Québec 2018
As part of their mobility program, the Creative European Pepinieres and Est-Nord-Est Centre are launching a call for applications for artist residencies in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec. For its 2019 programming, ENE welcomes two…

Appel à candidatures | Résidence – photographie – Domaine du Tournefou 2018 (Fr)

Call for Pepinieres MAP résidency program | Langage Plus, Québec 2019
In the framework of the Creative European Pepinieres MAP program, The Langage Plus Centre is launching a call for applications for a two months artist residency @ Alma au Québec…

Call : MAP residencies Méduse, Québec 2019
In the framework of the Creative European Pepinieres MAP program, the Quebec cooperative of artistic, cultural and community producers and disseminators, Méduse is launching a call for applications for two residences…

ArtCall – Transcultures residency 2018 – Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes – Charleroi
In the framework of Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes MAP programme, Transcultures, is launching a call for a 12 weeks creative residency in order to develop a new media art project…

Call for projects (media art) – Arts of secrets – Mundaneum < > Transcultures

Call for projects – City Sonic #14, international sound art festival 2017
Transcultures, is launching a call for projects for the 14th edition of its City Sonic – International Festival of Sound Arts, to be held in the city of Charleroi (Belgium) from 7 to 17 September 2017…

ArtCall – MAP Transcultures residency 2017 – Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes – Charleroi
In the framework of Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes MAP programme, Transcultures, is launching a call for a 12 weeks creative residency in order to develop a new media art project…

Appel – Résidence d’artistes en arts numérique – Vecteur <> Transcultures 2017
This call for proposals is part of a partnership between the Vector (Cultural Platform in Charleroi) and Transcultures (Center for Digital and Sound Culture)…

#Call – arts-numeriques.info WatchLab / #artnumerique #mediaart
In the framework of the arts-numeriques.info WatchLab, Transcultures launch a call for collaborations to an artist/developer to rethink the project arts-numeriques.info and develop a series of tools to sustain the network…

Open call MAP residency – Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes 2016 Mons
In the framework of Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes’ MAP programme, Transcultures is launching a call for a 3-month creative residency in Mons. Deadline 29.05.2016…

22.04.2016 – The Night of Radio With la SCAM + Call for projets/residence – Mundaneum
Ondes de choc : The Scam and the Mundaneum invite you to discover the Night of Radio @ Mundaneum, the “Google of paper” in Mons! …

Open Call – Interactive installation – Videographies Transnumeriques 2015
Vidéographies & Transcultures are launching a new call for proposals for an interactive installation that will be exhibited in the Transnumeriques biennial, partner event of Mons2015…

Call – Transnumériques Awards 2015 – Art(s) & Network(s) – Spécial GIF
Dans le cadre des Transnumériques et de Mons2015, Capitale européenne de la Culture, Transcultures, Centre des cultures numériques, lance un appel à participation pour l’édition 2015 de ses Transnumériques Awards – Art(s) & Network(s)…

Call for projects “NUIT BLANCHE Brussels” 2015 – 13th edition
Supported by the City of Brussels, every year on the first Saturday in October NUIT BLANCHE showcases the public space and dozens of sites in the capital by means of contemporary artistic creation…

Open call artist residency, Park in progress #13, Paris-Montreuil
Park in progress est un programme de mobilité européen itinérant /// Park in progress is a European nomadic mobility program…

Call for proposals – MAP artists-in-residence at Transcultures – autumn-winter 2014
In the framework of the MAP programme, Transcultures, Interdisciplinary Center for Digital and Sound Cultures in association with the City of Mons and with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels, launches a call for two artistic and creation residencies…

Call – Park in Progress / City Sonic 2014
About Parkinprogress Park in Progress is a nomadic mobility program initiated by the European Pépinières for young artists, supported by the European Commission (Culture programme) and gathering together young artists and professionals from the creative and cultural world, who work on the different steps of creation, production, diffusion of...

Call – Biennale Watch This Space 2015
Watch This Space is a biennial organized by the 50° nord Network around emerging artists. It takes place in the Nord-Pas de Calais region and the cross-border territory (Southern England and Belgium) and consists in coordinated projects and solo exhibitions that members of the Network set up with artists...
Résidences

14 > 18.01.23 | Sonopoetic residence – Maja Jantar (Be/Fi) + Paradise Now (Fr/Be) | Transonic Lab (Be)
Performer and vocalist Maja Jantar produced with her sound designer accomplice Paradise Now, after a first residency in Namur (BE) in 2021, a sonopoetic EP ‘Transonic Delta” on the Transonic label, which had also been the subject of a joint video titled ‘Clouds of light’.

