Agenda des activités

Transonic and its alter label Transonic proposes a poetic cinematic mix by Paradise Now followed during a friendly brunch followed by Eric Therer (Ordinaire, & Stuff) and Vincent Tholomé (The John Cage Experiences)…

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)…

This seventh book by Editions Rhizome, co-produced by Transcultures, is part of the Belgian-Quebec interdisciplinary performance project ‘Les Oracles’ aimed at building bridges between writers and choreographers…

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…

Enghien-les-Bains (France) was elected as the organizing city for the 11th Annual Meeting of UNESCO’s Network of Creative Cities, which will take place from June 30 to July 2, 2017 with the participation of 116 cities…

The catalog of the eleventh edition of ARTour’s biennale of contemporary art and heritage is distinguished by the quality of its carefully-designed edition under the supervision of the editorial team of the Royal Museum…

In “Champs Magnétiques”, Claire Williams offers a sensitive and poetic look at the materials that constitutes our current electronic devices and circuits derived from minerals, and at their electronic activity…

This new OMFI event (One Moment Free Improv) organized by Maurice Charles JJ and Matthieu Safatly in the intimate Brussels art space Sterput, features Julian Edwardes (The Netherlands) master of modular synths…

Solstices’ offers all over the night concerts, readings, performances, poetic interventions … in the pretty village of Fortin. No stage on one side and spectators on the other but a friendly meeting between indie artists…

Paolo Almario, a Quebec artist of Colombian origin and Mathieu Zurstrassen (Brussels), joined around the notion of homeostasis. Strolling through the streets of Quebec, visiting the various exhibitions, they intend to feed…

The Brussels event Smart City for Culture event provides an overview of the digital evolution in the creation, dissemination and participation in art and culture. Are you part of the culture today? …

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…

Claire Williams, young Brussels based artist working on textiles and new technologies, was selected for a first digital art creation residency proposed by Le Vecteur et Transcultures.

As part of its ‘Vice Versa” program of cross-digital residences, Transcultures launched a third residences exchange with La Chambre Blanche for the realization of a project in the field of the digital arts…

The festival of Reims present this year a programme of concerts and installations. Among them, the works of Alexis Choplin ‘Uninvisible’ & Jason Van Gulick ‘Ad Libitum 40-208’ both produced by Transcultures…

Transcultures and the Transonic alter label are once again associated with OMFI (One Moment Free Improv) whose founders are also here on stage with a fluid and free dialogue…

The ‘Rhombo’ project takes place over the years 2014-15-16-17 in several appointments at the school of visual arts Mons ARTS2 and Villa Arson in partnership with Transcultures, co-initiator of this exchange…

Transcultures and its alter label Transonic offer an evening dedicated to “Sound poetry” as part of the Brussels indie festival Nuits du Beau Tas (on the rhizome theme).

This documentary film (2014) directed by Anne-Laure Chamboissier and Philippe Franck in collaboration with Gilles Coudert is based on interviews with the late poet-performer-artist Bernard Heidsieck and other major figures…

Media art, tech art, web art, digital art, time based media art…What, why and where to? This panel will examine the recent developments of technology in contemporary art and highlight its importance in relation to a …

OMFI (One Moment Free Improv) is a series of perfomances (organised by Jean-Jacques Duerinckx and Matthieu Safatly) with free improvisation as a common thread.

In partnership with SciTec2 and Fablab in Mons, Transcultures is participating in the third year of the Polytech Mons engineering science discovery stages…

This 50min TV program was composed by Philippe Franck, cultural critic and director of Transcultures, who also presented it in complicity with Jacques Urbanska, multimedia artist and digital arts project manager…

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…

An explanation fluctuates according to a place, a context, a person… From this idea, this sound installation evolves and transforms according to the event. In this case, the piece explains and supports the exhibition…

Thanks to the recent publication of the “Theory of the Kamikaze” and “Acceleration!” at the Presses Universitaires de France, Transcultures and the Mundaneum invite the Belgian philosopher/editor Laurent de Sutter…

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…

OMFI (One Moment Free Improv) is a series of perfomances (organised by Jean-Jacques Duerinckx and Matthieu Safatly) with free improvisation as a common thread. This new OMFI event is hosted by E²/Sterput…

Winners of the Biennale Bains numériques 2016, Alba G. Corral (Spanish visual, digital and graphic creator) and Dariusz Makaruk (Polish composer and electro experimental performer) are welcomed again in residence at…

‘Boo, Forever’ is a multi-voiced, musical, visual and poetic show that attempts to present a work as diverse as that of the American writer Richard Brautigan (1935-1984), who wrote ‘Trout fishing in America’.