13.11 > 06.12.2022 | Tommy Lawson (TG/Fr) Lecture – Geosonic explorations and interactions of digital audio creation | Arts2 (Be)
For this multi-sound creator who likes to work in a contextual way, it is a question of apprehending the particularities of the territory and the daily surrounding world, by mobilizing and sharpening the sense of listening, in order to generate through a process of sound phenomenology unprecedented representations that…

13.11 > 06.12.2022 | Tommy Lawson (TG/Fr) – European Pepinieres Residency | Transcultures – Transonic Lab (Be)
This residency of Tommy Lawson – laureate 2022 European Pepinieres of Creation for Transcultures/Federation Wallonia-Brussels – at the Transonic Lab will aim at the writing and the realization of several projects with different architectures and contents but at the same time complementary, like several facets of the worlds…

11. 11.2022 | Nomadic Poetic Stories Performance – Biba Sheikh (Lb/USA) + Xia Dong Wei (Cn/USA) | Sweet Soul Bistro (USA)
After an artistic residency, mixing poetry, performance and music, at the Mediterranean Fire Studio in Detroit, the writer, performer, activist Biba Sheikh, takes us from Detroit, to Paris, Berlin, and more. The music is by Xiao Dong Wei, a master Chinese musician who fuses her traditional instruments and sounds…

25.10 > 11. 11.2022 | Nomadic Poetic Stories Résidency – Biba Sheikh (Lb/USA) + Xia Dong Wei (Cn/USA) | Mediterranean Fire Studio (USA)
Writer, performer, activist Biba Sheikh, takes us from Detroit, to Paris, Berlin, and more. The music is by Xiao Dong Wei, a master Chinese musician who fuses her traditional instruments and sounds with an American flavor…

25.10.2022 | Artistic workshop around bread – Marie Bertrand | Foyer Culturel St-Ghislain (Be)
Using piezo microphones and digital recorders, Marie Bertrand offers, ahead of her multidisciplinary and participatory exhibition “Blé d’Art” at FC Saint-Ghislain, a sound recording workshop using the materials that make up the bread (water, flour, salt, yeast/sourdough) and the bread object itself…

29.08.2022 | Artistic workshop around bread – Marie Bertrand | Espace Turati (Be)
What place do we still leave bread in everyday life? Bread is everywhere but yet it is often put in the background. Bread, the basis of food, what remains to be discovered about it? Through different artistic activities, let yourself be surprised by the richness of bread through sound,…

15.08 > 15.09.2022 | Alain Wergifosse – Summer residency | Transcultures (Be)
Alain Wergifosse is welcomed in a summer residence by Transcultures in order to prepare various projects for the coming months…

07 > 10.08.2022 | Résidence Tree Stories | Verpejų Art Residence (Lt)
This summer residence in rural Lithuania allows Kotryna Žilinskaitė, Hasan Alp Celikel, Paradise Now to work together on the Tree stories project. This is conceived as interdisciplinary and multifaceted process made from sound, visual and poetic material created during this artistic research residence in a house traditional wooden house…

01 > 04.08.2022 | Sea K – Kotrina Žilinskaite + Kristina Švenčionytė (Lt) + Paradise Now (Be/Fr) | Kentai Arts Residency (Lt)
Sea K is an adventurous performance, a free-from sound composition adapted from Jack Kerouac’s “Sea” poem, played by actress Kristina Švečionytė and performer Kotryna Žilinskaitė together with sound artist Paradise Now…

29.07 > 29.08.2022 | Marie Bertrand – Summer residence | Transcultures (Be)
The young Brussels artist Marie Bertrand, a graduate of the Mons Arts2 visual arts school, is invited, during this Summer residency, to prepare workshops (July 29 and August 29) and a multidisciplinary exhibition around the theme of bread which she proposes to the Cultural Center of Saint-Ghislain (Belgium) in…

30.06.2022 | FABLABLAB – Dominic Lafontaine (Qc) + Nathalie Cimino (Be)| reth!nk (Be)
During their first collaboration at the Chambre Blanche in Quebec at the end of 2021, Dominic Lafontaine and Nathalie Cimino had given themselves the mission of exploring the codes of digital culture… without using a numerically controlled machine or producing a single line. of code. From this constraint was…

05.06 > 01.07.2022 | Dominic Lafontaine (Qbc) + Nathalie Cimino (Be) | Media arts Crossed residencies 2021-22 | Transcultures (Be)
After a first period of research and design at La Chambre Blanche, the two residents start a second period of production in Belgium. A public presentation and a publication of a critical texts by Nathalie Cimino on this common experience is planned for the spring…

21 > 27.02.2022 | Katatonic Silentio + Demetrio Cecchitelli (It) – Radio Residenze #1 | Giardini Pensili (It)
European Pepinieres of Creation are pleased to announce a partnership with Usmaradio (University of the Republic of San Marino) for a series of 3 sound creation residencies in 2022. Each with at least 3 components: a physical residency hosted by Giardini Pensili (Rimini ), a public residency release and…

03 > 12.01.2022 | Confined correspondence Residency | European Pepinires of Creation (Fr)
As part of the “No Lockdown Art” initiative launched in spring 2020 by the European Pépinières de Création and the “Confined Correspondances” project, the French sound and visual artist Christophe Bailleau wrote, between 2020 and 2021, texts and freely poetic fragments grouped under the title ‘Metal Noir'(Black Metal, title…

16.12.2021 | Dominic Lafontaine (Qbc) + Nathalie Cimino (Be)- Crossed residencies presentation | La Chambre Blanche (Qc)
At the line between the intermedia practice of Dominic Lafontaine (QC) and the curatorial approaches of Nathalie Cimino (BE), a common project involving hacking and artistic creation was born. The public is invited to discover the work of the creator/researcher duo on December 16, 2021 from 5 p.m. at LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE…

Vice Versa Media arts – Crossed residencies 2021-22 | Dominic Lafontaine (Qbc) + Nathalie Cimino (Be)
For the sixth edition of their digital creation / arts-science residency exchange initiated in 2015, La Chambre Blanche and Transcultures continues the formula associating an artist with a researcher or professional from the cultural milieu, around the same prospective creation…

22.09 > 30.11.2021 | Gaëtan Le-Coarer | Pepinieres residency 2021 – Transcultures (Be)
Gaëtan Le Coarer is a doctoral candidate in Information and Communication Sciences & Art Sciences. he is interested in comics, hypermedia by developing an assertive Black aesthetic. After a Bachelor of Applied Arts degree in Design option Design and digital culture validated at the University of Nîmes in 2016…

05 > 08.09.2021 | Maja Jantar + Paradise Now + Isa*Belle | Transonic Lab Residency (Be)
Après une première résidence particulièrement fructueuse en mars 2021 au Delta (Namur), à laquelle avait fait suite un premier EP commun “Transonic Delta” publié sur la bandcamp de l’alter label Transonic, la vocaliste, compositrice et céramiste d’origine polonaise Maja Jantar retrouve son complice belge Paradise Now…

09 > 20.08.2021 | Documentary sculpture – Pierre Larauza | Pepinieres residency (Fr)
Transcultures continues to support French interdisciplinary artist Pierre Larauza (architect by training, co-founder of the dance company de danse t.r.a.n.s.i.t.s.c.a.p.e) in his theoretical and practical research on “documentary sculpture” (a notion on which he recently produced a doctoral thesis)…

15.06 > 15.09.2021 | Natalia de Mello et Daniel Vander Gucht | Transcultures Bois-du-Luc residence – ARTour 2021 (Be)
The visual and multimedia artist of Portuguese origin Natalia de Mello and the Belgian sociologist/writer Daniel Vander Gucht are hosted from June 2021 in residence at Transcultures on the Bois-du-Luc site (near La Louvière) until mid-September 2021. Together, they document in images and words in the form of evolving…

13.05.2021 | Residence presentation – Anne-Sophie Blanchet Alain Wergifosse – La Chambre Blanche (Zoom – Qc)
For the second part of the digital arts and research residency between LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE and Transcultures, we invite the public to the presentation of Belgian artist Alain Wergifosse and Quebec researcher Anne-Sophie Blanchet which will take place on May 13, 2021 at 2 pm (Quebec) / 8 pm…

25 > 28.04.2021 | Akashic Diaries Soundtrack – Transonic Lab Residency (Be)
Didié Nietzsche (BE) returns to the Transonic Lab to find Paradise Now (BE/FR) to finish with the American-Lebanese author / performer Biba Sheikh a Sonopoetics album based on texts from the book “Akashic Diaries – Detroit Degree Zero and other crisis writings” to be released mid May at Aquarius…

26.03 > 17.04.2021 | « Érosions – Flux & Densités » – Exhibition Alain Wergifosse – La Chambre Blanche (Qc)
Second production phase of the 2020-21 cross residencies between Transcultures and La Chambre Blanche between the Belgian sound artist Alain Wergifosse and Quebec art historian and curator Anne-Sophie Blanchet…