For a long time now artists and philosophers have been walking through the city and the countryside, making it a true way of being, thinking and creating. The 70s and 80s saw the birth of “soundwalks”…

Founded in 1997 and based in Brussels, LAb mainly creates interactive artworks, audiovisual performances and scenographies, for which it develops its own software and interfaces…

Trained in the visual arts at the Beaux Arts in Paris, Romain Tardy, quickly abandoned this classical learning by moving from a two-dimensional approach of the image to the creation of site specific installations in volume…

This call for proposals is part of a partnership between the Vector (Cultural Platform in Charleroi) and Transcultures (Center for Digital and Sound Culture)…

On 25 November 2016, Transcultures organized the Vice Versa 3.0 – Digital Horizons forum at the RTBF – Médiarives (Liège) as part of the Season of Digital Cultures, in partnership with Vidéographies…

Chorus Quot Fundit’ is singing synthesis application developped by Nicolas d’Alessandro (Hovertone) for mobile devices that seeks to capture the experience of a choir and bring it into the mobile space…

Boo Forever is a multicultural, multi-musical, visual and poetic show that attempts to present an equally polymorphic work, that of the American writer Richard Brautigan…

To close the meetings held for 4 years in Mons, via Transcultures, between the residents of the Carrosse (foster home for people with a mental disability) and the Portuguese sound/interdisciplinary artist Margarida Guia…

This workshop Emergences proposes to art students to develop an original creation – installation or performance – using digital tools, they are supervised by experienced artists and the team of Transcultures…

Nicolas d’Alessandro and Jean-François Lahos are invited in residency in December to present at La Chambre Blanche the second stage of their interactive installation Requiem, which was developped within the…

OMFI (One Moment Free Improv) celebrates the music in freedom and the spontaneous creations sound but also interdisciplinary as it will be the case for this new edition hosted by YIAP (Brussels) with two multimedia…

In November, the Cultural Center of Brabant Wallon in partnership with Transcultures hosted a residence for the French duo Scenocosme (Gregory Lassere & Anaïs met den Ancxt) to develop their behavioral…

Since 2010, numerous collaborations between artists and researchers have emerged, creating significant advances in the activities of these two communities. The event FOOR – Open Forum Works & Researches…

For this third session of Rhombo, exchange of residence of creation digital arts (around light) co-initiated by Transcultures, Arts2 and ENSA Nice-Villa Arson, are gathered in Mons 16 students of the visual art school Arts2…

In November, the Cultural Center of Brabant Wallon in partnership with Transcultures hosted a residence for the French duo Scenocosme (Gregory Lassere & Anaïs met den Ancxt) to develop their behavioral…

Transcultures (Mons) and Rhizome, interdisciplinary literary center (Quebec), organises a tour in Wallonia-Brussels about the legacy of the great French poet-performer Bernard Heidsieck…

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…

In “Champs Magnétiques”, Claire Williams offers a sensitive and poetic look at the materials that constitutes our current electronic devices and circuits derived from minerals, and at their electronic activity…

Paolo Almario, a Quebec artist of Colombian origin and Mathieu Zurstrassen (Brussels), joined around the notion of homeostasis. Strolling through the streets of Quebec, visiting the various exhibitions, they intend to feed…

Claire Williams, young Brussels based artist working on textiles and new technologies, was selected for a first digital art creation residency proposed by Le Vecteur et Transcultures.

The ‘Rhombo’ project takes place over the years 2014-15-16-17 in several appointments at the school of visual arts Mons ARTS2 and Villa Arson in partnership with Transcultures, co-initiator of this exchange…

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…

An explanation fluctuates according to a place, a context, a person… From this idea, this sound installation evolves and transforms according to the event. In this case, the piece explains and supports the exhibition…

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…

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…

For the end of their residency at Transcultures , Spanish visual/digital artist Alba G Corral and the Polish composer Dariusz Makaruk have been developed in Mons their audio-visual performance Dimension N project…

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

Coordinated by multi-media artist JulienPoidevin and Arnaud Eeckhout, this workshop “Digital and sound Emergences” hosts artists/students of Arts2 (Mons) and Saint-Luc (Brussels)…

Invited by the BAM, Fine Arts Museum in Mons to offer a selection of digital works echoing the ‘First videographers, Terry Fox / Bill Viola’ shown at the Fine Arts Museum, Transcultures presents The Pirate Cinema de Nicolas Maigret…

In partnership with the Festival Nuits du Beau Tas, Transcultures offers 2 evenings of multimedia creation where sound research intimately interacts with digital and visual media.