24.03 > 01.05.2021 | Alain Wergifosse + Anne-Sophie Blanchet – Résidence croisées – La Chambre Blanche (Qc)
Second production phase of the 2020-21 cross residencies between Transcultures and La Chambre Blanche between the Belgian sound artist Alain Wergifosse and Quebec art historian and curator Anne-Sophie Blanchet…

10 > 14.03.2021 | Maja Jantar + Paradise Now – Sonopoetics Residency – Namur
After a promising first residency mixing sound poetry, singing, electronic treatments and guitaristic landscapes at Productions Rhizome in Quebec, during the Month of Poetry, in March 2020, Maja Jantar and Philippe Franck (alias Paradise Now) meet again, a year later, this time hosted by the Delta in Namur to…

01 > 07.03.2021 | A Limb + Paradise Now + Biba Sheikh + Isa✧Belle – Résidence Transonic
After a fruitful first part of a residency at the end of January, A Limb returns to the Transonic Lab to find Paradise Now for a second part of residence (also featuring other artists they collaborate with).

16 > 21.01.2021 | Paradise Now + Didié Nietzsche – Transonic residency
Between these two collaborative Belgian/internationalists sound creators, the meeting is both natural and open. Paradise Now invites Didié Nietzsche to join him for a new series of recordings passing through various aesthetics and sonic practices…

Flux & Densités – Alain Wergifosse + Anne-Sophie Blanchet | Residency outcom Transcultures (Be)
The first phase of the digital creation/research residency exchange between Transcultures (Be) and La Chambre Blanche (Qc) associates the Belgian multimedia and sound artist Alain Wergifosse with the Quebec art historian/curator Anne-Sophie Blanchet. Alain Wergifosse has been interested in optical physics, focusing in…

Crossed residencies Vice Versa 2020-21 | Anne-Sophie Blanchet (Qbc) + Alain Wergifosse (Be) – Flux & Densities
For the fifth edition of their digital creation/arts-sciences residency exchange initiated in 2015, La Chambre Blanche and Transcultures inaugurates a new formula associating an artist and a researcher around the same prospective creation…

07 > 16.08.2020 | Isa Belle + Paradise Now + Stephan Dunkelman | Lizières Residencies (part 2 – Fr)
Hosted for a final part of a residency at Lizières (Centre of cultures and resources initiated by the multidisciplinary artist Ramuntcho Matta near Paris), after a successful first part in June 2020, the duet Isa Belle + Paradise Now collaborates with the composer and sound designer Stephan Dunkelman…

06 > 20.08.2020 | Alain Wergifosse (Be) – Traces – résidence post production
A tireless Belgian sound and multimedia explorer, Alain Wergifosse is preparing an album to be released on the indie label Transonic (produced by Transcultures). This will be part of the new “Traces” series with live moments and projects carried out in events associated with Transcultures or its partners…

17 > 22.06.20 | Isa Belle + Paradise Now + Stephan Dunkelman | Résidences Lizières (Fr)
Transcultures begins a new partnership with Lizières (Centre of culture and ressources) and the European Pepinieres of Creation for a series of artistic residencies in sound arts. For this first Residence hosted by Lizieres…

Valkiri (Fr) | MAP residency Transcultures – Pépinières Européennes de Création 2019
Architect by training and multimedia fiddler, Valkiri (Lille) focuses his research on a hybridization between the technologies of yesterday and the ones of today. From any type of media -old or young- he develops devices designed…

12 > 13.04.2019 | In(di)visible by Louis-Robert Bouchard & Franck Soudan – Québec
Louis-Robert Bouchard and Frank Soudan are continuing the second phase of their digital arts residency VICE VERSA from February 15 to April 13, 2019 in Quebec City. The first part took place in Belgium from November…

08 > 11.04.2019 | Blue Ascent performance – research residency – Montreal
Quebec dancers / choreographers Manon Oligny and Maryline Daoust join forces with sound artists Philippe Franck and Isa Belle to create a performance starting from the blue color, poetically associating movement and sound…

Call 2019 | Pépinières Européennes de Création – MAP Residency Transcultures (Be)
In the framework of Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes*, Transcultures, Interdisciplinary centre for digital and sound cultures, together with the City of Charleroi, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and the…

Call for Pepinieres MAP résidency program | MAP résidences Est-Nord-Est, Québec 2018
As part of their mobility program, the Creative European Pepinieres and Est-Nord-Est Centre are launching a call for applications for artist residencies in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec. For its 2019 programming, ENE welcomes two…

10 > 23.12.2018 | Alain Wergifosse – Espace Résonant – Residence
To prepare his new sound and visual installation in his series Espaces Résonnants, Alain Wergifosse will be working with a series of mikes and sensors strategically placed in a more or less restricted area…

Crossed residencies Vice Versa 2018 | Louis-Robert Bouchard & Franck Soudan
Within the framework of the Pépinières Européennes de Création, the Quebec multidisciplinary media artist Louis-Robert Bouchard and the French creator/designer/searcher Franck Soudan are starting, at Project(ion) Room…
City Sonic - Festival international des arts sonores

Appel 2023 | City Sonic Vilnius – Sound Camp #1 | Užiateka – Kompresorinė (Lt)
En association avec les Pépinières Européennes de Création, Transcultures Užiateka et ses partenaires, City Sonic Vilnius lance un appel à participation ouvert aux artistes sonores pour participer à son premier “Sound Camp”, un projet inspiré par la diversité du paysage acoustique de la capitale de la Lituanie…

30.12.2022 | Senis ir Jūra – Kotryna Žilinskaitė (Lt) – Sonopoetic performance | Ideas Block (Lt)
The “Senis ir Jūra” sonopoetic performance is the third and last event of this year’s “City Sonic – Vilnius” – a sound experiential composition based on Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Old Man and the Sea” written in 1951 when the writer/journalist was living in Cuba. This Hemingway’ epic novel …

06.08.2022 | City Sonic Event @ Užupis’ Summer Culture Day | Užupis’ Art Incabutor – Vilnius (Lt)
On the occasion of Užupis’ Summer Culture Day, Transcultures offers with its Lithuanian partners Užiateka, a City Sonic Event offering from morning to evening, a workshop, an installation, a performance and a mix of sound art in the interior space (Galera) and exterior (by the Vilnia river) of the…

20 > 24.01.2020 | Imaginary covers Workshop City Sonic #16 – Arts2
Under the direction of their teachers Jean-Bernard Libert and Jean-Marc Vanoevelen, 8 students of visual and graphic communication from the Visual Arts School of Mons Arts2 participate in a workshop in connection with…

10.10.2019 > 12.01.2020 | City Sonic @ Martin’s Agora City Resort – Louvain-La-Neuve
Upstream the City Sonic 2019 ‘Winter sessions, an exhibition and events will take place at Martin’s Agora City Resort of Louvain-la-Neuve: plastic art creations, visuals and performances with a sonic dimension or evoking sound.

Appel 2019 | City Sonic #16, international sound art festival
Transcultures, Interdisciplinary Centre for Digital and Sound Cultures, is launching a call for projects for the exhibition of the 16th edition of the City Sonic International Festival of Sound Arts which will take place…

Call 2019 | Pépinières Européennes de Création – MAP Residency Transcultures (Be)
In the framework of Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes*, Transcultures, Interdisciplinary centre for digital and sound cultures, together with the City of Charleroi, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and the…

17+18.11.2018 | Transcultures & City Sonic @ Ars Musica 2018
For this 2018 edition, Ars Musica explores these pathways that have transformed musical art over time. From violin making to unhinging spatialization, from unexpected environments to intoxicating potentialities…

ArtCall – Transcultures residency 2018 – Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes – Charleroi
In the framework of Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes MAP programme, Transcultures, is launching a call for a 12 weeks creative residency in order to develop a new media art project…

CD | Compilation City Sonic 2016-2017
Transonic, l’alter label produit par Transcultures présente une nouvelle compilation qui réunit des sélections de pièces sonores réalisées lors des éditions du festival des arts sonores City Sonic en 2016 et 2017…

22 > 26.01.018 | Workshop Emergences numériques & sonores – Arts2 Mons
This first workshop of the series Emergences digital and sound of 2018 is coordinated by digital / audio / intermedia artists (Valérie Sandor (aka Valkiri) and Stephane Kozik…

06.08 > 08.09.2017 – Paolo Almario + Mathieu Zurstrassen – Charleroi residency
In the framework of the Vice Versa – digital arts residencies project, Paolo Almario and Mathieu Zurstrassen have started a second period of collaborative work after their first residency hosted by La Chambre Blanche (Québec)…

03.07 > 30.08 – Alain Wergifosse residency : “Resonant spaces”
Alain Wergifosse, creator of interactive audio-visual abstractions and of ultra-processed feedback, worked in the 90’s in Barcelona who has shared the stage or studio over the last three decades with Obmuz, Macromassa…