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…

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…

The ‘Portraits audacieux’ (Bold portraits), hybrid digital files, both sounds and images materialize at Residence 87 in the form of 55 singles, engraved and printed 2 sides,vinyls had been the subject of an exhibition at City Sonic 2015…

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

Stéphane Kozik, Mons multimedia, visual and sound artist , presents his installation (in collaboration with Arnaud Eeckhout), ‘Digital Breakfast’ (recently presented at the Digital Art Festival of Taipei…

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…

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

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…

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…

How can an in situ process-based methodology be part of a questioning of the act distributed network (agency) between human and non-human?

In the framework of Mons2015, European Capital of Culture, Transnumeriques (transdigital) 2015 is focusing on digital new talents (emergences).

The Digital Art Festival Taipei will host sound and digital artists from Wallonia-Brussels Federation supported City Sonic and proposed by Transcultures…

As part of la Quinzaine des arts du futur (Maison Folie Beaulieu) and Renaissance (Lille3000), Jacques Urbanska (curator for Transcultures) presents ‘phAUTOmaton’, a work by French media artist/developper Philippe Boisnard…

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…

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

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)…

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)…

The exhibition ‘Mapping Knowledge – Understanding the world by the data’, looks at the complexity of today’s world through an interactive journey into the heart of the scanned and connected information…

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…

In the framework of the Transnumeriques Awards 2015 Special Gifs, Transcultures supports the initiative of Gifarte. Jacques Urbanska will introduce this exhibition by a short speech on the netart…

Premiered at Festival City Sonic 2014 in Mons, Silence is more is an inaudible composition for 12 speakers, turned audible through the transmission of silent vibrations to some daily materials…

Pour un lundi de Pentecôte autre, Eastern Belgium at night en complicité avec Transcultures invite Antoine Chessex,compositeur et un saxophoniste Suisse (qui a collaboré avec des nombreux artistes aventureux (Maja Ratkje, Jérôme Noetinger, Kasper T. Toeplitz, Lasse Marhaug…)

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…

Transcultures fits into this dynamic of the VIA Festival by participating in the ‘City Light’ project initiated by the numediart Research Institute, with which Transcultures works to provide audio-visual, digital arts content through the creation of Israel and Thomas Kika Nicolela…

Park in progress is a nomadic mobility program initiated by the European Pépinières for young artists, supported by the European Commission (Culture programme), which gathers young artists and professionals from the creative and cultural world…

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…

In “Champs Magnétiques”, Claire Williams offers a sensitive and poetic look at the materials that constitutes our current electronic devices and circuits derived from minerals, and at their electronic activity…

The Brussels event Smart City for Culture event provides an overview of the digital evolution in the creation, dissemination and participation in art and culture. Are you part of the culture today? …

Claire Williams, young Brussels based artist working on textiles and new technologies, was selected for a first digital art creation residency proposed by Le Vecteur et Transcultures.

The ‘Rhombo’ project takes place over the years 2014-15-16-17 in several appointments at the school of visual arts Mons ARTS2 and Villa Arson in partnership with Transcultures, co-initiator of this exchange…

Media art, tech art, web art, digital art, time based media art…What, why and where to? This panel will examine the recent developments of technology in contemporary art and highlight its importance in relation to a …

In partnership with SciTec2 and Fablab in Mons, Transcultures is participating in the third year of the Polytech Mons engineering science discovery stages…

Thanks to the recent publication of the “Theory of the Kamikaze” and “Acceleration!” at the Presses Universitaires de France, Transcultures and the Mundaneum invite the Belgian philosopher/editor Laurent de Sutter…

For a long time now artists and philosophers have been walking through the city and the countryside, making it a true way of being, thinking and creating. The 70s and 80s saw the birth of “soundwalks”…

Founded in 1997 and based in Brussels, LAb mainly creates interactive artworks, audiovisual performances and scenographies, for which it develops its own software and interfaces…

Trained in the visual arts at the Beaux Arts in Paris, Romain Tardy, quickly abandoned this classical learning by moving from a two-dimensional approach of the image to the creation of site specific installations in volume…