Call for projects – City Sonic #14, international sound art festival 2017
Transcultures, is launching a call for projects for the 14th edition of its City Sonic – International Festival of Sound Arts, to be held in the city of Charleroi (Belgium) from 7 to 17 September 2017…

ArtCall – MAP Transcultures residency 2017 – Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes – Charleroi
In the framework of Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes MAP programme, Transcultures, is launching a call for a 12 weeks creative residency in order to develop a new media art project…

14 > 27.11 – Sonic Rising Sun exhibition @ Festival Ars Musica
For the new edition of the festival Ars Musica titled “The country of rising sound” Transcultures presents an exhibition of digital and sound installations called “Sonic Rising Sun” highlighting various inspirations from Japan…

14>30.06.2016 – City Sonic #14, International sound art festival // Mons – Bruxelles
80+ belgian & international participants – 8 places (exhibitions & events) – 12 audio urbain days in Mons & 3 special events in Bruxelles – 10 events (concerts, performances, conferences, guided tours…) – 3 workshop & ateliers Sonic Kids

18.06.2016 – Solstices – performances + installations + screening @ Fontin
Solstices offers all over the night concerts, readings, performances, poetic interventions … in several places in the pretty village of Fortin (near Liege)

Open call MAP residency – Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes 2016 Mons
In the framework of Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes’ MAP programme, Transcultures is launching a call for a 3-month creative residency in Mons. Deadline 29.05.2016…

29.04 > 28.05.2016 – Festival Les Nuits du Beau Tas 2016
This is the 3rd edition of that iconoclastic music festival with a lot of new places in Brussels this year! Music but also dance and wrestling (catch) in La Raffinerie du Plan K…

17>19.03 – Heidsieck, écrire à haute voix – Maison de la littérature – Québec
Rhizome (Québec) and its partners, the House of Literature and Le Lieu – the contemporary art center, offer a mini festival built around the legendary figure Bernard Heidsieck.

13.11 > 22.11.2015 – Transcultures @ Digital Art Festival Taipei 2015 – Taïwan
The Digital Art Festival Taipei will host sound and digital artists from Wallonia-Brussels Federation supported City Sonic and proposed by Transcultures…

20-09-2015 – Concerts : Nicolas D’Alessandro + Musiques Nouvelles + Dominique Lawalrée
Voices of Angels is a connected performance. Four musicians of ensemble Musiques Nouvelles interect on stage with the audio date which the audience has down-uploaded on the web platform…

16.09 – Baudouin De Jaer – Partage d’écoute @ City Sonic Mons2015
The first Partage d’écoute @ City Sonic 2015 guest is Belgian composer and violonist Baudouin de Jaer who has recently released several seminal CDs on the Sub Rosa label

13-09-2015 – Sonic Garden Party – City Sonic #13 @ Mons2015
With Sonic Garden Party, City Sonic offers a convivial Sunday afternoon, with intimate concerts and performances created and presented in beautiful private gardens (open to the public for the occasion)…

12-09-2015 – Présentation de la scène numérique taiwanaise + performances
A live presentation of the Digital Art Festival and Centre of Taipei (partner of City Sonic 2015) and its specificity of the digital sound stage and Taiwan, at Café Europa, by Hsing-Jou Yeh (international relations manager)…

02>31.07.2015 – City Sonic Summer 2015 : Nuit du beau tas @ Recyclart Bruxelles
Transcultures and the alter Transonic label support the adventurous sound creation and singular artistic approaches. It is in this spirit that fits that progam conceived by the Nuits du Beau Tas and the artists hosted in live residency by Recyclart this Summer…

29.06 > 03.07.2015 – Workshop Sound & Digital Emergences – J. Poidevin et S. Kozik
Organised in the framework of the ” Sound & Digital Emergences ” initiated by Transcultures and its Mons Art School partner Arts2, this workshop is led by Julien Poidevin and Stéphane Kozik, very active in the field of digital arts and sound…

25 >26-06-2015 – Nuits du Beau Tas @ Recyclart – Bruxelles
Welcome to the opening of a new series of events conceived by Nuits du Beau Tas – in partnership with the alter label Transonic announces the next edition of the festival City Sonic – in residency at Recyclart…

12 > 13-06-2015 – Supersonique littérature Bernard Heidsieck, la poésie en action + performance – Angoulême
Projection of the documentary “Bernard Heidsieck, la poésie en action” – Presentation of the book “City Sonic, Les arts sonores dans la cité” – Performance of Charles Pennequin + City Sonic afternoon et Paradise Now…

CD : Compilation City Sonic 2012-13-14
This eighth City Sonic compilation (the second after that of 2009-10-11 on the Transonic ‘alter label’) features a selection of sound pieces (installations, performances, concerts…) presented at the last three editions of the International Festival of sound arts in Mons…

City Sonic, Les arts sonores dans la cité – parution du livre aux éditions de La Lettre Volée
A partir de l’expérience originale du Festival international des arts sonores City Sonic (Mons, Belgique) et des nombreuses œuvres qui y ont été présentées depuis sa création en 2003, différentes entrées de ces champs audio plurielles sont passées en revue dans cette publication…

28 > 30-11-2014 – City Sonic @ Ars Musica + Concert Supernova
Invited by Bruno Letort, the new director of Ars Musica, who opens the doors of the festival to electronic hybrid music and adventurous audio creations, Transcultures present City Sonic installations readapted specifically for the context…

14-10-2014 – Les Oracles Liquidation finale + Percées – Québec
Oracles built two bridges between writers, choreographers, audio and multimedia artists. A diptych evening the first part, ‘Liquidation totale (tout doit disparaître) (Total Clearance -everything must go)’ as a creative laboratory, brings together the novelist and essayist Martine Delvaux and choreographer Manon Oligny. The second, ‘The Oracles: Percées’ result...

07-10-2014 – Paysages sonores – Installations Espace(s) Son(s) Hainaut(s) + performances
Result of collaboration between Art Zoyd (music creation center), le phénix (Valenciennes), le manège.mons, Transcultures in the framework of the platform for innovative music Espace(s) Son(s) Hainaut(s), Electronic landscapes is an evening dedicated to the creative diversity of the electro sounds today. Electronic live performance, interactive installation, dj set…...

25-09-2014 – Partage d’écoute #2 – Sébastien Biset – Cosmopoetics (ces arts sonores astropoétiques)
Launched during the previous edition of the City Sonic festival, these shared listening sessions are meetings with professionals from the music world (musicians, critics, artists, curators…) who spend about an hour sharing their passion for music as well as sound art practices and commenting on chosen excerpts. For this...

24-09-2014 – C2M1 performance – Magali Desbazeille + Siegfried Canto
‘C2M1’ is a “media performance” exploring written and coded communication, from the invention of writing to mobile phone texting by way of printing technologies. The question raised by ‘C2M1’ is the following: what is the direct influence of new technologies on language? In order to provide an answer, ‘C2M1’...

18-09-2014 – Pierre Beloüin Partages d’écoute + launch of Optical Sound revue #2
Launched during the previous edition of the City Sonic festival, these shared listening sessions are meetings with professionals from the music world (musicians, critics, artists, curators…) who spend about an hour sharing their passion for music as well as sound art practices and commenting on chosen excerpts. For this...

17-09-2014 – Sonic Kids Void – Buid your own speaker
La maison haut-parleur (“The speaker house”) is a workshop given by sound and visual artists Arnaud Eeckhout+Mauro Vitturini (under the name of Void) in the context of which children learn to build their own sound speakers with everyday objects: plastic bottles, hairbrushes, cardboard boxes, sheets of paper or tree...

14-09-2014 – Sonic Garden Party – Baudouin de Jaer + Maurice Charles JJ + Quasi una fantasia
Three intimate concerts in private gardens of the Mons Belfry historical district (rue des compagnons). First composer Baudouin De Jaer proposes a solo violin performance based on pieces inspired by Swiss art brut visionary Adolphe Wölfli (1864-1930), upon whom he based his 2011 Sub Rosa a beautiful release ‘The...
Les Transnumériques

06-03 > 24-05-2020 | Digital Icons exhibition – Extension | La Louvière
With ‘Digital Icons’, Transcultures, at the invitation of Central, is offering an exhibition in the museum exhibition spaces around mutations and translations of the various signs-images, data-images, networks-images which proliferate in…

06-03 > 24-05-2020 | Digital Icons – Transnumeriques #7 Festival | La Louvière
With ‘Digital Icons’, Transcultures, at the invitation of Central, is offering an exhibition in the museum exhibition spaces around mutations and translations of the various signs-images, data-images, networks-images which proliferate in…

07 > 08.05.2018 | Black Infrastructures – conférence, workshop
Bitcoin farms, datacenters, automated greenhouses, test cities for autonomous cars … DISNOVATION.org, artists in residence at UCL, two days of reflection around physical sites classified by digital revolutions.