On 25 November 2016, Transcultures organized the Vice Versa 3.0 – Digital Horizons forum at the RTBF – Médiarives (Liège) as part of the Season of Digital Cultures, in partnership with Vidéographies…

To close the meetings held for 4 years in Mons, via Transcultures, between the residents of the Carrosse (foster home for people with a mental disability) and the Portuguese sound/interdisciplinary artist Margarida Guia…

This workshop Emergences proposes to art students to develop an original creation – installation or performance – using digital tools, they are supervised by experienced artists and the team of Transcultures…

Since 2010, numerous collaborations between artists and researchers have emerged, creating significant advances in the activities of these two communities. The event FOOR – Open Forum Works & Researches…

For this third session of Rhombo, exchange of residence of creation digital arts (around light) co-initiated by Transcultures, Arts2 and ENSA Nice-Villa Arson, are gathered in Mons 16 students of the visual art school Arts2…

Artist Judith Guez study illusions in mixed reality. Ideas of Asher has found its place in her Lab’surd interactive installation (laboratorie of sur-virtuality studying) where a viewer is supposed to do strange manipulations with balls.

The Culture Meet-up meeting allow cultural professionals to decompartemenlize artistic disciplines, the so-called scholarly cultures and called popular, private and public sectors and business culture – to create emulation and to create a network that truly reflects the culture as a whole.

The Contemporary Art Center of Luxembourg launches their “ephemeral digital labs” where Stéphane Kozik introduces participants to the playful inventiveness of its “Digital Breakfast” while Damien Pairon…

For the end of their residency at Transcultures , Spanish visual/digital artist Alba G Corral and the Polish composer Dariusz Makaruk have been developed in Mons their audio-visual performance Dimension N project…

Coordinated by multi-media artist JulienPoidevin and Arnaud Eeckhout, this workshop “Digital and sound Emergences” hosts artists/students of Arts2 (Mons) and Saint-Luc (Brussels)…

What are the forms of transdisciplinary writings using primarily the digital technologies? What devices do they use? What types of areas do they explore? How do they resonate with societal changes? …

Ondes de choc : The Scam and the Mundaneum invite you to discover the Night of Radio @ Mundaneum, the “Google of paper” in Mons! …

As part of the week of creativity ‘Make Wallonia’ proposed by the Hubs of Wallonia, Transcultures offers at FabLab Mons a workshop to discover the 3D Printer uses…

Philippe Franck presents the hybrid artistic approach of Transcultures and discuss with him the last statements of the digital and intermedia creation that escapes the traditional marked trails.

As part of discovery courses for high school students initiated by Sci TEC2, Transcultures proposes a 3D modeling workshop. It is run by ‘digital sculptor’ Julien Odeur, which offers participants to discover modeling and 3D printing…

Philippe Franck who was curator of the major retrospective Gerard Malanga, pop goal as part of the summer Warhol 1999 in Brussels, will meet with the artist whose historical film and sound clips will also be shown and discussed…

As part of the exhibition Jacques Lizène, rotation des stocks 1984-2016, the Vidéographies 4.0 event pays a special tribute to Jacques Lizème, “artist of mediocrity”, performer and visual artist from Liège…

The economy of attention, inability to concentrate, weapons of mass distraction, googlisation minds: countless publications denounce the flood of images and information, from television to the Internet…

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the next major economic and societal innovation. With the IoT, all physical and virtual object can become connected, often through the Internet, to other objects and the Internet to establish…

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…

For a long time already, from Aristotle to Guy Debord, through Rousseau,Thoreau and Richard Long, artists and philosophers, walk through cities and countries to make a real way of being, thinking and creating…

On the mirum mortis theme or “journey of wonder” that was the way to see the death in ancient Greece, Rhizome presents for the first time in Brussels “Tenir salon” (intimate encounter initiated by Simon Dumas / Rhizome Quebec)…

Since 2003, Sonic City, an international festival of sound arts initiated by Transcultures, deploys each year for several weeks, a sound itinerary made of site specific outdoor and indoor installations in the centre of the city of Mons…

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

As for some years now, Transcultures and Arts2 offer a one-week workshop for talented art students & young artists, which is also open to different art schools in addition to that of Mons.

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…

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

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…

How can an in situ process-based methodology be part of a questioning of the act distributed network (agency) between human and non-human?