27.03.2018 | Conférence DISNOVATION.ORG | Technocritique & hactktivisme
On the occasion of Transnumeriques#6, Transcultures inaugurates the series, Thinking Digital Cultures, in partnership with UCL Culture and Point Culture. Creators, curators, organizers, philosophers and thinkers are invited to…

14.03.2017 > 30.06.2017 | RHIZOMatics@LLN – parcours audio poétique géolocatif
RHIZOmatics is an evolving in situ project that offers new features to each presentation, to meet specific needs, or to offer artists/projects that use new creative possibilities…

CD – DJ Olive + J.P. Dessy + D. Nùnez / Musiques Nouvelles @ Transnumeriques
This luminous collaboration between New York master DJ Gregor Asch (aka DJ Olive) vs Jean-Paul Dessy (cello, director of Musiques Nouvelles Ensemble) + David Nùnez (violin) is a musical travelogue mixing sensitive strings…

29.02 > 04.03.2016 – Workshop Rhombo 2 – arts numériques > Arts2 – ENSA Villa Arson – Mons
For the second year, and in the framework of Transnumeriques emergent artists program, a dozen students of partners art schools Arts2 & Villa Arson are working together with Transcultures to develop digital arts projects…

Transnumériques#5 is over, towards 2016 emergent creations!
Transnumériques has closed on December 12th 2015 along Mons, European Capital of Culture,, but their good waves are still with us. This fifth edition of this festival of digital cultures featured more than 60 artists in the Digital Emergences exhibition

08.12.2015 – Videoconferences ArtComTec @ Transnumeriques 2015 #2
The first Art/Communication/Technologies seminars organized by Natan Karczmar were held in 1993 and 1994 at the European University of Research at the Ministry of Research in Paris and since in or in between various cities…

08.12.2015 – Lecture Philippe Baudelot : Digital and implicative arts…
Philippe Baudelot (semiotician, curator and consultant in digital arts) presents the lasted developments of immersive and implicative arts…

05.12.2015 – Peter M Friess + Guida Inès Mauricio Beautiful (3rd iteration-connected performance)
Operating like a full-scale laboratory, Peter M Friess explores in BEAUTIFUL_TOUCH (3rd iteration) the human systems and perception structures with emphasis on aspects of self-referentiality and co-existence…

01.12.2015 – Videoconferences ArtComTec @ Transnumériques 2015 #1
The first Art/Communication/Technologies seminars organized by Natan Karczmar were held in 1993 and 1994 at the European University of Research at the Ministry of Research in Paris and since in or in between various cities…

01.12.2015 – Lecture Alice Jary – Transnumériques #5
How can an in situ process-based methodology be part of a questioning of the act distributed network (agency) between human and non-human?

27.11 > 12.12.2015 – Transnumeriques festival #5 @ Mons2015
In the framework of Mons2015, European Capital of Culture, Transnumeriques (transdigital) 2015 is focusing on digital new talents (emergences).

13.11 > 22.11.2015 – Transcultures @ Digital Art Festival Taipei 2015 – Taïwan
The Digital Art Festival Taipei will host sound and digital artists from Wallonia-Brussels Federation supported City Sonic and proposed by Transcultures…

Open Call – Interactive installation – Videographies Transnumeriques 2015
Vidéographies & Transcultures are launching a new call for proposals for an interactive installation that will be exhibited in the Transnumeriques biennial, partner event of Mons2015…

26-06 > 30-08-2015 – Transnumeriques Awards special Gif Art exhibition @ ARTour Biennale
For it’s edition 2015, the Transnumeriques Awards (initiated by Transcultures, interdisciplinary Center of mediaart and sound cultures – curator : Jacques Urbanska/arts-numeriques.info) are focused on Gif format…

Laureates of the Transnumeriques Awards @ Videoformes 2015
Transcultures and its partners are proud to present the first winners of this edition devoted exclusively to the GIF format. This first call for participation was made in the context of a Transcultures carte blanche proposed by Videoformes Festival…

18 > 21.03.2015 Transcultures @ Festival VIDEOFORMES 2015
For its thirtieth edition, the festival of digital and video arts Vidéoformes invites Transcultures for a special electronic night on March 19 with a selection of digital videos and a partnership for the Transnumeriques Awards 2015 – special GIF…

Call – Transnumériques Awards 2015 – Art(s) & Network(s) – Spécial GIF
Dans le cadre des Transnumériques et de Mons2015, Capitale européenne de la Culture, Transcultures, Centre des cultures numériques, lance un appel à participation pour l’édition 2015 de ses Transnumériques Awards – Art(s) & Network(s)…